Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti suggested in a fiery text message to Fox News late Monday that the Los Angeles lawyers suing him for allegedly stealing from a former client's settlement fund — a matter that prompted California prosecutors to slap Avenatti with federal fraud charges on Monday — have political motivations and are "close" to the Trump administration.
Former Taliban hostage Joshua Boyle's estranged wife is one of the alleged victims, a court hears.
In William Shakespeare's ancient birthplace, discontent over Brexit runs even deeper than three years ago when this "scepter'd isle" shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union.
At an election rally in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, a local leader from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) described how workers from the state's ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) had disrupted a public meeting in January by destroying their vehicles.