By Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s influential former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a powerful backer of the largest party in the governing coalition, avoided pre-trial detention for allegedly insulting the monarchy after a criminal court granted him bail on Tuesday. Separately, the Constitutional Court set July 3 and July 10, respectively, as the next hearing […]
NEW YORK (AP) — In the days since Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies in his criminal hush money trial, Republicans who view the case as politically motivated have coalesced around a new rallying cry: Prosecute the left. Candidates, officeholders and members of the former president’s family have amplified Trump’s calls for retribution against […]
The number of politically motivated offences reported to the police in Germany reached a new record last year, prompting concern from many, including the government commissioner for LGBTIQ issues. The 60,028 recorded offences represent the highest level since the statistics were introduced in 2001, according to the 2023 statistics presented in Berlin on Tuesday. The […]
In our Reality Check stories, Herald-Leader journalists dig deeper into questions over facts, consequences and accountability. Read more. Story idea? hlcityregion@herald-leader.com. Who saw this coming? Friday morning’s arrest of the world’s top golfer entering the PGA Championship complex in Louisville is quickly becoming a potential political headache for that city’s mayor and Kentucky Gov. Andy […]
(Bloomberg) — Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant Petrobras is curbing politically charged dividends after reporting lower profits. Most Read from Bloomberg Petrobras’s board approved 1.04 reais a share, or 13.45 billion reais ($2.6 billion), in dividends for the first quarter, it said in a regulatory filing Monday. Analysts were expecting $3.2 billion, according to the average […]
BEIJING (AP) — The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months. The Chinese government froze meaningful domestic and international efforts to trace […]
Hunter Biden is expected to ask a judge at a hearing Wednesday to dismiss tax charges filed against him last year, arguing that the case is politically motivated. Biden alleges prosecutors caved to pressure from Republican lawmakers, who launched an impeachment inquiry into his father, President Joe Biden, after an earlier plea deal fell through. […]
By Chris Kirkham and Andrew Goudsward LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s son Hunter will ask a U.S. judge on Wednesday to dismiss the criminal case accusing him of evading $1.4 million in taxes, arguing that prosecutors bowed to political pressure from Republican lawmakers investigating his father. Hunter Biden’s lawyers will appear before U.S. […]
Sylvia Gonzalez only made it as far as her second meeting as a new member of the city council in her small Texas community when a police officer tapped her on the shoulder in what she viewed as “a negative way.” Gonzalez, then 72, would eventually be arrested for stealing a government document at the […]
Donald Trump has had a history of dunking on the Oscars. He couldn’t resist posting about the show on Sunday, too. “A really bad politically correct show tonight,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. It’s safe to say that former President Donald Trump didn’t enjoy this year’s Academy Awards ceremony. “A really bad politically […]
This article was originally published in Utah News Dispatch. A bill that would have controlled what teachers can and can’t say — or display — in their classrooms has hit a dead end. The Utah House on Monday narrowly voted down HB303, a bill that would have banned teachers from “endorsing, promoting or disparaging” certain […]
After five decades of playing fast and loose with the laws of New York, and a plenary of fraud, deception and corruption, legal appeasement seems to be declining and legal accountability seems to be ramping up as the proverbial hens are finally returning home to roost for the former Houdini of white-collar crime, Donald J. […]