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Stormy Daniels said Wednesday that her attorney Michael Avenatti filed her defamation lawsuit against President Trump without telling her. The porn star who claims to have had a brief affair with Mr. Trump also said she has seen none of the crowdfunding money that Mr. Avenatti has raised on her behalf and that he even started a second such campaign without her knowledge.

For union organizers in Colombia, the dangers of their trade were intensifying. When workers at the country’s largest independent oil company staged a strike in 2011, the Colombian military rounded them up at gunpoint and threatened violence if they failed to disband, according to human rights organizations. Similar intimidation tactics against the workers, say labor leaders, amounted to an everyday feature of life. For the United States, these were precisely the sorts of discomfiting accounts that were supposed to be prevented in Colombia under a labor agreement that accompanied a recently signed free trade pact liberalizing the exchange of goods...

In a chilling image obtained by the FBI, one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects can be seen standing behind the young boy who was killed by one of Monday’s terror blasts, The Smoking Gun has learned.

LOCAL NEWS ‘Thug tactics' in sheriff's race: One deputy fired, 3 suspended for trying to intimidate woman to display McDonough sign By RICK COLLINS The Patriot Ledger A Plymouth County deputy sheriff has been fired and three others suspended for trying to intimidate a 71-year-old Bridgewater woman and her family into displaying a campaign sign for Sheriff Joseph McDonough on their front lawn. ‘‘This was just absolutely outrageous and unacceptable,'' said Caitlin Buron, whose mother-in-law, Diane, and husband, David, were angrily confronted by the uniformed deputies this week. McDonough, who is engaged in a tight race for re-election against Republican...

The 2nd August at 11.00 AM in Moscow 23 members of the National-Bolshevik party forced their way into the building of the RF ministry of Health, protesting against the law on the replacement of social advantages with monetary compensations. The minister Zurabov’s reception room and some other offices of the ministry were captured. The national-bolsheviks protested against the so-called “monetization of advantages” and demanded the resignation of the RF government. Portraits of official individuals were thrown out of the ministry’s window into the street, including the portrait of president Putin. The national-bolsheviks who captured the building have scattered leaflets of...