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☆ January 6 rioters want the Supreme Court to let them off the hook from obstruction charge
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( John Fritze | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Now, the Supreme Court will consider whether the prosecutors’ interpretation of the law can be used against the rioters and whether the convictions already secured will stick. The charge at issue in the Supreme Court case stems from a law Congress enacted in response to a series of corporate accounting scandals, including the 2001 Enron debacle. The case before the Supreme Court involves only that last charge. All three defendants appealed to the Supreme Court, but the justices granted only Fischer’s case. In a filing last week at the Supreme Court in Trump’s immunity case, Smith argued the obstruction charge should stick against Trump even if Fischer wins.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jack Smith, Trump, ”, Claire Finkelstein, ” Trump, Fischer, Stormy Daniels, “, Joe Biden’s, Critics, Joseph Fischer, texted, ” Fischer, Nicholas Smith, Smith, Randall Eliason, Clarence Thomas, Ginni Thomas, Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, Eliason, Antonin Scalia, ” Eliason Organizations: CNN, Capitol, ” Prosecutors, Trump, Justice Department, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Enron, Prosecutors, Appeals, DC Circuit, George Washington University, White Locations: Pennsylvania, New York, ”, Colorado

The high court’s ruling could also affect the federal election subversion criminal case pending against former President Donald Trump, who was also charged with the obstruction crime. The law, Justice Elena Kagan said, could have been written by Congress to limit its prohibition to evidence tampering. Unless the court rules broadly in a way that undermines the charge entirely, the case against Trump may still stick even if Fischer wins his case. The Fischer case has prompted some liberal critics of the court to demand that Thomas recuse himself. “There have been many violent protests that have interfered with proceedings,” Thomas asked Prelogar, pressing on a theme he returned to repeatedly during the arguments.

Persons: Critics, ”, Donald Trump, Joseph Fischer, Trump, “, Fischer, Brett Kavanaugh, Elizabeth Prelogar, John Roberts, ’ ” Roberts, it’s, Prelogar, Kavanaugh, ‘, ” Prelogar, Neil Gorsuch, Jamaal Bowman, Bowman, Samuel Alito, ” Alito, rioter, Elena Kagan, ” Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Jeffrey Green, Jackson, Jack Smith, Department’s, Smith, Clarence Thomas, Thomas, That’s, Thomas ’, Ginni Thomas, ” Thomas, “ I’m Organizations: CNN, Justice Department, Justice, Capitol, Court, Department, Riot, ”, New York Democrat, House, Hamas, Trump Locations: Pennsylvania, Gaza, Virginia, DC, Colorado, ”

☆ Best Buy offers to screen LGBTQ nonprofit donations after conservative pressure, filing shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Matt Lavietes | Brooke Sopelsa | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

"Best Buy has partnerships with and contributes to organizations and activists that promote the practice of gender transition surgeries on minors and evangelize gender theory to minors. Why are Best Buy shareholders funding the proliferation of an ideology seeking to mutilate the reproductive organs of children before they finish puberty?" "This contentious and vast disagreement between radical gender theory activists and the general public has nothing to do with Best Buy selling electronics." "Were Best Buy to agree to such a compromise with us, we will not make a splash about it." In an email on Friday, GLAAD, one of the LGBTQ nonprofits mentioned in the SEC filing, expressed its displeasure with Best Buy.

Persons: hasn't, Carly Charlson, NCPPR, —, Ethan Peck, Peck, Marina Rizzo, Rizzo, we're, Bud Light, Bud Light's, influencer Dylan Mulvaney, Sarah Kate Ellis Organizations: Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, National Center for Public Policy Research, Best, HRC, NCPPR's Free Enterprise Institute, SAGE, GLAAD, Rights, PRIDE, NBC, Anheuser, Busch Inbev Locations: States

☆ In its latest terror response, Russia is no longer attempting to disguise the brutality of its state security
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Their state appeared designed to create an impression of aggression and brutality, showing the consequences of crossing the Russian authorities. Though the brutality of Russia's security services has long been known, never has it been so brazenly paraded, say analysts. "It was no secret that Russian security agencies torture people, mutilate suspected terrorists and generally practice all known ways of extracting information. AdvertisementThe abuse of terror suspects in Russia has been documented before. But the treatment of the Moscow terror suspects seems to mark a new milestone in the normalization of brutality by officials in Putin's Russia.

