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Jurors hear Trump tape Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump yesterday heard a recording of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former US President. A visibly irritated Trump leaned forward at the defence table, and jurors appeared riveted as prosecutors played the September 2016 recording that attorney Michael Cohen secretly made of himself briefing his celebrity client on a plan to buy Karen McDougal’s story of an extramarital relationship. Though the recording surfaced years ago, it is perhaps the most colourful piece of evidence presented to jurors so far to connect Trump to the hush money payments at the centre of his criminal trial in Manhattan. It followed hours of evidence from a lawyer who negotiated the deal for McDougal’s silence and admitted to being stunned his hidden-hand efforts might have helped Trump’s White House victory.
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Afghanistan tourism still a difficult sell
About 30 men are crammed into a Kabul classroom, part of the debut student cohort at a Taliban-run institute training tourism and hospitality professionals.
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Phoenix even more pumped up
Sam Sutton looms as a key figure in the Phoenix’s finals run.
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5 things to do at the weekend
1MARATHON EFFORT: Be part of running history at the 60th edition of the Rotorua Marathon today, starting at the Energy Events Centre. Rotorua. It promises to to be bigger and better than ever. Registration required.
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EDITORIAL Sportswashing sadly heading into dry cycle
Rugby is arriving a bit late to the ruck formed by other sports that have already accepted money from Middle East backers and while public disgust over the issue of sportswashing appears to have waned, it still doesn’t mean a sharp focus should be placed on any possible deal.
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‘I can feel him around me’
Alicia Toki scrolls through her phone album and stops on a photo taken in April last year.
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First case of brain disease for NZ international player
New Zealand has its first case of an international sporting representative to be diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) — the neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated head trauma.
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Family of ‘generous, beautiful’ soul’ lays complaint
Middlemore Hospital has defended its care of a young man after he died suddenly in one of its wards.
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Winston: ‘Not my first legal rodeo’
Winston Peters has spoken to some of the country’s most powerful business leaders about relations with China a day after making controversial comments about a former Australian foreign minister.
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‘Undoing the harm’ Deadline set to end use of homeless motels in Rotorua
The Government says there will be no more emergency housing motels in Rotorua after the end of next year and it will scrap the Rotorua Housing Accord and write a new plan.