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☆ Why UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called an election he’s expected to lose
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Luke Mcgee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

London CNN —When British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Wednesday that the United Kingdom would hold a general election on July 4, many observers wondered: why now? British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech calling for a general election, outside 10 Downing Street, in London on May 22. Their time in office didn’t begin formidably. In 2010, after 13 years of Labour rule, David Cameron won the general election but didn’t win a majority in parliament. Eventually, the Conservative Party had enough of the chaos and put Sunak in charge as a safe pair of hands.

Persons: Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer, Sunak, Maja Smiejkowska, he’s, we’ve, ’ ” Sunak, didn’t, David Cameron, Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Johnson, Henry Nicholls, Liz Truss, –, Starmer Organizations: London CNN, British, Conservative Party, Labour Party, Labour, International Monetary Fund, CNN, IMF, Liberal Democrats, Conservative, Vale, Glamorgan Brewery, Getty Locations: United Kingdom, London, Downing, Glamorgan, Barry, Wales, AFP, Rwanda, Sunak

☆ House GOP embroiled in escalating primary feuds with majority on line
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Manu Raju | Melanie Zanona | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

For more on House Republican primary infighting, watch “Inside Politics with Manu Raju” on Sunday at 8 a.m. Washington CNN —GOP Rep. Don Bacon has had it with the far-right of his conference. Now McCarthy allies in the House GOP Conference are considering giving a boost to Aaron Dimmock, the retired Navy officer facing off against Gaetz in the August 20 primary. And while the outcomes in most of these primary races won’t impact the GOP’s efforts to keep the majority, they will shape the makeup of the next House Republican Conference and how they pursue their agenda. Several of Gonzales' colleagues in the House are backing a GOP primary challenger in his race for reelection.

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For the second time as governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem has been banished from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Noem’s mention of the gang, he said, was the first time he had heard of it or its possible presence on the reservation. In 2018, as a Representative in the South Dakota Legislature, she proposed legislation that would allow federal authorities to arrest people on tribal lands for state crimes. Tony Mangan, a spokesperson for the South Dakota Attorney General’s office, said the Ghost Dancers are affiliated with a motorcycle gang called the Bandidos. Around the country, tribal nations adopted the practice, and in South Dakota it became part of one of America’s most infamous massacres.

Persons: Kristi Noem, ”, Frank Star, Donald Trump, Noem, Ian Fury, didn’t, Tony Mangan, Mangan, ” Noem, Bull, Sitting Bull, Trump, Nick Estes, “, hasn’t, ___ Graham Brewer, Trisha Ahmed, @TrishaAhmed15 Organizations: Oglala Sioux Tribe, Oglala Sioux, Republican, South Dakota Legislature, South Dakota Attorney, U.S, Pipeline, Oglala, Oglala Sioux Tribal, American Civil Liberties Union of, American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota, Trump, Associated Press, America Statehouse News Initiative, America Locations: South Dakota, Pine, Oglala, Texas, U.S, Mexico, American, Rapid City, resiliency, Sioux, Oglala Sioux, American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota, Lower Brule Sioux, States, Connecticut

☆ CNN Poll: Trump’s lead over Haley widens to double digits in New Hampshire
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Jennifer Agiesta | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —The race for the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary appears to be former President Donald Trump’s to lose, according to a new CNN poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire following Trump’s 30-point win in Iowa’s caucuses last week. Trump holds 50% support among likely Republican primary voters in the Granite State, while his closest competitor, former South Carolina Gov. Likely Republican and Democratic primary voters were identified through survey questions about their intention to vote. Results among 1,210 likely Republican primary voters have an error margin of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points. Results among 838 likely Democratic primary voters have an error margin of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Trump, Nikki Haley, Haley, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, “, Joe Biden, Biden, ” Biden, Dean Phillips, Marianne Williamson, Phillips, Biden hasn’t Organizations: CNN, New Hampshire Republican, University of New, Republican, South Carolina Gov, Trump, Florida Gov, GOP, Democratic, Biden, Democratic National, Minnesota, CNN New, University of New Hampshire Survey Locations: University of New Hampshire, Granite State, New Hampshire, Trump, Mexico, Russia, Ukraine, CNN New Hampshire, Hampshire

CHICAGO (AP) — As temperatures hover below freezing in Chicago, dozens of asylum-seekers are staying in the lower level of a library until the bitter cold gripping much of the country lifts. But after that, Chicago’s plans for offering immediate shelter to the growing number of migrants arriving in the nation’s third-largest city remain murky. Last week, it was parked city buses. “The city’s favorite word for everything is ‘temporary,’” said Vianney Marzullo, a volunteer who has helped migrants staying at O’Hare International Airport. Marylin Gonzalez, 34, slept on the buses last week along with her husband and three children, ages 15, 16 and 18.

