Special counsel prosecutors revealed in court filings Thursday night that they had obtained on March 9 seven new search warrants against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who has been charged with more than 30 counts of bank fraud, making false statements to investigators and other charges in two criminal […]
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Special counsel served Paul Manafort with new search warrants last month
Special counsel prosecutors revealed in court filings Thursday night that they had obtained on March 9 seven new search warrants against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who has been charged with more than 30 counts of bank fraud, making false statements to investigators and other charges in two criminal […]
Virgin Galactic chalks up successful supersonic test flight
Virgin Galactic successfully launched its rocket-powered SpaceShipTwo on a supersonic test flight high above the Mojave Desert Thursday. It’s the company’s first powered flight since a crash in 2014 that destroyed an earlier model and killed one of its pilots. After takeoff from the Mojave Air and Space Port, the […]
Trump threatens China with $100 billion in new tariffs
Last Updated Apr 5, 2018 7:58 PM EDT President Trump is asking the U.S. trade representative to consider $100 billion in additional tariffs on China, after China announced it would retaliate against announced U.S. tariffs on China with tariffs of its own. The Trump administration had announced $50 billion in […]
Trump says didn’t know about the payment to Stormy Daniels
Last Updated Apr 5, 2018 7:40 PM EDT President Trump on Thursday said he was unaware of lawyer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 payment to adult firm star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election, in the president’s first public comments about the payment. Asked if he knew about the $130,000 payment […]
Trump says he was unaware of Stormy Daniels payment
Last Updated Apr 5, 2018 7:40 PM EDT President Trump on Thursday said he was unaware of lawyer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 payment to adult firm star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election, in the president’s first public comments about the payment. Asked if he knew about the $130,000 payment […]
Deadly Thunderbirds crash marks 4th military crash this week
Last Updated Apr 5, 2018 6:55 PM EDT NEW YORK — The famed Thunderbirds are grounded after a pilot died Wednesday during a routine training exercise. The incident marked the fourth U.S. military aircraft crash this week and the fifth fatality. The jet went down around 10:30 a.m. during a […]
Sandberg sticks to script ahead of Zuckerberg’s testimony
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg gave a round of interviews Thursday to CNBC, the Financial Times, Bloomberg and PBS as the company attempts to recover from the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. Sandberg echoed remarks made by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in previous interviews ahead of his highly anticipated testimony before Congress […]
MMA fighter Conor McGregor in NYPD custody after bus attack, police say
Last Updated Apr 5, 2018 8:39 PM EDT NEW YORK — The NYPD said late Thursday that MMA fighter Conor McGregor is in custody after video footage appears to show the promotion’s biggest star throwing a guard rail at a bus full of fighters, injuring at least one scheduled to […]
Trump comments on Pruitt, Stormy Daniels payment
President Trump described Scott Pruitt, his embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief, as a “good man” on Thursday while declining to comment on recent press reports about the administrator’s behavior. “I think he’s done a fantastic job,” Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One during his trip back from West […]