President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen has pleaded guilty as part of a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller in the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, various media outlets reported Thursday. Cohen made a surprise court appearance at federal court in Manhattan on Thursday morning. In August, Cohen pleaded guilty in a separate federal case to eight criminal counts in the Southern District of New York related to tax fraud, excessive campaign contributions and making false statements to a financial institution. Two of those charges related to his prior work ... (full story)