Persons: ’ ”, Vianney Marzullo, “, Greg Abbott, Brandon Johnson, Abbott, Johnson, ” Johnson, J.B, Pritzker, Marylin Gonzalez, Gonzalez, ”, Harold, Angel Alberto Chourio Organizations: CHICAGO, Chicago, O’Hare International, Texas Gov, Illinois Gov, O’Hare, Emergency Management, Harold Washington Library Center, Associated Press Locations: Chicago, New York, Denver, Democratic, Big, Texas, Venezuela

That is true both for the two countries at the national level, and for state-level engagement. California has a steady and long working relationship with China. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican governor, started the formal relationship with China over climate cooperation a decade ago, Jaros said. State regulators also have banned the sale of most new gas-powered cars in California by 2035. Meanwhile, the California family of a Christian pastor who has been detained in China since 2006 said Newsom should take any possible opportunity to argue for his release.

Persons: Gavin Newsom’s, Xi Jinping, Joe Biden, Xi, China “, ”, Alex Wang, Trump, Kyle Jaros, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jaros, Democrat Jerry Brown, “, Wang, Newsom, he’s, Jinping, Alfred Wu, David Lin’s Organizations: —, China -, U.S, Economic Cooperation, UCLA, University of Notre Dame, Republican, Democrat, UCLA’s Emmett Institute, Democratic, National University of Singapore Locations: BANGKOK, — California, China, San Francisco, Asia, California, Hong Kong, U.S, Beijing, Taiwan

ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Police arrested two people, including a former professional baseball player, Friday in Nevada in connection to a Lake Tahoe-area attack that left a man dead and his wife in critical condition. Authorities say they knew each other and the victims — Robert Gary Spohr and his wife, Wendy Wood. Spohr, 70, was killed and Wood survived the shooting at their home in an unincorporated community in California off the shore of Lake Tahoe, the Placer County Sheriff's Office said. “Today, justice was served,” Placer County Sheriff Wayne Woo said in a statement. Police records don't list an attorney, and a spokesperson with the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said the department has no information on her representation.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — James Harden vowed he would never play for a franchise run by 76ers team president Daryl Morey. Coach Nick Nurse, in his first season after five years with Toronto, is preparing for games without Harden. Harden even declined in June 2022 his $47.4 million option, saying he wanted to give the 76ers flexibility to improve their roster and compete for a championship. He signed a deal worth slightly over $68 million, paying him about $33 million last season with a $35 million player option for this season. The player known as The Beard instead picked up his $35.6 million option with the 76ers for this season, with the desire to force a trade.

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CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Philadelphia 76ers star James Harden remained steadfast that his fractured relationship with the front office can't be repaired. But he did attend training camp and continues to practice with the 76ers in the wake of the disgruntled guard's trade demand. “I’m here putting work in. "You can say whatever you wanna say about me, but you don’t get this far in this league without putting work in. So whenever things fail or things don’t go how you feel they should go, you just continue to work, and that’s it.”___

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Ron DeSantis’ exclusive interview with NBC News’ Dasha Burns covered a wide range of topics, including two issues dogging DeSantis on the campaign trail: abortion and his state’s new Black history standards. And although he’s pledged to be a “pro-life president,” he’s broken with some others in the GOP field and has not embraced a federal ban on abortions. “I think the reality is that that basically means the states are going to have primary control over it,” DeSantis said. Asked if he would veto a national abortion ban, DeSantis said, “We will be a pro-life president, and we will support pro-life policies. DeSantis defended the standards, saying “it’s very clear that they’re showing that this was a grave injustice, and it contradicted the founding principles of our country.”“Those standards were not political at all.

