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Judge alters Trump’s gag order, letting him talk about witnesses, jury after hush money conviction
By Michael R. Sisak, The Associated Press on June 25th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – A judge on Tuesday modified Donald Trump’s gag order, freeing the former president to comment publicly about witnesses and jurors in the hush money criminal trial that led to his felony conviction, but keeping others connected to the former president’s case off limits at least until he is sentenced July 11. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jurors now must decide in the Karen Read trial: Was it deadly romance or police corruption?
By Michael Casey, The Associated Press on June 25th, 2024
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) – The fate of Karen Read was handed Tuesday to jurors who must decide whether the Massachusetts woman ended a rocky romance by angrily striking her boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him mortally injured in the snow, or the victim of police corruption, framed to cover up a fight at the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!California governor defends progressive values, says they’re an ‘antidote’ to populism on the right
By Adam Beam, The Associated Press on June 25th, 2024
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Gov. Gavin Newsom used his State of the State address on Tuesday to boost President Joe Biden ahead of Thursday’s pivotal presidential debate, comparing Donald Trump’s version of the Republican Party to the rise of fascism prior to World War II and offering Democrats’ ideals as “an antidote to the poisonous ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Gov. Gavin Newsom defends California’s progressive values in State of the State speech
By Adam Beam, The Associated Press on June 25th, 2024
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Gov. Gavin Newsom used his State of the State address on Tuesday to boost President Joe Biden ahead of Thursday’s pivotal presidential debate, comparing Donald Trump’s version of the Republican Party to the rise of fascism prior to World War II and offering Democrats’ ideals as “an antidote to the poisonous ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!California Gov. Gavin Newsom defends California’s progressive values in State of the State speech
By Adam Beam, The Associated Press on June 25th, 2024
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Gov. Gavin Newsom used his State of the State address on Tuesday to boost President Joe Biden ahead of Thursday’s pivotal presidential debate, comparing Donald Trump’s version of the Republican Party to the rise of fascism prior to World War II and offering Democrats’ ideals as “an antidote to the poisonous ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Puerto Rico sues former officials accused of corruption to recover more than $30M in public funds
By Coral Murphy Marcos, The Associated Press on June 25th, 2024
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – Puerto Rico’s Justice Department announced Tuesday that it is suing at least 30 ex-government officials accused of corruption to recover more than $30 million in public funds. Among those sued is former legislator MarÃa Milagros Charbonier, who was sentenced in May to eight years in federal prison after being ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!UN tells Israel it will suspend aid operations across Gaza without improved safety, UN officials say
By Samy Magdy And Ellen Knickmeyer, The Associated Press on June 25th, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senior U.N. officials have told Israel they will suspend aid operations across Gaza unless urgent steps are taken to better protect humanitarian workers, two U.N. officials say. A U.N. letter sent to senior Israeli officials this month said Israel must provide U.N. workers with direct communication with Israeli forces on the ground ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s plane leaves Bangkok on his way to a US court and later freedom
By Jintamas Saksornchai, Alanna Durkin Richer And Eric Tucker, The Associated Press on June 25th, 2024
BANGKOK (AP) – A plane with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has departed Bangkok after refueling and he is on the way to Saipan to enter a plea deal with the U.S. government that will free him and resolve the legal case over the publication of a trove of classified documents. The chartered flight from London ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Closing arguments begin in Karen Read trial. Jurors to decide: Deadly romance or police corruption?
By Michael Casey, The Associated Press on June 25th, 2024
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) – Attorneys launched closing arguments Tuesday in the long-running murder trial of Karen Read, in which jurors were presented with two starkly different accounts of either a callous girlfriend who drove off after running over her Boston police officer boyfriend or an innocent victim of a frame job to cover up a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!UN-backed contingent of foreign police arrives in Haiti as Kenya-led force prepares to face gangs
By Dánica Coto And Evens Sanon, The Associated Press on June 25th, 2024
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police arrived in Haiti on Tuesday, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence. A couple hundred police officers from Kenya landed in the capital of Port-au-Prince, whose main international airport reopened in late May ... Read More »
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By The Associated Press on June 25th, 2024
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police arrived in Haiti on Tuesday, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence. A couple hundred police officers from Kenya landed in the capital of Port-au-Prince, whose main international airport reopened in late May ... Read More »
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