Thursday's Headlines: White House grapples with response to Cohen, Manafort convictions
Lone holdout on Manafort jury blocked conviction on all counts, juror says; Trump campaign, tabloid hatched plan to bury stories, prosecutors allege; Trump team's narrative on hush...
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Inside President Trump's orbit, there is a debate: Some confidants see this week — in which two of his former aides were convicted in federal courts — as an unsettling inflection point. Others just see yet another round of problems that are not a danger to Trump.
A juror in the trial of President Trump's former campaign chairman said she and most of her peers wanted to convict him on every charge — though she criticized special counsel prosecutors and said she believed their true motive was to "get the dirt on Trump."
David Pecker and his company, the publisher of the National Enquirer, were more deeply and deliberately involved in the effort to help the Trump campaign than was previously known, according to charging documents released as part of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's guilty plea.
By Sarah Ellison, Beth Reinhard and Carol Leonnig • Read more »
This week's guilty plea by Michael Cohen, President Trump's former attorney, offers indisputable evidence that the president and his allies have been deliberately dishonest at every turn in statements about hush-money payments to silence two women. Here is the definitive story of a Trump lie.
The adult-film star's attorney sees the resolution of Cohen's case as boosting his bid to depose President Trump in Daniels's main civil case against the president.
Prosecutors allege illegal campaign spending to the tune of $250,000, but the Southern California congressman is counting on party loyalty in a staunchly GOP district.
The slaying of Mollie Tibbetts and the arrest of farmworker Cristhian Rivera have been seized upon by administration officials and Republican lawmakers as an example of the consequences of illegal immigration.
By Katie Mettler, Cleve Wootson and Nick Miroff • Read more »
Documents state political commentator Paris Dennard admitted to touching a female Arizona State University employee's "neck with his tongue" and telling her he wanted to have sex with her.
The senators are exploring whether the Supreme Court nominee violated federal rules in his private communications with outsiders during Kenneth Starr's wide-ranging investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
By Tom Hamburger, Robert Barnes and Robert O'Harrow • Read more »
The message, which seems to contradict recent rumors of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death, comes as the United States and its Syrian Kurdish allies prepare for an offensive in Syria against one of the last significant pockets of Islamic State-controlled territory.
The football coach has been on administrative leave since Aug. 1, pending an investigation into what he knew about allegations of domestic abuse concerning a former assistant.
With a reach of more than 50 million Twitter followers, the president's raging stream of denials, counterattacks and self-justifications was marketing gold.
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