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☆ Trump Lawyers Assail Gag Order Request in Election Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Lawyers representing former President Donald J. Trump against federal charges accusing him of seeking to overturn the 2020 election offered an outraged response on Monday to the government’s request for a gag order, saying the attempt to “muzzle” him during his presidential campaign violated his free speech rights. In a 25-page filing, the lawyers sought to turn the tables on the government, accusing the prosecutors in the case of using “inflammatory rhetoric” themselves in a way that “violated longstanding rules of prosecutorial ethics.”“Following these efforts to poison President Trump’s defense, the prosecution now asks the court to take the extraordinary step of stripping President Trump of his First Amendment freedoms during the most important months of his campaign against President Biden,” one of the lawyers, Gregory M. Singer, wrote. “The court should reject this transparent gamesmanship.”The papers, filed in Federal District Court in Washington, came 10 days after prosecutors in the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, asked Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who is overseeing the election interference case, to impose a narrow gag order on Mr. Trump. The order, they said, was meant to curb Mr. Trump’s “near-daily” barrage of threatening social media posts and to limit the effect his statements might have on witnesses in the case and on the potential jury pool for the trial. It is scheduled to take place in Washington starting in March.

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Bernardo Arévalo had been enjoying a quiet and predictable life for nearly a decade with his family in Geneva, working on pro-democracy issues for a nonprofit. That placid existence ended after he returned to his homeland, Guatemala, and got drawn into politics. Today, whenever Mr. Arévalo appears in public, he attracts throngs to hear him assail the government’s attacks on Guatemala’s democracy. Flanked by a well-armed security detail after receiving death threats following the assassination last week of a presidential candidate in Ecuador — which sent tremors across Latin America — Mr. Arévalo wears a bullet-resistant vest and travels in an armored S.U.V. Now, in what is building into a watershed moment for Central America’s most populous country, Mr. Arévalo, a Hebrew- and French-speaking polyglot with a doctorate in sociology, is on the cusp of winning the presidency in a runoff on Sunday — an implausible scenario just months ago.

Persons: Bernardo Arévalo, Arévalo, throngs Organizations: America’s Locations: Geneva, Guatemala, Ecuador, America

☆ Takeaways from the latest controversial and contentious Supreme Court term
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Ariane De Vogue | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

In his opinion blocking the student debt program, Roberts insisted he is concerned about criticisms of the court. “Make no mistake: Supreme Court ethics reform must happen whether the Court participates in the process or not,” he warned. In June, the court sided with a cement mixing company that sought to bypass federal labor law and sue a union in state court for the destruction of property caused by striking workers. On Tuesday, when Roberts announced the court’s opinion in Moore v. Harper, liberals and even some conservatives exhaled, relieved that the court was rejecting a controversial Trump-backed election law theory. “Justice Jackson has a different view,” he said at one point.

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☆ Texas governor signs law shutting diversity offices at public universities
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

June 15 (Reuters) - All state-funded colleges and universities in Texas will have to close their diversity, equity and inclusion offices under a measure signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Under the Texas law, signed by Abbott on Wednesday, any public college or university that does not certify it is in compliance with the measure would not be able to spend state funds allocated to it. But Paulette Granberry Russell, president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, said in a statement that the bill's signature marked a "sad occasion for all students at Texas' public universities." She said all students, regardless of race, benefit from having a diverse student body, and that her organization would not stop working for Texas universities to be increasingly accessible and inclusive. Reporting by Brad Brooks in Lubbock, Texas; editing by Donna Bryson and Leslie AdlerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Greg Abbott, Abbott, Brandon Creighton, Paulette Granberry Russell, Russell, Brad Brooks, Donna Bryson, Leslie Adler Organizations: Texas, U.S, Supreme, Republican, National Association of Diversity, Higher, Thomson Locations: Texas, Lubbock , Texas