Persons: —, Mukhammadsobir Faizov, Dalerdzhon, Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, Shamsidin, Vladimir Putin, Mirzoyev, Rajabalizoda, Fariduni, mutilate, Anton Barbashin, Akram Azimov, Abror, lionized, Andrei Soldatov, Russia's Wagner, Kenneth Roth Organizations: Service, Business, CNN, Nazi, RFE, Human Rights Watch, St, New York Times, UN, Moscow ISIS, Kremlin, Human Rights Locations: Moscow, Tajikistan, Russia, St Petersburg, Ukraine, Putin's Russia

☆ She Once Won Eurovision. Now She’s on Russia’s Wanted List.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Ivan Nechepurenko | More About Ivan Nechepurenko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 after a popular uprising ousted a Russia-leaning president in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Jamala won the Eurovision song contest in 2016 with a song dedicated to the Crimean Tatars who were deported in the 1940s after they were accused of cooperating with Nazi Germany. Her ancestors were deported to Central Asia, where she was born. “It happened in 1944, and then in 2014, and now again,” she said. In 1954, the peninsula was transferred from Russian to Ukrainian authority within the Soviet Union.

Persons: Jamala, ” Jamala, Volodymyr Zelensky, ” Organizations: Tatars, Soviet Union, Ukraine — Locations: Ukrainian, Crimean, Soviet Union, Russia, Crimea, Ukraine, Kyiv, Nazi Germany, Central Asia, Russian, Soviet, Moscow

☆ Israel, It’s Time to Consider a Cease-fire - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Thomas L. Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

I am watching the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza today and thinking about one of the world leaders I’ve most admired: Manmohan Singh. The cost of occupying Gaza could overstretch the Israeli military and economy for years to come. Israel should keep the door open for a humanitarian cease-fire and prisoner exchange that will also allow Israel to pause and reflect on exactly where it is going with its rushed Gaza military operation — and the price it could pay over the long haul. Israel built an impressive society and economy, even if flawed, and Hamas took nearly all of its resources and built attack tunnels. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Twitter (@NYTopinion) and Instagram.

Persons: I’ve, Manmohan Singh, Singh, Shivshankar Menon, “, ” Menon, ”, Menon, Israel’s, It’s, Israel —, —, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu’s, Yoav Gallant, Netanyahu, ’ ’, Gaza —, Shin Bet, excusing, don’t Organizations: Pakistan Army, Abraham Accords, Economist, Hamas, United, West Bank, Shin Bet, European Union, Democratic Party, U.S . House, Bank, Gaza, New York, Facebook, Twitter Locations: Israel, Gaza, Pakistani, India, Mumbai, Pakistan, Abraham, United States, Mexico, European, U.S, Washington

[1/3] International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan speaks during an interview with Reuters about the violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories in The Hague, Netherlands October 12, 2023. The occupied Palestinian territories including the Gaza Strip fall under the jurisdiction of the ICC, meaning the court has the authority to prosecute Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that rules Gaza. Yes, we have jurisdiction wherever they're committed, including on the territory of Israel," ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said in an interview. The court has had an ongoing investigation in the occupied Palestinian territories into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity there since 2021. Asked if he had a message for the warring parties in Israel and the Palestinian territories, Khan called for reflection and calm.

