Some of Donald Trump’s personal lawyers have been urging him to show a dose of restraint in the courtroom when his hush-money trial finally begins in New York City. But ahead of the historic criminal trial, scheduled to start in two weeks, the former president has relentlessly attacked the judge …
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This week, Donald Trump publicly declared that New York Attorney General Letitia James should be “looked at” by the authorities, as the former president raged over her office’s sprawling civil fraud case against his family’s business empire. Behind the scenes, various lawyers in the MAGA upper crust — including several …
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O n a rainy day toward the end of September, a longtime underground marijuana grower we’ll call Shawn coasted up I-86 from the Hudson Valley to Rochester to meet with a legal farmer. The farmer hadn’t been able to sell his harvest for over a year, despite owning a fully …
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On Feb. 20, 1939, more than 20,000 yelling, cheering people packed New York City’s Madison Square Garden. They weren’t there for a basketball game or a concert. They were supporters of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization that was ready for an alternative to democracy. They waved Swastika flags …
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Ra ta ta, tá tá. The sound of the clave plays across Brooklyn on a windy Friday night in September. Under the Brooklyn Bridge in the Dumbo Archway, Lulada Club — a 10-member, all-woman band — starts playing their instruments along to Hector Lavoe’s “Mi Gente,” which a DJ had …
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“The original HBIC is here, bitches!,” Tiffany “New York” Pollard proclaims, sauntering into the frame and showing off her fresh pedicure. So begins her introduction on House of Villains, E!‘s latest reality TV series assembling a motley crew of the genre’s classic antagonists, including Vanderpump Rules’ Jax Taylor, The Bachelor‘s …
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Former President Donald Trump appeared in Manhattan court on Monday to personally challenge accusations of fraud leveled against him by the state of New York. Last week, a Manhattan judge handed down a partial summary judgment ruling that Trump, his adult sons Eric and Donald Jr., and several of his …
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New York Attorney General Letitia James asked the state’s Supreme Court to financially sanction Donald Trump, his co-defendants, and their attorneys in a $250 million lawsuit for repeatedly making bogus arguments in court. James is asking for $20,000 in sanctions against the defendants and attorneys in a civil suit alleging …
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Donald Trump has lied about his golf scores, his weight, the size of the crowds he draws, and — according to New York Attorney General Letitia James — his net worth. A new filing from the Attorney General’s office in the state’s civil fraud lawsuit against the former president alleged …
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A bombshell lawsuit, originally obtained and reported by The Daily Beast, alleges that a former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency spy sexually assaulted a woman and manipulated her into believing that he was assessing her for a CIA candidacy program. The lawsuit — brought by an anonymous accuser — claims that …
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