NEWARK, N.J. — A federal judge on Monday declined to declare a mistrial in the corruption case of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his co-defendant, Salomon Melgen. Before U.S. District Court Judge William H. Walls made his ruling, Menendez, D-N.J., was humming “Amazing Grace” while strolling the hallways of the federal courthouse in Newark, just […]
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USAMINNEAPOLIS — Dennis Banks, a longtime national American Indian activist who was acquitted in the famed 1970s Wounded Knee uprising trial, has died, his family said early Monday. Banks was 80 years old. “Our father Dennis J. Banks started his journey to the spirit world at 10:10 p.m. on October 29, 2017,” reads a post
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Obituaries & memorials, USAWASHINGTON — A company listed in the Monday indictment of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates received funds from the Republican National Committee for work done in coordination with Donald Trump’s election campaign. Bade LLC, listed in the indictment among 17 domestic entities that Manafort and Gates are alleged to
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International, USAPresident Trump’s son made an appeal Monday to his father’s base to hold steady in their support, as the White House was rocked by criminal indictments in the special counsel’s Russia probe. Eric Trump told supporters “I know you know the truth” in a fundraising email sent out by the president’s re-election campaign. “There’s new
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International, USAWASHINGTON — For decades before he was charged Monday with money laundering, tax evasion and fraud, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager straddled a lucrative divide, shaping presidential politics while banking tens of millions of dollars as a lobbyist for dodgy foreign clients. Paul Manafort helped run no fewer than four successful presidential campaigns —
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International, USAPresident Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort turned himself in to police in Washington D.C. early Monday after special counsel Robert Mueller filed the first charges in his Russia investigation last week. Manafort is one of the prime suspects in Mueller’s investigation, which is examining whether Trump’s campaign and its associates worked with Russia
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International, USAPresident Trump doubled down Monday on his contention that Democrats should be the focus of collusion probes after his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was charged with conspiracy against the U.S. “Sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign. But why aren’t Crooked Hillary & the Dems the
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International, USAPaul Manafort, the former campaign manager to President Donald Trump, will appear in court on Monday to be indicted on 12 charges, including tax fraud and conspiracy against the United States. Here’s a comprehensive timeline of how Manafort found himself in this position, some 22 months after first signing onto the Trump campaign: March 28,
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International, USAConspiracy to launder money. Funneling millions to foreign bank accounts. Working as agents of Ukraine. These and other charges are contained in the just-released indictment of Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and friend Richard Gates. Here is the full text of the document, which cites more than $75 million flowing through offshore accounts: 1. Defendants
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, has been indicted on 12 charges of money-laundering and conspiracy, the first charges filed in the investigation of possible connections between the Trump campaign and a Russian effort to influence last year’s presidential election. Manafort, 68, turned himself in at FBI headquarters early Monday for
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International, USAAnother top GOP official has raised doubts about whether President Donald Trump will run for re-election. Senator Rand Paul said Sunday night that even though the president is raising millions for a 2020 campaign, Republicans should not assume he’s running. “There could well be a primary,” the junior senator from Kentucky said on MSNBC, after
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USAA woman’s allegation this week that Elie Wiesel groped her more than 27 years ago, when she was 19, provides us with a teaching moment, sad as it is for all concerned: the woman, Jenny Listman, now a 46-year-old geneticist; and the Wiesel family, foundation, and countless admirers, including the NJJN staff. Does Listman’s allegation
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USABy Marissa Newman The United States Embassy in Tel Aviv declined to send a representative to a Knesset committee meeting Monday on rising anti-Semitism in the United States and Europe, in a hearing attended by high-level diplomats from Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, and France. “They were invited, [but] decided not to send [a representative],”
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International, Middle East, USAThe Knesset’s Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee on Monday held a special meeting to discuss the rise in anti-Semitism in the US and Europe. Participating in the meeting were ambassadors from Germany, Austria, and the European Union. World Zionist Organization Chairman Yaakov Hagoel, who formerly served as the Head of the Department for Activities
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