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☆ Judge in Trump Documents Case Rejected Suggestions to Step Aside
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Charlie Savage | Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Shortly after Judge Aileen M. Cannon drew the assignment in June 2023 to oversee former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case, two more experienced colleagues on the federal bench in Florida urged her to pass it up and hand it off to another jurist, according to two people briefed on the conversations. The judges who approached Judge Cannon — including the chief judge in the Southern District of Florida, Cecilia M. Altonaga — each asked her to consider whether it would be better if she were to decline the high-profile case, allowing it to go to another judge, the two people said. But Judge Cannon, who was appointed by Mr. Trump, wanted to keep the case and refused the judges’ entreaties. Her assignment drew attention because she has scant trial experience and had previously shown unusual favor to Mr. Trump by intervening in a way that helped him in the criminal investigation that led to his indictment, only to be reversed in a sharply critical rebuke by a conservative appeals court panel. The extraordinary and previously undisclosed effort by Judge Cannon’s colleagues to persuade her to step aside adds another dimension to the increasing criticism of how she has gone on to handle the case.

Persons: Aileen M, Cannon, Donald J, Trump’s, Judge Cannon —, Cecilia M, Altonaga —, Judge Cannon, Trump, Judge Cannon’s Organizations: Southern District of, Mr Locations: Florida, Southern District, Southern District of Florida

☆ New York Times: 2 federal judges urged Aileen Cannon to step down from Trump case
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Two federal judges in south Florida urged District Judge Aileen Cannon to forgo overseeing the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump when she was first assigned the classified documents case in 2023, according to a report from The New York Times. Cannon is still overseeing the case, which has seen a multitude of delays and is not yet scheduled to go to trial. Altonaga’s chambers declined to comment on the report to CNN. The Times did not identify the second judge who reportedly contacted Cannon. Critics of the judge say that she has slowed the pace of the case to a near standstill, making a pre-election trial essentially out of reach.

Persons: Aileen Cannon, Donald Trump, Cecilia M, Altonaga, Cannon, Jack Smith, –, Trump, Jack Organizations: CNN, The New York Times, Times, Attorneys Locations: Florida

☆ Trump’s immunity case is another reminder that all roads now lead to the Supreme Court
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

CNN —The Supreme Court’s hearing Thursday on former President Donald Trump’s immunity claim will underline a historic power shift. Trump’s relationship has been complex with the court’s conservative majority – despite his instrumental role in establishing it. In sharp contrast, the court’s conservative majority has exerted its influence year after year, without interruption. “There is just much more intense vetting of Supreme Court justices,” said Pierson. “You can tell by the results of the court decisions over the past several years that it is fundamentally different.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, “, ”, Jeff Shesol, Franklin D, John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Paul Pierson, –, Barack Obama’s, Roberts, Joe Biden, Trump, they’ve, Michael McConnell, Jack Smith, Gore, outvoted, George W, Bush, MAGA, Michael Waldman, ” Waldman, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Nixon, Waldman, ” McConnell, McConnell, Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, David Souter, George H.W, Pierson, Obama, Brett Kavanaugh, Barrett, Cecilia Munoz, Biden, “ It’s, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Clinton, ” Shesol, FDR, Shesol Organizations: CNN, White House, GOP, Republican Party, Trump, Republicans, University of California, Democratic, House, White, Constitutional, Center, Stanford University Law School, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law, Senate, Republican, Federalist Society, Alabama, Electoral, Citizens, Constitutional Law Center, New, Great Society Locations: Berkeley, Manhattan, Florida, “, George H.W . Bush, Shelby County

☆ When an Artist Dies, Who Owns Her Story?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Kate Dwyer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It was an evening in late January, and Raquel Cecilia Mendieta was dining at the Parador, the 12th-century monastery-turned-hotel where she was staying while she installed artwork for a new survey of Ana Mendieta, the famous Cuban-born performance artist — and Ms. Mendieta’s maternal aunt — at a nearby museum. It had been a long day of assembling logs, soil, pine cones and branches into a reimagining of the artist’s “Untitled: Silueta Series” inside the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, and her dinner companions — her 15-year-old daughter, Anabella, and Grace Hong, the assistant director at Galerie Lelong, which represents the Ana Mendieta estate — were still jet-lagged after traveling from New York. But they jumped when, after plates of bacalao and glasses of white wine had been cleared, Ms. Mendieta checked her phone and exclaimed, “Oh my god!”

