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Search warrant from FBI-led Michael Cohen raid last year will be made public Tuesday in another blow to Donald Trump
•A judge directed prosecutors Monday to publicly release documents related to the search warrant for last year's FBI raids on the home and office of US President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen.
Robert Mueller Russia probe report should be made public, says US House with thumping 420-0 vote
•The US House of Representatives, now Democrat controlled, voted unanimously Thursday for a resolution calling for any final report in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation to be made public, a symbolic action designed to pressure Attorney General William Barr into releasing as much information as possible when the probe is concluded.
Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign chief, sentenced to 3.5 more years in jail; will serve 7.5 years total
•A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to an additional three and a half years of prison as she questioned his remorse and criticized him for his crimes and years of lies. That makes seven and one-half years for Manafort, coming on top of the roughly four-year term he received last week in a separate case in Virginia.
Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign chief, sentenced to 'shockingly lenient' 47 months in jail in Robert Mueller case
Nikhila Natrajan •Donald 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.
Michael Cohen's lawyer says Donald Trump advisers were 'dangling' pardons after FBI raided Cohen in 2018
•President Donald Trump's advisers dangled the possibility of a pardon for his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen last year, Cohen's attorney said Thursday, as congressional investigators zero in on the president's pardon power.
Michael Cohen sues Trump Organization saying it owes him legal fees of at least $1.9 million
•US president Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming the Trump Organization broke a promise to pay his legal bills and owes at least $1.9 million to cover the cost of his defense.
Michael Cohen twists knife deeper into Donald Trump White House, turns over Moscow project documents to House panel
•Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's former lawyer, turned over documents to the House intelligence committee on Wednesday related to a Trump real estate project in Moscow — a subject under intense media glare about which he lied to the committee in 2017.
As investigations multiply, Donald Trump legal and political teams sharpen knives to fight and distract
•The White House has beefed up its legal team. Its political team is ready to distract and disparage. And US President Donald Trump is venting against Democratic prying.
'Presidential harassment': Donald Trump White House refuses to turn in documents for Democrat-led probes into abuse of power, corruption
•US Democrats who now wield power in the US House of Representatives say the White House is refusing to produce documents related to security clearances even as another branch of the Democrat held House began sweeping probes into possible obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power by Donald Trump. Their first major action is sending document requests to 81 people linked to Trump and his associates.
US House Democrats launch sweeping probe of Donald Trump and associates; request documents from 81 people in inner circle
•Democrats launched a sweeping new probe of President Donald Trump, an aggressive investigation that threatens to shadow the president through the 2020 election season with potentially damaging inquiries into his White House, campaign and family businesses.