Category: World

GREELEY, Colo. — Frank Rzucek Sr. leaned forward in a Colorado courtroom, weeping with his face in his hands as his son-in-law, just feet away, was told Tuesday he could face the death penalty if convicted of killing Rzucek’s daughter and two granddaughters. Collecting himself, Rzucek glared as that son-in-law, Christopher Watts, was escorted back […]

NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and “fixer,” pleaded guilty Tuesday to campaign-finance violations and other charges, saying he and Trump arranged the payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels and a former Playboy model to influence the election. Under a plea bargain reached with federal prosecutors, Cohen, […]

SALT LAKE CITY — Worry not. The animal crackers’ animals are free of their cages. Mondelez International, the parent company of Nabisco, recently redesigned the cover of Barnum’s Animals crackers to no longer include a cage in front of the animals. Now, the zebra, elephant, lion, giraffe and gorilla remain free on the box’s face. […]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Paul Manafort, the longtime political operative who for months led Donald Trump’s winning presidential campaign, was found guilty of eight financial crimes Tuesday in the first trial victory of the special counsel investigation into the president’s associates. A judge declared a mistrial on 10 other counts the jury could not agree on. […]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been found guilty of eight financial crime charges in the first trial victory for special counsel Robert Mueller’s team. A judge declared a mistrial on 10 other counts after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict. The jury deliberated for four days before announcing the […]

NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, the lawyer who gained notoriety as President Donald Trump’s loyal “fixer,” reached a plea agreement on Tuesday and will plead guilty to charges including campaign finance fraud, bank fraud and tax evasion, according to two people familiar with the deal. The people spoke to The Associated Press on the condition […]

BERLIN — A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard who lived quietly in New York City for decades was carried out of his home on a stretcher by federal agents and flown to Germany early Tuesday in what could prove to be the last U.S. deportation of a World War II-era war-crimes suspect. Jakiw Palij’s […]

NEW YORK — Lawyers for Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, were pursuing negotiations with prosecutors that could result in a plea deal and a court hearing was set for Tuesday afternoon, according to two people familiar with the financial fraud investigation. If a deal is struck, Cohen would plead guilty in federal court […]

SALT LAKE CITY — Pink is the world’s oldest color, according to a new study. Researchers discovered ancient pink pigments from rocks that are more than 1.1 billion years old in the Sahara Desert, specifically in the Taoudeni Basin in Mauritania, West Africa. Those pigments are the oldest known colors on record. The pigments themselves […]

LONDON — British and European Union negotiators expressed cautious optimism Tuesday that they would reach a deal to prevent a disorderly U.K. exit from the bloc, saying talks will be intensified and take place “continuously” over the next few crucial months. After meeting U.K. Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab in Brussels, chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier […]