Catalan separatist politicians dealt Spain’s government a blow on Tuesday by voting against a hugely divisive amnesty law that was aimed at helping hundreds of their supporters who were involved in Catalonia’s unsuccessful 2017 independence bid. The most radical separatists, who want to ensure that their leader Carles Puigdemont, a fugitive in Belgium, can return […]
RICHMOND – Most of the Hopewell City Council are pushing back against bills from their state lawmakers that were sparked by the city’s contentious back-and-forth with the Youngkin administration over state intervention into Hopewell’s finances. Five of the seven councilors sent a letter Tuesday to the House and Senate committees that vet municipal-related legislation. In […]
(Bloomberg) — Senior doctors in England narrowly rejected a pay offer from Rishi Sunak’s government, raising the prospect of further strikes. Most Read from Bloomberg The British Medical Association said its members had voted 51.1% against a deal worth an extra 4.95% in pay this year, on top of a 6% uplift already announced. Read […]
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are flailing over how to proceed with tackling the border crisis — an issue they have been demanding action on — after Donald Trump this week personally directed them to reject any bipartisan border deal because he doesn’t want President Joe Biden to get a win ahead of the 2024 presidential […]
A three-judge panel with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals appears highly skeptical of the arguments put forth by a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, who claimed that he could not be prosecuted for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election because he was acting as president when he did so. Here […]
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Special counsel Jack Smith urged an appeals court on Saturday to reject former President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismiss his federal election interference case on presidential immunity grounds. In a more-than-80-page filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Smith argued against Trump’s insistence that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution on […]
Washington, D.C. — Special Counsel Jack Smith pressed his case that former President Donald Trump does not enjoy the protections of “presidential immunity” in the 2020 election conspiracy criminal case in an 82-page court document filed Saturday afternoon in D.C.’s federal court of appeals. Smith’s filing comes one day after an appeals court allowed a lawsuit […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith urged a federal appeals court Saturday to reject former President Donald Trump’s claims that he is immune from prosecution, saying the suggestion that he cannot be held to account for crimes in office “threatens the democratic and constitutional foundation” of the country. The filing from Smith’s team was […]
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Saturday urged a federal appeals court to reject former President Donald Trump’s claim that he cannot face criminal charges for seeking to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the prosecution, argued in a court filing that nothing in […]
(Bloomberg) — Democratic Republic of Congo’s government said it will block a demonstration planned for Wednesday by the opposition against the country’s Dec. 20 election. Most Read from Bloomberg Presidential hopefuls including Martin Fayulu and Denis Mukwege criticized the vote and called for a new one, and announced their plan to march in front of […]
By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – Hamas and the allied Islamic Jihad have rejected an Egyptian proposal that they relinquish power in the Gaza Strip in return for a permanent ceasefire, two Egyptian security sources told Reuters on Monday. Both groups, which have been holding separate talks with Egyptian mediators in […]