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Tensions rise between two nuclear-weapons states: India and Pakistan. Plus Michael Cohen testifies, whether having children make you less happy, and more.
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, making an explosive series of claims based on his work as President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, all while facing scrutiny over his own repeated past lies. Among Cohen’s claims: That Trump was involved in other “catch and kill” agreements in addition to the hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, that Trump reimbursed Cohen for those hush-money payments, that Trump himself was aware of the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting between campaign officials—including his son and

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