Brazilian supporters of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro are praising Elon Musk's free speech ideals.
Jailed former Maldives president Abdulla Yameen was freed Thursday after the High Court overturned his conviction and 11-year prison sentence on graft and money-laundering charges.
The Supreme Court’s conservative justices said Thursday they agree a former president should be shielded from prosecution for his truly official acts while in office, but not for private schemes that would give him personal gain. They also suggested the case against former President Trump will have to be sent back to the lower courts to decide which parts of the pending criminal indictment can proceed to a trial. Trump was indicted on charges of conspiring to stay in office after losing the 2020...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Conservative Brazilians heaped praise on Elon Musk at a rally in the capital of Rio de Janeiro supporting far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro. Musk is a target in an ongoing investigation over the dissemination of fake news by supporters of Bolsonaro. Musk said the social media platform X, formerly Twitter,
OKLAHOMA — A Quapaw man is charged in federal court with sexual abuse of a minor. Dylan Boyd, 27, is charged with four separate counts in connection to allegations dating back to November of 2020. According to court papers a teenage girl told a specialist with the Department of Children and Families, Boyd assaulted her []
Four suspects have been arrested in connection with the Kansas women's deaths.
An attorney for former President Donald Trump in the presidential immunity hearing clashed with Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan over a hypothetical question on whether a president who "ordered" a "coup" could be prosecuted. "If it's an official act, there needs to be impeachment and conviction beforehand," Trump's attorney John Sauer argued Thursday before the Supreme Court, which is being broadcast publicly via audio only. Sauer's statement was in response to Justice Elena Kagan's...
A court in the Maldives has overturned the conviction of former President
A high court in Maldives overturned former president Abdulla Yameen's conviction and 11-year prison sentence on graft and money laundering charges, paving the way for his release from jail. A three-judge bench in the archipelago nation held Yameen's 2022 trial as unfair and ordered the lower court to restart the criminal proceedings."The lower court ruling was not fair," judge Hassan Shafeeu said while reading out a lengthy decision that was broadcast live.Read: Maldives' opposition parties...
Sen. Robert Menendez may blame his wife if he takes the stand during his trial, claiming she was the one getting the money and hiding the truth from him, according to court filings.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former senior U.S. official who until recently helped oversee human-rights compliance by foreign militaries receiving American military assistance said Wednesday that he repeatedly observed Israel receiving “special treatment” from U.S. officials when it came to scrutiny of allegations of Israeli military abuses of Palestinian civilians. The allegation comes as the Biden […]
By Rosa Flores, Sara Weisfeldt and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Court documents unsealed Monday shed new light on the disappearance of two women and the arrest of four people accused of their slayings in rural Oklahoma. Tad Bert Cullum, 43; Tifany Machel Adams, 54; Cole Earl Twombly, 50; and Cora Gayle Twombly, 44, each