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Trump confirms he repaid lawyer for hush money to Stormy Daniels President Trump said that lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed through a monthly retainer for a $130,000 payment made to the adult-film actress to stop what Trump called "false and extortionist accusations" about a decade-old affair. Trump stressed that no campaign money was used to reimburse Cohen. By John Wagner  •  Read more » The Fix: The blatant coverup of Trump's payment It's clear Trump and Michael Cohen tried to hide this. They couldn't anymore. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   'I was going to get this over with': Inside Giuliani's explosive Stormy Daniels revelation The disclosure of the president's reimbursement to his lawyer of the payment made to an adult-film actress stunned White House officials and set off another political and legal crisis for the Trump administration. By Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey, Robert Costa and Ashley Parker  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT The Fix: Sarah Huckabee Sanders basically just blamed Trump for misleading her Sanders blames bad information for her false denial of Trump's involvement in the Stormy Daniels payment. And the bad information clearly came from Trump. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   The Take | Analysis The president and his attorney didn't tell the truth. Now Giuliani has. Will that change anything? Does it bother anyone that President Trump has been caught lying? Does it bother anyone that this is not new? By Dan Balz  •  Read more »   'We're not suckers': Giuliani says he won't let Mueller 'trap' the president into perjury Rudolph W. Giuliani, who recently joined the president's legal team, asserted that the original aim of the special counsel — to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia — is "dead." He later said the attorney general should "step in" and bring the probe to a close. By John Wagner  •  Read more »   Charlie Rose's sexual misconduct was widespread at CBS and three managers were warned, investigation finds Incidents of misconduct by Rose were far more numerous than previously known, according to an investigation by The Washington Post, which also found three occasions over a period of 30 years in which CBS managers were warned of his conduct toward women at the network. Rose describes the new allegations as "unfair and inaccurate." By Amy Brittain and Irin Carmon  •  Read more »   Interactive | Analysis America is more racially integrated than ever. Here's where segregation still lingers. The United States is on track to be a majority-minority nation by 2044. But census data show most of our neighbors are the same race as us. By Aaron Williams and Armand Emamdjomeh  •  Read more »   Camille Cosby on her husband's conviction: 'This is mob justice, not real justice' Her nearly 800-word statement likened Bill Cosby's ordeal to the racially-charged killing of Emmett Till. By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Sonia Rao  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT The Daily 202 | Analysis The Supreme Court has a blockbuster season — and the justices are pretty divided After the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016, the eight remaining justices tried hard to reach consensus on cases. Now there are nine justices and there have been more divided decisions. By Robert Barnes  •  Read more »   Fatal police shootings of unarmed people have significantly declined, experts say But police departments are on pace to kill 1,000 for the fourth year in a row, a Washington Post database shows. By John Sullivan, Julie Tate and Jennifer Jenkins  •  Read more »   Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is sending every family an election-year check. Democrats claim it's bribery. Independent economists say it's a mystifying piece of tax policy that has no clear, long-term economic purpose and few — if any — recent comparable examples. By Jeff Stein  •  Read more »   Fact Checker | Analysis The unsupported claim that James Clapper tipped Jake Tapper about the dossier Since the release of the House Intelligence Committee report on Russian election interference, one of the findings has attracted a lot of attention in the right-leaning media. By Glenn Kessler  •  Read more »   'Please sell our stock': Elon Musk clashes with Wall Street during epic earnings call Tesla's billionaire chief executive lashed out at analysts during a wide-ranging earnings call, sending the company's stock tumbling as much as 8 percent. By Peter Holley  •  Read more »   The enduring mystery of the 1968 Kentucky Derby Fifty years later, questions linger over why Dancer's Image was disqualified. Did it have anything to do with the horse owner's support for Martin Luther King Jr.? By Rick Maese  •  Read more »

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