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☆ Fact Check-Posts misidentify Atlanta jail inmate who died after being ‘eaten alive by insects’
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A tweet reads, in part, “Lashawn Thompson (below) died after being devoured by insects and brutalized for 3 months in a filthy cell in the Atlanta jail” (archive.ph/X22vW). He died at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta in September 2022. A search for the photo on the right leads to news reports of a separate incident at an Indiana jail in 2021. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office didn’t respond to Reuters requests for comment. The posts share photos of inmates who died in separate incidents at jails in Atlanta and Indiana.

That man was the military commandant of Balakliia, a key figure in Russia’s six-month occupation of the eastern Ukrainian town. Town residents knew the commandant only by his call sign of “Granit,” the Russian word for granite, as Reuters reported in an October investigation into Moscow’s withdrawal from the town. One of the documents listed Valery Sergeyevich Buslov as among the Russian officers present in Balakliia, stating his role was military commandant. He has served as the Kaliningrad garrison’s military commandant, responsible for maintaining discipline among troops and sailors stationed there, according to a 2019 military newspaper article. By May, the military commandant had arrived in Balakliia, according to Oleksandr, one of the two female residents and another local woman.

New York CNN —A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office for a temporary restraining order to stop a House Judiciary Committee subpoena of former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil said Pomerantz must appear for a deposition as the House panel investigates Bragg’s recent indictment of former President Donald Trump. Bragg’s office says it will appeal. During the hearing, an attorney for Bragg’s office argued – unsuccessfully – that Pomerantz ignored cautions from the DA before publishing the book, so the district attorney’s office should not be penalized. The clash between federal and state powers began in March when Jordan asked Bragg’s office for documents and communications after news organizations reported that Bragg’s office was moving closer to seeking to indict Trump.

☆ Montana Lawmakers Approve Statewide Ban on TikTok
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Meghan Bobrowsky | Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Montana lawmakers on Friday approved a first-of-its-kind bill to ban TikTok across the state, setting the stage for future court battles that could determine the fate in the U.S. of the popular, Chinese-owned social media app. The Montana House voted 54-43 to send the bill to Gov. Greg Gianforte ’s desk. The governor’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on whether or when he might sign the bill.

☆ Justice Clarence Thomas’s Vacations Prompt Calls for Stronger Supreme Court Ethics Rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Lindsay Wise | Jan Wolfe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Sen. Dick Durbin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pledged unspecified action on Supreme Court ethics rules. WASHINGTON—The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee promised to take action on strengthening Supreme Court ethics rules, responding to a report that Justice Clarence Thomas accepted lavish vacations and private-jet travel paid for by a billionaire friend. “The highest court in the land shouldn’t have the lowest ethical standards,” said Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), adding that the committee would take unspecified action in response. Mr. Durbin’s office didn’t immediately respond to questions about what steps the committee might take.

☆ Clarence Thomas’s Vacations Prompt Calls for Stronger Ethics Rules for Supreme Court
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Lindsay Wise | Jan Wolfe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Howard Schultz declined Bernie Sanders’ request to testify before Congress
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Dayun Park | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Howard Schultz has declined Bernie Sanders’ request to testify before Congress. While Starbucks Workers United has sought better pay and benefits, the company has apparently put efforts into retaliating against workers who tried to unionize. About 100 Starbucks stores across the U.S staged a three-day strike in December, following a one-day strike in November, to protest unfair labor practices. One of the main reasons Starbucks workers organized is to hold billionaire executives, like Schultz, accountable for their actions,” Starbucks Workers United said in a statement to CNN. A total of 338 Starbucks stores have voted to unionize since 2021, 282 have been certified across 36 states and 56 didn’t get certified.

Downing Street referred requests for comment to the business ministry, which oversees Companies House, Britain’s public registry of companies. And, in most cases, if foreign companies purchased the property before 1999 or hold UK property in a trust they don’t need to publicly disclose the beneficial owners. The Cyprus-based company, A. Corp Trustee Limited, wasn’t listed on Britain’s new property register as of Tuesday morning. A listing on the UK’s new property register for Hanley Limited identifies the beneficial owner as a Swiss company called Pomerol Capital Sa. Ravellot also wasn’t on the new property register.