Persons: Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, Ana Mendieta, —, Castilla y, Anabella, Grace Hong, Mendieta, “ Organizations: Arte Contemporáneo, Castilla y León, Galerie Lelong Locations: Cuban, New York

VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — Chilean prosecutors on Wednesday released more details about the death of former President Sebastian Piñera, saying he drowned after the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a lake. Piñera died on Tuesday after a flight over Lake Ranco, more than 560 miles (900 kilometers) south of Santiago. As more details of his death were released, tributes hailing him as a champion of democracy continued to pour in. The public can start paying their last respects to Piñera on Wednesday night, with a state funeral to be held on Friday. Piñera served two terms — from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022.

Persons: Sebastian Piñera, Piñera, Gabriel Boric, Cecilia Morel, Alberto Espina, Boric, Piñera’s, Jimmy Sánchez, “, ” Sánchez, Augusto Pinochet Organizations: DEL, —, Wednesday Locations: Chile, Ranco, Santiago, Valdivia, Piñera, American

WASHINGTON (AP) — To his supporters, Alejandro Mayorkas is a thoughtful, driven secretary — a “Boy Scout” — who brings a prosecutor's tenacity and his personal understanding of the immigrant experience in America to running his sprawling agency. But it is the department’s role in immigration that has made Mayorkas a target of impeachment. Mayorkas said his immigrant and refugee background mean that he brings an intense patriotism to the job. Citizenship and Immigration Service, Mayorkas put in place a program giving protection from deportation to migrants brought to the border as children. Since taking the job as DHS secretary, Mayorkas has been subject to often hostile rhetoric over the administration's handling of the border and immigration.

Persons: —, Alejandro Mayorkas, Ali, he’ll, Tom Warrick, ” Warrick, Joe Biden, Biden, Mayorkas, Donald Trump, “, ”, didn’t, Cecilia Munoz, Obama, Munoz, Barack Obama, “ He’s, Mark Green of, impeaching, William Belknap, Ulysses Grant, Brandon Judd, Trump, Judd, Ahilan Arulanantham, Arulanantham, Angela Kelley Organizations: WASHINGTON, Department of Homeland Security, Republicans, Atlantic Council, “, DHS, Republican, Associated Press, Mayorkas, White, . Citizenship, Immigration Service, Democratic, Trump, House Homeland Security, National Border Patrol Council, Security, Border Patrol, Biden, Center for Immigration Law, UCLA School of Law, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Congress Locations: America, U.S, Mexico, United States, Washington, Ukraine, California, Cuba, Los Angeles, Miami, Mark Green of Tennessee

☆ Carnage in the bond market again with benchmark ETF down 10% on year to lowest since 2011
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Jesse Pound | In Jesse-Pound | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Treasury yields are spiking to levels not seen in over 15 years, causing sell-offs in many of the market's biggest bond funds. The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) closed at $89.18 on Monday, which was its lowest close since Feb. 10, 2011, according to FactSet. The Fed's target interest rate is already above 5%, as are short-term Treasury yields. But the long-term decline in bond yields began roughly two decades before that. That trend may finally have reached its turning point, Jim Grant, founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, said Tuesday on CNBC's " Squawk Box ."

