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Video Paul Manafort sentenced to 47 months in prison Paul Manafort was placed in solitary confinement leading up to his sentencing; Doug McKelway has the details. With the release of the “Mueller Report” reportedly just around the corner, the sentencing Thursday of one-time Trump presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort to 47 months in prison offers a timely reminder that the whole Russia collusion narrative was never more than a fantasy of…

Mary Beth Sheridan March 8 at 7:49 AM CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s massive power outage stretched into a second day on Friday, with schools and offices closed while millions were left stranded by what the government called an act of sabotage. Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said on the Venezuelan state TV network Telesur that President Nicolás Maduro had ordered schools and offices shut on Friday because of the blackout. The…

Someone in the White House reportedly leaked documents to House Democrats dealing with security clearances for members of President Trump’s family. A Democratic aide responsible for handling to documents said that they provide information on the timeline of how President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump obtained security clearances. They also explain how the final decision was made to grant those clearances, Axios reported. Two staffers on the…

Niha Masih Joanna Slater March 8 at 4:20 AM NEW DELHI — The first time Sandeep Wathar received a message on Facebook from a total stranger calling him a traitor, he was amused. When dozens more followed, he knew something was wrong. After India and Pakistan nearly went to war last week, Wathar, a 29-year old professor of civil engineering in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, vented his frustration…

The winner of the $273 million Mega Millions jackpot in New Jersey very nearly lost the chance of a lifetime. Mike Weirsky of Alpha, New Jersey, bought $10 in tickets one morning at the QuickChek in Phillipsburg and put the tickets down to put his money away, he said during a Thursday press conference. He started looking at his phone and walked away — leaving the tickets behind. He realized…

Video Paul Manafort sentenced to 47 months in prison Paul Manafort was placed in solitary confinement leading up to his sentencing; Doug McKelway has the details. With the release of the “Mueller Report” reportedly just around the corner, the sentencing Thursday of one-time Trump presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort to 47 months in prison offers a timely reminder that the whole Russia collusion narrative was never more than a fantasy of…

A political crisis is brewing inside the halls of Congress. A few freshman Democrats have drawn the ire from both sides about their position on the U.S.’s relationship with Israel. In the lead up to the 2018 midterm election, then-congressional candidates Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., — the first Muslim women to be elected to Congress — were criticized for a series of troubling remarks about Israel that…

That Michael Cohen is proudly declaring he doesn’t want a pardon from federal prison time doesn’t make him the hero he thinks it does. The only reason anyone would say that, as Cohen did during his embarrassing testimony in front of Congress last week, is that he knew a pardon from President Trump was never in the cards. And that’s what the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Cohen’s current attorney,…

Video ‘The View’ erupts as angry Meghan McCain talks about Democrats blocking ‘born alive’ bill: ‘Disgusting’ U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was apparently unmoved Thursday by Meghan McCain’s tearful remarks about her on “The View.” McCain had become emotional during the ABC talk show, discussing Omar’s recent criticisms of Israel and its supporters. She said Omar’s remarks were hurtful to many of her Jewish friends. “It is very dangerous, very dangerous,” McCain…

From a top bunk in a 12-person prison cell in Fort Dix, N.J., Martin Shkreli is at work on a big second act. Wielding little more than a contraband smartphone, the disgraced pharmaceutical executive remains the shadow power at Phoenixus AG, the drug company that became a national lightning rod for jacking up the prices of rare drugs under its former name, Turing Pharmaceuticals AG. Mr. Shkreli still helps call…

Legal observers were surprised by the relatively light, 47-month sentence received Thursday by President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was convicted in August on charges of tax and bank fraud. The 69-year-old, who appeared in the court in Virginia in a wheelchair and pleaded for compassion, could have been sentenced to up to 24 years in federal prison. With time served, Thursday’s sentence means Manafort could spend a…

In defending the repeated anti-Israel, anti-Semitic things freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., keeps blurting out, Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., touched on something no one is bothering to ask: Why does Omar hold these views about Jews? Omar has accused Israel, which is Jewish, of having “hypnotized the world.” She keeps talking about Jews and their money. Her sympathies with Iran, a U.S. adversary and a hostile state to Israel, are…

Rachael Bade Philip Rucker Josh Dawsey March 7 at 6:28 PM House Democrats are torn over how aggressively to investigate the intersection of Ivanka Trump’s private financial interests and her service in the White House — an area of inquiry that probably would inflame tensions with President Trump, who has warned Democrats against scrutinizing his family. Senior Democratic investigators have discussed opening an oversight probe into whether the president’s daughter…

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The man accused of kidnapping Jayme Closs and murdering her parents wrote in a new jailhouse letter he “can’t believe” what he did and plans to plead guilty. Jake Patterson, 21, wrote to a KARE-TV reporter saying he has “huge amounts” of remorse or regret for what he did, and will own up to the murder and kidnapping charges at his March 27 arraignment. Patterson said he doesn’t want the…

A political crisis is brewing inside the halls of Congress. A few freshman Democrats have drawn the ire from both sides about their position on the U.S.’s relationship with Israel. In the lead up to the 2018 midterm election, then-congressional candidates Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., — the first Muslim women to be elected to Congress — were criticized for a series of troubling remarks about Israel that…

Before joining President Trump’s campaign to “drain the swamp” of Washington corruption, Paul Manafort perfected a revolving door between respectable Republican politics and dictators who gave him millions of dollars. Now, the former Trump campaign manager, 69, will trade six homes and an ostrich coat for a federal prison cell and a monochrome uniform, with a judge awarding him Thursday what could be a de facto life sentence. Manafort has…

That Michael Cohen is proudly declaring he doesn’t want a pardon from federal prison time doesn’t make him the hero he thinks it does. The only reason anyone would say that, as Cohen did during his embarrassing testimony in front of Congress last week, is that he knew a pardon from President Trump was never in the cards. And that’s what the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Cohen’s current attorney,…

Police investigate a shooting at an Illinois hotel. (WBBM) A deputy part of a U.S. Marshals task force operation died Thursday after he was shot by an “armed and dangerous” man at an Illinois hotel, police said. “Unfortunately, we were just notified that the McHenry County deputy has passed away from his injuries,” Illinois State Police Trooper Sean Ramsey said in a press conference streamed on Facebook by WMBD. The…