An accountant of a major faction at the ruling Liberal Democratic Party previously led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday admitted to underreporting a total of around 1.35 billion yen in political funds. Junichiro Matsumoto, 76, who was managing accounts as the faction's general secretary, pleaded guilty at
A Florida man has committed suicide while awaiting trial for his alleged actions at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, reports say.David Kennedy Homol of Umatilla, Florida, about 45 miles northwest of Orlando, and his much younger half-brother, Dillon Homol, went to the Capitol that fateful day to participate in the "Stop the Steal" rally. While there, David Homol allegedly struck two police officers with a plastic flagpole before illegally entering the building with Dillon.He sees it as...
Actress and director Stormy Daniels managed to capture the defense attorney questioning her in several lies, one reporter explained. Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday after the 14th day of trial in Donald Trump's hush money case, New York Times reporter Susanne Craig made key observations that she thinks the jury likely noticed as well. Craig explained that there were several examples during Daniels' cross-examination of Trump's lawyer, Susan Necheles, of misquoting the witness. Daniels refused to...
A key witness for former President Donald Trump in his criminal hush money trial Monday stuck out his tongue and blew raspberries when faced with rulings from the judge overseeing the case, according to a new report. Attorney Robert Costello partook in this gesture more commonly expressed by infants — and which can mimic the sound of flatulence — after a frustrated Justice Juan Merchan sustained several objections from Manhattan District Attorney's office prosecutors, according to a Newsweek...
CNN’s Kara Scannell describes the dramatic moment in the Trump hush money trial where Judge Juan Merchan briefly cleared the courtroom after a tense exchange with Costello over his behavior on the stand.
Former top prosecutor and law school professor Andrew Weissmann pointed to another case in which Donald Trump gave a deposition confessing to reimbursing hush money payments paid to cover up an affair — and argued it could be damning evidence in his latest trial.Trump sat in a New York courtroom for the 13th day of trial Tuesday, accused of creating false business records to hide the payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. He has pleaded not guilty to 34 charges.Among the things that the...
A young boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) participating in Pfizer’s phase 2 gene therapy trial has died, the pharma shared in a May 7
The Georgia Appeals Court on Wednesday agreed to hear Donald Trump's complaint against elected Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — a decision that could potentially push his trial back to March 2025.Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Greg Bluestein called it "almost impossible" to get to trial in the Fulton County election interference case by the November election. "That's because what happens next is the case gets docketed in the appeals court and...
The hush money trial of former president Donald Trump could wrap up this coming week and, according to some legal experts, prosecutors working for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appear to have the upper hand based on the evidence laid out before the jurors.While much of the focus of the trial has been placed upon former Trump lawyer and "fixer" Michael Cohen, according to a report from the New York Times, jurors have a wealth of documentation presented by the prosecution that should...
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Washington, D.C., May 9, 2024—Iranian authorities should immediately release economic journalist Shirin Saeedi from prison, drop all charges against her, and cease jailing members of the press for doing their jobs, said the Committee to Protect Journalists on Thursday. Saeedi entered pre-trial detention on December 23, 2023, on charges of “colluding and assembling against the national
Kallista Mutten called triple zero to report daughter missing four days before nine-year-old’s body was found, NSW supreme court hearsCharlise Mutten’s crying mother said she had not seen her daughter for two days when she called police to report her missing several days before the young girl’s body was found.Justin Laurens Stein, 33, has pleaded not guilty to murdering the schoolgirl on or about 12 January 2022, at Mount Wilson, in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. Continue reading