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WASHINGTON—Donald Trump’s longtime business lawyer Michael Cohen may be best known for his aggressive campaign television defenses of the real estate mogul, his role in an abortive effort to build a Trump Tower in Moscow and allegations that he attended a meeting last summer with Russians in Europe. But while serving as a top executive […]

Americans are growing ill and bacteria outbreaks are spiking in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico as people use dirty water — sometimes contaminated by urine and hazardous waste — for drinking and bathing. One month after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, about 25 percent of its 3.4 million citizens lack clean water and 80 percent still live

From the Office of Christopher Porrino, NJ Attorney General TRENTON – Likening the conduct of Mahwah township officials to 1950s-era “white flight” suburbanites who sought to keep African-Americans from moving into their neighborhoods, Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced today that the State has filed a Superior Court complaint against the Mahwah Township Council and

By Jordan Hoffman NEW YORK — A visit to the Center for Jewish History in New York City is not unlike a visit to Israel herself. The elaborate building is comprised of a number of different cohabiting subgroups, each with their own agenda for the night, allowing for no shortage of last-minute confusion. There are

A woman claims that esteemed scholar, philanthropist and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel molested her as a teenager, squeezing her “ass” at a charity event in New York three decades ago. In a “Me Too” post on Medium last week, Jennifer Listman, a former doctoral student at New York University and researcher at Yale University, recounts

SANTA ROSA, Calif. — The wine country wildfires destroyed at least 8,400 homes and other buildings, authorities said Monday, a significant increase in the already staggering property loss. Efforts continued by firefighters to gain control of the fires and by searchers looking for more victims. The death toll as of Monday remained at 42, making

Joe Biden At a joint event with Ohio Gov. John Kasich held Tuesday at the University of Delaware, former Vice President Joe Biden warned liberals against suppressing free speech. “You should be able to listen to another point of view, as virulent as it may be,” Biden said, when asked what could be done to

An American museum is casting doubt on President Donald Trump’s reported claim to possess an original Renoir — revealing to have owned the Impressionist painting in question for the past 84 years. According to a former Trump biographer, the US leader claims to own the original “Two Sisters (On the Terrace),” an oil-on-canvas painted by

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Monday disputed criticism from a soldier’s widow about his call to console her, escalating a week-old controversy over the president’s belated response to the deaths of four Americans after an Oct. 4 ambush of U.S. forces in Niger. Two days after the funeral of her husband, Sgt. La David T.