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In an interview with CNBC that's set to air later Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Disney CEO Bob Iger should drop his lawsuit against the state.

Donald Trump’s use of incendiary rhetoric is nothing new – it started long before the former president’s arraignment earlier this month in the Jan. 6 election conspiracy case.

NEW YORK — El Chapo’s cocaine supplier, whose testimony helped seal the famed drug lord’s fate, got one step closer to freedom Monday when a judge sentenced him to 20 years — most of which he’s already served. Colombian drug lord Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía will likely be out of prison within a year, after Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Brian Cogan handed down the sentence. The 60-year-old cartel leader, who was arrested in Brazil in 2007 and extradited to the U.S. a year later had originally signed... Читать дальше...

MIAMI -- Craig Sherman spent 45 years as a Florida lawyer, 43 of them as the city attorney for Bay Harbor Islands. He ran his own law firm in Boca Raton, where he shared a 2,517 square foot, three-bedroom, three-bathroom condominium with his wife. Since November 2019, Sherman has lost all that and more, the “and more” soon being his freedom after pleading guilty to two counts of wire fraud last week in West Palm Beach federal court. The sentencing of Sherman, 80, hasn’t been scheduled. The lawsuit... Читать дальше...

CHICAGO -- Former House Speaker Michael Madigan has long been known as “The Velvet Hammer” for the way he quietly wielded power. But in a federal courtroom on Monday, the man once considered Illinois’ most powerful politician may have been given a new moniker: Don Madigan. Testifying in the perjury trial of Madigan’s longtime chief of staff, Tim Mapes, a former FBI agent who headed the blockbuster corruption probe likened Madigan’s style as one more fit for the head of an organized crime family than a legitimate political operation. Читать дальше...

A panhandler stabbed a 76-year-old stranger who declined to give him money outside Manhattan’s Herald Square subway station, leaving the victim seriously wounded, police said Monday. The stabber asked the victim for a handout on the steps leading into the station at W. 35th St. and Sixth Ave. 11:30 p.m. Sunday — then stabbed him in the chest when he refused, cops said. The victim stumbled into the Herald Square stop for help and was rushed by medics to Bellevue Hospital in serious but stable condition. Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump, according to polling, is the frontrunner in the crowded 2024 Republican presidential primary field. But party insiders are beginning to worry that Trump falling short "could spell a voter turnout disaster" come Election Day, The Hill's Alexander Bolton explains.

A group of Republican-appointed former judges and high-ranking federal senior legal officials have filed an amicus brief saying they approve the trial date proposed by Special Counsel Jack Smith in the Jan. 6 criminal case being brought against Donald Trump, CNN reported.

Dozens of advocacy groups have joined in a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochuldemanding the state force towns to accept migrants from New York City, pressuring the governor to take a more aggressive approach to the city’s deepening asylum seeker crisis. Hochul should take executive action overruling county-level orders meant to block the movement of migrants, according to the Monday letter, which was led by the Coalition for the Homeless and the Legal Aid Society. The groups said in the letter that Hochul... Читать дальше...

A witness in the Georgia election case who was slated to testify on Tuesday was called in earlier than expected on Monday – suggesting that the investigation is moving faster than expected, MSNBC reported.

As deadly gang violence unfolds against another Port-au-Prince neighborhood and another police officer lost his life trying to help the public fend off armed attacks, Human Rights Watch is calling on the international community to act urgently to support Haiti in overcoming its security crisis and ensuring a transition to democracy. The call from the international rights group comes as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is due to present options to the Security Council on how to... Читать дальше...

An Indiana school district failed to properly comply with a Raw Story public records request, the Indiana Public Access Counselor ruled Friday after Raw Story challenged the school district for improperly withholding records.

The theory of “bullshit jobs” was substantiated by a recent study where 19% of employees felt their jobs were socially useless. The findings, published in the journal Work, Employment and Society, suggest that a significant portion of the U.S. workforce — particularly those working in administrative support occupations, sales occupations, and business and finance occupations — perceives their roles as unnecessary and lacking value. The concept of “bullshit jobs” was popularized by anthropologist and activist David Graeber. Читать дальше...

Donald Trump on Monday continued to test a Washington D.C. federal judge who last week warned the former president against making “inflammatory” remarks against those in connection with his case.

The Republican leader of Wisconsin's Assembly late last week threatened impeachment proceedings against liberal state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz if she doesn't recuse herself from cases involving Wisconsin's legislative maps, which GOP lawmakers have aggressively gerrymandered to give themselves what experts say is an illegal electoral advantage.

Former “Big Brother” contestant Luke Valentine doesn’t seem very sorry about using the N-word on the show. Valentine, who is white, was kicked out of the Season 25 competition last week after dropping the racial slur in a conversation with other house guests, including Jared Fields, a Black man. Viewers witnessed the moment on the CBS reality show’s 24/7 livestream. “Luke violated the Big Brother code of conduct and there is zero tolerance in the house for using a racial slur,” CBS said in a statement on Wednesday. Читать дальше...

During an appearance on Steve Bannon's show last Thursday, the former General Counsel Personnel Police Operations during the Trump administration claimed that he was blocked by then-Attorney General Bill Barr after he tried to bring attention to voter fraud.

U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) is criticizing Republicans in the House and Senate over what he suggests is their "hypocrisy" after Attorney General Merrick Garland elevated David Weiss on Friday. Weiss is the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney who was granted special counsel status to continue his investigation into Hunter Biden after Republicans specifically asked the Attorney General to do so.

Reuters is reporting that a two-page docket posted apparently accidentally on the Fulton County court's website showed multiple charges that could be filed against former President Donald Trump this week.

Donald Trump may have met his match if he faces off with District Attorney Fani Willis who has shown an impressive command of how to present a case to a jury, according to Fulton County court observers.

With the former president expected to be indicted this week for 2020 presidential election tampering under Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, lawyers who have watched Willis ply her craft had nothing but praise for her skills across the board, even if they didn't always agree with cases she filed. Читать дальше...

A Manhattan judge declined to recuse himself from Donald Trump's fraud case Monday after a federal judge ruled against moving the case to another court.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a stern public warning Monday that "America's military readiness" is being undermined as U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville's eight-month blockade of all military appointments and promotions requiring Senate approval now encompasses top leaders of three branches of the U.S. Armed Forces.

A private company aided by Republican "election integrity activists" is "attempting to sell software to Georgia election officials and residents that would enable them to aggressively cancel voter registrations," Mark Niesse reports in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday.

At least one legal expert believes that former President Donald Trump's angry Truth Social tirades make it more likely he winds up incarcerated ahead of his trials.

Infamous anti-government provocateur Ammon Bundy has been released from jail on a $10,000 bond after he was arrested this Friday at his son's football fundraiser in Emmett, Idaho. Vice News reported the release came after several Bundy supporters turned up at the county sheriff's home.