Ten days before defendant Donald Trump is set to go on trial in his hush money case in a Lower Manhattan criminal courtroom, he and his attorneys are fixing for the judge to recuse himself. And they're doing so by raising concerns about past political contributions he made all the way to quoted comments he said in an article. Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann believes the ammunition to get a recusal is weak. "That is, again, laughable," he said, adding "the audience for this brief...
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has suffered another legal setback — this time from the Supreme Court, which rejected his request to hear an appeal over the FBI’s seizure of his cellphone. In September 2022, FBI agents approached Lindell at a Hardee’s drive-thru in Minnesota and confiscated his phone as part of an investigation into possible voting machine tampering in Colorado in 2020. (Lindell was not charged in the case.) At the time, Lindell accused the FBI of being “weaponized” against him and...
For the third time in three days, a New York appellate judge has denied an attempt by former President Donald Trump to delay his hush money trial. Trump on Wednesday asked a New York appeals court for emergency relief to stop the criminal trial scheduled to begin Monday from going ahead so he could appeal a lower court’s ruling on presidential immunity and have the judge recused from the case. It took Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer just minutes after hearing arguments to reject the interim...
The West needs a “Plan B” in case Israel presses ahead with an invasion of Rafah, the Foreign Secretary has said.]]>
An estimated 1,800 new reports of whooping cough infections were recorded in the Netherlands during the first two weeks of April, according to Dutch public health institute RIVM. The figures, released on Wednesday, raised the total for the year up to 5,305, an exceedingly high number compared to previous years. There were some signs that cases may be declining among young children, who can be most severely affected by an infection.
Fox News' Maria Bartiromo wants Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) to fire Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for prosecuting former President Donald Trump in the hush money case due to start in just a few days.But that's an absurd demand, legal expert Lisa Rubin told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Wednesday evening."I can't imagine what the presidential act would be of writing your lawyer a reimbursement check because you paid off your porn star person you had an affair with, but I won't try to make my mind go...
A day after the news broke about the arrest of the Return to Nature Funeral Home owners on a federal warrant, the victims in the investigation are learning about why they were arrested.
The number of new homes consented in the year to February was down by a
The state’s attorney has declined to file charges in connection with three in-custody deaths of McHenry County Jail inmates. A fourth inmate death is still under investigation. The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday afternoon that they recently received the final investigations of the in-custody inmate deaths of Sean Grendel, Randy Little and Timothy Mumford. […]
As someone who has experienced real racism first-hand, writes NANA AKUA, I find it grossly offensive to link such innocuous things with a truly heinous form of discrimination.
Justice Lee finds Ten’s defence of truth successful after Lehrmann sued the network and journalist Lisa Wilkinson in the federal court of Australia for defamation. Follow the latest news and updates from the judgment todayFull report: Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, judge finds on balance of probabilitiesBruce Lehrmann and Lisa Wilkinson have both arrived into courtroom one on the 21st level of the federal court building in central Sydney.Lehrmann is sitting at the...
Officials from the Southern Nevada Health District Friday confirmed a measles case on the Las Vegas Strip just days after government officials warned of an increase in cases of the virus across the country and around the world.