Jake Offenhartz

New York University students and faculty participate in a protest against Israel's war in Gaza at Washington Square Park on April 23, 2024, in New York City. NYU students have joined a growing number of students at colleges around the country calling for a cease-fire in Gaza and for their schools to divest from Israel. (Spencer Platt/Getty)

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US colleges revise rules on free speech in hopes of containing anti-war protests

August 15, 2024 at 5:28 p.m.

As students return to colleges across the United States, administrators are bracing for a resurgence in activism against the war in Gaza, and some schools are adopting rules to limit...

Ohio police officers in Wisconsin for the Republican National Convention shot and killed a Milwaukee man on Tuesday, fueling anger from residents who questioned why out-of-state officers were in their neighborhood located about a mile from the convention site.

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Out-of-state officers fatally shot a man blocks away from the RNC, angering Milwaukee residents

July 16, 2024 at 8:58 p.m.

Ohio police officers in Wisconsin for the Republican National Convention shot and killed a Milwaukee man on Tuesday, fueling anger from residents who questioned why out-of-state officers were in their...

Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday asked the New York judge who presided over his hush money trial to set aside his conviction and delay his sentencing, scheduled for next week.

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Trump seeks to set aside New York hush money verdict hours after Supreme Court ruling

July 2, 2024 at 6:54 a.m.

Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday asked the New York judge who presided over his hush money trial to set aside his conviction and delay his sentencing, scheduled for next week.

New York’s top court on Tuesday declined to hear Donald Trump’s gag order appeal in his hush money case, leaving the restrictions in place following his felony conviction last month. The Court of Appeals found that the order does not raise “substantial” constitutional issues that would warrant an immediate intervention.

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New York’s top court declines to hear Trump’s appeal of gag order in hush money case

June 18, 2024 at 11:30 a.m.

New York’s top court on Tuesday declined to hear Donald Trump’s gag order appeal in his hush money case, leaving the restrictions in place following his felony conviction last month....

Donald Trump’s lawyers rested their defense Tuesday without the former president taking the witness stand in his New York hush money trial.

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Defense rests without Trump taking the witness stand in his New York hush money trial

May 21, 2024 at 5:08 p.m.

Donald Trump’s lawyers rested their defense Tuesday without the former president taking the witness stand in his New York hush money trial.

Donald Trump’s hush money trial is heading into the final stretch, with prosecutors’ last and star witness back on the stand Monday for more grilling before the former president’s lawyers get their chance to put on a case.

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Donald Trump’s lawyers urge the judge to throw out his hush money case after prosecution rests

May 20, 2024 at 5:19 p.m.

Donald Trump’s hush money trial is heading into the final stretch, with prosecutors’ last and star witness back on the stand Monday for more grilling before the former president’s lawyers...

Prosecutors' star witness will be back in the hot seat in Donald Trump's New York hush money trial Thursday.

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Michael Cohen pressed on his crimes and lies as defense attacks key Trump hush money trial witness

May 16, 2024 at 11:16 a.m.

Prosecutors' star witness will be back in the hot seat in Donald Trump's New York hush money trial Thursday.

The star prosecution witness at Donald Trump's hush money trial says Trump was intimately involved with all aspects of a scheme to stifle stories about sex that threatened to torpedo his 2016 campaign.

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‘Make sure it doesn’t get released;’ Star witness Michael Cohen implicates Trump in hush money case

May 13, 2024 at 4:39 p.m.

The star prosecution witness at Donald Trump's hush money trial says Trump was intimately involved with all aspects of a scheme to stifle stories about sex that threatened to torpedo...

In the wake of salacious testimony from porn actor Stormy Daniels, prosecutors in Donald Trump's hush money trial narrowed their focus to checks and phone records Friday as they laid the groundwork for jurors to hear from the star witness: Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney.

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Prosecutors focus on phone records in Trump’s hush money trial as Michael Cohen’s testimony awaits

May 10, 2024 at 12:43 p.m.

In the wake of salacious testimony from porn actor Stormy Daniels, prosecutors in Donald Trump's hush money trial narrowed their focus to checks and phone records Friday as they laid...

Stormy Daniels will return to the witness stand Thursday in Donald Trump’s hush money trial as the defense tries to undermine the credibility of the porn actor’s salacious testimony about their alleged sexual encounter and the money she was paid to keep quiet.

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Stormy Daniels testifies on the cash-for-silence transaction at the center of Trump’s criminal trial

May 9, 2024 at 9:48 a.m.

Stormy Daniels will return to the witness stand Thursday in Donald Trump’s hush money trial as the defense tries to undermine the credibility of the porn actor’s salacious testimony about...

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