Persons: Bruno Braizinha, Braizinha, Goldman Sachs, Cecilia Mariotti, Mariotti, Ajay Rajadhyaksha, Jonathan Krinsky, Jim Grant, Grant, BTIG's Krinsky Organizations: Treasury Bond ETF, iShares, Aggregate Bond, Treasury, Bank of America, Barclays, Federal

Before he was fired by Pope Francis over another issue, Becciu was one of the most powerful men in the Vatican. The Vatican sold the building last year, taking an estimated loss of about 140 million euros. The others on trial include several Vatican employees and two outside brokers who the Vatican has accused of extortion. He asked the court to confiscate 172 million euros of Mincione's assets and 71 million euros of Torzi's. At the time of Becciu's firing, he was also stripped of what the Vatican then said were his "rights associated with being a cardinal".

Persons: Becciu, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Pope Francis, Alessandro Diddi, Diddi, Raffaele Mincione, Rene Bruelhart, Tommaso Di Ruzza, Cecilia Marogna, Phil Pullella, Andrew Heavens, Toby Chopra, Alison Williams Organizations: VATICAN CITY, Vatican, of State, Vatican's Financial Intelligence, Thomson Locations: London, Vatican, Swiss, Mali, al Qaeda

☆ $7,200 for Every Student: Arizona’s Ultimate Experiment in School Choice
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Sarah Mervosh | More About Sarah Mervosh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Cecilia Maes, the superintendent of Alhambra Elementary School District, near Great Hearts Christos’s Phoenix location, has no shortage of ideas of what she could do with more money: Give raises to teachers. “In public schools, we are committed to every child who walks through our doors, regardless of the challenges,” Dr. Maes said, echoing critics who say that children with the fewest resources and highest needs tend to be left out of the school choice frenzy. Patrick Wolf, a University of Arkansas professor who studies school choice and has supported vouchers, said that expanding eligibility “pulls in a broader customer base,” which builds political support. Steve Perez, a 38-year-old mortgage loan officer who says he is politically independent, will use vouchers to send four children to Great Hearts Christos. “What parent wouldn’t,” he asked, “given this opportunity, choose what they believe to be a superior education if they can?”

Persons: Cecilia Maes, ” Dr, Maes, Katie Hobbs, Patrick Wolf, Steve Perez, ” Organizations: Elementary School District, Hire, Democrat, Republican Legislature, University of Arkansas Locations: Hearts

☆ Bank of America announced a new class of managing directors — here are all 87 names in corporate and investment banking
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Alex Morrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Bank of America has announced a new class of 360 managing directors. Insider has the list of the 87 new MDs for the firm's Global Corporate and Investment Bank. It's managing director promotion day at Bank of America. On Thursday, the class of 360 managing directors across the firm were announced internally, up 15% from the 314 promoted in 2022.Insider has the list of the 87 employees who were promoted in the firm's Global Corporate and Investment Bank — the division responsible for dealmaking. That's down 17% from 105 new MDs last year in the division, likely a reflection of a difficult year in investment banking across Wall Street that saw revenues drop in excess of 50%.

☆ As Wall Street strikes a bearish tone, these global stocks with margin growth could be safe bets
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Zavier Ong | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

After what has been a tumultuous year for stocks, many investors are hoping that markets are at a turning point. Defensive stocks ArcelorMittal , the world's largest steelmaker, made CNBC's screen. The stock is rated buy by nearly 60% of analysts covering it, who give it potential upside of 26.3%. The company is expected to grow its margin by 17.9% next year and analysts give it potential upside of 23.4%. Analysts give the stock potential upside of 34.8%.

☆ Goldman says stay defensive on stocks into next year, the bottom is not yet in
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The S & P 500 has fallen 15.5% this year. The Wall Street firm set its year-end 2023 target at 4,000 on the S & P 500, just below its Friday's close of 4,026.12. For stocks, Goldman advised clients to buy beneficiaries of slowing inflation and those companies with resilient margins, while avoiding unprofitable long-duration stocks. Goldman economists assigned a 35% probability of a recession in the U.S., but think any downturn would likely be mild. "Housing markets, Italian sovereign risk, cryptos, private markets and shadow banking are likely to remain a concern," Goldman said.

