Former President Donald Trump was dealt a humiliating blow on Monday when a judge immediately dismissed his push to delay the April 15 date of his Manhattan hush money trial.Trump, whose attorneys had been arguing the delay was necessary in order to pursue a change of venue, were summarily denied by Judge Lizbeth Gonzalez, clearing the way for the former president's first criminal trial to begin later this month.Commenters on social media, including legal experts, were triumphant that the former...
A judge denied pre-trial release for a suspect accused of attacking an officer by repeatedly punching him in the face while trying to flee a traffic stop in Hainesville. The incident happened around 9:40 p.m. Saturday at the 7-Eleven, 92 West Belvidere Road in Hainesville. A Round Lake Park police officer performed a traffic stop […]
The next player to hit their first Yankees homer will not feel the same thrill as Aaron Judge or Anthony Volpe did when they heard John Sterling.
Morgan Geyser, now 21, was 12 years old when she brutally stabbed her friend Payton Leutner, also 12, almost 20 times in 2014 in an unhinged plot to appease the online horror character.
US District Judge Michael Farbiarz claims a conflict of interest won't let him oversee the DOJ lawsuit against Apple, so US District Judge Julien Neals is taking over the case. US District Court in New Jersey The U.S. Department Of Justice sued Apple along with 15 states claiming the company monopolizes portions of the smartphone market. The years-long battle has barely begun, yet changes are already happening. According to a report from Reuters, District Judge Michael Farbiarz had to...
“You have two very alpha, driven people. You get two, there can only be one.” That’s John Cena’s theory on The Fast And The Furious Feud, otherwise known as the Candy Ass Controversy of 2016, otherwise known as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson vs. Vin Diesel. This is common knowledge: nobody can out-alpha an alpha, so two True Alphas are destined to keep attempting to dominate the other unsuccessfully until the moon explodes (isn’t that the plot of one of the Fast movies?) Speaking on the Armchair...
On CNN, John Bolton, a former national security adviser to Donald Trump and rabid war lover who wants to bomb Iran and North Korea (among others), revealed that he is voting for a write-in candidate in 2024. “I might as well say it now,” Bolton said, “I voted for Dick Cheney [in 2020]. And I’ll […]
It is difficult, 20 years on, to say which is more unlikely: that flip-flopping, wind-surfing, “Jinjis” Khan-pronouncing John Kerry came within an Ohio whisper of the White House or that Kerry’s rebuke proceeded in large part from a bevy of cheesed-off veterans. Politics change in two decades, of course, and my guess is that the […]
In 2022, a senior Cambodian official was arrested in New York. Why did the prosecution's case fall apart so spectacularly?
From coast to coast, CODEPINK delegations protested at German diplomatic missions in support of Nicaragua’s case against Germany at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for complicity in Israel’s genocide that has killed or maimed over 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza. On the first day of ICJ proceedings, April 8, 2024, in Nicaragua v. Germany, pickets More
Chris shares his favorite covers from this week’s new comics.
Yoko Ono says in a new book on the Beatles that includes never-before-heard interviews from the 1980s that she introduced then-husband John Lennon to heroin, telling him she experienced a "beautiful feeling" on the drug. Ono, 91, denied in the interview that she "put John on H," according to excerpts from "All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words" released by The Sunday Times, adding that the Beatles member "wouldn’t take anything unless he wanted to do it." The book also includes...