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Washington mdash; President Trump s former campaign adviser, Roger Stone, was found guilty by a jury on Friday of all seven charges that he faced. He was cha
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stanley cup ongress, witness tampering and obstruction.Stone faces up to 50 years in prison mdash; the witness tampering charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years, while the maximum for each of the other six charges is five years.The prosecution portrayed him as a liar trying to protect himself and help then-candidate Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential race at any cost. Roger Stone does not get to pick and choose
stanley cup which facts he thinks are important and lie about the rest of them, said prosecutor Jonathan Kravis in the closing arguments of the trial that ended a week earlier than expected. Stone was accused of collaborating withWikiLeaksto release Democrats emails that were hacked by Russia in order to damage Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump s 2016 opponent mdash; and of lying about it. He was also found guilty of tampering with a witness, radio personality Randy Credico, pressing him not to cooperate with a congressional investigation that involved Stone. Prosecutors presented evidence throughout the trial that Stone tried to get information from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, specifically asking for details about the hacked emails that WikiLeaks published in order to influence the 2016 election. The defense team tried to convince the jury that Stone lacked Sowa 2 feared dead as U.S. plane with unresponsive pilot crashes off Jamaica
A roadside bomb killed one American and one British soldier Friday, the first U.S. combat death in Syria this year. It happened in a part of Syria that was thought to be cleared of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS , and it came one day after President Trump signaled the U.S. may be leaving the region soon. The incident happened near the Turkish-Syrian border, in the vicinity of Manbij. It was controlled by ISIS, but taken over in the summer of 2016 by Ku
stanley cup rdish and Arab forces, trained by U.S. forces. We re going to be coming out of there real soon, Mr. Trump said Thursday, unexpectedly declaringthat U.S. troops -- roughly 2,000 on the ground -- are on their way out of Syria. By the way, we are knocking the hell out of ISIS. We ll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Le
converse t the other people take care of it now, he said. Those remarks threw State Department officials off balance. I have not seen the president s comments myself. I can say as a general matter, this administration looks to other countries to help out, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a news br
yeezy iefing. The Pentagon referred uestions back to the White House, which has not yet responded to CBS News.The announcement of a potential timeline of a Syrian withdrawal defies what Mr. Trump has expressed in the past. Trump advisers scramble after
