Un Chief Heading To Conflict-torn Central African Republic

Why is the Libertarian party ceding the spotlight to the leading GOP and Independent candidates, instead of elevating candidates of its own? "It would be amazing if they sign on to somebody like Donald Trump or RFK Jr. whorefuse to call themselves Libertarian," says Reason Editor at Large Nick Gillespie.

Previewing the upcoming closing arguments, former prosecutor Elie Honig posits, "Michael Cohen's not even the star witness in this case. The star witness in this case are the documents." But Defense Attorney William J. Brennan counters, "You have two lawyers on that jury. They're not going to just do a knee-jerk.

A viewer tweeted that the Trump hush money trial raises the concern that we are "so divided as a country that juries can't deliver justice without politics being in play." Smerconish agrees.

The Libertarian Party has "never figured out whether or not they are an informational organizationor an actual political party that runs candidates who are credible and can win," says Nick Gillespie, Editor-at-Large for Reason. "The closest they came was Gary Johnson in 2016. And the current leadership of the LP sees that as an embarrassment, because he wasn't principled enough.

The local director of a mission group in Haiti and a missionary couple from the U. S. were attacked and fatally shot by gang members after leaving a youth group activity at a church, a family member told The Associated Press. Thursday’s slayings of Jude Montis, the local director of Missions in Haiti Inc., and Davy and Natalie Lloyd, a young married couple from the U.

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors on Friday asked the judge overseeing the classified documents case against Donald Trump to bar the former president from public statements that “pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents” participating in the prosecution. The request to U. S. District Judge Aileen Cannon follows a distorted claim by Trump earlier this week that the FBI agents who searched his Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022 were “authorized to shoot me” and were “locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was referring to the disclosure in a court document that the FBI, during the search, followed a standard use-of-force policy that prohibits the use of deadly force except when the officer conducting the search has a reasonable belief that the “subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or to another person.” The Justice Department policy is routine and meant to limit, rather than encourage, the use of force during searches.