16 Animals With Delightfully Obvious Names
From burrowing owls to smooth green snakes, these animal names don't leave much to the imagination.
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Ecuador presidential hopefuls close campaign clouded by violence
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -Candidates vying to be Ecuador's next president held closing campaign events on Thursday, ahead of
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Citibank subpoenaed over US House probe into alleged data sharing with FBI
WASHINGTON Banking group Citibank was subpoenaed on Thursday by Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chair Jim
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Mistrial declared in case of White father and son charged with attempted murder of Black FedEx driver
A mistrial was declared Thursday in the case of a White father and son charged with attempted murder of a Black FedEx driver who said he was chased and shot at while delivering packages in Brookhaven, Mississippi, last year.
1970-01-01 08:00
NFL Rumors: David Bakhtiari trade fueled by Aaron Rodgers, stifled by reality
Packers tackle David Bakhtiari was the subject of Jets and Packers trade rumors earlier in the offseason, now Aaron Rodgers has rekindled that flame.Whenever the Aaron Rodgers trade rumors were swirling like Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt were chasing them this offseason, one of the ideas floated fo...
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What to know about Trump's criminal indictment in the Georgia election subversion case
State charges unsealed earlier this week against Donald Trump and 18 others in the Georgia election subversion probe opened a new chapter in the former president's post-White House legal saga and forced the nation to turn its attention to yet another complex criminal case concerning efforts to undermine Joe Biden's 2020 victory.
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Inside Fulton County jail where Donald Trump and 18 allies will be booked over Georgia election plot
Donald Trump is currently negotiating the terms of his voluntary surrender with the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office in Georgia after receiving his fourth criminal indictment of the year on Monday, according to CNN. Mr Trump and 18 co-conspirators – lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and Jenna Ellis and ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows among them – were formally charged with racketeering by Atlanta prosecutor Fani Willis over their alleged attempts to alter the presidential election result in the swing state in 2020 after it turned blue for Joe Biden, sealing the Democrat’s win. The ousted former president, still the front-runner for the Republican 2024 nomination despite his array of legal problems, is charged with 13 of the 41 counts in Ms Willis’s indictment and faces up to 70 years in prison if convicted. He now has until noon on Friday 25 August to be booked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta and arraigned at its courthouse before Judge Scott McAfee, where he is again expected to enter not guilty pleas to all charges, as he has at his three previous arraignments in New York, Miami and Washington DC. A bond agreement is likely to be forged to spare Mr Trump having to stay overnight in jail, as is the usual custom, and he is again unlikely to be seen in handcuffs or forced to pose for a mugshot, although county sheriff Pat Labat has previously insisted he intends to apply the same “normal practices” to the politician and his co-accused as he would any other defendants. It is just as well for Mr Trump, a well-known germaphobe, that he will not have to spend an evening at Fulton County Jail, also known by the nickname “Rice Street” as it is notoriously overcrowded and in poor repair, with a reputation for “unhygienic living conditions”. “It’s miserable. It’s cold. It smells. It’s just generally unpleasant,” veteran defence attorney Robert G Rubin told The New York Times this week. “Plus, there’s a high degree of anxiety for any defendant that’s in that position.” The facility was considered state of the art when it was built in 1985 to hold 1,300 inmates. In recent years, it has been forced to house closer to 3,000 people, with an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) report from September 2022 observing that hundreds of people were being held at Fulton County Jail for longer than 90 days because they had not yet been formally charged or could not afford to pay off their bail bond. Another 117 had been held for more than a year because they had not been indicted and two more for over two years for the same reason, the report said. Fallon McClure, deputy director of policy and advocacy at the ACLU of Georgia, told the BBC the jail had “essentially been overcrowded since it was built”. “This has just been a perpetual cycle over and over for years,” she added, expressing pessimism that a long-touted $1.7bn replacement containment facility would ever be built. “There’s been a lot of talk of cleaning it up. We have not really seen or heard anything particularly significant. It seems like a lot of posturing.” Another recent report by the Southern Center for Human Rights recounted outbreaks of Covid-19, lice, scabies and cachexia, an affliction otherwise known as wasting syndrome, which hits those who are “significantly malnourished”. Six people have died in Fulton County custody this year, according to the BBC, including 19-year-old Noni Battiste-Kosoko in July (an autopsy report is still being carried out) and a 34-year-old man who was found unconscious in a medical unit cell last week. In September last year, another inmate, Lashawn Thompson, 35, died after being housed in a cell his lawyer likened to a “torture chamber”. The prisoner had spent three months in the jail’s psychiatric ward before he passed away and an independent medical review concluded that while his “untreated decompensated schizophrenia” had played a role in his death, so had dehydration, malnutrition and severe body infestation with insects, including lice and bed bugs. “We’re just letting people literally rot away there,” Sarah Flack, another local defence attorney, lamented to Insider. Read More Trump slammed for ‘racist’ Truth Social as he prepares to be booked into Fulton County Jail – live updates Trump attacks Fox News for using ‘worst’ photos of him: ‘Especially the big orange one’ Arrest, mugshot, cameras in court? What’s next for Donald Trump after his Georgia indictment Can Donald Trump still run for president after charges over 2020 election?
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The identities behind the 30 unindicted co-conspirators in Trump's Georgia case
Fulton County's sweeping indictment against former President Donald Trump and 18 additional co-defendants also includes details involving 30 "unindicted co-conspirators" -- people who Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis alleges took part in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.
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North Carolina legislature sends election overhaul bill to governor's desk
North Carolina's Republican-controlled legislature passed a bill Wednesday that would make major changes to the state's election laws, the latest in efforts by GOP-led jurisdictions across the country to rewrite election procedures and impose restrictions on voting practices.
1970-01-01 08:00
Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon found not guilty of aggravated menacing
Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon was found not guilty Thursday on an aggravated menacing charge, according to a spokesperson with the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts and court records.
1970-01-01 08:00
Lebanon's caretaker PM says economic stability at stake with stalled laws
By Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon's failure to approve a string of crucial economic laws to pull the country back
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The fall of Rudy Giuliani: How ‘America’s mayor’ tied his fate to Donald Trump and got indicted
Rudy Giuliani was feted, knighted and named Time magazine’s person of the year for his leadership as New York City mayor after the 2001 terrorist attack
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