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Closing arguments, jury instructions and maybe a verdict? Major week looms in Trump hush money trial

WASHINGTON (AP) — The testimony in Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial is all wrapped up after more than four weeks and nearly two dozen witnesses, meaning the case heads into the pivotal final stretch of closing arguments, jury deliberations and possibly a verdict.

It’s impossible to say how long all of that will take, but in a landmark trial that’s already featured its fair share of memorable moments, this week could easily be the most important.

























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David DePape apologizes for Paul Pelosi attack, resentenced to 30 years

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The man convicted in the 2022 hammer attack on Paul Pelosi apologized and was again sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday, as the sentencing hearing in his case was reopened due to a court error.

David DePape received the sentence, identical to the one he received earlier this month, after being found guilty of assaulting the husband of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi in their San Francisco home. DePape was convicted of assault and attempted kidnapping charges in November.

The hearing was reopened after the judge overseeing the trial made an error...
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DNC to nominate Biden and Harris to bypass Ohio ballot issues

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The DNC will move to conduct virtual party proceedings to certify President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party nominees.
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Mayorkas says some migrants "try to game" the U.S. asylum system

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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El Paso, Texas — In an interview with CBS News, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said some migrants coming to the U.S.-Mexico border are trying to "game" the U.S. asylum system, echoing a statement often made by Republicans but rarely expressed by Biden administration officials.

"The reality is that some people do indeed try to game the system," Mayorkas told CBS News in El Paso last Thursday. "That does not speak to everyone whom we encounter, but there is an element of it, and we deal with it accordingly."

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NY v Trump: Defense says prosecutors 'did not meet the burden of proof,' former president is 'innocent'

  • News source: FOX News
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Dutch ex-spy chief Dick Schoof named as PM-candidate

  • News source: BBC News - World
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After 14 years of Mark Rutte as Dutch prime minister, a former domestic spy chief is picked to replace him.
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Luxury perfumes linked to child labour, BBC finds

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The BBC witnessed children picking jasmine in Egypt, a major exporter of the flowers’ oil.
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What to Watch in the Texas Runoff Elections

  • News source: Maggie Astor
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Texans are voting on Tuesday in runoff elections for a number of offices, with competitive primary races for two congressional seats and a tough fight playing out among Republicans for the seat held by the speaker of the State House.

All of Tuesday’s contests are happening because no candidate received a majority of the vote in the primaries in March.

Here’s what we’re keeping on tabs on:

Representative Tony Gonzales, a Republican who recently called some far-right members of his party “scumbags,” was forced into a runoff against Brandon Herrera...
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Judge Denies Limited Gag Order Request in Trump Documents Case

  • News source: Alan Feuer
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A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily denied a request by prosecutors to bar former President Donald J. Trump from making statements that might endanger law enforcement agents working on the case in which he stands accused of illegally holding on to classified documents after he left office.

The decision by the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, was made solely on the procedural grounds that prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, had failed to properly inform Mr. Trump’s lawyers before making their request. It left open the possibility that...
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Pope apologizes for reported use of offensive term for gay men

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Pope Francis is apologizing after reports that he used an offensive term for gay men in a closed-door conversation about gays and the priesthood.
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Judge rejects special counsel request to limit Trump's speech in classified documents case

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — The federal judge overseeing special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case against former President Donald Trump denied prosecutors' request that the court impose a gag order on certain public statements that they argued posed a danger to law enforcement.

In an order issued Tuesday, Florida Judge Aileen Cannon rejected Smith's motion that she alter Trump's conditions of pretrial release to prohibit him from making comments "similar" to those he has issued in recent weeks in which Smith alleged Trump "endangered law enforcement...
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Appeals court upholds retired NYPD officer's 10-year sentence for Capitol riot attack

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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A federal appeals court has upheld a retired New York Police Department officer’s conviction and 10-year prison sentence for assaulting a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the U.S. Capitol
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Robert De Niro, former police officers slam Trump outside New York hush money trial

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Actor Robert De Niro and former Capitol police officers Michael Fanone and Harry Dunn slammed former President Donald Trump outside of Trump's criminal hush money trial.
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Federal appeals court rebuffs claims of D.C. jury bias in Jan. 6 case

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — A federal appeals court in Washington upheld the conviction of a former New York City Police Department officer who was charged for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, after he claimed that he couldn't get an impartial jury in Washington, D.C.

The unanimous three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said in a ruling Tuesday that defendant Thomas Webster was wrong when he argued that the jury pool in the District of Columbia was too Democratic, too tied to the federal government and too surrounded by...
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John Fetterman to receive top Jewish college's highest award for his stance on Israel

  • News source: FOX News
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Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman will receive the highest honor awarded by the top U.S. Jewish university this week, the New York City school confirmed to Fox News Digital on Tuesday.

While Yeshiva University celebrates the graduation of more than 1,700 students on Wednesday, the Washington Heights institution will award Fetterman its Presidential Medallion.

In a statement, the school called Fetterman an "American patriot and hero of Israel," adding he has been engaged just as the student body has in battling antisemitism and seeking the return of hostages since Hamas' Oct. 7 invasion of the Jewish nation.

Rabbi Ari Berman, Yeshiva's president, said the junior senator from the Keystone State has shown an "unwavering and courageous commitment to moral clarity," calling him one of the "true heroes" of the present day.
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Supreme Court rejects Michael Avenatti appeal as Nike extortion conviction stands

  • News source: FOX News
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Michael Avenatti's appeal request, upholding a conviction for plotting to
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