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ALEXANDRIA, Va. AP 鈥?Paul Manaforts defense rested its case Tuesday without calling any witnesses in the former Trump campaign chairmans tax evasion and fraud trial. Manafort himself chose not to testify.The decision by Manaforts lawyer, Kevin Downing, not to call witnesses clears the way for the jury to hear closing arguments in the trial, now in its third week.Manafort is accused of hiding millions of dollars in income he received advising Ukrainian politicians. The defense has tried to blame Manaforts financial mistakes on his former assistant, Richard Gates. Defense attorneys have called Gates a liar, philanderer and embezzler as theyve sought to undermine his testimony.Closing arguments in the case are scheduled for Wednesday morning.Asked by Judge T.S. Ellis III whether he wished to testify in his defe
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ReutersU.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle attends a House of Representatives Oversight Committee hearing on the security lapses that allowed an attempted assassination of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington on Monday.Reuters12:18 JST,ensp;July 23, 2024WASHINGTON Reuters U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle rebuffed bipartisan calls to resign for security failures that allowed a would-be assassin to wound Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and rankled lawmakers by refusing to provide details about the incident.The U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee Republican chair, James Comer, and top Democrat, Jamie Raskin normally bitterly divided on most issues each called on Cheatle to step down.This committee is not known for its model of bipartisanship, and I think today we came together unanimously in our disappointment, Comer told Cheatle. We do
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stanley cupe e very quickly need to move beyond this.During more than 4-1/2 hours of often contentious proceedings, Cheatle called the July 13 shooting the most significant operational failure at the Secret Service in decades, comparing the breakdown to the 1981 attempted assassination of former President Ronald Reagan.Bu
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