Evening Edition: Michael Cohen says he worked to silence two women ‘in coordination’ with Trump to influence 2016 election
Manafort convicted on 8 counts; mistrial declared on 10 others; Trump threatens clearance of another former official after seeing him in heated TV debate
The president's longtime personal lawyer, who pleaded guilty to eight violations of banking, tax and campaign finance laws on Tuesday, faces a recommended jail sentence of between four and five years.
The jury convicted Paul Manafort, President Trump's onetime campaign chairman, on five counts of filing false tax returns, one count of not filing a report on a foreign bank account and two bank fraud counts.
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The president questioned the mental state of former CIA and FBI official Philip Mudd, accusing him of becoming "totally unglued and weird" during a TV appearance.
A bipartisan group of former intelligence officials has voiced support for former CIA director John Brennan after President Trump revoked his security clearance. Brennan has been a vocal critic of Trump.
The technology still has many limitations for creating completely reliable weapons from scratch, but some enthusiasts have shown how ordinary weapons can be modified with 3-D-printed parts to create untraceable guns.
Heat didn't kill Jordan McNair. The excesses of coach DJ Durkin and his staff did. An NFL player hasn't died from heat exertion in 17 years. You know how many kids NCAA football coaches have killed with conditioning drills in that same period? Twenty-seven.
The move could keep aging coal-fired plants running longer and slow the decline of carbon emissions in the United States. President Trump will tout the measure at a roundtable in West Virginia.
The Lumbee of North Carolina don't fit neatly into any racial categories, but they have long been living as Indians. The government has acknowledged the Lumbee — the largest tribe east of the Mississippi — as such, yet it has denied them the sovereignty, land and benefits it grants to other tribes.
Elizabeth Boineau is one of many homeowners on the front lines of society's confrontation with climate change, living in houses where rising sea levels have worsened flooding not just in extreme events like hurricanes, but also heavy rains and even high tides. The increase is undermining the value of coastal properties, according to three studies.
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With the deal, Nationals General Manager Mike Rizzo and his staff are acknowledging that this team did not take off in the three weeks since the trade deadline, and are trying to salvage something for the free agents-to-be on their roster.
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