DC attorney discipline board recommends Giuliani disbarment

DC attorney discipline board recommends Giuliani disbarment

By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz | CNN Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani is one step closer to being disbarred. The professional responsibility board in Washington, DC, recommended Friday that the ex-New York mayor and federal prosecutor lose his law license because of his involvement in a bogus 2020 election fraud lawsuit. Giuliani’s law … Read more

State advances measures targeting AI discrimination, deepfakes

State advances measures targeting AI discrimination, deepfakes

By Tran Nguyen | Associated Press SACRAMENTO — As corporations increasingly weave artificial intelligence technologies into the daily lives of Americans, California lawmakers want to build public trust, fight algorithmic discrimination and outlaw deepfakes that involve elections or pornography. The efforts in California — home to many of the world’s biggest AI companies — could … Read more

Key witness lied, Trump lawyer tells jurors during closing

Key witness lied, Trump lawyer tells jurors during closing

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump engaged in a conspiracy “to hoodwink voters” in 2016, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday during closing arguments in the former president’s hush money trial, while a defense lawyer branded the star witness as the “greatest liar … Read more

Key witness lied, Trump lawyer tells jurors during closing

Key witness lied, Trump lawyer tells jurors during closing

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump engaged in “a conspiracy and a cover-up,” a prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments Tuesday in the former president’s hush money trial, while a defense lawyer branded the star witness as the “greatest liar of all … Read more

Key witness lied, Trump lawyer tells jurors during closing

Key witness lied, Trump lawyer tells jurors during closing

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s defense team attacked the hush money case against him Tuesday by calling the star witness a liar, seeking to discredit weeks of testimony that prosecutors say prove the former president interfered in the 2016 election through … Read more

GOP’s Biden impeachment inquiry is winding down after months

GOP’s Biden impeachment inquiry is winding down after months

By Lisa Mascaro | Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is all but winding down, lacking the political appetite from within the Republican ranks to go forward with an actual impeachment, but facing political pressure to deliver after months of work. The chairman of the House Oversight and … Read more

Man charged with attacking police in NY was misidentified

Man charged with attacking police in NY was misidentified

By Jake Offenhartz | Associated Press NEW YORK — A Venezuelan man who became the subject of national attention for allegedly kicking a police officer in Times Square, then flipping off news cameras on his way out of court, was cleared of wrongdoing on Friday after prosecutors concluded he played no role in the attack. … Read more

Shasta Co. ditched vote-counting machines, sparking a recall

Shasta Co. ditched vote-counting machines, sparking a recall

By Adam Beam | Associated Press REDDING — Voters in this rural California county have twice voted for Donald Trump by wide margins while electing staunch conservatives to their local governing board, even going so far as to boot some from office who were deemed not conservative enough. But that string of victories at the … Read more

Maldives ex-minister calls out President Muizzu’s ‘lies’ about Indian troops

Maldives ex-minister calls out President Muizzu’s ‘lies’ about Indian troops

NEW DELHI: Abdulla Shahid, the former Maldivian foreign minister, claimed on Saturday that President Mohamed Muizzu’s assertion about ‘thousands of Indian military personnel‘ stationed in Maldives was another ‘string of lies‘.Shahid, the newly elected president of the Maldivian Democratic Party, said there is no deployment of armed foreign soldiers in the island country. Maldives tension: … Read more

Former Maldivian foreign minister says, President Muizzu’s claim of ‘thousands of Indian military personnel’ in Maldives, a lie

Former Maldivian foreign minister says, President Muizzu’s claim of ‘thousands of Indian military personnel’ in Maldives, a lie

MALE: The former Maldivian minister of foreign affairs, Abdulla Shahid, said on Saturday that the claims made by Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu about “thousands of Indian military personnel” were just another in a string of lies, adding that there are no armed foreign soldiers stationed in their country. Posting on his social media X, the … Read more