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But the court’s opinion also makes clear that this ruling is not a death knell for Smith’s case. Smith charged Trump with engaging in a “criminal scheme” to subvert the 2020 election; Trump has pleaded not guilty to four counts. In Nixon v. Fitzgerald, the Supreme Court held that a president enjoyed civil immunity for all “official acts.” Now, in Trump v. United States, the court grappled with which “official” acts should also receive criminal immunity. In order to settle the extent of Trump’s immunity, Chutkan should expeditiously schedule the mini-trial to hear witness testimony and receive other relevant evidence from both parties. In response to Trump’s assertion of civil immunity there, the DC Circuit put in place a lengthy discovery schedule for the lower court to determine the extent of Trump’s civil immunity.

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☆ Ukraine Says It Foiled Another Russian Plot to Topple the Government
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Marc Santora | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ukraine’s security service said on Monday that it had foiled yet another Russian plot to stir public unrest and then use the ensuing turmoil to topple the government, outlining a familiar tactic that Kyiv claims has been employed in string of coup attempts in recent years. Four people have been arrested and charged, according to the authorities. While offering little detail on how such an ambitious plan could have succeeded, officials said it was a reminder that more than two years after launching a full-scale invasion of the country, the Kremlin remained determined to bring down President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government by any means. On the battlefield, Russia continues to send tens of thousands of new soldiers to the front to replace those killed in the hopes of exhausting Ukraine’s military and Kyiv’s Western backers. At the same time, Russia’s relentless bombardment of Ukraine’s critical infrastructure is designed, in part, to throttle the economy and undermine the state’s ability to function.

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☆ Hurricane Beryl nears Caribbean as life-threatening Category 3 storm — marking an unusually early start to hurricane season
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Elizabeth Wolfe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Hurricane Beryl, a powerful Category 3 storm, is expected to slam into the Caribbean on Monday, endangering several island communities with life-threatening storm surge, violent winds and flash flooding. Beryl’s arrival marks an exceptionally early – and likely devastating – start to the Atlantic hurricane season. • Widespread tropical storm advisories: Tropical storm warnings are in effect for Martinique and Trinidad, the National Hurricane Center said. Less severe tropical storm watches are also in place in parts of the Dominican Republic and the southern coast of Haiti. The storm’s rapid intensification is very atypical this early into hurricane season, according to National Hurricane Center Director Mike Brennan.

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Severe turbulence on an Air Europa flight to Uruguay from Spain on Monday injured more than two dozen passengers, officials said, leaving several with neck and skull fractures, in at least the second case of severe injuries from turbulence worldwide in less than a month. Flight UX045 made an emergency landing early Monday in the seaside city of Natal, Brazil, after experiencing turbulence more than four hours into the flight from Madrid, according to flight data. Some passengers hit their heads during the turbulence, resulting in head, neck and chest injuries, according to Brazilian public health officials. Thirty-six passengers were treated for injuries and 23 were taken to a hospital, according to health and airport officials. Some of the passengers who received treatment were suffering from shock but no physical injuries, officials said.

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☆ Trump Amplifies Calls to Jail Top Elected Officials, Invokes Military Tribunals
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Chris Cameron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Donald J. Trump over the weekend escalated his vows to prosecute his political opponents, circulating posts on his social media website invoking “televised military tribunals” and calling for the jailing of President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer and former Vice President Mike Pence, among other high-profile politicians. Mr. Trump, using his account on Truth Social on Sunday, promoted two posts from other users of the site that called for the jailing of his perceived political enemies. One post that he circulated on Sunday singled out Liz Cheney, the former Wyoming congresswoman who is a Republican critic of Mr. Trump’s, and called for her to be prosecuted by a type of military court reserved for enemy combatants and war criminals. “Elizabeth Lynne Cheney is guilty of treason,” the post said. “Retruth if you want televised military tribunals.”

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☆ Sotomayor says the president can now 'assassinate a political rival' without facing prosecution
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Bryan Metzger | Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewIn her dissenting opinion to the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the conservative majority had enabled presidents to assassinate political rivals without fear of criminal prosecution. Related stories"When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority's reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution," Sotomayor wrote. Immune, immune, immune." Trump's lawyers had argued that he was immune from criminal prosecution over those efforts because they fell within the scope of his official duties. AdvertisementFormer federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani disagreed with Sotomayer, saying that there would be no presidential immunity for extreme circumstances like ordering the assassination of a political rival.

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☆ Supreme Court hands Trump partial victory in immunity case
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe Supreme Court on Monday handed former President Donald Trump a partial victory by kicking the future of his January 6 criminal case down to a lower court. But on a 6-3 vote, a majority of the high court decided that former presidents do hold some immunity. Before Monday's ruling, former presidents already held sweeping immunity from civil prosecution thanks to a Nixon-era case. In taking its time to craft this ruling, justices have essentially handed Trump another victory for his delay tactics. If he were to win the election, he would likely scuttle the January 6 case and Smith's other criminal case in Florida related to Trump's hoarding of classified documents.

