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Michael Cohen pressed on his crimes and lies as defense attacks key Trump hush money trial witness

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JAKE OFFENHARTZ, JENNIFER PELTZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
May 16, 2024 12:05 pm - NEW YORK — With prosecutors’ hush money case against Donald Trump barreling toward its end, defense lawyers pressed former attorney Michael Cohen on his criminal history ...
Slovak interior minister says 'lone wolf' has been charged with shooting prime minister

By BELA SZANDELSZKY, PETR DAVID JOSEK and PHILIPP JENNE
May 16, 2024 6:53 am - BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia — The Slovak interior minister said Thursday that a “lone wolf” has been charged in the shooting that seriously wounded Prime Minister Robert Fi...
Biden and Trump agree to presidential debates in June on CNN and in September on ABC

By ZEKE MILLER, JILL COLVIN and JOSH BOAK
May 15, 2024 3:16 pm - President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday agreed to hold two campaign debates in June and September — the first on June 27 hosted by CNN and the second on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC — setting the stage for the first presidential face-off in just weeks.
Inflation improved slightly in April, with timing for rate cuts still uncertain

By Rachel Siegel
May 15, 2024 3:20 pm - Inflation showed some signs of improvement in April, as policymakers grapple with whether their fight against abnormally high price growth is losing ground. Data released...
Palestinians across the Middle East mark their original ‘catastrophe’ with eyes on the war in Gaza

By JOSEPH KRAUSS, ABBY SEWELL and SAMY MAGDY
May 15, 2024 7:00 am - JERUSALEM — Palestinians across the Middle East on Wednesday are marking the anniversary of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel with protests and other events at...
Ukrainian troops pull out of some areas and Zelenskyy postpones foreign trips amid Russian offensive

By MATTHEW LEE and ILLIA NOVIKOV
May 15, 2024 6:37 am - KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces withdrew from some areas of the country's east and battled Russian troops in others on Wednesday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy postpo...
Biden and oil companies like this climate tech. Many Americans do not.

By Evan Halper
May 14, 2024 11:24 am - The remote stretch of public grazing land in southeastern Montana has hardly changed since homesteading days, but underneath this wind-swept expanse lies a hidden asset i...
Biden adds tariffs on Chinese chips, critical minerals, EVs

By Josh Wingrove
May 14, 2024 6:56 am - President Joe Biden is hiking tariffs on a wide range of Chinese imports - including semiconductors, batteries, solar cells, and critical minerals - in an election-year b...
Palestinians mark 76 years of dispossession as a potentially even larger catastrophe unfolds in Gaza

By JOSEPH KRAUSS
May 14, 2024 6:49 am - JERUSALEM — Palestinians on Wednesday will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel, an event that is at the core of their national struggle. Bu...
Blinken in Kyiv says U.S. arms will make a difference as Ukraine reels from a new Russian offensive

By MATTHEW LEE
May 14, 2024 6:45 am - KYIV, Ukraine — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that American military aid on its way to Ukraine will make a “real difference” on the battlefield, as ...

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