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The New England Patriots were reportedly unaware that Antonio Brown was facing sexual assault and rape accusations when the team signed him last week, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. With Brown’s signing announced and the star wideout scheduled to begin practice with the team on Wednesday, the Patriots are now deciding how to proceed. The team released a statement late Tuesday night confirming it is aware of the lawsuit and that the NFL will be investigating the matter.

President Trump broke with longtime associate David Bossie on Tuesday, with Trump's 2020 campaign accusing an organization run by Bossie of "deceptive" fundraising and calling for its investigation. "The president was livid when he learned about what David Bossie’s group was doing," a person close to the campaign and familiar with the president's thinking told the Washington Examiner. "He thought it was unconscionable to trick people into thinking they were donating to the Trump campaign when they were not." Bossie served as Trump's deputy campaign manager in 2016 and interviewed with Trump in December for the position of White House...

Mother of sextuplets faces loss of Medicaid-funded nurse WYOMISSING - A Berks County woman with year-old sextuplets and 4-year-old twins will appeal for continued nursing help from Medicaid beyond a one-year cutoff. Kate Gosselin, whose husband has a 90-minute commute to a state job in Harrisburg, said she cannot safely manage eight small children. The sextuplets - only the second set born in Pennsylvania and among fewer than 30 sets born worldwide - arrived 8 weeks premature but are thriving as they near their first birthday Tuesday. "I will shout from the highest mountain that these are my children and...

Michael Fisher, in an act of civil disobedience, plans at noon on May 9 to give a manicure for profit without a license in front of the office of the New Hampshire Board of Barbering & Cosmetology in Concord. This has apparently caused some consternation at the New Hampshire Attorney General's office, which has asked the court for an injunction: ----- THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MERRIMACK, SS. SUPERIOR COURT The State of New Hampshire V. Michael B. Fisher PETITION FOR PRELIMINARY AND PERMANENT INJUNCTIVE RELIEF NOW COMES the State of New Hampshire, by and through its attorneys, the Office...