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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.

Stormy Daniels attends the 2024 Adult Video News Awards at Resorts World Las Vegas on January 27, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Crime and Public Safety |
Stormy Daniels tells jury about sexual tryst with Trump at hush money trial

May 8, 2024 at 3:59 p.m.

In riveting testimony at Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial Tuesday, porn star Stormy Daniels explicitly detailed allegations of a disorienting one-night stand in a Lake Tahoe hotel room with a future...

A potential smoking gun shown to jurors at Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush money trial on Monday appeared to harm his defense that money doled out to Michael Cohen from the White House was for payment for legitimate legal services — and not reimbursement for paying off a porn star.

New York News |
Prosecutors in Trump’s hush money case unveil potentially damning paper trail

May 6, 2024 at 9:59 p.m.

A potential smoking gun shown to jurors at Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush money trial on Monday appeared to harm his defense that money doled out to Michael Cohen from the...

Students and faculty at Columbia University on Wednesday continued Wednesday to grapple with the fallout of mass campus arrests and the university's decision to call in the NYPD.

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Education |
The Columbia University pro-Gaza encampment that sparked a national wave of protest is dismantled

May 1, 2024 at 10:09 p.m.

Students and faculty at Columbia University on Wednesday continued Wednesday to grapple with the fallout of mass campus arrests and the university's decision to call in the NYPD.

Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrive to court during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 30, 2024 in New York City. (Eduardo Munoz-Pool/Getty Images)

New York News |
Trump fined $9,000 for hush money trial gag order violations, threatened with jail

May 2, 2024 at 3:42 p.m.

Donald Trump was held in criminal contempt for violating a gag order prohibiting him from commenting on participants in his Manhattan hush money case and fined $9,000 as his proceedings entered...

Former President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on April 26, 2024. (DAVE SANDERS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Local News |
Trump spends Melania’s birthday at NYC hush money trial as testimony on trysts continues

April 27, 2024 at 8:13 a.m.

Donald Trump on Friday spent his wife’s 54th birthday at his Manhattan hush money trial listening to longtime confidantes shed light on his alleged extramarital liaisons and efforts to hide them from...

Donald Trump never mentioned worrying about his wife getting wind of his alleged trysts with porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal — only his future in politics, a Manhattan jury heard Thursday during explosive testimony at the former president’s hush-money trial.

Crime and Public Safety |
Pecker at hush money trial says Trump feared trysts would hurt image, but didn’t mention Melania

April 27, 2024 at 8:15 a.m.

Donald Trump never mentioned worrying about his wife getting wind of his alleged trysts with porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal — only his future in politics, a...

New York News |
Donald Trump’s hush-money scheme was ‘election fraud, pure and simple,’ prosecutors charge in opening statements

April 26, 2024 at 7:01 p.m.

The ruse central to the first-ever criminal case against an ex-U.S. president started with three men in a room at Trump Tower in August 2015, Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo...