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President Trump appears poised to make Nick Ayers his third chief of staff as he prepares for re-election, replacing John Kelly with a wunderkind political operative whose confident, no-nonsense manner has ruffled feathers but also stirred admiration. Trump is poaching the 36-year-old Ayers from Vice President Mike Pence, for whom he has served as chief of staff since the summer of last year. Beginning in his early 20s, Ayers served…

Key pieces of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation appear to be falling into place. In three court filings Friday, prosecutors for the first time connected President Trump to a crime involving hush money payments to a porn actress. They revealed new details about outreach from Russia early in Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign. They detailed how they say two central figures, lawyer Michael Cohen and onetime campaign chairman Paul Manafort, were…

President Trump appears poised to make Nick Ayers his third chief of staff as he prepares for re-election, replacing John Kelly with a wunderkind political operative whose confident, no-nonsense manner has ruffled feathers but also stirred admiration. Trump is poaching the 36-year-old Ayers from Vice President Mike Pence, for whom he has served as chief of staff since the summer of last year. Beginning in his early 20s, Ayers served…

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President Trump appears poised to make Nick Ayers his third chief of staff as he prepares for re-election, replacing John Kelly with a wunderkind political operative whose confident, no-nonsense manner has ruffled feathers but also stirred admiration. Trump is poaching the 36-year-old Ayers from Vice President Mike Pence, for whom he has served as chief of staff since the summer of last year. Beginning in his early 20s, Ayers served…

France is burning (again), and United States President Donald Trump is (again) making the overseas protests about his own agenda. In a Saturday morning tweet, Trump weighed in on the weekend’s latest round of riots in Paris, claiming that protesters have been chanting “We Want Trump,” as well as arguing that the Paris climate agreement was to blame for the protests. (Trump withdrew the US from the landmark agreement last…

“Where we are seeing a lot of these failures, we are actually seeing some structurally deficient buildings,” said Noffsinger. “I think people should be aware that there is a building safety service area. The Anchorage bowl is in it. The rest of the municipality, for the most part, is outside it.”

President Trump on Saturday named Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley to succeed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford. “I am pleased to announce my nomination of four-star General Mark Milley, Chief of Staff of the United States Army – as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, replacing General Joe Dunford, who will be retiring,” Trump tweeted. “I am thankful to both of…

In these 2018 file photos, Paul Manafort leaves federal court in Washington, D.C., left, and attorney Michael Cohen leaves federal court in New York. AP hide caption toggle caption AP In these 2018 file photos, Paul Manafort leaves federal court in Washington, D.C., left, and attorney Michael Cohen leaves federal court in New York. AP Two of Donald Trump’s former top aides are looking at years in federal prison —…

One of Donald Trump’s closest advisers spoke during the 2016 election campaign with a Russian offering help from Moscow and a meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, the special counsel Robert Mueller revealed on Friday. Federal prosecutors also alleged that Trump directed the adviser, Michael Cohen, to make illegal payoffs to two women who claimed to have had sexual relationships with Trump, implicating the president in the violation of…

Police fired tear gas canisters and pepper spray at ‘yellow vest’ protesters in central Paris on Saturday during a demonstration against the high cost of living. A police spokesperson told reporters there were about 1,500 protesters on the Champs Elysees and authorities said 211 people had been placed under arrest after police found weapons such as hammers, baseball bats and metal petanque balls on them. About 89,000 police…

The casket of Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus arrives on stage for a memorial service on Nov. 15 in Westlake Village, Calif. Al Seib/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Al Seib/Getty Images The casket of Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus arrives on stage for a memorial service on Nov. 15 in Westlake Village, Calif. Al Seib/Getty Images When Ventura County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Helus and a California Highway…

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A short time later, special counsel Robert Mueller’s office filed its own court documents saying that Cohen lied to investigators to protect Trump regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. It said the attorney committed a serious crime but had made significant efforts to assist the special counsel’s office, which didn’t recommend a specific sentence but appeared to suggest some leniency would be warranted.

Both the Southern District of New York and special counsel Robert Mueller’s office dropped their respective sentencing memos for President Trump’s since-fired personal attorney Michael Cohen just before 5 p.m. on Friday. Although Robert Mueller called Cohen’s crime of lying about Trump’s proposed Moscow project “serious,” it seems as though Cohen’s campaign finance violations in the hush money payments issued to Trump’s ex-flings Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels are far…

Both the Southern District of New York and special counsel Robert Mueller’s office dropped their respective sentencing memos for President Trump’s since-fired personal attorney Michael Cohen just before 5 p.m. on Friday. Although Robert Mueller called Cohen’s crime of lying about Trump’s proposed Moscow project “serious,” it seems as though Cohen’s campaign finance violations in the hush money payments issued to Trump’s ex-flings Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels are far…

A short time later, special counsel Robert Mueller’s office filed its own court documents saying that Cohen lied to investigators to protect Trump regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. It said the attorney committed a serious crime but had made significant efforts to assist the special counsel’s office, which didn’t recommend a specific sentence but appeared to suggest some leniency would be warranted.

A memorial to Heather Heyer and the other victims of last year’s hit and run is seen a few blocks away the first day of jury selection for James Fields’s murder trial at the Charlottesville Circuit Court, November 26, 2018 in Charlottesville, Virginia. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images charlottesville By ASSOCIATED PRESS 12/07/2018 06:18 PM EST A man who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist…

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department says that President Donald Trump directed illegal payments to buy the silence of two women whose claims of extramarital affairs threatened his presidential campaign, the first time prosecutors have connected Trump to a federal crime. In a court filing, prosecutors said former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen arranged the secret payments at the height of the 2016 campaign “in coordination with and at the…

President Trump appears poised to make Nick Ayers his third chief of staff as he prepares for re-election, replacing John Kelly with a wunderkind political operative whose confident, no-nonsense manner has ruffled feathers but also stirred admiration. Trump is poaching the 36-year-old Ayers from Vice President Mike Pence, for whom he has served as chief of staff since the summer of last year. Beginning in his early 20s, Ayers served…