Daily Bulletin: SC to decide on appointing mediator for Ayodhya case; UN rejects Hafiz Saeed's appeal for removal from terror list; day's top stories
Fp Staff • 6 years agoToday's top stories: The Supreme Court will decide whether to refer the Ayodhya case to an officially appointed mediator or not; the UN has rejected Hafiz Saeed's request for removal from the global terrorists' list; India to take on Australia in third ODI of series; and more.
Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign chief, sentenced to 'shockingly lenient' 47 months in jail in Robert Mueller case
Nikhila Natrajan • 6 years agoDonald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, 69, has gotten away with what legal pundits are describing as a "shockingly lenient" sentence of 47 months in jail for eight criminal counts of tax and bank fraud in the only case brought by special counsel Robert Mueller that has gone to trial so far.
Ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort set to be sentenced for tax crimes and bank fraud, may face life in prison
• 6 years agoPaul Manafort, who turns 70 in April, faces potentially spending the rest of his life behind bars
House panel seeks documents from 81 people linked to Donald Trump; effort to ‘build public record’ may impact 2020 polls
• 6 years agoDemocrats launched a sweeping new probe of Donald rump, an aggressive investigation that threatens to shadow the president through the 2020 election season with potentially damaging inquiries
Paul Manafort 'intentionally' lied to investigators, federal grand jury in Russia probe, says judge
• 6 years agoFormer Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort intentionally lied to investigators and a federal grand jury in the special counsel's Russia probe, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen 'will comply' with US Senate subpoena, says lawyer
• 6 years agoA Senate committee has subpoenaed US President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, his attorney said Thursday, and Cohen intends to comply with the interview demand related to the Russia investigation.
Democrats consider subpoena for Michael Cohen after he postpones testimony citing Donald Trump 'threats, mob tactics'
Fp Staff • 6 years agoCiting threats to his immediate family members, US president's former fixer Michael Cohen, who has threatened to unload dirt on his former boss, has decided to put off his public testimony before the US House Oversight Committee. Cohen attorney Lanny Davis put out a statement Wednesday even as angry Democrats are saying this amounts to "witness tampering" by Trump and team.
Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani claims he 'never said there was no collusion' between US president's campaign and Russia
• 6 years agoThe comments on collusion came after Giuliani was asked about the revelation in court papers that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had shared campaign polling data with an associate the US has tied to Russian intelligence.
Donald Trump's ex-campaign chief Paul Manafort shared 2016 US polling data with 2 pro-Russia Ukrainian oligarchs, says report
• 6 years agoPro-Russia Ukrainians Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov had paid Paul Manafort millions of dollars over the years for lobbying work
US withdrawal from Syria kicks off Donald Trump's outsize distraction strategy for 2020 bid as prosecutors tighten screws
Nikhila Natrajan • 6 years agoStunning his country's entire military establishment, US President Donald Trump who has been pushed to a corner by the escalating political and legal dangers of 17 different investigations into his business and politics that may have gamed his election itself, has decided to pull out all of the 2000 and more American troops in Syria and took to his favorite social media platform Twitter to declare victory: "We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency."