Michael Cohen has been testifying in Donald Trump\u2019s hush-money trial. Did the former president\u2019s fixer provide what the prosecution had hoped for? The Middle East has a militia problem. Many of the region\u2019s governments are too weak to keep them down; others simply let them in (10:36). And investigating whether there is more or less sex on the silver screen these days (19:06).
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