Trump trial moves to cross-examination of David Pecker on 4th day of testimony
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David Pecker will end his week where he began: on the stand in former President Donald Trump's New York criminal trial.
The former National Enquirer publisher was the first witness called to the stand after opening statements Monday. Over hours of testimony over three days, Pecker described a scheme in which he agreed to spend tens of thousands of dollars to purchase the rights to stories that might embarrass Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign in order to keep them from being made public, a process known as "catch and kill."
On Thursday, Pecker said that arrangement led him to pay $150,000 to the model Karen McDougal, who claimed to have had an affair with Trump in 2006. Trump denies that relationship.
A flood watch remained in effect for parts of southeastern Texas on Sunday, with forecasters expecting several more inches of rainfall and potentially serious runoff across a huge area that altogether covers more than 100 square miles and includes the city of Houston. The densely populated metro center is home to more than 2 million people and has been swamped by consistently heavy downpours. Crews carried out hundreds of water rescues in Houston and the surrounding neighborhoods earlier in the weekend.
For more than a year now, author A.J. Jacobs pulled on woolen leggings more often than you put on socks. Why? "A couple of years ago, I realized I had never read the American Constitution," he said. "But every day I'd open the news and there's another story about how this 230-year-old document is affecting our lives. And I said, I need to know more about our founding document. And the way I like to learn is, I like to go all-in."