Tag: politics
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A woman wins $3.8 million verdict after SWAT team searches wrong home based on Find My iPhone app
A 78-year-old woman who sued two police officers after her home was wrongly searched by a SWAT team looking for a stolen truck has won a $3.8 million jury verdict
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Haiti has deployed its army; troops joined police to push back gang takeover of airport
A group of armed gangs attempted to take over Port-au-Prince’s Toussaint Louverture International Airport on Monday, launching an armed attack against the facility just days after a series of coordinated attacks across the capital led to the escape of hundreds of jailed prisoners, including several notorious gang leaders. The attack against the airport came amid…
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Former Venezuelan military official pleads guilty to bribery, paying himself millions
MIAMI — From his home in Fort Lauderdale, a former Venezuelan military officer directed a complex scheme to borrow millions of dollars from Venezuela’s banks for financing food imports to the starving country. It was all a fraud, Nepmar Jesus Escalona Enriquez admitted Monday in Miami federal court. In reality, he orchestrated the transfers of…
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New Mexico governor signs bill that bans some guns at polls and extends waiting period to 7 days
Some guns will be banned at voting locations, and the waiting period for purchasing firearms is being extended to seven days under measures signed into law by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham
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France becomes the only country to explicitly guarantee abortion as a constitutional right
French lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved a bill to enshrine abortion rights in France’s constitution, making it the only country to explicitly guarantee a woman’s right to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy
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Utah governor mulls measure that would fund firearms training for teachers
Gun violence prevention advocates are calling on Utah Gov. Spencer Cox to veto legislation that they say could place children in harm’s way by training more teachers to carry firearms on campus
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Takeaways from the Wisconsin 2020 fake electors lawsuit settlement
More than 1,400 pages of emails, text messages and other documents released Monday reveal details of a strategy by Republican operatives tied to then-President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in Wisconsin
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Settlement in Wisconsin fake elector case offers new details on the strategy by Trump lawyers
Two attorneys for then-President Donald Trump orchestrated a plan for fake electors to file paperwork falsely saying he won Wisconsin in a strategy to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory there
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Girl Scouts were told to stop bracelet-making fundraiser for kids in Gaza. Now they can’t keep up
A Missouri Girl Scout troop that made bracelets to raise funds for children in Gaza was ordered to stop and threatened with legal action by regional scout leaders
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Nevada fake electors won’t stand trial until January 2025 under judge’s new schedule
Six Republicans accused of falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of Nevada’s 2020 presidential election will not stand trial until next January