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In this July 19, 2018, photo, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh glances at reporters during a meeting with Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kavanaugh has a long record of judicial and executive branch service.
President Donald Trump took a shot Saturday at his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, over a secretly recorded conversation with him in 2016, tweeting that a lawyer taping a client is "perhaps illegal," before assuring Twitter followers that "your favorite President" did nothing wrong. Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, quickly fired back, hurling a tweet at the president, and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in a show of worsening relations between the president and his former attorney.
Donald John Trump WSJ: Trump ignored advice to confront Putin over indictments Trump hotel charging Sean Spicer ,000 as book party venue Bernie Sanders: Trump 'so tough' on child separations but not on Putin MORE have reportedly waived attorney-client privilege on a tape recording made by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, in which the two discuss payments regarding an ex-Playboy model who claims to have had an affair with Trump. CNN reported that although the special master overseeing evidence provided to the government in Cohen's case had marked the recording as privileged information, Trump's attorneys waived the designation.
An anonymous reader quotes CyberScoop: Amazon and Google face sharp questions from a bipartisan pair of U.S. senators over the tech giants' decisions to ban domain fronting, a technique used to circumvent censorship and surveillance around the world. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sent a letter on Tuesday to Google CEO Larry Page and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos over decisions by both companies in April to ban domain fronting .
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday denied any wrongdoing a day after reports that his onetime attorney Michael Cohen had recorded them both discussing buying the rights to a story by a woman who said she had an affair with Trump. The president said in a tweet it was "perhaps illegal" for a lawyer to record a client.
US president Donald Trump has said his personal lawyer's taping of their private phone conversations was "totally unheard of and perhaps illegal". Mr Trump was responding to the revelation that, weeks before the 2016 election, his former attorney Michael Cohen secretly recorded their discussion of a potential payment for a former Playboy model's account of having an affair with Mr Trump.
The two major party candidates in Virginia's U.S. Senate race are set to square off in their first debate. Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Corey Stewart are debating Saturday at the Homestead Resort.
Rudy Giuliani, Mr Trump's current lawyer, confirmed the veracity of the tape, which he said was less than two minutes long. He said the payment discussed was never actually made Ms McDougal, 47, sold her story to the National Enquirer just before the election for $150,000, .
BRANSON, Mo.: More than half of the 17 people killed when a tourist boat sank on a Branson lake were members of the same Indiana family, and they likely would not have been on the ill-fated trip but for a ticket mix-up. Tracy Beck, of Kansas City, Missouri, said she recalled the family members waiting in line.
A week ago, Maine Democrat Zak Ringelstein wasn't quite ready to consider himself a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, even if he appreciated the organization's values and endorsement in his bid to become a U.S. senator. Three days later, he told The Associated Press it was time to join up.
Hillary Clinton will be part of a star-studded lineup at a summer festival in New York's Central Park. Clinton will be at the festival of conversation, music and food called the OZY Fest Saturday in the park's Rumsey Playfield.
With less than six weeks to go until the primary, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi went to bat for state Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Bondi appeared at an event in Winter Park with Putnam on Thursday and talked about her experience working with him in the state Cabinet.
President Donald Trump broke his silence on news that his former lawyer and personal fixer Michael Cohen recorder a conversation the two had about paying off a former Playboy model. In a tweet, he said that the recording, which was reportedly made two months before the presidential election, was " perhaps illegal ."
Investigators in special counsel Robert Mueller's office have notified an attorney for Kristin Davis, who gained notoriety in the 2000s for running a high-end prostitution ring, that they intend to question her as part of their probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Davis said Friday. Davis, who is known as the "Manhattan Madam," said she expects to be asked about her close friend, Roger Stone, a political operative and longtime confidant of President Donald Trump.
In the White House briefing room, Sarah Sanders often moves quickly from one news outlet to the next, cutting off follow-up questions and ending press conferences with many reporters' questions unanswered. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption In the White House briefing room, Sarah Sanders often moves quickly from one news outlet to the next, cutting off follow-up questions and ending press conferences with many reporters' questions unanswered.
CNN's Anderson Cooper called the president's performance at a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin “perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president at a summit in front of a Russian leader certainly that I've ever seen.” Obama CIA Director John Brennan tweeted that it “rises to & exceeds the ... (more)
"Congress has appropriated $126 billion for Afghanistan reconstruction since Fiscal Year 2002," wrote Special Inspector General John F. Sopko in testimony delivered in May to the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management. By 2014, he added, inflation-adjusted appropriations for that purpose "had already exceeded the total of U.S. aid committed to the Marshall Plan for rebuilding much of Europe after World War II."
Reports surfaced this week North Dakota's great Food Freedom Act , which became law last year, could be watered down by overbearing state regulators. Adding to the concern, a Bismarck paper recently endorsed the basic outline of such rules.