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Former President Donald Trump leaves his apartment building, Thursday, Jan 25, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Trump bolts New York courtroom amid Carroll trial summations

Former President Donald Trump stormed out of a Manhattan courtroom Friday as lawyers for columnist E. Jean Carroll delivered a summation in her defamation case against the 2024 GOP front-runner, injecting drama in the closing hours of the case before jurors deliberated.

January 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, on Sept. 13, 2023. Even for a nation that has perfected the provocative, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s declaration that he would abandon the existential goal of reconciling with rival South Korea was a shock. But a closer look shows it’s the almost inevitable culmination of years of building tension. (Vladimir Smirnov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

U.S. on guard vs. Kim Jong-un’s aggressive tilt

The White House on Tuesday said it's watching North Korea "very, very closely" as dictator Kim Jong-un cozies up to Russia, axes talk of reconciliation with South Korea and seems to prepare for military action.

January 23, 2024
Former President Donald Trump, center right, stands with his wife Melania, second left, their son Barron, center left, and father-in-law Viktor Knavs, as the coffin carrying the remains of Amalija Knavs, the former first lady's mother, is carried into The Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea for her funeral, in Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Trump attends mother-in-law’s funeral in Fla. while N.Y. trial resumes

An attorney for ex-President Donald Trump finished her cross-examination of E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who alleges Mr. Trump raped her in 1996, on Thursday while the GOP front-runner attended his mother-in-law's funeral in Florida instead of watching testimony in New York.

January 18, 2024
A full moon is seen behind the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher, are prepared for a wet dress rehearsal to practice timelines and procedures for launch, at Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 14, 2022. On Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, NASA said astronauts will have to wait until 2025 before flying to the moon and another few years before landing on it. (Cory Huston/NASA via AP)

NASA upbeat about 2026 trip to moon despite safety, cost issues

The U.S. is committed to landing astronauts on the moon for the first time in a half-century and reaching Mars, but must get a handle on safety and cost before launching the next phase of its Artemis program, NASA told Congress on Wednesday.

January 17, 2024