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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border say they are fleeing persecution, poverty and violence A seven-year-old girl from Guatemala who illegally crossed the US-Mexico border with her father died hours after being taken into custody, US media say. The girl, who arrived in the US last week as part of a group of migrants, died of dehydration and shock, the Washington Post reported. The…

PARK CITY — At least 50 bomb threats demanding bitcoin payments were made to businesses in cities across Utah Thursday afternoon as similar threats swept the nation, officials said. Park City, West Valley, South Salt Lake, South Jordan, Murray, Draper, Cache County, Price and Dixie State University in St. George were among those confirmed to have received threats, law enforcement agencies and dispatchers reported. KSL.com has received reports from readers…

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President Trump’s inaugural committee is under investigation for potentially misspending some of the $107 million it received to organize a string of events celebrating the start of the president’s term, according to a report. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are also probing whether some of the committee’s biggest contributors donated money in order to curry favor with the incoming Trump administration in violation of anti-corruption laws, the Wall Street Journal reported…

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President Trump’s inaugural committee is under investigation for potentially misspending some of the $107 million it received to organize a string of events celebrating the start of the president’s term, according to a report. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are also probing whether some of the committee’s biggest contributors donated money in order to curry favor with the incoming Trump administration in violation of anti-corruption laws, the Wall Street Journal reported…

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President Trump’s inaugural committee is under investigation for potentially misspending some of the $107 million it received to organize a string of events celebrating the start of the president’s term, according to a report. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are also probing whether some of the committee’s biggest contributors donated money in order to curry favor with the incoming Trump administration in violation of anti-corruption laws, the Wall Street Journal reported…

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Democrats and media commentators are noting that many Republicans are “shrugging off” the fact that Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to felony campaign finance violations which prosecutors say President Trump directed him to commit. The president, they say, is “implicated in two felonies.” How could GOP lawmakers shrug that off? One little-discussed reason is that many Republicans never liked and continue to oppose current campaign finance laws. They don’t approve of…

Sen. Bernie Sanders joins FNC’s Bret Baier to discuss the effort in the Senate to bring U.S. involvement in the Saudi war in Yemen to an end. “Sen. Mike Lee (conservatives) and progressives have been making this point,” Sanders said. “For decades, under Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, Republicans Congresses and Democratic Congresses, the Congress of the United States has abdicated its constitutional responsibility for war-making. It is not…

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STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Cherif Chekatt’s criminal career began at age 10. By age 13 he had been convicted. Now, with his third decade still incomplete, he is a fugitive, accused in the deadly shooting at France’s most famous Christmas market. The 29-year-old has more than two dozen convictions, mostly in France but also in Switzerland and Germany. The rare times he’s been out of jail, he’s moved around. He…

Spencer S. Hsu Tom Jackman December 13 at 12:47 PM A Russian gun rights activist pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring with a senior Russian official to infiltrate the conservative movement in the United States as an agent for the Kremlin from 2015 until her arrest in July. Maria Butina, 30, became the first Russian national convicted of seeking to influence U.S. policy in the run-up and through the 2016 election…

Democrats and media commentators are noting that many Republicans are “shrugging off” the fact that Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to felony campaign finance violations which prosecutors say President Trump directed him to commit. The president, they say, is “implicated in two felonies.” How could GOP lawmakers shrug that off? One little-discussed reason is that many Republicans never liked and continue to oppose current campaign finance laws. They don’t approve of…

Negotiation in politics is a fine art. What the public witnessed between President Trump, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was the political equivalent of the food fight from “Animal House.” Trump presented himself to the public as part of his campaign as a master negotiator, one who mocked his Republican opponents in the primary as a bunch of amateurs, who could get…

Negotiation in politics is a fine art. What the public witnessed between President Trump, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was the political equivalent of the food fight from “Animal House.” Trump presented himself to the public as part of his campaign as a master negotiator, one who mocked his Republican opponents in the primary as a bunch of amateurs, who could get…

Negotiation in politics is a fine art. What the public witnessed between President Trump, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was the political equivalent of the food fight from “Animal House.” Trump presented himself to the public as part of his campaign as a master negotiator, one who mocked his Republican opponents in the primary as a bunch of amateurs, who could get…

John Wagner December 13 at 11:20 AM President Trump denied Thursday that he had directed his former personal attorney Michael Cohen to break the law during the 2016 campaign by buying the silence of two women who claimed they once had affairs with the future president. In morning tweets, Trump, however, did not dispute that he had directed Cohen to make the payments, as Cohen and federal prosecutors have alleged…