1. Advancing on Trump

Former US president Donald Trump’s battle to evade a criminal probe into his business empire appears finally to have run out of road, reports The Economist. On Monday, the US Supreme Court rejected a request from his legal team to suspend the Manhattan district attorney’s 2019 subpoena of Mazars USA, Trump’s accountants. "The work continues," tweeted district attorney Cyrus Vance jnr, who last week hired a former federal prosecutor with experience investigating organised and white-collar crime. At issue is whether the Trump Organisation misled lenders and tax authorities about the value of its properties. That’s not all. In Atlanta, the Fulton county district attorney may bring criminal charges over Trump asking Georgia’s secretary of state to "find" him extra votes in the presidential election...

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