Timothy L O’Brien asks why Donald Trump — via one of his top advisers — is so close to a violent fraudster with mob connections who has tried to influence US foreign policy.   

Donald Trump tapped a man to be a senior business adviser to his property empire even after the man’s past involvement in a major Mafia-linked stock fraud scheme had become publicly known.

A LOUD explosion was heard near the US embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday, while a government worker was killed in an ambush.