Russia squandered a major opportunity to make battlefield gains, says strategist Mick Ryan. Despite recent momentum, Russia’s made little forward progress, and its gains have come at a high cost. Ukraine’s improving military posture and strategic prospects challenge Russia’s attrition tactics. Russia missed out on an opportunity to steamroll Ukraine and secure notable battlefield gains, […]
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – Tesla is claiming Elon Musk won his legal battle over his $56 billion pay package because shareholders voted for the compensation, despite a judge rescinding it earlier this year, according to a court filing made public on Thursday. The company’s filing comes two weeks after Tesla shareholders voted […]
Attorneys for the husband of a Fort Lauderdale woman who disappeared in Spain are again asking a judge to reconsider the decision to keep him in prison in a motion filed Tuesday, arguing that officials arrested David Knezevich on kidnapping charges only to keep him detained while they investigate his wife’s disappearance as a murder. […]
A Manhattan man accused of fatally bashing in his neighbor’s head with a cricket bat says the weapon actually belonged to the man he killed and he was defending himself from an attack. Victor Springer, 35, faces murder charges for the Saturday killing of 40-year-old Guillermo Edgardo Ortiz Palacios in Harlem, but his lawyer contends […]
Jon Stewart devoted a huge portion of Monday’s “The Daily Show” to media criticism, letting news outlets have it for how they have handled the GOP’s dishonest, conspiratorial response to Donald Trump’s felony conviction. Rather than work to explain and contextualize “our shared experience,” media companies have instead allowed Republicans to speak outright lies and […]
The Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in St. Louis, home of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Missouri. (Photo by Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent) A United States District Court judge in St. Louis heard arguments Monday morning on whether the federal government can continue with a student-debt-forgiveness plan due to begin next […]
Jon Stewart devoted a huge portion of Monday’s “The Daily Show” to media criticism, letting news outlets have it for how they have handled the GOP’s dishonest, conspiratorial response to Donald Trump’s felony conviction. Rather than work to explain and contextualize “our shared experience,” media companies have instead allowed Republicans to speak outright lies and […]
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Clark County District Attorney has filed a motion to prevent a judge from presiding over criminal cases prosecuted by his office. District Attorney Steve Wolfson filed the motion for the recusal of Clark County District Court Judge Erika Ballou on Wednesday. Wolfson referred to an ethics complaint he filed with […]
NEW YORK — Former President Trump claimed Wednesday that he is being prevented from mounting an advice-of-counsel defense in his hush money trial — a defense his own lawyers made clear months ago that they would not invoke. A formal advice-of-counsel defense would enable the former president to argue he was acting reasonably based on what […]
May 26—The state says the single-incident award to a victim of abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center should stand, despite a Rockingham County judge’s statement that the compensation would be an “unconscionable miscarriage of justice” for a man who says he was physically and sexually assaulted hundreds of times as a child at the […]
Timothy Simpkins, the convicted Timberview High School shooter who’s currently serving a 12-year sentence, faces additional charges connected with the October 2021 shooting that wounded a teacher and two students, according to Tarrant County court records and his attorneys. Simpkins, now 20, was found guilty of attempted capital murder in July 2023. The jury considered […]
Apr. 12—The state wants a Santa Fe judge to dismiss a major lawsuit that alleges oil and gas production and pollution allowed by New Mexico violates the Constitution. Arguments to allow the dismissal, or not, went on for about three hours Friday in Santa Fe County 1st Judicial Court. Judge Matthew Wilson said he will […]