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WASHINGTON — Three Democratic congressmen unveiled legislation Friday to rename a federal prison in Miami after former President Donald Trump. The bill — offered by Reps. Gerry Connolly, of Virginia; Jared Moskowitz, of Florida; and John Garamendi, of California — comes in response to a measure introduced by a group of House Republicans to rename […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is demanding a new judge just days before his hush-money criminal trial is set to begin, rehashing longstanding grievances with the current judge in a long-shot, eleventh-hour bid to disrupt and delay the case. Trump’s lawyers — echoing his recent social media complaints — urged Manhattan Judge […]

(Bloomberg) — Ontario, Canada’s most popular province for international students, will see a smaller decline in the number of new study permits than previous estimates. Most Read from Bloomberg The province will have a 41% reduction in study permits from 2023 levels, according to new government estimates released Friday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government earlier […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Indiana State Police surprised a tenant in the 2100 block of Kopf Lane in rural West Lafayette earlier this week with a search warrant and then troopers swarmed the detached garage. “Some case from 2016 is all I know,” the tenant said when the Journal & Courier asked about the state […]

A federal judge has dismissed most of the defendants in Johnston County school board member Ronald Johnson’s lawsuit over losing his job as a Smithfield Police detective and being indicted on criminal charges. Johnson filed a federal lawsuit in June charging that he was the victim of a conspiracy by multiple groups to remove him […]

By Koh Gui Qing NEW YORK, April 5 (Reuters) – Don Hankey, the billionaire businessman whose company Knight Specialty Insurance provided the $175 million bond that Donald Trump posted in his New York civil fraud case, told Reuters that the fee his firm charged the former U.S. President was low. Hankey, who backed Trump as […]

Come Monday, April 8, a wide swath of the United States will witness the celestial event of the decade when a total solar eclipse in Aries will momentarily blot out the sun and render the world in eerie shades of gray. Eclipses have long been associated with fate, reversals of fortune and points of no […]

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — State security services in Moldova’s Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria said Friday that a drone attacked a military unit close to the border with Ukraine, causing minor damage to a radar station but no casualties. The incident occurred in the region of Rabnita, about 6 kilometers (about 4 miles) from the […]

A Columbia police officer has been suspended after a gun incident that injured his 4-year-old son, the department announced. Peter Tidot was arrested by the North Miami Beach Police Department earlier this week and is facing charges, including child neglect causing great bodily harm and culpable negligence. Tidot’s 4-year-old son was able to get a […]

House Republicans leading the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden were dealt their latest blow this week when the CIA informed them that an allegation they pushed was false, the latest example of House Republicans citing questionable information to make a serious claim. Without the evidence or the votes to impeach the president, at this […]

Barron Trump took centre stage at Mar-a-Lago as Right-wing commentators, businessmen and an MMA fighter gathered at the Florida resort. The 6ft 7in 18-year-old, the youngest son of former US president Donald Trump, wore a dark suit and blue tie as he towered over the guests. In one photograph, he is flanked by businessmen Patrick […]