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Court employee arrested for approaching Donald Trump during civil trial

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A court employee was arrested Wednesday after she tried to approach former President Donald Trump while he was seated in the courtroom. A court employee was arrested Wednesday after she tried to approach former President Donald Trump while he was seated in the courtroom during his civil trial in lower Manhattan. As the trial was taking place, the woman "disrupted the proceedings by standing up and walking towards the front of the courtroom and yelling out to Mr. Trump indicating she wanted to assist him," according to a spokesman for the New York State Unified Court System. The woman was stopped by court officers before she got near Trump or any of the attorneys or other litigants. Former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks after exiting the courtroom as he attends his Manhattan courthouse trial in a civil fraud case in New York, Oct. 18, 2023. Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters None of the parties were ever in any danger, the spokesman said. She was escorted out of the c...

Former NSA employee admits trying to sell top secret info to Russia

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Jareh Dalke pleaded to six counts of attempting to transmit national defense information to a foreign government A former National Security Agency employee pleaded guilty on Monday to attempting to sell classified documents to a person he believed was a Russian agent -- but who was actually an undercover FBI employee . Jareh Dalke, 31, pleaded to six counts of attempting to transmit national defense information to a foreign government, admitting that in August and September of 2022 he sought to sell copies of three classified documents containing information marked top secret -SCI (for sensitive compartmented information) to a person who identified themselves as an agent from Russia, according to plea documents. But that person was actually an online covert employee working with the FBI, the plea agreement shows. Dalke, an Army veteran living in Colorado, began working as a civilian employee at the NSA in 2022, according to prosecutors. He first shared excerpts of three classified d...