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A fourth defendant in the federal campaign finance case involving two associates of Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, was arrested in New York on Wednesday.

David Correia, an American businessman, was taken into custody at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. Correia is one of four men charged in an indictment, which also targeted Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, a pair of Ukrainian businessmen with extensive business ties to Giuliani.

Last week, ABC News reported the business relationship between Giuliani and the men charged in the alleged campaign finance scheme is a subject of the ongoing criminal investigation being conducted by federal authorities in New York, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

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A powerful coastal storm will unleash soaking rain and howling winds through Thursday from the mid-Atlantic to New England.

The strong winds – potentially gusting up to 60 mph – may cause some tree damage and power outages, the National Weather Service said. Up to 3 inches of rain could fall in this storm, especially from eastern New York to southern Maine, where flash flooding is possible.

The latest forecast shows the storm will strengthen at a fast enough pace from Wednesday to Thursday to be classified as a "bomb cyclone," AccuWeather said. The barometric pressure has to fall at least 24 millibars, or 0.71 inches, in 24 hours for the bomb cyclone criteria to be met, in a process known as bombogenesis.

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The NYPD confirms that an off-duty NYPD sergeant died by suicide Tuesday night.

The 33-year-old sergeant died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital in Queens at 10 p.m.

Authorities say the 7-year veteran shot himself in the head at his home.

He is the 10th NYPD officer to die from suicide in 2019.

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P. Michael McKinley, former senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, arrived on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning to testify before the House Democrats' impeachment panel.

McKinley resigned from his post just last week, after a career that spanned decades and included posts as U.S. ambassador to Brazil and Afghanistan.

Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday refused to turn over documents requested by House Democrats as part of their impeachment inquiry.

The White House has said it will not cooperate with an investigation it considers unfair and illegitimate, a claim it bases in part on the fact that the House has not formally voted to begin impeachment proceedings.

Pence's attorney echoed that reasoning in a letter sent Tuesday to the chairmen of the investigating committees.

Counsel Matthew E. Morgan also wrote that some of the documents that Democrats had asked Pence to produce by Tuesday "are clearly not vice-presidential records."

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George Kent, an expert on Ukraine and Russia who now serves as a deputy assistant secretary at the State Department, told lawmakers that he raised red flags about Rudy Giuliani's efforts to pressure Ukraine more than six months ago, according to a Democratic lawmaker.

Kent made the remarks in a closed-door deposition, part of the House Democrats' impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.

“He was clearly bothered by the role Mr. Giuliani was playing and the disinformation he was spreading and the fact that he had the president’s ear, which was negatively affecting our relationship with the new government in Ukraine," Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., told reporters after emerging from the session.

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A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday said it would reconsider an earlier ruling that handed victory to U.S. President Donald Trump in a Democratic-backed lawsuit that accuses him of violating anti-corruption provisions of the U.S. Constitution with his Washington hotel.

The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in an order that it would rehear arguments in the case, which was brought by the Democratic attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia.

A three-judge panel of the court ruled on July 10 that the attorneys general lacked legal standing to bring the lawsuit, which alleged violations of constitutional provisions known as the Emoluments Clauses that bans the president from accepting gifts or payments from foreign governments without congressional consent.

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Former Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) received a subpoena over his contacts with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani from a grand jury in connection with a Manhattan federal criminal investigation of the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the subpoena, said that it sought documents “related to Mr. Giuliani’s business dealings with Ukraine and his involvement in efforts to oust the U.S. ambassador in Kyiv, as well as any interactions between” Sessions, Giuliani, and four of his associates who were indicted last week in a campaign finance scheme.

Matt Mackowiak, a Sessions spokesman, told TPM that the former congressman was “cooperating with the U.S. Attorney from the Southern District of New York and will be providing documents to their office related to this matter over the next couple of weeks as requested.”

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