David Knowles
An editor at Yahoo News, David has worked as a reporter and editor for Bloomberg Politics, the New York Daily News, The Daily and AOL, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and the Hollywood Reporter. An active musician, he also served as a Senior Editor at Acoustic Guitar magazine, and was Editor of the quarterly publication, Ukulele. The author of the long-form essay “Remembering to Remember the World Trade Center,” he has published two novels, The Secrets of the Camera Obscura (Chronicle Books) and The Third Eye (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Trump trial updates: Hope Hicks testifies about Trump’s reaction to 'Access Hollywood' tape, affair allegations
Former President Donald Trump’s former campaign aide and White House communications director Hope Hicks testified Friday about her efforts to knock down negative stories about her boss during the 2016 campaign.
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Trump trial updates: Prosecution plays Cohen’s secret recording of Trump discussing payment to Karen McDougal
During the 10th day of former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial, jurors heard a secret recording made by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen that captured his boss talking about a payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
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Biden says Americans have 'right to protest but not the right to cause chaos' on college campuses after another night of mass arrests. Here are the latest updates.
Police in cities and towns across the country have been deployed in recent days to clear pro-Palestinian demonstrators from a growing number of encampments and occupied buildings on college and university campuses.
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Trump trial updates: Judge fines Trump, threatens jail time for gag order violations as hush money testimony continues
In a written order handed down at the start of Tuesday’s court proceedings, Judge Juan Merchan announced fines of $1,000 each for nine posts made on Trump’s Truth Social feed that he said violated his gag order barring attacks on potential witnesses in the hush money trial.
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Trump trial full coverage: Judge fines Trump for violating gag order, warns of jail time as testimony continues in the criminal hush money case
Prosecutors are set to resume presenting their case against the former president, who is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election.
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Quiz: How well do you know RFK Jr.'s policy positions?
Test your knowledge of the policy positions of third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Trump trial updates: Focus shifts to $130,000 payment made to Stormy Daniels
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker concluded his testimony about a deal to kill negative stories about former President Trump during the 2016 campaign, and two more witnesses were called.
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Trump trial updates: David Pecker testifies about election-year hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal
David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, told the jury in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial about negotiations in 2016 with two women looking to sell their stories about alleged sexual relationships with Trump.
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Trump trial updates: Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker details efforts to help Trump's 2016 campaign
In what amounted to incredibly damning testimony, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker laid out the 2015 deal he reached with Donald Trump “to help the campaign.”
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Trump trial updates: Prosecutors say Trump engaged in criminal conspiracy and a cover-up. Defense lawyers call it 'democracy.'
Former President Donald Trump's historic trial on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records got underway in Manhattan on Monday.
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Trump's hush money trial jury is set. Here's why we won't learn much about them.
The jury that will decide whether Donald Trump is guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records is made up of seven men and five women who live in Manhattan.
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Trump trial updates: Jury selection finished, man sets himself on fire outside courthouse
Five more alternate jurors were selected Friday following questioning from prosecution and defense lawyers, rounding out the 12 jurors and six alternates needed for the case against Trump to proceed.
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Trump trial update: Trump rebuked by judge for speaking during jury selection — and 7 jurors are seated
On Tuesday, the second day of former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial, Judge Juan Merchan rebuked defense lawyers after Trump was heard muttering his disapproval of an answer given by a potential juror in the case.
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Trump trial updates: 'We have our jury,' Judge Merchan declares after turbulent day in court
Six alternates still need to be selected before opening arguments.
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Trump trial: Judge Merchan mulls prosecution request to fine Trump $3,000 for attacking witnesses
On the first day of Trump’s first criminal trial, prosecutors asked Judge Juan Merchan to fine Trump $3,000 for three social media posts attacking witnesses who will testify in the hush money case against him that they say violate a gag order put in place by the judge last month
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Trump's hush money trial began Monday. We answer your questions about the case.
We've received hundreds of questions from Yahoo News readers wanting to know more about Donald Trump's trial in New York.
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Trump's 1st criminal trial is underway. Here's what you need to know.
On Monday, Donald Trump will again make history, becoming the first former president to go to trial on criminal charges.
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What questions do you have about Trump's hush money trial?
Yahoo News wants to hear what questions you have about former President Donald Trump's hush money trial.
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Trump legal news brief: 3rd appeals court judge in 3 days rejects Trump motion to delay hush money trial
An appeals court judge rejects former President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay the start of the hush money trial on the grounds that presidential immunity protects him from being prosecuted.
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Trump legal news brief: Judge hands Trump another defeat, blocking ‘fishing expedition’ subpoena to NBC over Stormy Daniels documentary
Judge Juan Merchan blocks an attempt by former President Donald Trump to force NBCUniversal to hand over information about the release of its recent documentary about adult film star Stormy Daniels.