Prosecutors are off to a strong start in the Manhattan trial of Donald Trump. Their evidence is aimed at proving that the former president committed crimes by falsifying business records to cover up a pre-election payoff in 2016 meant to keep women who would have otherwise revealed some of his sexual scandals ahead of that […]
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg put YouTube on notice Wednesday for hosting tutorials on how to manufacture deadly weapons and pushing violent content about D.I.Y. guns to school kids. In a letter to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, Bragg noted how “in a number of cases before my office, young individuals who are being investigated for […]
Things are getting cheesy — yes, even more than usual — this week in Lost Recipes. Get the crackers out, folks, because April 17 is National Cheeseball Day, and we’re spreading it on pretty thick. In May 1987, the Montgomery Advertiser’s late, great roving reporter Alvin Benn visited a group of talented 4-H club students […]
NEW YORK (AP) — When he was elected two years ago as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney, Alvin Bragg spoke candidly about his unease with the job’s political demands. A former law professor, he’s more comfortable untangling complex legal questions than swaggering up to a podium. But when the first of Donald Trump’s four criminal […]
As former President Donald Trump’s trial on felony charges that he violated New York State tax and campaign finance laws by paying off two women to keep them from sharing their accounts of extramarital affairs with him, his lawyers move to keep Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen from testifying. In response, Manhattan Alvin Bragg’s team […]
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday accused an Arizona prosecutor of political “grandstanding” for refusing to send a New York City murder suspect back his jurisdiction. Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell on Wednesday said she’s instructed her staff in Arizona not to cooperate in any efforts to extradite Raad Noan Almansoori, 26, back to […]