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On Wednesday, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in prison, after a federal judge rejected his appeal for no additional time. Within minutes of the sentencing, prosecutors in New York brought state charges against Manafort — a move that appeared to guard against the possibility that President Trump could pardon him. The president can pardon federal crimes, but not state offenses.. ...Read Full Story

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump said his administration issued an order to ground the Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes involved in two recent catastrophic crashes.   . ...Read Full Story

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the US is withdrawing all remaining diplomatic personnel from its embassy in Caracas, citing the “deteriorating situation in Venezuela.” . ...Read Full Story

Aviation experts, consumer advocates and politicians are calling for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the airlines that operate the Boeing 737 Max aircraft in the U.S. to ground the jets, this coming after an Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed all 157 people on board.. ...Read Full Story

Customs agents have seized the biggest shipment of cocaine recovered at the ports of New York and New Jersey in 25 years.. ...Read Full Story

On Monday, the democratic party chose Milwaukee to host Democrats’ 2020 national convention. Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez chose Milwaukee over Houston and Miami after deliberations lingered longer than party leaders or officials from the three finalist cities had expected.. ...Read Full Story

Martin Shkreli, 35, is being investigated by federal authorities for allegedly running his pharmaceutical business from behind bars. Nicknamed “Pharma Bro” for his behavior, the newest allegations stem from a Wall Street Journal report has suggesting Shkreli was using a contraband cellphone to secretly lead his company from within the thick walls of the Federal Correction Institution in Fort Dix, New Jersey.. ...Read Full Story

Eight Americans were among 157 people killed when a plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Ethiopia on Sunday morning.. ...Read Full Story

On Thursday, the House passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry.  The resolution comes after days of debate over comments by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., that some lawmakers said were anti-Jewish.. ...Read Full Story

President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, filed a lawsuit Thursday in New York City over unpaid legal bills. In a civil complaint filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Cohen accused the Trump Organization of breaking a promise made in July 2017 to pay his legal bills while he was still employed by Trump. Cohen claims he’s owed $1.9 million to cover attorneys’ fees and other related costs.. ...Read Full Story

On Wednesday, Democrats unveiled legislation to reinstitute net neutrality rules that were scrapped in 2017 by the Trump administration.. ...Read Full Story

On Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen defended President Trump‘s assessment that the situation at the southern border constitutes a national emergency, telling lawmakers that an extended influx in migrants could “overwhelm” the immigration system.. ...Read Full Story

A California man was arrested for a spa bombing that killed his ex-girlfriend last year after the FBI linked explosive remnants to the suspect, his home and car.. ...Read Full Story

Manufacturer Washington Beef is recalling 30,000 pounds of ground beef after learning of possible contamination. The company is recalling the products after it learned “extraneous materials” could be comingled with the beef, said the Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.. ...Read Full Story

On Monday, democrats on the House Judiciary Committee launched a wide-ranging investigation into allegations of obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power by President Donald Trump.. ...Read Full Story

Former two-term Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced his 2020 presidential bid in an online video on Monday. He joins an already crowded field of Democratic contenders including senators Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Bernie Sanders.. ...Read Full Story

Alice Cooper will hit the road with Halestorm for a co-headlining tour this summer that will hit amphitheaters across the U.S.  Motionless in Whiteare slated to serve as the opening act on all dates.. ...Read Full Story

A deadly tornado ripped through Alabama on Sunday that was part of a severe storm system, causing at least 23 deaths and catastrophic damage, as well as unleashing other tornadoes around the Southeast. . ...Read Full Story

On Sunday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said he plans to request documents from more than 60 people linked to the President, saying “it’s our job to protect the rule of law. That’s our core function. And to do that we are going to initiate investigations into abuses of power, into corruption and into obstruction of justice.”. ...Read Full Story

Owner of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft, entered a plea of not guilty to two counts of soliciting prostitution in Florida, court records show. Attorneys for the 77-year-old Kraft electronically filed the plea Monday in Palm Beach County Court, seeking a non-jury trial.. ...Read Full Story

Israel’s top prosecutor said on Thursday he intends to indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, a move that can shift the balance of power in the country’s April 9 election.. ...Read Full Story

In a televised hearing in Congress on Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen accused him of breaking the law while in office, and said the President knew in advance about a WikiLeaks dump of stolen emails that hurt his 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton.. ...Read Full Story

On Wednesday, the Wake County district attorney’s office said that Leslie McCrae Dowless — the North Carolina Republican political operative at the center of an absentee ballot fraud scheme that led the state to order a re-run of a congressional election — was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice.. ...Read Full Story

According to sources close to the case, when President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen takes the stand before a congressional committee on Wednesday, he will for the first time publicly accuse President Donald Trump of potentially committing a crime while in office.. ...Read Full Story

Russian state TV has listed potential targets in the U.S. in the event of a nuclear strike — and claimed that its new hypersonic missile technology could reach them in less than five minutes. Reuters called the report “unusual even by the sometimes bellicose standards of Russian state TV.” . ...Read Full Story

On Monday, stocks moved up higher on Wall Street after President Donald Trump agreed to hold off on raising tariffs on Chinese goods, which would have escalated a trade war between two of the world’s largest economies. . ...Read Full Story

U.S. District Court Judge Gray Miller has ruled that the Military Selective Service Act’s male-only registration is unconstitutional. . ...Read Full Story

Officials say that a California man who was wrongfully convicted for killing an ex-girlfriend and her son four decades ago has reached a $21 million settlement with the city of Simi Valle, California. . ...Read Full Story

Pope Francis ended a landmark Vatican meeting on clerical sexual abuse with an appeal “for an all-out battle against the abuse of minors,” which he compared to human sacrifice. Howeer, his speech did not offer concrete policy remedies demanded by many of the faithful.. ...Read Full Story

More than 3,000 public school educators hit picket lines in Oakland, California in a fight for higher wages, smaller class sizes and better overall working conditions.. ...Read Full Story