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Former Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Enters New Guilty Plea In Federal Court

4:23pm November 29, 2018

by Ryan Lucas

President Trump's longtime fixer and attorney, Michael Cohen, entered a new guilty plea Thursday. He admitted to lying to Congress about the Trump company's negotiations about a Trump Tower in Moscow.

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Michael Cohen walks out of federal court on Thursday in New York. Cohen admitted he lied to Congress about Donald Trump's real estate negotiations in Moscow.

Michael Cohen Admits Trump Tower-Moscow Talks Continued Well Into 2016 Campaign

3:03pm November 29, 2018

by Philip Ewing

President Trump's longtime fixer pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress about the real estate negotiations that Trump's business conducted with Russians in 2016.

Cohen Pleads Guilty To Lying About When Real Estate Negotiations With Russians Ended

11:30am November 29, 2018

Donald Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, and others continued negotiations with Russian interlocutors about a potential Trump Tower in Moscow as late as June of 2016, Cohen has acknowledged.

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Michael Cohen, Trump's Former Lawyer, Reaches New Guilty Plea Deal

10:41am November 29, 2018

Michael Cohen, the longtime attorney for Donald Trump, has entered a new guilty plea in federal court in New York City. This was a surprise. Cohen had already offered a guilty plea in a separate case.

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Ex-Florida Police Chief Sentenced To 3 Years For Framing Black Men And Teen

7:43pm November 28, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

Raimundo Atesiano wanted to reduce his town's crime statistics, so he ordered officers to arrest innocent people for a slew of unsolved burglaries. "I made some very, very bad decisions," he said.

Samuel Little, shown here in an undated photo provided by the Ector County Texas Sheriff's Office, has allegedly confessed to 90 murders.

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FBI Says 78-Year-Old Prisoner Has Confessed To 90 Murders

6:21pm November 28, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

The bureau says Samuel Little, 78, has confessed to a total of 90 murders between 1970 and 2005, sending federal, state and local officials across the country on a hunt to verify his claims.

Stacey Abrams' Allies Suing Georgia Over How Governor's Race Was Run

6:12pm November 28, 2018

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Professor Richard Hasen of the University of California, Irvine, about the lawsuit that allies of Stacey Abrams filed accusing Georgia of disenfranchising voters.

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A lawyer for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort reportedly briefed President Trump's lawyers about Manafort's interactions with special counsel Robert Mueller's team.

Trump: Manafort Pardon Not 'Off The Table' After Briefings From Manafort's Lawyer

5:17pm November 28, 2018

by Philip Ewing

The president told the New York Post that although a pardon for his former campaign chairman hasn't been "discussed," he won't close the door to short-circuiting punishment for Manafort.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether a state has to adhere to the Eighth Amendment's excessive fines clause. That could have consequences for civil forfeiture in crimes.

Politics & Government

Supreme Court Appears Ready To Make It Harder For States To Confiscate Property

4:59pm November 28, 2018

by Nina Totenberg

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday about one of the few remaining provisions in the Bill of Rights not yet applied to the states: the ban on excessive fines.

A passerby stops to look over a street side memorial to the shooting victims of the Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Tuesday. Investigators said the number of victims from the shooting at the country music bar could have been much higher based

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Authorities Describe 'Confusion And Chaos' At Borderline Bar Shooting In California

10:28am November 28, 2018

by Ina Jaffe

The FBI says they've found no evidence of "radicalization" of the shooter, Ian David Long, at the mass shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif., earlier this month.