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Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira pleads guilty to leaking military secrets
By Alanna Durkin Richer, The Associated Press on March 4th, 2024
BOSTON (AP) – Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court to leaking highly classified military documents about Russia’s war in Ukraine and other national security secrets. Teixeira pleaded guilty to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act nearly a year ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Settlement in Wisconsin fake elector case offers new details on the strategy by Trump lawyers
By Sophia Tareen, The Associated Press on March 4th, 2024
Two attorneys for then-President Donald Trump orchestrated a plan for fake electors to file paperwork falsely saying the Republican won Wisconsin in a strategy to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory there and in other swing states, according to a lawsuit settlement reached Monday that makes public months of texts and emails. Under their agreements, Kenneth ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury in ex-president’s civil fraud case
By Jake Offenhartz, The Associated Press on March 4th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty Monday in New York to perjury in connection with testimony he gave in the ex-president’s civil fraud case. Weisselberg, 76, surrendered to the Manhattan prosecutor’s office earlier Monday and entered state court in handcuffs, wearing a mask, before ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury in ex-president’s civil fraud trial
By Jake Offenhartz, The Associated Press on March 4th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty Monday in New York to perjury in connection with testimony he gave at the ex-president’s civil fraud trial. Weisselberg, 76, surrendered to the Manhattan prosecutor’s office earlier Monday and entered state court in handcuffs, wearing a mask, before ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Supreme Court restores Trump to ballot, rejecting state attempts to ban him over Capitol attack
By Mark Sherman, The Associated Press on March 4th, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Monday restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to hold the Republican former president accountable for the Capitol riot. The justices ruled a day before the Super Tuesday primaries that states cannot invoke a post-Civil War constitutional provision to keep presidential candidates from appearing ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg surrenders to NYC prosecutors on new charges
By The Associated Press on March 4th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, surrendered to the Manhattan district attorney Monday morning for arraignment on new criminal charges, the prosecutor’s office said. The district attorney didn’t immediately disclose the nature of the charge, but people familiar with the investigation had previously told The Associated ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Thai court acquits former PM Yingluck Shinawatra on charges of mishandling government funds
By The Associated Press on March 4th, 2024
BANGKOK (AP) – A Thai court on Monday acquitted former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, now living in exile, on charges of mishandling expenditures for a government project in 2013. The action comes shortly after her brother Thaksin Shinawatra, who also previously served as prime minister, was released on parole for corruption-related offenses. Last year, he ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Thai court drops case against former PM Yingluck Shinawatra
By The Associated Press on March 3rd, 2024
BANGKOK (AP) – A Thai court on Monday dropped a charge against former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, now living in exile, for mishandling government project expenditure in 2013. It is the latest favorable ruling in criminal cases hanging over the former leader. The court cleared Yingluck of abuse of power in December last year. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nikki Haley wins the District of Columbia’s Republican primary and gets her first 2024 victory
By Meg Kinnard And Will Weissert, The Associated Press on March 3rd, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) – Nikki Haley has won the Republican primary in the District of Columbia, notching her first victory of the 2024 campaign. Her victory Sunday at least temporarily halts Donald Trump’s sweep of the GOP voting contests, although the former president is likely to pick up several hundred more delegates in this week’s Super ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A Supreme Court decision could come Monday in a case about barring Trump from the 2024 ballot
By Mark Sherman, The Associated Press on March 3rd, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) – A Supreme Court decision could come as soon as Monday in the case about whether former President Donald Trump can be kicked off the ballot over his efforts to undo his defeat in the 2020 election. Trump is challenging a groundbreaking decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that said he is disqualified ... Read More »
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