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NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan’s district attorney urged a judge to reject President Donald Trump’s effort to block prosecutors from obtaining his tax returns, saying the president wants “sweeping immunity.” District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. filed papers in federal court after Trump’s attorneys sued to stop Vance from forcing the president’s accounting firm to release eight years of his state and federal returns in a criminal probe. Vance urged a judge to reject Trump’s… Read at AP News