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NYC Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on federal charges. So what comes next?
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has vowed to stay in office after federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment accusing him of letting Turkish officials and businesspeople buy his influence with illegal campaign contributions and lavish overseas trips. Here’s what is expected to come next in the case.
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Sean ‘Diddy' Combs denied bail, judge cites possibility of witness tampering
A second judge has refused to grant bail to Sean “Diddy” Combs after the disgraced entertainment star’s lawyers had requested he be allowed to await his sex trafficking trial at his luxury home on an island near Miami Beach, rather than a grim federal jail in Brooklyn.
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NY judge lifts gag order barring Donald Trump from maligning court staff in fraud trial
A New York appeals court judge paused a gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting on court staffers in his civil fraud trial. The trial judge had imposed the gag order last month and later fined Trump $15,000 for violations after the former president made a disparaging social media post about a court clerk.
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Don Jr. exuberantly lauds dad's real estate deals as civil fraud trial turns to defense
Foiled in their long-shot bid for an early verdict, Donald Trump’s lawyers will start calling witnesses of their own Monday in the New York civil fraud trial that threatens the former president’s real estate empire.
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Donald Trump's lawyers ask judge to end NY civil fraud trial, seek verdict in his favor
Donald Trump’s lawyers urged a judge to put an immediate end to the New York civil fraud trial that threatens his real estate empire, arguing that state lawyers had failed to prove that the former president intended to dupe banks, insurers and others by inflating his wealth on financial statements.
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Trump returning to civil trial next week; fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen to testify
Donald Trump will be back in court next week for his New York civil fraud trial, a person familiar with the former president’s plans said, setting up a potential face-to-face showdown with fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen, who is expected to testify.
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‘I want to marry Emma Watson': Alleged Drew Barrymore stalker arrested at NYFW show
Chad Michael Busto, who was arrested in August after a run-in with Drew Barrymore, allegedly burst into a dressing room during the Ralph Lauren show at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, screaming that he wanted to marry Emma Watson. It was not clear if the film star was even at the fashion show
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Suspect Charged, Blames ‘Invisible Object' for Deadly U-Haul Rampage on NYC Streets
The man behind the wheel of a rented U-Haul truck that plowed into multiple people on streets, bike lanes and sidewalks of two Brooklyn neighborhoods, incriminated himself during statements to police, saying he was looking to be the subject of police gunfire, law enforcement sources said. The driver, a 62-year-old man police identified as Las Vegas resident Weng Sor, is…
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New York AG Has 2 Lawyers Working With DA on Trump Probe
New York’s attorney general said Friday that she’s assigned two lawyers to work with the Manhattan district’s attorney’s office on a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s business dealings
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Grand Jury in Daniel Prude Death Voted 15-5 to Clear 3 Cops
A grand jury investigating the police suffocation death of Daniel Prude last year in Rochester, New York, voted 15-5 not to indict the three officers who restrained him, according to transcripts of the proceedings released Friday. Prosecutors from the state attorney general’s office had asked the grand jury to consider a criminally negligent homicide charge for the officers, who...
