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Prosecutor says Trump tried ‘to hoodwink voters’ while defense attacks key witness in last arguments

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump engaged in a conspiracy “to hoodwink voters” in 2016, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday during closing arguments in the former president’s hush money trial, while a defense lawyer branded the star witness as the “greatest liar of all time” and pressed the panel for an across-the-board acquittal.

The lawyers’ dueling accounts, wildly divergent in their assessments of witness credibility, Trump’s culpability and the strength of evidence, offered both sides one final chance to score points with the jury before it starts deliberating the first felony case against a former American president.
























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Top adviser to Dem Senate candidate posted photo with religious leader who compared Jews to termites

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FIRST ON FOX: A top political adviser to a House Democrat, who is running for the Senate in a state that has become a hotbed for anti-Israel activism, attended a convention organized by one of the most notorious antisemites in the United States.

Democratic Michigan Rep. Elissa Slotkin's deputy political director, Terra Defoe, posted on Facebook in 2017 about her "full week" of "supporting the Nation of Islam and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan" at the Nation of Islam's "Saviours' Day Convention."

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'Kind of scary': Controversial medical procedure may soon be legal in another blue state

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This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

An 85-year-old former doctor turned himself in to face manslaughter charges in upstate New York in February after police and medical personnel determined he had traveled to New York from Arizona to help a woman commit suicide.

Several New York lawmakers are now rallying behind individuals like Stephen Miller, the former doctor, to make sure people like him will not land in jail in the...
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NY v. Trump: Judge Merchan to present jury with instructions ahead of deliberations

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The framework a Manhattan jury will use to consider the charges against former President Trump and reach a verdict will be revealed by Judge Juan Merchan on Wednesday.

The instructions will be issued nearly a week after they were initially set for release. It comes after weeks of speculation about the specific violations the jury will need to determine when weighing the charges of falsifying business records in the first degree against the former president.

NY V TRUMP: DEFENSE SAYS PROSECUTORS 'DID NOT MEET THE BURDEN OF PROOF,' FORMER PRESIDENT...
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Former Thai PM Thaksin to face royal insult charges

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The veteran figure of Thai politics only returned to the country last year after 15 years in exile.
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Trump strategy: Hitting blue areas, courting minorities and unfriendly audiences

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The Trump campaign is increasingly venturing into hostile territory.

The strategy, I’ve been told, is to demonstrate that the former president can make his case in Democratic areas and force the Biden campaign to play defense.

But it runs deeper than that.

IS NEW YORK IN PLAY THIS NOVEMBER?

By campaigning where he wouldn’t ordinarily be welcome, Donald Trump sends a message that he’s a fighter – particularly during the weeklong break from the hush money trial, which resumed yesterday with closing arguments. A conviction in that criminal trial, of...
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Business owner wins tight Texas primary, aims to make history by flipping deep-blue House seat

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A small business owner and former city councilman has won a tight primary fight and is now tasked with flipping one of Texas' bluest House districts
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What each side said in Trump trial closing arguments

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The BBC's Nada Tawfik highlights the key points from the final arguments in the ex-president's hush-money case.
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Who are the 47 democracy activists facing jail in Hong Kong?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The city's most prominent opposition figures will soon have their fate decided after more than two years in jail.
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Jurors could soon decide the fate of Idaho man charged in triple-murder case

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Closing arguments are expected Wednesday in the case of an Idaho man accused of killing his wife and his girlfriend’s two youngest children
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Harvey Weinstein to appear before judge in same courthouse where Trump is on trial

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Harvey Weinstein is expected to return to a New York court as he faces a retrial of his landmark #MeToo-era rape case in a matter of months
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US Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas fights off challenge from gun-rights activist in GOP runoff

  • News source: Jim Vertuno | Associated Press
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Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas narrowly won his primary Tuesday against a gun-rights activist who pushed the border congressman into a bruising runoff that threatened to unseat a U.S. House incumbent.

Another prominent Texas Republican, state House Speaker Dade Phelan, also edged out a challenger from the right who was backed by President Donald Trump.

Both won by razor-thin margins, reflecting the anger of hard-line conservatives and a wave of party turbulence in America’s biggest red state over votes that bucked party lines and the...
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Texas Rep. Tony Gonzalez barely wins GOP runoff against gun-rights activist

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Austin, Texas — Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas narrowly won his primary Tuesday against a gun-rights activist who pushed the border congressman into a bruising runoff that threatened to unseat a U.S. House incumbent.

Another prominent Texas Republican, state House Speaker Dade Phelan, also edged out a challenger from the right who was backed by former President Donald Trump.

Both won by razor-thin margins, reflecting the anger of hard-line conservatives and a wave of party turbulence in America's biggest red state over votes that bucked...
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GOP Rep Tony Gonzales survives challenge from the right in Texas runoff

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The Associated Press projects that Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas will win his Republican primary runoff election on Tuesday with far-right challenger Brandon Herrera.

Gonzales is running for a third two-year term representing a majority Hispanic district in
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Growing up under fire: Ukraine’s children adapt to survive Russia's invasion

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Two years of war takes its toll on Ukraine's younger generations, both physically and emotionally.
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