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☆ China’s ‘military readiness’ questioned with dramatic downfall of two defense ministers
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Nectar Gan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

At the height of their careers, former defense ministers Li and Wei often struck a tough tone before the world’s top military officials. Former Defense Ministers Li Shangfu and his predecessor Wei Fenghe have both been expelled from the Communist Party over corruption allegations. Most of the generals dismissed or disappeared without explanation last year were linked to the Rocket Force or military equipment, including Li and Wei. An engineer by training, the 66-year-old spent decades launching rockets and satellites in southwest China before being promoted to the PLA headquarters to deal with military equipment procurement. “The gun barrel must always be held in the hands of those who are loyal and reliable to the party,” Xi told the PLA elites.

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The 30-year-old high jumper cleared 1.89 meters at the Ukrainian Athletics Championships on Sunday, not enough to qualify for this year’s Olympic Games in Paris. Many athletes have moved abroad in order to continue their careers and train for this year’s Games. This means that teams of Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be considered, while athletes who actively support the war against Ukraine will also be ineligible. No reference to either country will be made at the Games through the athletes’ participation, such as flags, anthems or national colors. “We’re not friends, we’re not competitors,” Ryzhykova told CNN about facing Russian and Belarusian athletes.

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☆ AI images of Jesus are suspiciously handsome. We only have ourselves to blame
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Now, in the age of AI, Jesus can assume an infinite variety of roles with just a few keystrokes. While AI images of Jesus depict the Christian savior in innumerable situations, they often focus on his physical appearance as well. All of these handsome AI Jesus images are created from patterns a machine picks up from the information it is fed. Some AI images of Jesus contain inexplicable details that are neither Biblically nor historically informed. There are other complications that lead to the persistence of handsome AI Jesus.

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CNN —The Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision Monday granting Donald Trump partial immunity from special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case, handing the former president a significant win during his reelection bid. For starters, the Supreme Court ruled that for “core” presidential activity, Trump has the absolute immunity he had sought. The analysis about what’s immune and what isn’t “ultimately is best left to the lower courts to perform,” Roberts wrote. Immune, immune, immune,” she wrote. In a significant break from the court’s other conservatives, Barrett seemed to suggest Trump should go to trial quickly.

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☆ UK army is unprepared for war and would run out of ammo quickly, former defense official says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The UK army is unprepared for any type of war, a former defense official told the Financial Times. It would also run out of ammunition quickly in any large-scale operation, Robert Johnson said. Former and current defense officials have raised concerns about the UK's war readiness. AdvertisementThe UK's armed forces are not prepared for any type of war and would quickly struggle with supplies, a former defense official said. "In any larger-scale operation, we would run out of ammunition rapidly," Robert Johnson told the Financial Times.

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☆ Police say a man shot a Walmart drone. Armed Americans could pose a headache for air deliveries.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A Florida man admitted to shooting a Walmart drone last week, law enforcement officials said. Now, as more retailers use drones, armed Americans may add further complication to delivery by air. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementRetailers have had to solve a long list of technological, regulatory, and commercial challenges in order to offer deliveries by drone. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: —, Dennis Winn Organizations: Walmart, Service, Lake County Sheriff, Business Locations: Florida, Lake County

☆ Car Plows Into Pedestrians in South Korea, Killing Nine
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Choe Sang-Hun | More About Choe Sang-Hun | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Nine people were killed when a car crashed into pedestrians near a busy intersection in central Seoul on Monday, officials said. Four others were injured in the incident in front of city hall, but their wounds were not life-threatening, said Kim Chun-soo, a senior fire department official. The driver of the car claimed that he lost control of it when it suddenly accelerated, local news media reported. Kim Seong-hak, a public safety official at the Jung-gu district in central Seoul, said the authorities could not immediately confirm the reports, adding that the police were investigating the driver. He also said officials were investigating whether the driver was drunk or on drugs.

Persons: Kim Chun, Kim Seong Locations: Seoul

☆ Jack Smith's Trump prosecutions will survive SCOTUS, but barely, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Laura Italiano | Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Both of his prosecutions of Donald Trump — the Mar-a-Lago documents case in Florida, and the insurrection case out of Washington, DC — will be delayed and diminished by Monday's United States Supreme Court's immunity decision, legal experts predict. The SCOTUS decision found that former presidents are presumptively immune from prosecution for acts they took while in office. That review of the insurrection case — by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals and, likely, the Supreme Court once again — will take many months. Advertisement"The way the Supreme Court set up the new rule is that most everything the president does is 'presumptively immune,'" he said. By that new measure, any communication Trump has with another federal official is, for all practical purposes, immune from prosecution, he said.

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We Counted 22,252 Cars to See How Much Congestion Pricing Might Have Made This MorningToday would have been the first Monday of New York City’s congestion pricing plan. We sent 27 people to count vehicles manually at four bridges, four tunnels and nine streets where cars entered the business district. In total, we counted 22,252 cars, trucks, motorcycles and buses between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Monday. But it does give you a rough sense of scale: It’s a lot of cars, and a lot of money. had planned to use the congestion pricing revenue estimates to secure $15 billion in financing for subway upgrades.

