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As part of his guilty plea, Cohen admitted that he used a newly incorporated shell company to pay Daniels, then sought reimbursement from the Trump Organization for the full amount, plus a $35 wire fee and another $50,000 for tech work related to Trump’s campaign. Cohen also later pleaded guilty…

Mexico’s president said Wednesday that he expects the U.S. government or U.S. banks to provide interest-free loans to build four wind-power farms in the narrow waist of southern Mexico, an area known as the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he expects U.S. climate envoy John Kerry to…

The Delaware residence where US Intel classified documents were discovered, a document shows. In 2018 Hunter Biden claimed he owned the house where Joe Biden kept classified documents alongside his Corvette in the garage. The document was originally discovered on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, according to the Washington Examiner, and was reshared…

If those votes stay that way, Mr. McCarthy will lose his the bid to be speaker on the first vote, and the House will move to a second round. Reps. Andy Biggs (R., Ariz.), Dan Bishop (R., N.C.), Josh Brecheen (R., Okla.), Lauren Boebert (R., Colo.) and Michael Cloud (R.,…

By a 5-4 vote, the court acted in the wake of a temporary stay that Chief Justice John Roberts imposed on Dec. 19, two days before Title 42 regulations were to end. Border officials had started observing an increase in land crossings in the days ahead of the policy’s expected end on…

The indictment, brought by the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, accuses him of misappropriating FTX.com customers. Mark Cohen, a lawyer for Mr. Bankman-Fried, said in a statement that his client “is reviewing the charges with his legal team and considering all of his legal options.”…

Rubio, who cruised to victory in his Florida Senate re-election bid, cautioned that the party needs to reassess its leadership in the upper chamber to ensure its top brass is being a champion for working-class Americans. “The Senate GOP leadership vote next week should be postponed,” Rubio tweeted. “First we…

The jailed American basketball star exhausted the last of her legal options on Tuesday when her last-gasp appeal predictably went nowhere. A Moscow regional court upheld Griner’s August conviction on charges of drug possession and drug smuggling with criminal intent. The court rejected arguments from Griner’s defense attorneys that her nine-year…

Democratic mayor Oscar Leeser said in a phone conversation last month that the Biden administration pressured him into not declaring a state of emergency over the crisis, a city council member stated. The Biden administration urged the mayor of El Paso, Texas, not to declare a state of emergency over…

Vice President Kamala Harris condemned Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) Monday night for dropping busloads of immigrants off outside her residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., over the past month. “I don’t think that, you know, playing games with people’s lives is the solution to this problem. But based on the record amount of arrests at…