Paul Manafort case: Ex-Trump campaign aide accused of witness tampering
US prosecutors have accused Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, of trying to tamper with potential witnesses ahead of his trial.
Robert Mueller, who is investigating alleged Russian election interference, said Mr Manafort had contacted people related to his money laundering and tax fraud case in breach of his bail terms.
Mr Manafort, 69, denies all charges.
They are not connected with allegations of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign during the US election.
Mr Trump denies any collusion and has consistently spoken of a witch-hunt.
Mr Manafort's first trial, on charges of money laundering and illegal lobbying, is due to begin in September.
Niger Islamic State hostage: 'They want to kill foreign soldiers'
Guardian investigation sheds light on little known Isis-affiliated group that killed four US soldiers last year
When a team of American special forces hunting Islamic State fighters in Niger was ambushed and four of its soldiers killed, the attack last October was described as “a total tactical surprise” by the commander of US Africa Command.
Their deaths became a political scandal in Washington – where there was little awareness of US military operations in the region – and became notorious when Donald Trump, in a condolence call, told the widow of one of the dead soldiers that he “knew what he signed up for”.
“They had never seen anything in this magnitude – numbers, mobility and training,” said US Gen Thomas Waldhauser last month, presenting the results of the Pentagon investigation into the attack, which found “individual, organisational and institutional failures” leading up to the ambush.
Donald Trump's 'absolute right to pardon myself' does not exist
Contrary to his claim, the US president likely does not have the right to pardon himself, according to constitutional experts. But the key question is whether Congress would let Donald Trump get away with it anyway.
In his comparatively short tenure, President Trump has already issued several pardons, most of them highly controversial due to their clear political nature. On Monday, Trump upped the ante again by declaring via Twitter that he possessed "the absolute right to pardon myself," but added that he did not intend to use it. His assertion, Trump wrote, was based on the opinions of numerous legal scholars.
To check whether Trump's assertion — which if true would essentially render him above the law — DW asked two legal scholars with expertise on constitutional power and the presidency to weigh in on the president's far-reaching claim.
What do North Korea's neighbors want from Trump-Kim summit?
When U.S. President Donald Trump announced in March that he would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the news set off a flurry of diplomacy -- not only between Washington and Pyongyang, but also throughout Asia.
China, South Korea, Japan and Russia -- neighbors with a vested interest in the outcome of any Trump-Kim talks -- have been jockeying for influence, meeting with senior North Korean leaders and among themselves to promote their own hopes for what happens in Singapore.
China, South Korea, Japan and Russia -- neighbors with a vested interest in the outcome of any Trump-Kim talks -- have been jockeying for influence, meeting with senior North Korean leaders and among themselves to promote their own hopes for what happens in Singapore.
Amnesty: US-led coalition's Raqqa offensive killed hundreds
Amnesty calls for the coalition to investigate violations and civilian killings during military offensive to oust ISIL.
Hundreds of civilians were killed during the United States-led coalition's military offensive to oust the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group from its self-styled capital in Syria last year, a human rights organisation has said.
In a new report published by Amnesty International on Tuesday, 112 civilians belonging to four families in Raqqa were interviewed who recalled the horrors they witnessed and family members killed during the four-month long joint US-coalition and Kurdish-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) offensive from June 6 until October 12 2017.
THE LEADERSHIP OF the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is required by law to hold in-person meetings with its consumer advisory board, yet according to more than a dozen of its members, they are refusing to do so.
“It appears the bureau does not want to engage with us,” said Ann Baddour of the consumer organization Texas Appleseed and chair of the current Consumer Advisory Board, or CAB, who joined a conference call Monday with other board members who have decided to speak publicly. “Staying silent would violate our ethical responsibility to the bureau and the American people.”
The CFPB, under Acting Director Mick Mulvaney, has canceled two in-person meetings with the CAB, as well as numerous conference calls. Contact has been limited to one phone call in March that was supposed to last one hour but ended after 20 minutes. The most recent cancellation was for a scheduled meeting this week; members only found out about it when they coordinated with CFPB to make travel arrangements.
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