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Prosecutors filed new charges against Sen. Bob Menendez accusing him of violating a prohibition on members of Congress from acting as an agent of a foreign principal. Federal prosecutors filed new charges Thursday against Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., accusing him of violating a prohibition on members of Congress from acting as an agent of a foreign principal. The superseding indictment said Menendez "made multiple requests for the U.S. Department of Justice to commence an investigation against another person for allegedly failing to register under FARA." Menendez faced a sweeping indictment in late September accusing him and his wife of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in exchange for using the senator's power and influence to seek to protect and enrich the businessman. MORE: Sen. Bob Menendez pleads not guilty in federal court to bribery and extortion The superseding indictment includes four new charges and appears to mark the first time a sitting memb...

Legal experts say there were "no surprises" in the charges brought against former President Trump Tuesday -- but that the "catch-and-kill" allegations are notable. Several legal experts familiar with the New York criminal justice system say there were "no surprises" in the charges brought against former President Donald Trump Tuesday by the Manhattan district attorney -- but that the expansive nature of the so-called "catch-and-kill" scheme alleged by prosecutors is notable. Appearing in a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday, Trump entered a plea of not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying Business records related to a hush money payment made in the final days of the 2016 presidential race. Prosecutors allege that Trump engaged in a "scheme" to boost his 2016 election chances through a series of hush money payments made by others to help his campaign, and then "repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records" to...