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Lawyers made opening arguments in Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York.

The prosecutor framed the case as one of election

fraud. He argued that the payments at the heart of the case were made to protect

Mr Trump's candidacy in 2016 and therefore amounted to undeclared campaign

expenses.

The Judge Juan Mershon has said that he expects the trial to run for about six weeks and the former president must be in court every day that it meets.

The head of Israel's military intelligence directorate resigned, according to a statement by the Israel Defense Forces.

Aharon Haliva is the first senior official to step down since Hamas's attack on October 7th.

In the aftermath of the attacks he publicly accepted responsibility for failing to detect and prevent them.

Public support for Benjamin Netanyahu's government

has plummeted since the war in Gaza began. Police arrested dozens of

pro-Palestinian protesters at Yale University, days after more than 100 demonstrators

were detained at Columbia University for trespassing.

Joe Biden, seemingly referring to reports of harassment at Columbia's protests, issued a statement

saying that blatant anti-Semitism had absolutely no place on college campuses.

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