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A candidate for Germany’s key party beaten up and injured while campaigning for European elections
By The Associated Press on May 4th, 2024
BERLIN (AP) – A candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left party in next month’s election for the European Parliament was beaten up and seriously injured while campaigning in an eastern city, the party said Saturday. It was the latest in a series of incidents raising political tensions in Germany ahead of the polls. Scholz’s Social ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mexican officials say 3 bodies recovered in Baja California during search for 3 missing foreigners
By Mark Stevenson, The Associated Press on May 3rd, 2024
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexican authorities said Friday that three bodies were recovered in an area of Baja California near where two Australians and an American went missing last weekend. The state prosecutors office did not say whether the bodies were those of the three foreigners, but said the bodies were discovered during the search ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hope Hicks, ex-Trump adviser, recounts fear in 2016 campaign over impact of ‘Access Hollywood’ tape
By Michael R. Sisak, Jake Offenhartz, Philip Marcelo And Alanna Durkin Richer, The Associated Press on May 3rd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was seized with worry about the potential political damage from a tape that showed Trump bragging about grabbing women sexually without their permission, longtime Trump adviser Hope Hicks testified Friday at his hush money trial. Hicks, a former White House official, was compelled to testify by Manhattan ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hope Hicks, ex-Trump adviser, recounts fear in Trump’s 2016 campaign over ‘Access Hollywood’ tape
By Michael R. Sisak, Jake Offenhartz, Philip Marcelo And Alanna Durkin Richer, The Associated Press on May 3rd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was seized with worry about the potential political damage from a tape that showed Trump bragging about grabbing women sexually without their permission, longtime Trump adviser Hope Hicks testified Friday at his hush money trial. Hicks, a former White House official, was compelled to testify by prosecutors, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New Hampshire jury finds state liable for abuse at youth detention center and awards victim $38M
By Holly Ramer, The Associated Press on May 3rd, 2024
BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) – A New Hampshire jury awarded $38 million to the man who blew the lid off abuse allegations at the state’s youth detention center Friday, in a landmark case finding the state’s negligence allowed him to be beaten, raped and held in solitary confinement as a teen. David Meehan went to police ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Democratic US Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife are indicted over ties to Azerbaijan
By The Associated Press on May 3rd, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife were indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges Friday in connection with a U.S. Department of Justice probe into ties between American business leaders and the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. From 2014 to 2021, Cuellar and his wife accepted nearly $600,000 in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hope Hicks, ex-Trump adviser, recounts political firestorm in 2016 over ‘Access Hollywood’ tape
By Michael R. Sisak, Jake Offenhartz, Philip Marcelo And Alanna Durkin Richer, The Associated Press on May 3rd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Hope Hicks, a former adviser to Donald Trump, took the stand Friday at the former president’s hush money trial and recounted how his 2016 campaign became embroiled in a political firestorm over a recording in which he boasted about grabbing women without their permission. Hicks, who served as White House communications ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Torrential rains inundate southeastern Texas, causing flooding that has closed schools and roads
By The Associated Press on May 3rd, 2024
HOUSTON (AP) – Officials in Houston are urging residents to prepare for worsening flooding after days of heavy rains that have led to high-water rescues and mandatory evacuation orders. “This threat is ongoing and it’s going to get worse. It is not your typical river flood,” Hidalgo County Judge Lina Hidalgo, the top elected official ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!US Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas denies wrongdoing amid reports of pending indictment
By The Associated Press on May 3rd, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas denied any wrongdoing amid reports of pending indictments related to the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. The longtime congressman released a statement Friday saying he and his wife “are innocent of these allegations.” “Everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The Latest | Hope Hicks takes the witness stand in Trump’s hush money trial
By The Associated Press on May 3rd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Hope Hicks, who served as Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign press secretary and went on to hold various roles in his White House, took the witness stand in his New York hush money case on Friday. Her testimony on the trial’s 11th day was the latest in a frenzied second week of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hope Hicks, a former close Trump adviser, takes the witness stand in his hush money trial
By Michael R. Sisak, Jake Offenhartz, Philip Marcelo And Alanna Durkin Richer, The Associated Press on May 3rd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Hope Hicks, a former longtime adviser to Donald Trump, took the witness stand Friday in his criminal trial, where prosecutors are expected to question her about her knowledge of hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign. Hicks, who served as White House communications director, is the first close Trump ... Read More »
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