Persons: Karim Khan, de Wouw, Al Quds, they're, Israel, Israel doesn't, Khan's, Khan, Anthony Deutsch, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: Criminal, Reuters, REUTERS, ICC, Al Quds Brigades, Saturday, Geneva Convention, Thomson Locations: Israel, The Hague, Netherlands, Gaza, Palestinian, Al, Palestine, China, United States, Russia, India, Egypt

☆ A 91-year-old Ukrainian woman who fled Russians twice in her lifetime cursed 'Putin's bastards' for ruining her final years
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An elderly Ukrainian woman recounted her experiences fleeing Russian invaders twice before she died. Kateryna Lihusha told The Wall Street Journal that she first fled home as a baby in 1932. Before she died, Lihusha was among the millions of Ukrainians who were displaced by the war and are now scattered throughout Europe and beyond. The first time Lihusha fled Russian invaders was as a baby in her mother's arms in 1932, the Journal reported. Lihusha died a year later of kidney disease.

Persons: Kateryna Lihusha, Lihusha, Vladimir Putin, —, Vladimir Putin's, lambasting Putin, Lihusha's, Valentyna Pryshchepa Organizations: Wall Street Journal, Service, Wall Locations: Wall, Silicon, Ukraine, Europe, Poland, Ukrainian, Horlivka, Soviet Union, Kyiv

☆ 16 Adults on the Virtues and Pleasures of Being Bad - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

They’re almost enough to make you forget the pleasures of being a little bit bad. We asked 16 writers — most of them respectable adults — about the irresponsible, immoral, indulgent things they do. Years later, we bumped into each other in public, resulting in a humiliating exposition that left everyone questioning my sanity. Can’t stop won’t stop ShopliftingWhenever I’m at the airport, I like to do a little shopping at the Free Store. Yes yes yes.

Persons: —, it’s, I’ve, Kennedy, Dan Cathy, Burger King, Jack, they’re, Chick, I’m, ”, Tell, Wranchers, pant, Henry Hill, Bob Hughes, — let’s, Kelly I, It’s, Saint Augustine, “, It’s icky, Jamieson Webster, Rinee Shah Organizations: Harvard, New York Times Locations: British, New York, “, YOLO, San Francisco

☆ More Charges Against Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( German Lopez | More About German Lopez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump is facing more criminal charges in a federal case accusing him of mishandling classified documents. The new allegations are in a revised indictment from the special counsel’s office released last night. It added three charges: attempting to “alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal evidence”; asking someone else to do so; and a new count under the Espionage Act. Prosecutors said that Trump asked the property manager of Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home, to have surveillance camera footage deleted. He told a Mar-a-Lago information technology expert that “‘the boss’ wanted the server deleted,” according to the revised indictment.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Carlos De Oliveira, ’, De Oliveira, ” Organizations: Prosecutors, Mar Locations: Florida

☆ DeSantis signs slew of anti-transgender rights measures into law, affecting bathrooms, healthcare, and pronouns
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

DeSantis signed three anti-trans bills into law ahead of an anticipated 2024 run. Though he decried LGBTQ+ material and called for "normalcy" for minors, children stood next to him onstage during the bills' signings. Another bill DeSantis signed into law Wednesday prevents doctors from offering treatments such as hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and surgery — such as breast removal — to transgender minors, even in cases where parents consent. The legislation — officially known as the Parental Rights in Education Act — was panned by LGBTQ+ rights organizations as "Don't Say Gay." But a bill DeSantis signed into law Wednesday went even further to eradicate such teachings so they only happen in the limited curriculum parameters after eighth grade.

☆ Opinion | Tucker Carlson, ‘White Men’ and the Lynch Mob Mentality
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Charles M. Blow | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

How did the people in these mobs — made up mostly of white men in the American accounts I’ve read — rev themselves up to peak barbarity? I have stared at the pictures of glassy-eyed men and boys (and sometimes women) standing beneath dangling bodies or standing above charred ones. I have read the histories of communities consumed by the desire to not only kill, but to mutilate. In 1893, Henry Smith, a Black man accused of killing a white girl, was lynched in Paris, Texas, before a crowd estimated at 10,000 people. His body was burned with “red-hot” irons “inch by inch until they were thrust against the face.” His eyes were burned out and the hot irons shoved down his throat.

