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Military moms continue tradition to treat service members

Published Friday, December 14, 2018

Volunteers diligently brought in roughly 2,500 care packages Tuesday morning, all part of an almost two-decade-long community tradition that gives a little Christmas cheer to deployed service members.

In plea deal, Russian woman admits to being a secret agent

Published Friday, December 14, 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian woman accused of being a secret agent admitted Thursday that she conspired to infiltrate the American gun-rights movement to gather intelligence on conservative political groups as Donald Trump rose to power.

Trump statements evolve from denial to ‘I did nothing wrong’

Published Friday, December 14, 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has offered shifting explanations about hush payments made by his former attorney Michael Cohen to two women who alleged they had affairs with the future president. First, he denied knowing about them.

AP Interview: Jones says farmers scared by Trump’s tariffs

Published Thursday, December 13, 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen.

Aide to ex-Texas Congressman Steve Stockman also gets prison

Published Thursday, December 13, 2018

HOUSTON (AP) — A onetime aide to former Texas Congressman Steve Stockman must follow his ex-boss to federal prison in a $1.25 million charity and campaign funds scam.
Thomas Dodd of Houston was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months and ordered to repay $800,000.

Judge gives ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen 3 years in prison

Published Thursday, December 13, 2018

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen, who as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer once vowed he would “take a bullet” for his boss, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for an array of crimes that included arranging the payment of hush money to two women that he says was done a

A primer on the Trump-related investigations

Published Wednesday, December 12, 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is facing escalating criminal investigations in Washington and New York that are examining not only whether his campaign coordinated with the Kremlin but also whether he illegally bought the silence of two women who say they had sex with him.

Four journalists; newspaper are Time’s Person of the Year

Published Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Time magazine named four journalists and a newspaper on Tuesday as its 2018 Person of the Year for what it said was standing up for the truth in the face of persecution and violence.

Man arrested in Texas after telling kids Santa isn’t real

Published Wednesday, December 12, 2018

DALLAS (AP) — Police say a 31-year-old protester who told children Santa Claus is not real has been arrested for trespassing at a North Texas church.

Ex-NFL linebacker Isiah Robertson killed in Texas car crash

Published Tuesday, December 11, 2018

MABANK, Texas (AP) — Former two-time All-Pro linebacker Isiah Robertson was killed when the limousine he was driving skidded on a rain-slicked curve on a dark, rural East Texas highway and was hit by two other vehicles.