More than half a first batch of potential jurors in Donald Trump's criminal trial were excused after admitting they didn't think they could be impartial in the first trial of a former president.
First Bank of Nigeria Limited has appointed Olusegun Alebiosu as its acting Managing Director with effect from April 2024. The bank stated this in a statement signed and made available to PUNCH Online by its acting company secretary, Adewale Arogundade, on Sunday. PUNCH Online earlier wrote that the former managing director of First Bank Nigeria Read More
A Park City woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Wichita for threats made against President Biden and former President Clinton. Court documents say 40-year-old Lori Davis is accused of calling the Clinton Foundation
This week marks the beginning of the first criminal trial against Donald Trump. The former president is accused of crimes stemming from his hush money scheme in which he and his associates sought to
ALBANY — President Joe Biden granted clemency to a city woman who spent more than four years in federal prison for a nonviolent drug conviction. Stacy L. Wilder, 49, was one of several individuals given clemency on Wednesday, according to the White House. Wilder could not immediately be reached for comment. She and a co-defendant, Reginald V. Lacy, were indicted in September 2001 on several drug charges. The pair pleaded guilty several months later. Wilder was sentenced to more than five years...
Naima Khatoon Gulrez, the principal of Aligarh Muslim University’s Women’s College since 2014, has been appointed as the university's first woman Vice-Chancellor. She is learnt to have taken charge as the new V-C Monday evening. The AMU Court had shortlisted three candidates for the post and forwarded the names to President Droupadi Murmu for final selection last November. Professor Muzaffar Uruj Rabbani, former Dean, Faculty of Medicine, AMU, and Professor Faizan Mustafa, V-C, Chanakya National...
The Nebraska Board of Regents announced Sunday that it will vote on the
Two New York women convicted of non-violent federal drug offenses are among 16 people nationwide to receive clemency from President Joe Biden. Stacy Wilder, age 49, of Albany, served nearly six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine in the Northern District of New York in January 2003. She received a full pardon from the president. Had she been sentenced under current law and sentencing guidelines, Wilder would have received a...
Shawn Fain tells the Guardian he expects ‘more of the same to come’ after celebrating union’s historic victory at Tennessee plantAfter celebrating his union’s historic victory at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers, told the Guardian that he was confident of more unionization wins at auto plants across the US, saying: “The workers at VW are the first domino to fall.“They have shown it is possible,” Fain added in an interview on Sunday evening. “I...
It’s a day former President Trump hoped would never come. After a relentless pursuit for delay, Trump will make history Monday morning by taking his seat at the defense table in a Manhattan courtroom, where the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president will begin. For four days a week — for six or []
TAIPEI (Reuters) -China should have the confidence to talk to Taiwan's legally elected government, President-elect Lai Ching-te said on Thursday as he appointed his new national security and diplomacy team amid what he called unprecedented challenges. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, over the island's strong objections, has ramped up military and political pressure against Taipei during the past four years as it seeks to press sovereignty claims. Lai, who...
By Yimou Lee and Ben BlanchardTAIPEI (Reuters) -China should have the confidence to talk to Taiwan's legally elected government, President-elect Lai Ching-te said on Thursday as he appointed his new national security and diplomacy team amid what he called unprecedented challenges.China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, over the island's strong objections, has ramped up military and political pressure against Taipei during the past four years as it seeks to press...