Prosecutor attacks Trump personal lawyer over seized files
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. prosecutor on Friday attacked a claim by President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen that many of the materials seized this week in FBI raids on Cohen’s office and home as part of a criminal investigation…
Enforcement of Kentucky abortion law suspended pending ruling
(Reuters) – Kentucky state officials have agreed to hold off enforcing a new law that bans a common abortion procedure from the 11th week of pregnancy until a federal judge rules on a request by a civil liberties group challenging it, according to cour…
Trump pardons ‘Scooter’ Libby, former Iraq war-era Cheney aide
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned former George W. Bush administration official Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who years ago was convicted of lying in an investigation of the unmasking of a CIA agent.
‘I was scared,’ Cosby accuser says of alleged assault aftermath
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) – The woman whose accusation brought Bill Cosby to trial in Pennsylvania on sex-assault charges testified on Friday that the comedian drugged and raped her in 2004 and she was terrified to tell anyone for months afterward.
Backpage.com co-founder released on $1 million bond in prostitution case
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A co-founder of now-shuttered Backpage.com charged with helping mastermind a scheme to use the website to sell sex was freed from an Arizona jail on Friday after posting a $1 million bond secured by real estate.
Stormy Daniels’ lawyer joins fight over Trump lawyer’s files
(Reuters) – A lawyer for adult film star Stormy Daniels argued in a court hearing on Friday that materials seized by federal investigators from U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer may concern his client, who claims the president slept with he…
Trump pardons ex-Cheney aide Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned former George W. Bush administration official Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who years ago was convicted of lying in an investigation of the unmasking of a CIA agent, in a step that Democrat…
Victim in Cosby trial says he drugged, sexually assaulted her
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) – The woman at the center of a sexual assault case against Bill Cosby testified on Friday he gave her three blue pills at his home near Philadelphia in 2004 that rendered her incapable of fending off an attack by the man once …
Wells Fargo CFO says government, not banks, should set gun policy
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wells Fargo & Co believes the U.S. government, rather than banks, should set rules to promote gun safety, its finance chief said on Friday.
Trump, called an unethical liar in book, blasts ex-FBI chief as ‘slime ball’
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Donald Trump attacked James Comey as a “weak and untruthful slime ball” on Friday after the fired former FBI director castigated him as an unethical liar and likened him to a mob moss in a searing new memoir.
