Judge Lewis Kaplan declined the former president’s request Thursday for a special instruction to jurors should he choose to sit out his Manhattan civil rape trial.
Donald Trump and E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers could will not know jurors’ identities at their upcoming civil rape trial, citing recent threats to the judge overseeing Trump’s criminal case and his family following Trump’s remarks about them.
Former Colombian President Ivan Duque warned on Friday that his successor’s decision to share intelligence information with Venezuela leaves his country vulnerable to espionage from Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime, and could damage the longstanding cooperation between U.S. and Colombian agencies.