Government defends imprisoning ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say President Donald Trump’s ex-personal lawyer was returned to prison because he refused to sign an agreement describing terms of his home confinement, not because he planned to publish a book critical of Trump. Prosecutors filed papers Wednesday in advance of a court hearing Thursday before a judge who will decide whether Michael Cohen’s constitutional rights were violated when he was returned to prison July 9. Cohen’s lawyers sued federal of