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First witness takes stand in Trump hush money trial

A prosecutor said Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 election, while a defense lawyer attacked the credibility of the government’s star witness.

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Harvey Weinstein convicted of rape in Los Angeles

The former movie mogul was found guilty of several charges two years after being sentenced to prison in New York on a sexual assault conviction.

FBI: Polygamous leader had 20 wives, many of them minors

Samuel Bateman was a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS, until he left to start his own small offshoot group.

5 years prison, $2.5M restitution for Las Vegas COVID fraud

A Las Vegas man has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $2.5 million in restitution for bilking the government out of millions of dollars.

Ronaldo lawyers seek $626K from woman’s lawyer in Vegas case

Cristiano Ronaldo wants a judge to order a woman’s lawyer to pay the soccer star more than $626,000 after claiming in a failed lawsuit that Ronaldo raped the woman in Las Vegas.

Ex-Raider Henry Ruggs’ lawyers ask judge to toss blood evidence

In a court filing that effectively delayed a preliminary hearing of evidence, Ruggs’ defense team argued that police didn’t have a legal reason to ask a judge to authorize a warrant to obtain Ruggs’ blood.