☆ Driver in California cliff crash that injured his two young children and his wife moved from hospital to jail
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

MONTARA, Calif. — The driver of a car that plunged 250 feet off a treacherous cliff in northern California, injuring his two young children and his wife, was released from the hospital and jailed on suspicion of attempted murder and child abuse, authorities said Friday. The office didn’t indicate when he was released from the hospital. The Pasadena man was seriously injured when the Tesla sedan went over the cliff at Devils Slide, along the Pacific Coast Highway on Jan. 2. Firefighters were forced to cut the family, including Patel’s 41-year-old wife, 7-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son, out of the wreckage. Patel was later arrested after California Highway Patrol investigators “developed probable cause to believe this incident was an intentional act,” the agency said.

How Putin and Friends Stalled Climate Progress A handful of powerful world leaders rallied around Russia and undercut global cooperation. Mr. Putin has gained from this as the increasingly autocratic Mr. Xi finds common cause with the Kremlin. “Much depends on whether authoritarian leaders perceive climate action to be in their self-interest.”Though their actions help Mr. Putin, their track records on climate are mixed. Mr. Xi called Mr. Putin his “best friend.”He was returning the favor from a year earlier, when Mr. Putin hosted Mr. Xi at the Grand Kremlin Palace and awarded him one of Russia’s highest medals for foreign dignitaries. At a news conference with Mr. Putin, Mr. Bolsonaro thanked his “dear friend,” saying that Mr. Putin had offered him support when other world leaders were criticizing his Amazon policy.

☆ Hand vote count on hold after Nevada Supreme Court calls it illegal
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Nye County officials and their lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment. She said “no alternative hand-counting process may proceed” until she and the county can determine if there are any feasible alternatives that would comply with the Supreme Court order. After counting 900 ballots Wednesday, Kampf said his goal was to count about 2,000 ballots per day. While the state Supreme Court allowed the count to go ahead, it blocked a plan to livestream the counting, ruling that video can only be released only after polls close Nov. 8. Trump won 69% of the vote in Nye County although President Joe Biden won Nevada by about 2.4%.

☆ Herschel Walker tries to turn 'prop' badge controversy into campaign gold
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Marc Caputo | Marc Caputo Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +12 min

And Walker’s campaign told NBC News that it has ordered 1,000 imitation plastic law enforcement badges that say “I’m with Herschel” as a fundraising tool. “Herschel Walker has been a friend to law enforcement and has a record of honoring police,” said Gail Gitcho, the Walker campaign strategist who ordered the badges Saturday. "It just gives us a chance to talk about Herschel’s support of law enforcement and law enforcement's support for him. If he said, ‘I’m a law enforcement officer and I have these powers,’ then I have a problem with that. Asked whether he had a problem with Walker’s flashing the honorary badge onstage, Wilcher said: “No.

☆ Dog collar-wearing woman says she escaped captivity at Missouri home
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The woman reported the allegations to authorities at 7:47 a.m. Friday, the sheriff’s office said. Minutes before, Johnson saw the woman hunched over and appearing to crawl up her front steps, asking for help, the station reported. The woman told the grandmother that she'd been held in the basement since last month and that she escaped after her captor left the house Friday morning, KSHB reported. The sheriff's office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Haslett was taken into custody after authorities searched his home and the Kansas City police crime scene investigators processed the scene, the sheriff's office said.

“After years of neglect, Jackson’s water system finally reached a breaking point this summer, leaving tens of thousands of people without any running water for weeks. Lumumba said Monday that his administration intends to cooperate with federal officials. In late 2019, the state Health Department notified the EPA about concerns with the city’s water system. An inspection by the EPA raised alarms about problems, including not having enough properly credentialed staff members at the city’s water treatment plants. Mark Chalos, an attorney who filed the most recent class-action lawsuit, said many Jacksonians remain suspicious of the city’s water quality.

☆ Mom whose body was found in Georgia woods seemed "not afraid" in security video,
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Among the items found with Collier’s body were a red tote bag and a partly burned blue tarp. Investigators obtained the security video after they got a tip that Collier's daughter was seen at the shop that Saturday, the sheriff's office said. A review of the video showed that Collier herself was there — not her daughter, the sheriff's office said. The state crime lab was still conducting an autopsy, the sheriff's office said last week. Collier's body was discovered after a late model van that she'd been driving was found unlocked and unoccupied at a road pullout, authorities said.

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