☆ Vatican court hears cardinal's secretly taped phone call with pope
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Philip Pullella | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS/File PhotoVATICAN CITY, Nov 24 (Reuters) - A court at a Vatican corruption trial on Thursday heard a secretly recorded telephone call between the main defendant, embattled Cardinal Angelo Becciu, and Pope Francis. The money was sent to a company she had set up in Slovenia and she received some in cash, the court has been told. He told the court how he was ordered to make payments he considered unusual. The trial revolves around the purchase of a building in London by the Secretariat of State. The 10 defendants include former Vatican employees and Italian middle men who the prosecution says extorted the Vatican.

☆ Cecilia Morohai, profesoară de chimie în satul Ștefănești: „Am devenit mai încrezătoare în forțele mele și pot motiva și elevii să-mi urmeze calea” — Moldova.org
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-08 | by ( Natalia Graur | ) www.moldova.org time to read: +7 min

De sărbători și în vacanțe revedeam și toate rudele și vecinii care munceau peste hotare. Speră să poată merge la mare și să vină și în Moldova după ce se vaccinează cu a doua doză. Ceea ce este diferit, în comparație cu perioada dinainte de pandemie, este că lumea e mai atentă la igienă și distanță socială. „Dacă noi suntem calmi, organizați și nu ne stresăm, și copila e la fel”, spune Rodica. În fiecare an merge în Moldova, de obicei alege perioadele în care e și vreo nuntă sau cumătria cuiva din rude sau prieteni.

Persons: Tatiana Buianina, Tatiana, Irina Dicusară, Irina, Împreună, Irina . Totuși, Nico, Rodica . Ea, Rodica, Rodicăi, Moldovei Tatiana Buianina Locations: Moscova, Italia, Moldova, Suedia, Odesa, Istanbul, Suediei, Copenhaga, Danemarca, Atena, Roma, Statele Unite, Florida, Brazilia, Bulgaria, Grecia, Moldovei, Canare, Gran Canaria, România, Eforie Nord, Ucraina

☆ Vlad Filat: Moldova trebuie să-și continue drumul spre UE în pofida „cuplului Voronin-Dodon”
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-17 | by ( ) www.ipn.md time to read: +2 min

Vlad Filat: Moldova trebuie să-și continue drumul spre UE în pofida „cuplului Voronin-Dodon”„Republica Moldova trebuie să-și continue drumul spre Uniunea Europeană în pofida mediocrității pe care cuplul Voronin-Dodon, manevrat din umbră de Plahotniuc, o promovează sub masca mesajelor geopolitice. Suntem și noi o insulă a latinității și locul nostru este împreună cu ai noștri, în UE unde contează forța dreptului, nu dreptul forței!”, a scris pe pagina sa de Facebook ex-premierul Vlad Filat, citat de IPN. Ex-premierul a calificat activitatea electorală a celor doi lideri ai Blocului Comuniștilor și Socialiștilor drept „asalt al minciunii și imposturii”:„Asalt al minciunii și al imposturii ar putea fi definită activitatea electorală a cuplului Dodon-Voronin în această campanie. Activității actuale și trecute a celor doi, Vlad Filat contrapune perioada „post-Voronin”:„Fără a idealiza activitatea Guvernului pe care l-am condus, trebuie spus că în perioada celor doi „corifei” Republica Moldova a ajuns în prag de faliment și o izolare rar întâlnită pe continentul european. Drept confirmare, ex-premierul publică și o imagine din 24 ianuarie 2011, în care Cecilia Malmstrom, Comisarul european pentru afaceri interne de atunci înmânează Planul de Acțiuni privind liberalizarea vizelor.

