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In potentially the key moment of Manafort’s tax and bank fraud trial, special counsel Robert Mueller’s star witness, Rick Gates, took the stand Monday for 78 minutes of blockbuster testimony. He lifted the lid on what is claimed to be a web of financial crimes that mocked taxpayers and bankrolled Manafort’s life of opulence — […]Read More

1. The day the courtroom was waiting for Gates came out swinging from the witness box. Without smiling or pausing, he told the jury he had knowingly committed crimes “at Mr. Manafort’s direction.” This was the testimony that close watchers of Manafort’s troubles have been waiting for since Gates flipped in February. Murmurs ran through […]Read More

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Listen: Zuckerberg on Holocaust deniers Mark Zuckerberg’s sister Randi, weighing in on her brother’s controversial comments about Holocaust deniers, forcefully denounced such people and “their hateful, disgusting rhetoric.” But she said banning them from social media “will not make them go away,” and she emphasized the importance of a healthy debate over the role tech […]Read More

Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader said at least five people are unaccounted for and seven others were injured in Thursday night’s incident on Table Rock Lake near Branson. “I believe it was caused by weather, yes,” he said. Video posted by Jennie Phillips-Hudson Carr and shot from a nearby larger vessel showed two duck boats […]

Sirens wail. The area is littered with overturned cars and twisted debris crumpled on top of each other after a tornado ripped through Pella, Iowa, one of several that tore through the state on Thursday. The man hunches over quietly, his eyes cast downward as his foot rests on what appears to be a stray […]

The comments follow a speech by Australia’s Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Alan Tudge, warning that the country was veering towards a “separatist multicultural model” as a result of unchecked immigration policies. Speaking during a trip to Tasmania, Turnbull said that a values test is “one of the issues” currently being debated for new […]Read More

“I have great confidence that the Russians will try and undermine western democracy in 2017, 2018, 2019 and for an awfully long time,” Pompeo said in an interview with Fox News. “It is our responsibility as leaders of United States government to do all that we can to deter them from interfering with us, not […]

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In videos posted on YouTube and in stories on the Russian state-run TASS news agency, Moscow gave new detailed looks at five advanced weapon systems — the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile; the Avangard hypersonic missile system; the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM); the Poseidon underwater drone; and the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. The Russian President has […]

“Say that again,” Coats said, doing a double take and laughing in disbelief at the absurdity of the latest episode in the Russia saga. Once he had collected himself, he added: “Okaaaay. … That’s going to be special.” It was a comic twist that exemplified the way Trump has tipped American foreign policy and presidential […]Read More