Key witness who says he bribed Bob Menendez continues testifying in New Jersey senator's trial
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Washington — A star witness who testified about bribing New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez will be back on the stand Monday.
Jose Uribe, a New Jersey insurance broker, told jurors last week that he bought the Democratic senator's wife, Nadine Menendez, a new Mercedes-Benz convertible in exchange for the senator's "power and influence" to stop criminal investigations into his business associates.
Uribe pleaded guilty in March and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the case against Menendez, who has pleaded not guilty and has denied accepting any bribes.
Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday said it will consider the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund, agreeing to review a lower court decision that upended the mechanism for funding programs that provide communications services to rural areas, low-income communities and schools, libraries and hospitals.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched six space tourists on a high-speed dash to the edge of space and back Friday, giving the passengers — including a husband and wife making their second flight — about three minutes of weightlessness and an out-of-this world view before the capsule made a parachute descent to touchdown at the company's west Texas flight facility.