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Porn star Stormy Daniels detailed how her former attorney, Michael Avenatti, allegedly stole hundreds of thousands in book advance money from her – and lied to her about the missing funds almost every day for five months at his trial Thursday. Daniels, wearing a black dress, a red sweater and black high heels, took the stand at Avenatti’s criminal trial in Manhattan federal court – and walked jurors through a series of text messages and documents that showed her communication with her former attorney as she navigated a six-figure book deal in 2018.

This video is a MUST to see, especially by those who don't quite trust that Trump is geniune about his belief that America is getting ripped off. He was saying almost the same exact words in 1988 on Oprah.

Check the statewide list and note how your individual state fared on the distribution of this portion of the stimulus money. It looks like certain places , like California, made out like a bandit. And others received nearly nothing in relation to their population. It would be noteworthy to correlate this redistribution of wealth (your tax-dollars) to the 2008 election results showing the states that voted for hope'n change.

The Federal Reserve on Tuesday took a step toward easing mortgage foreclosures threatening millions of Americans, announcing that it would write down troubled mortgages to keep people in their homes. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said the initiative would specifically include $74 billion of assets held in connection with the bailout last year of Bear Stearns and American International Group. "The goal of the policy is to avoid preventable foreclosures on residential mortgage assets that are held, owned or controlled by a Federal Reserve Bank," he said in a letter to Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House of Representatives financial...

I was just wondering if anyone has had such an experience and what did you do about it. My friends had been saving and planning a trip to Anchorage,Alaska for 3 years. They were to leave 20th of this month. Lo and behold the husband was not feeling good last week, legs were hurting, shortness of breath, wife took him to hospital emergency room. Cath was ordered and and they discovered major blockage, had open heart surgery right then and there. Needless to say trip had to be cancelled, They realize the airlines would voucher the tickets for another time,...

The cleanup of Vieques will not be a New Year priority here for the Calderon administration, at least not until after May 1, when the Navy is supposed to end its exercises on the small island, Resident Commissioner Anibal Acevedo Vila has indicated. Congressional action on Vieques is now "closed" - as far as the Navy exiting the island is concerned, said the resident commissioner. He did not foresee trying to rally help for the cleanup in Congress for many months, if at all. "After May, we will have to sit down with federal agencies to talk about a cleanup,"...

<p>President Bush has asked Congress to add almost $1 billion in new spending to fund the Transportation Security Administration, fight AIDS, give humanitarian assistance to Palestinians and help Israel fight the war on terrorism.</p> <p>He sent up the requests, totaling $996 million, late Tuesday as amendments to his spending proposal for the next fiscal year. All 13 appropriations bills for fiscal 2003, which begins Oct. 1, are pending in Congress now.</p>

In addition to the personal security that Island Security provided to former Education Secretary Victor Fajardo, public funds also paid for security services at activities for the League of United Latin American Citizens, according to an Education Department employee. Carmen Ortega, a social worker for the department, testified for a second day Wednesday before the Senate Education and Culture Committee, which is looking into whether public funds were funneled to LULAC, a non-profit organization, to lobby for statehood under the Rosello administration. Ortega was an assistant to Elsie Valdes, the former director of Education's Drug and Weapons Free School Zone...

Vieques environmentalists say a government-planned recreational area on the small island's south coast threatens the heart of a unique and fragile ecosystem and a rare bioluminescent bay. But while activists voice their concerns about potential environmental danger there, the Puerto Rican government, it seems, is listening. The Puerto Rico National Parks Department aims to develop a "vacation center" targeted at middle-class families at the Sun Bay public beach. The plan consists of a two-part process, according to National Parks Executive Director Ramon Nieves. First, the existing public beach facilities, about a half mile east of Esperanza, will be renovated, and...