As witness testimony begins in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial, Yahoo News Senior Editor David Knowles explains why the charges of falsifying business records — which would typically be considered a misdemeanor in New York state — have been elevated to criminal offenses in the eyes of the prosecution.
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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.
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.
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.
Jury selection concluded Friday with six alternate jurors picked to join the panel of 12 that will ultimately decide the former president's fate.
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.
Basketball analyst Dan Titus breaks down what the teams and stars who were booted from the NBA Playoffs must do to remain in good fantasy standing next season.
Lando Norris nabs first race win at the 2024 Miami Grand Prix.
Ohtani tagged Braves ace Max Fried for a two-run shot in the first inning then hit a solo shot in the eighth as the Dodgers prevailed in a battle of NL favorites.
Bluesky’s most prominent backer has left its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative. This prompted someone to ask Dorsey if he was still on the Bluesky board, and he responded with a terse “no.” Dorsey did not answer any of the follow-up posts asking him to explain his departure.
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A 1982 Volkswagen Vanagon, known as the T3 Transporter elsewhere in the world, found in a South Carolina junkyard.
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Russell Westbrook is trying to clear up reports about him wanting to leave the Clippers.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is making strides in astronomy with its 122-megapixel primarily infrared photos taken 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth. The space agency's newest sky-peeper takes a different approach, however, performing groundbreaking space science with 36 pixels. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), pronounced “crism,” is a collaboration between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
With the peak of first quarter earnings season in the rearview, stocks got back to their winning ways last week ahead of a slower calendar for corporate and economic news.
Out comes Tesla CEO Musk from the factory floor to one of more glitzy conferences of the year.
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Google has a lot at stake as a federal judge weighs whether the tech giant’s search empire should be broken up. But so does the rest of Silicon Valley.