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Florida man pleads not guilty over mail bombs sent to Trump critics
The Florida man accused of sending pipe bombs to prominent critics of President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges carrying a potential mandatory penalty of life in prison. Cesar Sayoc entered the plea through his lawyer during his appearance in Manhattan federal court. U.S. ...
Mueller scores win in prosecution of firm run by 'Putin's chef'
A U.S. judge denied a request from a Russian company controlled by an associate of Vladimir Putin to dismiss charges that it conspired to interfere with the 2016 election. It's a win for special counsel Robert Mueller, who charged the firm, Concord Management and Consulting ...
Texas mulls history curriculum that cuts Helen Keller, Hillary Clinton, keeps Moses
The Texas Board of Education is discussing changes to the history curriculum that could scrap lessons featuring Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller and Barry Goldwater, but keep instruction about how Moses influenced the nation's Founding Fathers and the ways states' rights helped cause the Civil ...
Acting U.S. attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, may have violated group's tax-exempt status
Matthew G. Whitaker, America's new acting attorney general, repeatedly chided presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in public statements during 2016 while he was speaking for a group that is barred by its tax-exempt status from supporting or opposing political candidates during a campaign. Before coming to ...
Pipe bomb suspect appears at Election Day court hearing, is denied bail
The man accused of sending pipe bombs to prominent critics of President Donald Trump was ordered held without bail after his first court appearance in New York on Tuesday. Cesar Sayoc, who was transferred from federal custody in Florida, hugged his lawyer after a hearing ...
Newly released emails from the 2016 presidential campaign appear to show political operative Roger Stone presenting himself as a WikiLeaks insider to Steve Bannon, who was at the heart of then-candidate Donald Trump's run for president. The emails, which were published Thursday by The New ...
Florida pipe bomb suspect was spinning vinyl as club DJ as Feds closed in
In the hours before his arrest, as federal authorities zeroed in and secretly accumulated evidence, Cesar Sayoc was in his element: spinning classic and Top 40 hits in a nightclub where he'd found work as a DJ. As he entertained patrons from a dimly lit ...
DNA and fingerprints led FBI to uncover identity of U.S. bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc
In the hours before his arrest, as U.S. federal authorities zeroed in and secretly accumulated evidence, Cesar Sayoc was in his element: spinning classic and Top 40 hits in a nightclub where he'd found work as a DJ. As he entertained patrons from a dimly ...
Personality of U.S. mail-bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc changed radically over the years
Thirteen years ago, mail-bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc traveled across America leading a mixed-race troupe of male exotic dancers — he ran scams and had a temper, but a fellow dancer who is black said he never expressed racism or homophobia. Years later, working as a ...
U.S. mail bomb suspect was cash-strapped ex-stripper devoted to Trump
Focus Cesar Sayoc is an amateur body builder and former stripper, a loner with a long arrest record who showed little interest in politics until Donald Trump came along. On Friday, he was identified by authorities as the man who put pipe bombs in small envelopes ...
AP — The pipe bombs mailed to top Democrats this past week offered all sorts of forensic clues to who had sent them. FBI Director Christopher Wray said Cesar Sayoc's fingerprints and possible DNA were collected from two of the 13 devices. Wray said the ...
How the U.S. investigation into a series of package bombs unfolded
A week of mail bombs started with a single suspicious package in a billionaire's mailbox. In the days that followed, at least a dozen more suspected explosive devices were found, all of them targeting high-profile critics of President Donald Trump. On Friday, as still ...