A Texas woman who helped mutilate and conceal the body of Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillén pleaded guilty to federal charges Tuesday, prosecutors said. Cecily Aguilar, 24, helped the man who killed Guillén dispose of her body and lied to investigators, the U.S. attorney’s office for Western Texas said in a statement. Aguilar pleaded guilty Tuesday to a count of accessory to murder after the fact and three counts of false statement or representation, the U.S. attorney’s office said. If she is convicted, Aguilar faces up to 30 years in prison, but a judge will consider federal sentencing guidelines, the U.S. attorney's office said. Guillén's family said they were taken aback by Aguilar's decision to plead guilty.

☆ Over 200,000 trans people could face voting restrictions because of state ID laws
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Jo Yurcaba | Jo Yurcaba Is A Reporter For Nbc Out. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +12 min

Seaton showed his state ID. “So I expect that we’re going to hear more stories of trans people being harassed, whether by voters, poll workers, poll monitors or other folks who are present during the election.”Impact of voter ID laws on trans votersVoter identification laws differ widely by state. Eight of those states have strict photo ID laws. Since the 2020 election, 12 states have enacted new or stricter voter ID laws, according to VoteRiders, a nonpartisan voting rights organization. In the 15 states without ID laws, voters’ identities are usually verified by checking them against their voter registration information, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

☆ 72 de ani de la al doilea val de deportări din Basarabia
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-06 | by ( Milena Onisim | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +14 min

Astăzi se împlinesc 72 de ani de la al doilea val de deportări, cel mai mare, al celor mai buni basarabeni în înghețurile Siberiei. A fost o „operațiune” planificată din timp, scopul căreia a fost decapitarea acestei așchii de popor român din Basarabia. Astfel, soarta a peste 40000 de oameni, între care mai mult de 1/3 copii până la 17 ani, a fost pecetluită printr-o singură trăsătură de condei. În final, la 6 iulie 1949 a început al doilea val al deportărilor. Acesta a fost motivul de bază al acestei deportări.

Persons: RSSM I, Iosif Mordoveţ, Ion Țurcanu, Stalin, Moldovei, Leonid Brejnev, ., I.A . Serov, Andronovici, Ivan Ilici, Colonelul, Alexandr, Colonel, Serghei Zaharovici, Maiorul, Căpitanul, Lev Zinovievici, Leonid Iosifovici, I, Mordoveţ, Rudi G, Valeriu Dulgheru Organizations: CC, Ministerul Agriculturii, Central, Interne Locations: basarabeni, Siberiei, Basarabia, Siberia, PCUS, URSS, RSS Moldovenească, RSSM, Moldova, Moscova, Sud, Basarabiei, RSS, Kurgan, Tiumeni, Irkutsk, Habarovsk, Kazahstan, Kazahstanul de Sud, Rusia, Republicii Moldova, Corneşti, Neagra, Odesa, basarabean, Rudi, săteşti, România

☆ Istorie tristă, cu final fericit. Maidanezul găsit cu lăbuţele mutilate a fost adoptat
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-20 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Istorie cu final fericit în cazul maidanezului care a fost găsit cu lăbuţele mutilate pe o stradă din Capitală. ", a povestit fondatoarea "Insulei Speranţei", Iulia Aksionova. ", a spus fondatoarea "Insulei Speranţei", Iulia Aksionova. Pe internet, Iulia a fost abordată de o femeie din SUA, care s-a oferit să-l ajute pe "Malâş" să ducă o viaţă normală. "A apărut o posibilitate să-i punem proteze pentru labele din față, iar în spate să-i instalăm un fel de "cărucior", a menţionat fondatoarea "Insulei Speranţei", Iulia Aksionova.