Persons: Vlad Filat, Voronin, Dodon, Plahotniuc, Igor Dodon, Cecilia Malmstrom Organizations: Uniunea Europeană, Facebook, Comuniștilor, Socialiștilor Locations: Moldova, UE, Republica Moldova, Dodon

☆ Ungaria aprobă încă două vaccinuri neautorizate de către organismele de reglementare din UE
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-23 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Ungaria a emis aprobarea pentru încă două vaccinuri COVID-19 din afara programului comun de achiziţii al Uniunii Europene, au declarat luni oficialii de la Budapesta. Autoritatea de reglementare a medicamentelor din Ungaria a acordat aprobarea de urgenţă pentru Convidecia, un vaccin produs de compania chineză CanSino Biologics, şi vaccinului Covishield din India, a anunţat medicul Cecilia Muller, şefa Centrului Naţional de Sănătate. Covishield, versiunea indiană a vaccinului AstraZeneca, este produsă de Serum Institute of India, cel mai mare producător de vaccinuri din lume. Ţara a fost prima din UE care a început să utilizeze vaccinuri din Rusia şi China, iar guvernul ungar a criticat lansarea vaccinului în blocul comunitar. În ultima săptămână, Ungaria a înregistrat cea mai rapidă rată de deces pe cap de locuitor din lume.

Persons: Cecilia Muller, Muller . Convidecia, Muller, Johns Hopkins Organizations: Uniunii Europene, UE Locations: Ungaria, Budapesta, India, Moderna, Oxford, China, Rusia, Pakistan, Mexic, Covishield, UE

☆ În Occident nu există corupție? Să fim serioși!
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-02 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +31 min

Dar există și corupție. 2016 în mass-media se discuta pe larg «Panama guest», fiind publicate date despre o companie juridică offshore «Mossack Fonseca». 150 mii de dolari, a fost numită ambasador în Elveția, iar Jane Stetson, care a acumulat 2 mln.430 mii de dolari – ambasador în Franța. Timoti Brous a adunat peste 500 mii de dolari și a obținut funcția de ambasador în Olanda. Ea crea subcontractori imaginari și autorități portuare false pentru a prosti FMM și a le obliga să plătească pentru servicii inexistente ».

Persons: Andrei Manoilo, Macron, Donald Trump, David, David Cameron, Cameron, ., Robert Saviano, Eu, Franței Claude Guehan, Michel Gaudin, Franței Nicolas Sarkozy, Sarkozy, Jacgues Chirac, Muammar Gaddafi, Nicolas Sarkozy, Gaddafi, . Sarkozy, Pascal Dahl, Cecilia Malmstrom, Petr Necas Yan, Robert Oulds, Giovanni Kesler, OLAF, Klaus Welle, Friedrich Schneider, Universitatea Iohannes Kepler, Jean Claude Juncker, Waschingtonul, George Buch, Barak Obama, Clinton, Obama, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Goldman, Bill, Hillary, SUA Bill Clinton, George Țunis, Azit, Jane Stetson, Timoti Brous, Colleen Bell, Obama . Ea, Denis Bauer, Kennedy Caroline, Kennedy, Michelle Obama, John Barox, Louisiana Edwin Edwards, Texas Abel Limas, Tom Delay, Dick Cheney, Ken Buck, Buck, Rand Paul, Sam, Elisabeth Warren, Leonard Glenn Francis, Glenn, Francis, Ea, С . Organizations: Uniunea Europeană, londonezi, Wall Street, Uniunii Europene, Agenția, corupți, NATO, Europene, European, Universitatea Iohannes, IKEA, Amazon, Pepsi, Universitatea Indiana, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, UBS, Fiscal, canadiană, Universitatea Princeton ., Forbes, SUA, Partidului republican Locations: Occident, Europa, America, Moldova, SUA, Franța, Statelor Unite, Kuweit, Pentagon, Panama, Islandei, Regatul Unit, Grecia, Nigeria, Italiei, Britanie, Britanii, Anglia, Londra, New York, Britaniei, Regatului Unit, Franței, Libia, Marsilia, UE, Cehia, Bruges, Austria, RFG, Luxemburgului, americană, Alaska, Mississippi, Washington, Rusia, Norvegia, Elveția, Olanda, Ungaria, Belgia, Japonia, Crystal, Texas, muribund Detroit, Kveim, Maryland, Louisiana, Irak, Congres, republican, Massachusetts, Senat, Asia

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