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Donald Trump was back in Manhattan criminal court Thursday for Day 10 of his trial, with lawyer Keith Davidson on the witness stand Thursday afternoon. The Los Angeles lawyer represented Stormy Daniels as she brokered a deal in 2016 to keep an alleged tryst with Trump secret ahead of the election. His testimony began Tuesday; the trial took a break Wednesday.

By outside appearances, Joey Cipolla was living large. The 30-something Chicago businessman had seemingly made a small fortune buying and selling luxury cars and leasing private airplanes. He was living in a 12,000 square-foot mansion in west suburban Bloomingdale with a Lamborghini and Bentley in the driveway. He piloted his own Cessna, spent money like water and gambled thousands of dollars at a time in Las Vegas and at local casinos. 

Police arrested about 300 protesters at Columbia University and the City College of New York, authorities said Wednesday morning, after officers in riot gear entered Columbia’s campus Tuesday night, breaching the Hamilton Hall building occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters.

A 40-year-old man from Idaho was arrested at Yellowstone National Park in April after rangers received a report that he harassed a herd of bison and kicked one of them in the leg.

Eight major daily newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Tuesday, joining the backlash to artificial-intelligence companies that have used copyrighted work to train their algorithms without compensating content owners.

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden spoke Monday with the leaders of Egypt and Qatar as he sought to increase pressure on Hamas to accept a deal that would result in a temporary cease-fire in the war in the Gaza Strip and the release of some of the hostages held there.