Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to eight counts related to tax fraud, excessive campaign contributions, making false statements to a financial institution, and unlawful corporate contributions at a court hearing in New York on Tuesday. He could face more than five years in prison. […]
President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been found guilty on eight counts of financial crimes, a major victory for special counsel Robert Mueller. But jurors were unable to reach a verdict on 10 charges, and Judge T.S. Ellis declared a mistrial on those counts. Manafort was found guilty of five tax fraud […]
Microsoft has stopped newly attempted cyberattacks by Russian hackers targeting U.S. political campaigns before the midterm elections, the company alleged Monday. The tech giant acted on a court order last week, shutting down six fake internet domains operated by hackers associated with the Russian government, Microsoft said in a blog post. “Attackers want their attacks […]
A black New York state senator who says a woman called 911 on him for campaigning has introduced a bill to punish people for making racially motivated police reports. Earlier this month, state Sen. Jesse Hamilton was campaigning in Brooklyn, when a woman who Hamilton said didn’t agree with his criticism of Donald Trump called […]
A murder suspect told police in Colorado he strangled his pregnant wife in a rage after he saw her on a baby monitor strangling one of the couple’s daughters, according to court documents. Chris Watts said the couple’s other daughter was already “sprawled out” on her bed and blue by the time he reached the […]
The woman who created the #MeToo movement is calling on her fellow activists to press forward in light of news that one of the group’s most prominent voices, Asia Argento, allegedly paid off an accuser of her own. Argento, who emerged as a voice in the #MeToo movement after she accused movie producer Harvey Weinstein […]
Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul who sold tens of millions of R&B and pop albums with iconic hits like “Respect” and “Chain of Fools,” has died. She was 76. She died Thursday morning of pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type, according to a statement from her publicist, Gwendolyn Quinn. Her family released the following […]
Kristian Marche, a standout track and football athlete who graduated earlier this year from Imhotep Institute Charter High School in East Germantown, was to begin his freshman year this week at Pennsylvania State University, where he was given a track-and-field scholarship, authorities said Wednesday. Police believe the 18-year-old was targeted when he was shot in […]
At the end of its devastating report finding that Roman Catholic bishops across Pennsylvania covered up decades of child sex abuse at the hands of priests, involving more than 1,000 victims, the state grand jury drew lawmakers a road map toward justice. Among its recommendations was the idea of giving older adults the right to […]
One hundred thousand dollars. That’s the minimum amount Mayor Jim Kenney gave as the cost of moving the statue of former mayor and police commissioner Frank Rizzo from the steps of the Municipal Services Building. Like the statues of Confederate Generals in the South, Rizzo’s statue is widely considered a symbol of racism and oppression. […]
A daily trickle of revealing internal conversations between staffers. Growing anxiety about what one might have once said. No sense of how long it will go on. Omarosa Manigault Newman’s slow release of secretly taped conversations from inside the Trump campaign and White House is having the same effect on staffers as the daily dumps […]
Top Roman Catholic leaders in Pennsylvania routinely covered up child sex abuse by hundreds of priests, involving more than 1,000 victims over seven decades, according to a long-awaited grand jury report released Tuesday. The nearly 900-page report – the product of what may be the most comprehensive examination to date of clergy sex abuse across […]