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Rick Gates, the former Trump aide indicted with ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort for crimes including money laundering, told a judge his appearance in a fundraising video didn't violate her order not to try his case in the press. Manafort and Gates were among the first people charged in Special
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KKR & Co., Blackstone Group LP and their founders are accused of failing to deliver hedge-fund returns as advertised, in a Kentucky lawsuit that could preview new legal challenges for managers of alternative investments. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of state taxpayers and the Kentucky Retirement
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Swift Beef Co. is recalling about 4,700 pounds of beef stew that may be contaminated with plastic and metal and that was sold at H-E-B earlier this month, the U.S.
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A coalition of 11 mostly Republican-led states urged a federal appeals court to enforce U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order punishing so-called sanctuary cities, which largely forbid local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities.
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