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Month: July 2024

New England fishermen sentenced in complex herring fraud case

Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Several commercial fishermen in New England have been sentenced in a fraud scheme that centered on a critically important species of bait fish and that prosecutors described as complex and wide-ranging. Prosecutors say the fishermen were sentenced for “knowingly subverting commercial fishing reporting requirements” in a scheme involving Atlantic

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Aileen Cannon’s nuking of the Trump documents case continues her trend of embracing long-shot legal theories

CNN By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — After a year of court hearings examining far-fetched theories about presidential classification power, flimsy accusations of prosecutorial misconduct and heated debates about redacting court filings, Judge Aileen Cannon ended Jack Smith’s classified documents prosecution of former President Donald Trump on Monday for a more foundational – but nonetheless astonishing – reason.

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A prison union’s big spending on Gavin Newsom: Is it an ‘800 pound gorilla’ or a threatened species?

CalMatters A year after he took the top job in 2019, the president of one of California’s largest and most powerful unions said in a newsletter that he wanted to be “the 800 pound gorilla” in Sacramento politics. Since then, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, the union known as CCPOA representing 26,000 state prison

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

¿Por qué unas elecciones justas en Venezuela podrían cambiar el destino de millones de inmigrantes… y el del propio Joe Biden en EE.UU.?

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un pequeño rincón de Venezuela se extiende lentamente a lo largo de la calle 77 en Bogotá, la capital de Colombia. Los mapas municipales se refieren formalmente a ese barrio como Unir II, pero para muchos de sus habitantes es conocido como Barrio Hugo Chávez, en honor al fallecido presidente

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Armenia launches joint military drills with the US amid souring ties with old ally Russia

Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia has launched joint military drills with the United States. The move reflects the South Caucasus republic’s desire to forge closer ties with the U.S. and other Western allies as the country’s relations with Russia sour. The “Eagle Partner” war games involve Armenian peacekeeping forces, servicemen of the U.S.

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At the Trump rally, it was evening sun, songs and blue sky. Then came bullets, screams and blood

Associated Press On a sweltering weekend evening, beneath a clear blue sky, Donald Trump supporters in red “Make America Great Again” hats packed the fairgrounds in Butler, Pennsylvania. It was a friendly and festive venue for the once and maybe future president’s final rally before the Republican National Convention the following week. He won Butler

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What is known and not known about the attempt on Trump’s life and its aftermath

Associated Press So far, details about the man who authorities say tried to kill former President Donald Trump amount to little more than a stick-figure drawing: a politically enigmatic loner who worked in a nursing home. Still absent are the motivations behind the assassination attempt at Saturday’s rally in Pennsylvania. That’s not all. Investigators are

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