Echoing Their Client, Trump’s Lawyers Pursue an Absolutist Defense But when Mr. Trump’s lawyers introduced him to a jury at his Manhattan criminal trial this week ... writing about public corruption. He has been covering the various criminal investigations ... 04/27/2024 - 5:10 am | View Link
Day 22: School board rests its defense in rape coverup trial, as judge denies school board and defendants’ efforts to dismiss the case And with a whisper, at 1:24 p.m., on Friday, day 22 of the trial of the alleged coverup of a student’s sexual harassment and assault, School Board attorney ... 04/24/2024 - 10:10 pm | View Link
Russia detains deputy of defense minister Sergei Shoigu for corruption Russian security services detained one of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s deputies on suspicion of taking major bribes, the highest-profile corruption case since President Vladimir Putin sent ... 04/23/2024 - 10:50 pm | View Link
Russian deputy defense minister dismissed after arrest on corruption charges A Russian deputy defense minister has been charged with taking a bribe, in the country’s highest-profile corruption scandal ... be held in custody in a pre-trial detention center until at ... 04/23/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Trump trial: Former president 'innocent,' says defense as DA alleges 'criminal conspiracy' Defense attorneys on Monday argued that former President Trump "is innocent," maintaining that he "had nothing to do" with the alleged hush money payments that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin ... 04/22/2024 - 5:55 am | View Link
Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said TikTok user CarterPCS. “I could’ve sworn it was because my alarm wasn’t going off.”
“I was literally late to work the other day because I slept through all four of my alarms that I had set,” TikTok user Charkaylotte recounted.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
President Ronald Reagan warned in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas.” During the 1980s, Reagan gave more speeches on the Central American country than about almost any other foreign policy issue. Congress voted countless times on his policy of undermining Nicaragua’s Cuban- and Soviet-backed government by arming insurgents known as the Contra.
LOS ANGELES — Police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse.
In 2018, we worked with Bill Gates on a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of optimism. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people are wired to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes this attention distracts us from the moments when progress is being made.
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost.