China’s top flash memory chip maker Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC) has filed a lawsuit against a Danish consulting firm and its senior executive – the publisher of China Tech Threat – for libel as Western narratives about potential national security threats from Chinese tech companies proliferate. Wuhan-Based YMTC sued Copenhagen-based Strand Consult and its […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Muslim mob in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday broke into a police station, snatched a man who was held there and then lynched him over allegations that he had desecrated Islam’s holy book, the Quran. The attackers also torched the station in Madyan, a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and burned […]
Jon Stewart came out swinging on Monday about how he thinks the POTUS race has devolved. Stewart said it’s now “boiled down to each candidate accusing the other of having soup where there should be brain.” Biden and Trump are slated to go head-to-head in a debate at CNN’s Atlanta studio on June 27. Jon […]
Spain is to ask a United Nations court for permission to join South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, its foreign minister has announced. Spain is the first European country to take the step after South Africa filed its case with the International Court of Justice late last year. It alleged that Israel […]
MADRID (AP) — Spain will ask a United Nations court for permission to join South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, its foreign minister announced Thursday. Spain is the first European country to take the step after South Africa filed its case with the International Court of Justice late last year. It alleged […]
Top House Republicans on Wednesday sent criminal referrals to the Justice Department recommending President Joe Biden‘s son Hunter Biden and brother James Biden be charged with making false statements to Congress. The letter from the three GOP committee chairmen to Attorney General Merrick Garland and special counsel David Weiss comes as Hunter Biden is standing […]
Jun. 5—Maine’s attorney general is suing a religious leader in Westbrook, accusing him of defrauding immigrants by charging them for legal assistance on their immigration paperwork — often with detrimental mistakes — even though he had no qualifications to offer such advice. Attorney General Aaron Frey says that Shonda Okonda, 48, has violated state and […]
A California man has won a lawsuit against a city police department whose officers interrogated him for 17 hours, threatened to kill his dog, and pressured him to confess to murdering his own father, who was still alive. The city of Fontana, some 50 miles east of Los Angeles, was ordered to pay Thomas Perez […]
Former Trump advisor Rudy Giuliani agreed to stop accusing former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss of election fraud, according to court documents made public Tuesday. The mother-daughter pair won their defamation suit — and a $148 million judgment — in December against the former Trump attorney and two-time New York City mayor. […]
A woman who says she felt “a moral obligation to speak up” after a series of abuse allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs has sued the hip-hop mogul, accusing him of drugging and sexually assaulting her more than 20 years ago. Crystal McKinney alleged in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in New York City […]
The chief scientist of China’s COVID vaccine project was kicked from the National People’s Congress. Yang Xiaoming, 62, is accused of “serious discipline and law violations,” a phrase alluding to corruption. Yang led the team that developed the Sinopharm vaccine, and was China’s top researcher in its vaccine project. The chief researcher of China’s first general-use […]
Former president Donald Trump is digging in against a potential ban of TikTok that is moving through Congress – and seeking to blame President Biden for it – even though Trump sought to outlaw the social media application when he was in the White House. “Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe […]