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Josephine Stratman

Josephine Stratman covers New York’s emergence from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic for the Daily News. She is a graduate of DePaul University and previously worked for the Chicago Sun-Times.

Jurors hearing the first-ever criminal case against a U.S. president were transported to the White House on Tuesday during testimony by Michael Cohen, who alleged he discussed reimbursement for paying off porn star Stormy Daniels with Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

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Michael Cohen describes Oval Office scene in which Trump talked hush-money reimbursement

May 15, 2024 at 9:31 p.m.

Jurors hearing the first-ever criminal case against a U.S. president were transported to the White House on Tuesday during testimony by Michael Cohen, who alleged he discussed reimbursement for paying...

Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives for his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 14, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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Michael Cohen at hush money trial admits he called Trump a ‘dictator douchebag:’ live updates

May 15, 2024 at 9:50 p.m.

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s loyal lawyer-turned-chief antagonist, told a jury Tuesday he discussed hush money reimbursement with Trump at the White House upon returning to the witness box at his...

Cohen told a Manhattan jury Monday of how he painstakingly arranged to pay off the porn star to influence the results of the 2016 election, working directly off the boss’s orders: “Just do it.”

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On Stormy Daniels payments, Trump told Michael Cohen, ‘Just do it,’ former fixer alleges

May 14, 2024 at 10:34 a.m.

Cohen told a Manhattan jury Monday of how he painstakingly arranged to pay off the porn star to influence the results of the 2016 election, working directly off the boss’s...

“He said to me this is a disaster — total disaster,” Cohen testified of Trump on the possible release of the Daniels sex tryst allegations. “Women are going to hate me, this is really a disaster, women will hate me."

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Michael Cohen’s damning hush money testimony about Trump’s role in Stormy Daniels’ payoff: top moments

May 13, 2024 at 7:04 p.m.

“He said to me this is a disaster — total disaster,” Cohen testified of Trump on the possible release of the Daniels sex tryst allegations. “Women are going to hate...

Michael Cohen and Donald Trump together in 2016.

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Michael Cohen says Trump worried Stormy Daniels tryst story would be ‘disaster’ for his campaign: live updates

May 13, 2024 at 3:07 p.m.

More than six years after his conviction for doing Donald Trump’s dirty work — cementing a bitter rivalry with the man he once said he’d “take a bullet” for —...

Michael Cohen has been outspoken about his feelings on his former boss ahead of his expected appearance next week, sparking a response from Trump's lawyers. The ex-president is under a gag order and barred from talking about witnesses.

Judge in Trump hush money trial directs DA to get key witness Michael Cohen under control

May 10, 2024 at 5:23 p.m.

Michael Cohen has been outspoken about his feelings on his former boss ahead of his expected appearance next week, sparking a response from Trump's lawyers. The ex-president is under a...

Donald Trump’s lawyers threw everything they could at the porn actress to discredit her account of a tryst with the former president — but she held her own during the tense hourslong cross-examination at the first criminal trial of a U.S. president.

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Stormy Daniels stands up for herself under sharp cross-examination at Trump hush money trial

May 9, 2024 at 8:07 p.m.

Donald Trump’s lawyers threw everything they could at the porn actress to discredit her account of a tryst with the former president — but she held her own during the...

Trump v. Cohen: a courtroom showdown for the ages on tap next in hush money trial

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Judge denies bid to modify gag order so Trump can respond to Stormy Daniels’ sex tryst testimony

May 9, 2024 at 8:44 p.m.

Keying in on a central part of Daniels' testimony about her encounter with Trump, Trump lawyer Susan Necheles skeptically asked Daniels about having appeared in porn movies with “naked women and...

The family of Win Rozario said Wednesday they were treated like “animals” in the hours following the fatal shooting of the youth as he underwent a mental health crisis, and called on Mayor Adams to fire the two officers involved.

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Mayor Adams should fire cops involved in deadly shooting of Win Rozario, family says

May 8, 2024 at 7:22 p.m.

The family of Win Rozario said Wednesday they were treated like “animals” in the hours following the fatal shooting of the youth as he underwent a mental health crisis, and...

Stormy Daniels testified she opened the bathroom door to find Trump sitting on the side of the bed stripped down to his boxers. "“I felt the room spin in slow motion,” she said.

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Stormy Daniels’ bombshell hush money testimony on tryst with Trump: Top moments

May 11, 2024 at 2:20 p.m.

Stormy Daniels testified she opened the bathroom door to find Trump sitting on the side of the bed stripped down to his boxers. "“I felt the room spin in slow motion,”...

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