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After settling his privacy claims with Mirror Group Newspapers, the prince criticized Mr. Morgan, saying the former editor of The Mirror “knew perfectly well what was going on.”

The chairman, Jeff DeWit, denied the conversation amounted to bribery, and said Ms. Lake, a Senate candidate, had threatened to release another damaging recording if he did not step down.

The former mayor of Harvey, Ill., demanded thousands in monthly payments from a strip club to allow it to stay open, federal prosecutors said.

The defendants have organized crime ties and used violence, threats and fraud to infiltrate the two industries in New York, prosecutors say.

The Mexican police, military officers and others secretly colluded with a cartel that kidnapped 43 students, a case unsolved after nearly a decade. Wiretaps show just how much the authorities helped the cartel behind the mass abduction, and what led to it.

An investigation into the mayor’s former buildings commissioner is expected to yield bribery and mob-related charges against several people who helped raise money for Mr. Adams.

The prince has sued a British media company, Mirror Group Newspapers, claiming that reporters hacked his phone more than a decade ago.

Prince Harry ended his testimony in his trial against a newspaper group. “For my whole life, the press have misled about me and covered up their wrongdoing,” he said.

The lawyer leading the courtroom arguments, David Sherborne, has taken on Britain’s tabloid press several times.

The U.K. news landscape has shifted since the prince says he was hacked more than a decade ago, with hefty legal settlements, prison time for journalists and the threat of regulation forcing change.