Persons: cățelușul, Iulia . Eu, Iulia, Iulia Aksionova Locations: Capitală, România, SUA

☆ (foto) „Într-o profesie liberă ca a mea, ești tot timpul angajatul propriilor gânduri.” Cunoaște-o pe ilustratoarea Aliona Bereghici
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-18 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | Aleg Sa Mă Scufund În Oameni Ca În Mare | Fără Teamă Să Înot. | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

De aceea, fiți alături de noi și faceți cunoștință cu această femeie talentată și profund dedicată profesiei sale. Aliona ne-a povestit că a ales să fie ilustratoare și designeră în Moldova, lucru pe care l-a ales conștient, la fel ca profesia sa. Dar pentru început am rugat-o să se deplaseze un pic în trecut și să ne povestească cum a început totul. Apoi, își amintește cum a început de deseneze femei îmbrăcate în tot felul de haine, cel mai probabil se inspira din filme. Adevărat este că după asta a urmat o pauză, iar după opt ani, Aliona a reușit să facă prima ei carte editată intitulată „Abecedar pentru cei mici”.

Persons: Aliona Locations: Moldova

Și în ce măsură se poate vorbi despre intimitate, în condițiile în care trăiau locatarii cu pricina?.. Cum se simțeau oamenii din apartamentele sovietice strâmte și cum îi vedeau ei pe nomenclaturiștii cu apartamente spațioase? De ce „hruşciovcele” au fost mutilate în anii tranziției de anexe și mansarde slute, lipsite de orice stil și concept? Și în ce măsură apariția unor castele faraonice după 1991 e o convertire a complexului de inferioritate în unul de superioritate? Plus mai multe interviuri la temă...Așadar, cum a fost viața în „komunalkă-stalinkă-hrușciovkă” și ce „preț” au trebuit să plătească oamenii pentru acest „paradis al locuințelor gratuite de la stat”?

Persons: Iulian Ciocan, Mustață, Eugenia Crețu, Nicolae Testemițanu Organizations: Facebook, Europei, Radio Europa Liberă Locations: Occident, Chișinău, București, Republica Moldova, URSS, SUA

☆ „Hrușciovka” și Generația Z”, o nouă dezbatere marca Radio Europa Liberă, despre un trecut care pentru foarte mulți e încă prezent
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-03 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

Adăpostul a fost, dintotdeauna, una dintre necesitățile vitale ale omului, însemnând locul unde el se putea ascunde de frig, dar și, în timpurile mai moderne, își putea trăi intimitatea. Nu și în Uniunea Sovietică însă, unde această necesitate tot prin prisma intereselor sistemului a fost tratată. De ce „hruşciovcele” au fost mutilate în anii tranziției de anexe și mansarde slute, lipsite de orice stil și concept? Și în ce măsură apariția unor castele faraonice după 1991 e o convertire a complexului de inferioritate în unul de superioritate? Evenimentul este parte a proiectului multimedia „AntiNostalgia – privind spre viitor”, realizat de Radio Europa Liberă cu sprijinul Ambasadei SUA în Republica Moldova.

Persons: ., Iulian Ciocan, Sergiu Mustață, Eugenia Crețu, Nicolae Testemițanu Organizations: Radio Europa Liberă, Facebook, Europei Locations: Uniunea Sovietică, Occident, Chișinău, București, Republica Moldova, URSS, SUA

☆ Masacru în Mozambic: Cel puţin 20 de adolescenţi şi bărbaţi au fost găsiţi decapitaţi
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-05 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Corpurile mutilate a cel puţin cinci adulţi şi 15 adolescenţi au fost găsite luni, dispersate într-o pădure din districtul Muidumbe. Insurgenţi islamişti care acţionează în regiune au mai atacat, devastat şi ars mai multe sate în acest sector şi în trecut. „Poliţia a fost atenţionată de locuitori care au găsit cadavrele în pădure”, a spus un oficial din districtul vecin Mueda, care a dorit să îşi păstreze anonimatul. „Este vorba de tineri veniţi să participe la o ceremonie de iniţiere, înconjuraţi de rudele mai în vârstă”, a adăugat el, potrivit Agerpres. Ei atacă sate cu scopul de a răspândi teroare şi în încercarea de a instaura un califat.

Organizations: Agerpres, Islamic Locations: Muidumbe, Mueda, Mozambic, Cabo, SUA

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