☆ Mexico's presidential jet sold to Tajikistan, in latest twist to political saga
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Mexico Presidency/Handout via REUTERSMEXICO CITY, April 20 (Reuters) - Mexico's presidential jet has been sold to the Tajikistan government, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday, marking a possible end to a long-running political saga that the Mexican leader used to assail past excesses. The populist leftist who has for years railed against corruption of political elites, had previously said he hoped to sell the aircraft for at least $150 million. Shortly after he took office in late 2018, he announced plans to sell the jet, which featured marble touches and official government seals emblazoned on the walls along with multiple flat-screen monitors. "They will be built by military engineers and will be inaugurated before my term ends," he added. ($1 = 17.9941 Mexican pesos)Reporting by Isabel Woodford and David Alire Garcia; Editing by Stephen CoatesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Biden vows "to protect" country in State of the Union speech, refers to China balloon
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Patricia Zengerle | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"I'm committed to work with China where we can advance American interests and benefit the world," Biden said. "But make no mistake about it: as we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. Investing in American innovation, in industries that will define the future, that China intends to be dominating," Biden said. Democrats have joined Republicans in demanding more information about the balloon and the Biden administration's policy toward the government in Beijing. We built a global coalition," Biden said, vowing to stand with Ukraine "as long as it takes."

☆ Donald Trump's strained bond with evangelicals creates an opening for rivals
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Jonathan-Allen-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Jonathan Allen | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

WASHINGTON — There is a deepening crack in Donald Trump's bond with conservative faith voters that potential rivals for the 2024 GOP nomination see as an opportunity. And Pence is expected to speak to faith voters in the coming weeks in Houston, Miami, Naples, Fla., and New York City. "For all the blocs of [GOP] voters, losing the 2020 election took the shine off of Donald Trump," the adviser said. Those are the types of things that I think lose your credibility with the evangelical community and conservative voters writ large." That should give hopefuls and faith voters a chance to get a better feel for one another.

☆ Filmmaker Paul Haggis found liable by jury for $7.5 million in rape suit
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The jury also decided that additional punitive damages should be awarded, but the amount is to be decided later. Haggis, 69, said the publicist was flirtatious and, while sometimes seeming “conflicted,” initiated kisses and oral sex in an entirely consensual interaction. Jurors sided with Breest, who said she suffered psychological and professional consequences from her encounter with Haggis. Four other women also testified that they experienced forceful, unwelcome passes — and in one case, rape — by Haggis in separate encounters going back to 1996. No witnesses said they knew that Haggis’ accusers or Breest’s lawyers had Scientology ties, and his lawyers acknowledged that Breest herself does not.

☆ Spotify is going to war with Apple after the App Store rejected its big new feature
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN Business —Spotify is looking to give Apple a good bruising in the press. Here’s the backstory: Spotify (SPOT) simply refuses to fork over the whopping 30% cut of its business to Apple. That means that the company cannot sell audiobooks, a business it is trying to break into, inside its iOS app. iOS users who scroll through Spotify’s audiobooks library and tap on a selection are greeted with a message: “Want to listen? Spotify’s public war on Apple is part of a larger trend lately, with other Big Tech companies taking aim at the iPhone maker.

☆ 'Luckiest Girl Alive' review: Mila Kunis in a messy adaptation of Jessica Knoll's #MeToo novel
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-07 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —“Luckiest Girl Alive” has a lot going on, in a way that undermines the movie’s translation from book to screen. Mila Kunis produces and stars in this #MeToo-tinged story, which awkwardly incorporates a mass school shooting as well as gender and class politics into what becomes an ungainly mix of hot-button issues in one dramatic package. As the handsomely clueless Luke puts it, why address “this thing that happened to you so long ago.”Mila Kunis in the Netflix movie 'Luckiest Girl Alive.' But “Luckiest Girl Alive” falls short of its promise, a reminder that, however ironic the title is intended to be, fortune tends to favor the bold. “Luckiest Girl Alive” premieres October 7 on Netflix.

☆ CNN's Christiane Amanpour says she pulled out of interview with Iran's president after he demanded she wear a headscarf
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | Daniel Arkin | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour said Thursday that she backed out of an interview with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi after one of his aides said it would not happen unless she wore a headscarf. “I politely declined,” Amanpour wrote. I pointed out that no previous Iranian president has required this when I have interviewed them outside Iran." “The aide made it clear that the interview would not happen if I did not wear a headscarf,” she wrote. The interview didn’t happen,” Amanpour wrote in the Twitter thread’s concluding post.

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