Official Rebuffs Terror Case Critics

“President Biden, prodded by Democrats to confront former President Donald Trump head-on about Mr. Trump’s criminal conviction in his New York hush-money case, heeded those calls on Monday night during a big-dollar fund-raiser in Connecticut for his re-election campaign and for the party,” the New York Times reports. “Mr. Biden railed against his rival at a reception in Greenwich, telling a group of supporters who included Connecticut’s governor and its two sitting U.

“A top executive at The Epoch Times, a right-wing media company, has been arrested and charged with laundering at least $67 million in stolen money through company accounts in a multiyear scheme to lift financial returns,” the New York Times reports. “A federal grand jury indicted Weidong Guan, also known as Bill Guan, on one count of money laundering, as well as two counts of bank fraud.

The Denver City Council on Monday authorized up to $24 million in additional spending on private security services across the city this year. The greater financial latitude — expanding contracts with three different companies — is necessary to meet Denver’s evolving security needs, according to summary documents, particularly around 24/7 shelters for migrants from the southern U.

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Denver and federal officials say their data tracking shows that after a recent push to move people indoors, just 52 homeless veterans were still sleeping on city streets as of April. Mayor Mike Johnston and other leaders said Monday that they hoped to reduce that total to a level they termed as “functional zero” by the end of this year.

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