• This week’s other Trump legal story

    THIS WEEK’S OTHER TRUMP LEGAL STORY. The trial of former President Donald Trump, the paperwork case over the nondisclosure agreement he had with a porn star, continues with jury selection in Manhattan. It’s been extensively covered; this newsletter wrote not one but two previews last week, plus more discussion yesterday. So enough about that for a […]

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    Before you sign off for the weekend, know that Southwest Airlines is offering 25% off flights across its network for travel through September. The one catch to keep in mind is that this discount only applies to flights booked with Southwest Rapid Rewards points. Deal basics Airline: Southwest Routes: Valid for travel across the Southwest …

  • Exposing Corruption at FBI: Whistleblowers Share Their Stories

    Garret O’Boyle and Stephen Friend dedicated years of their lives to serving their country in the FBI. But when they began to question some of Read More

  • Duterte liable for corruption in secret deals with Xi – Carpio

    Ex-president Rody Duterte harmed Filipinos in his secret deals with Communist China. He can be indicted for corruption, retired Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio said.

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  • Books beyond Bobst: A modern classic, a short story collection and more

    “The Bee Sting” by Paul Murray — Emily Genova, Deputy Managing Editor This nearly 700-page novel follows an Irish family as they reckon with a failing family-run car business in a small, gossipy town. Told in alternating points of view, Paul Murray’s “The Bee Sting” drops the reader into the life of the Barnes family, This story Books beyond Bobst: A modern classic, a short story collection and more appeared first on Washington Square News.

  • Bolton: Trump 'Has Simple-Minded Ideas About How the World Works'

    Former National Security Adviser John Bolton said Wednesday on MSNBC's "Deadline" that former President Donald Trump had “simple-minded ideas about how the world works." | Clips

  • Aid organisations sue Dutch state over Turkey refugee deal

    Three aid organisations are suing the Dutch state over the “disastrous consequences” of the 2016 agreement between the EU and Turkey to stop illegal migration via that country. Amnesty International, Stichting Bootvluchteling and Defence for Children accuse the state of “infringing Dutch and international law by allowing years of inhumane circumstances on the Greek islands”. The Netherlands chaired the EU at the time of the deal and is responsible for the violation of asylum seekers’ human...

  • 'Trump has a big beautiful plane': Spokesperson explains strategy to deal with trials

    Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the former president was going to win the 2024 election despite his trials because he has a "big beautiful plane." Leavitt made the remarks Sunday on Fox & Friends after Donald Trump held a Saturday night rally in Pennsylvania. "The Americans have never had a stronger contrast than the one they will have on the ballot before them on November the 5th," Leavitt told Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy. "President Trump has never been in a...

  • Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Media's failure to deal with Trump is rivaled by the courts

    Abbreviated Pundit Roundup is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet. The Hill: Trump says federal abortion ban is not needed ‘because we broke Roe v. Wade’ “Because we don’t need it any longer. Because we broke Roe v. Wade, and we did something that nobody thought was possible,” Trump said. “We gave it back to the states. And the states are very working very brilliantly, in some cases conservative, in some...

  • Trump thought Ukraine ‘must be part of Russia’ during presidency, book says

    Ex-president ‘could not get his head around the idea that Ukraine was an independent state’, former adviser Fiona Hill tells author As president, Donald Trump “made it very clear” that he thought Ukraine “must be part of Russia”, his former adviser Fiona Hill says in a new book about US national security under threat from Russia and China.“Trump made it very clear that he thought, you know, that Ukraine, and certainly Crimea, must be part of Russia,” Hill, senior director for European and...

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