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Donald Trump faces former lawyer in court over Stormy Daniels payments

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is set to face testimony from a key figure in his criminal trial over irregular payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels: his former lawyer and right-hand man, Michael Cohen, who facilitated those payments.

Trump will confront one of his greatest adversaries, who in 2018 pleaded guilty and served more than a year in prison for several offenses, including campaign finance violations related to payments to two alleged lovers of the politician, one of them being Daniels.

Cohen is a star witness for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, which has charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in a series of payments to the lawyer during the 2016 presidential campaign that led him to the White House, including $130,000 paid by the former president to Daniels to silence her.

Cohen is expected to strongly criticize Trump, as usual, and as he did in the recent civil trial in New York for fraud in the Trump Organization, where he accused Trump of manipulating asset figures, resulting in a $364 million fine that the mogul is appealing.

Last week, another key and opposing witness, Daniels herself, took the stand. She detailed her one-night affair in 2006 with the then-married former president when she was 27 and he was 59.

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Daniels underwent rigorous cross-examination by the defense, where she was labeled a liar and accused of being motivated by money. She was even accused of extorting the payment from the former president, which she denied, through Cohen.

The lawyers unsuccessfully attempted once more to have the trial dismissed, criticizing the intimate nature of the adult film actress’s testimony. She revealed having spanked Trump with a magazine and stated that he had greeted her in satin pajamas and they had had unprotected sex.

International

Bolsonaro diagnosed with skin cancer amid coup conviction

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been diagnosed with skin cancer while serving a historic sentence for attempting a coup d’état. His medical team confirmed that the lesions have been removed and that, for now, he does not require further procedures, though he will need regular monitoring.

On Wednesday, September 17, Bolsonaro’s doctors confirmed the diagnosis. The announcement comes shortly after the former leader was convicted of orchestrating an attempted coup.

According to his physician, Claudio Birolini, Bolsonaro has “squamous cell carcinoma, which is neither the most benign nor the most aggressive form — it is intermediate.” Birolini warned, however, that this type of skin cancer “can carry more serious consequences.”

International

Milei praises Paraguay’s growth, calls Argentina’s last 20 years a ‘decline’

Argentine President Javier Milei praised Paraguay’s economic growth over the past two decades during a speech before the Paraguayan Congress on Wednesday (Sept. 17, 2025), crediting it to incentives that favored capitalism. At the same time, he contrasted that progress with what he described as Argentina’s deepening “decline” during the same period.

“If we compare the last 20 years of Paraguay with those of the Argentine Republic, we will find almost diametrically opposite results,” Milei told lawmakers during a special session of Parliament on the second and final day of his official visit to Asunción.

“While you have not stopped growing, we have deepened our decline. If we understand incentives as the engine of capitalism, Paraguay focused on preserving and strengthening them, while Argentina dedicated itself to chaining, directing, and suffocating them,” the right-wing leader stated.

International

Trump administration launches large-scale immigration operation in Chicago

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump intensified a large-scale immigration operation in the Chicago area with the arrival of additional Border Patrol agents on Tuesday and the presence of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem during a raid.

Noem posted a video on her X account showing the immigration operation, in which DHS reportedly removed “violent criminals” from the streets. The footage shows Noem observing the arrest of a man taken into custody at his home early Tuesday morning at an undisclosed location.

“I was in Chicago today to make it clear that we will not back down,” the secretary wrote. “Our work is just beginning,” she added.

The warning from Noem was echoed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Chief Gregory Bovino, who posted a video on X Tuesday showing multiple Border Patrol vehicles arriving in the city with the caption: “Chicago, we are here!”

Bovino, who led the immigration crackdown in Los Angeles implemented since last June, said the team will remain in Chicago to continue the mission they started in California.

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Operation “Midway Blitz” is currently focused on the Chicago metropolitan area and its suburbs. Activists and residents have reported sightings of masked agents and unmarked vehicles in predominantly Latino neighborhoods.