Paul Manafort pleads guilty, will cooperate with special counsel

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleaded guilty Friday to two federal crimes after cutting a deal with prosecutors and agreeing to cooperate with the special counsel's Russia probe.The move allows him to avoid a second criminal trial and ends Manafort's more than yearlong fight against investigators in the Russia investigation.Manafort was convicted last month of eight financial crimes in a separate trial in Virginia and faces 7 to 10 years in prison in that c