Trump trial live updates with Michael Cohen expected to testify today
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Michael Cohen, who was among Donald Trump's most trusted legal advisers before Trump was elected president in 2016, is expected to testify Monday against his former boss, regarding the 34 alleged felonies Trump faces.
Cohen's appearance represents the near-culmination of the prosecution's case in a criminal trial unlike any in U.S. history, with a former president sitting at the defense table. For the last three weeks, Trump has watched as 19 witnesses testified, many of them his employees.
Cohen is expected to testify that Trump knew of and authorized an alleged plan to represent a year's worth of checks from Trump to Cohen as payments for ongoing legal work. Prosecutors say they were actually reimbursements for $130,000 that Cohen paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election to buy her silence about a sexual encounter she says she had with Trump, which Trump denies.
Rodeo star Spencer Wright and his wife are making end-of-life preparations for their 3-year-old son after he was found unconscious in a creek, a close family friend said in updates posted on social media and confirmed to CBS affiliate KUTV. The boy had been playing on his tractor before he ended up in the water and a mile downstream.
The launch of Boeing's star-crossed Starliner spacecraft on its first piloted test flight is slipping to at least June 1 to give engineers more time to assess a small-but-persistent helium leak in the capsule's propulsion system, and its potential impact across all phases of flight, NASA announced Wednesday.
Washington — As former President Donald Trump's "hush money" criminal trial in New York proceeds to closing arguments next week, the legal focus is moving south. His attorneys and longtime aide Walt Nauta appeared before Florida federal Judge Aileen Cannon, where they sparred with prosecutors during two contentious, day-long hearings on Wednesday.