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There have been no protests filed, no recount requests and no complaints made to the county Board of Elections following Tuesday's primary election. He and his staff had all left the elections office building on North Walnut Street in Lumberton by 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, Pridgen said.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the U.S. Department of Justice has increased violent crime prosecutions to 25-year highs and gun prosecutions to 10-year-highs. The strategy calls for using existing laws to bring federal charges, which often lead to longer prison terms than state charges.
A New York lawyer said he told President Donald Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, years ago that former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was abusing women. Schneiderman, a frequent legal nemesis of the president, resigned this week after The New Yorker published the accounts of four women who said they were slapped and choked by the Democrat.
That will be the upshot of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions's plan to immediately detain and prosecute everyone - including asylum-seekers and parents with children - caught trying to cross illegally into the U.S. Illegal immigration is wrong, and the government is right to seek to curb it.
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller this week unveiled a "Juntos con Heller" campaign with a coalition of 254 Hispanic activists committed to helping the Republican win re-election. U.S. Sen. Dean Heller this week unveiled a "Juntos con Heller" campaign with a coalition of 254 Hispanic activists committed to helping the Republican win re-election.
Eric Schneiderman's sudden disgraced resignation as New York's attorney general doesn't mean that all or even any of his political investigations and lawsuits will go away with him. The civil and criminal cases he filed and those that still may be pending in the pipeline - against Donald Trump , Michael Cohen , Paul Manafort , or Jared Kushner ; against the Trump administration's travel ban , its environmental policies , its military transgender rules and its net neutrality position - almost certainly will continue in Schneiderman's absence, especially in the short term.
President Donald Trump is suggesting that Rudy Giuliani, the aggressive new face of his legal team, needs to "get his facts straight" about the hush money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election. Trump chided Giuliani even as he insisted that "we're not changing any stories" about the $130,000 settlement, which was paid to Daniels to keep her quiet about her allegations of an affair with Trump.
Missouri lawmakers will convene in an historic special session later this month to consider impeaching Republican Gov. Eric Greitens following allegations of sexual misconduct and misuse of charity resources for his political campaign.
Longtime Hamilton County Commissioner Christine Altman faces a challenger who promises to make county commissioner his only job if he's elected in her re-election bid for the District 1 seat.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that reimbursement to his personal lawyer for hush money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels was done through a monthly retainer and "had nothing to do with the campaign." Trump previously claimed he didn't know about the payments or the source of them.
President Donald Trump said Thursday reimbursement to his personal lawyer for hush money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels was done through a monthly retainer and "had nothing to do with the campaign." On Twitter, Trump says his personal attorney Michael Cohen received a monthly retainer "from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA."
This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Robert Fratta, former suburban Houston police officer on death row for hiring a hitman to kill his estranged wife in 1994. In a ruling late Tuesday, May 1, 2018, Fratta lost an appeal moving him a step closer to execution.
SUSPENDED: Trooper Leigha Genduso, right, was placed on paid administrative leave after state police opened an internal affairs probe last month. Were you ever arrested or given a ticket by MSP trooper Leigha Genduso before her own sordid criminal career came to light in February? If so, we'd love to hear from you - or your lawyer.
Stephanie Clifford, the porn star known as Stormy Daniels, spoke outside a federal courthouse after a hearing involving Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, in New York on April 16. WASHINGTON - In a startling revelation, President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that Trump repaid his personal attorney $130,000 in a deal made just before the 2016 election to keep porn star Stormy Daniels quiet about her tryst with the president, directly contradicting Trump's statements about the hush money.
SHAMROCK FILE U.S. Rep. Tom Marino alleges Michael and Marlene Steele distributed an email that falsely accuses him of taking a drug industry kickback. U.S. Rep. Tom Marino sued an elderly woman and her son for defamation, alleging they distributed an email that falsely accuses him of taking a drug industry kickback and having a "big hand" in spreading heroin and opioids at the heart of an addiction epidemic.
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Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver arrives at federal court, Monday, April 30, 2018, in New York. The former speaker returned to court Monday to listen as prosecutors accuse him for a second time of collecting $4 million in illegal kickbacks from a cancer researcher and real estate developers.
San Francisco, April 28 : A California judge halted porn star Stormy Daniels' lawsuit against President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen for 90 days while the criminal investigation of the lawyer moves forward in New York, the media rpeorted. Cohen had asked to halt the lawsuit because he would assert his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself while the criminal investigation continues.
Investigators hunting for the so-called Golden State Killer turned to searching genetic websites in 2017 but misidentified an Oregon man as a potential suspect. A year later, after using a similar technique, they are confident they've caught the serial rapist and killer who eluded capture for four decades.