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☆ Supreme Court rules Trump has limited immunity in January 6 case, jeopardizing trial before election
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a lengthy and strongly worded dissent in which she excoriated the court for its decision. The chief justice said the trial court will have to assess what of Trump’s alleged conduct is immunized under the new test handed down by the high court, and the opinion said that additional briefing will be needed for the trial court to do so. Justice Amy Coney Barrett expressed frustration with how the court was sending the case back down for more proceedings. She suggested that because Trump’s wholesale challenge to the indictment had failed, at least some of the case could go forward. In that sense, if Smith narrowed his indictment, lower courts could hear the Trump trial this year.

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☆ Biden Campaign Will Try to Reassure Big Donors
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Michael D. Shear | Theodore Schleifer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

President Biden’s top campaign official is scheduled to hold a crucial conference call with donors on Monday to try to convince them that Mr. Biden can still win the race against former President Donald J. Trump. The call with the national finance committee, scheduled hastily on Sunday, is the Biden campaign’s most formal attempt yet to tamp down panic within the ranks of major donors since Thursday’s debate. Some individual donors have received direct communication from campaign officials, and Biden fund-raisers say communication picked up over the weekend, according to people close to the conversations. The call on Monday is to be hosted by Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, the campaign chair. Preserving the donor base will be critical to the president’s argument for staying in the race, many of Mr. Biden’s allies have acknowledged.

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☆ Russia's new 3.3-ton glide bomb escalates the destructive potential of its airstrike campaign against Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Stavros Atlamazoglou | Sandboxx News | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe Russian Aerospace Forces are using a new munition in Ukraine that might change the situation on the ground. In June, Russian aircraft deployed for the first time the FAB-3000 M-54 glide bomb. Ukrainian outlets reported the use of the glide bomb against Ukrainian troop concentration points in Kharkiv Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Relying on a combination of stand-off and glide munitions, Russian aircraft have been targeting Ukrainian critical infrastructure and urban centers. But beyond causing some additional casualties to the Ukrainian forces, Russian tactical aviation hasn't made a difference.

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☆ 10-year Treasury yield climbs as investors look to data in week ahead
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Sophie Kiderlin | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The 2-year Treasury yield was last more than two basis points higher to 4.7453%. U.S. Treasury yields were higher on Monday as investors awaited key economic data due this week and digested the latest inflation insights. Investors considered the latest economic data and looked ahead to insights from the labor market expected this week. Further insights about the state of the economy are expected this week, when a series of labor market data is due. Should the numbers indicate an easing of the labor market, hopes for interest rate cuts could be boosted.

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CNN —The biggest question now that the Supreme Court has decided Donald Trump is entitled to some immunity from prosecution: What happens next in special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case against the former president? Those are likely to come in the days after the Supreme Court hands the opinion down formally to the federal courts in DC. The Supreme Court said that that Trump’s pressure campaign on Vice President Mike Pence to help him overturn the election is “presumptively” immune, and put the burden on the prosecutors to rebut the presumptive immunity. The Supreme Court’s ruling strongly suggests that those appeals would need to be resolved pre-trial, making it unlikely this case goes to a jury before Americans cast their ballots for president. Jack Smith’s options going forwardIt’s also possible that Smith’s office winnows down his case to bring it in line with the Supreme Court’s opinion.

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☆ Biden Will Give Remarks on the Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Michael D. Shear | More About Michael D. Shear | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Biden will respond on Monday night to the Supreme Court’s ruling on immunity for former President Donald J. Trump, White House officials said, his first public remarks since hunkering down at Camp David amid calls from some Democrats to drop out of the 2024 election. The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Mr. Trump has significant immunity against prosecution on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election. A spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office said earlier that “as President Biden has said, nobody is above the law.”Mr. Biden’s response to the ruling is likely to signal how his campaign will handle the issue of Mr. Trump’s criminal cases, which have been a central part of the president’s argument for re-election. During a rally on Friday, he cited the numerous court cases against Mr. Trump as proof that he is a “one-man crime wave.”But the president’s appearance in Cross Hall, the stately venue used for many previous addresses to the nation, will be closely watched for the president’s vigor and mental acuity in the wake of his disastrous debate performance in Atlanta on Thursday.

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☆ Opinion | There’s No Reason to Resign Ourselves to Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Though Joe Biden’s debate performance last week was among the most painful things I’ve ever witnessed, it at least seemed to offer clarity. Suddenly, even many people who love this president realized that his campaign has become untenable. In the debate’s miserable aftermath, there was finally space to acknowledge the obvious: Biden is too old for this. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced,” James Baldwin wrote. Since then, however, the Biden campaign has quickly moved to squash that reckoning, framing the divide in the Democratic Party as one between naïve, hysterical outsiders and savvy, resolute insiders.

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☆ Turkish officials call for calm as social media hysteria fuels anti-Syrian riots in Turkey
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Scott Mclean | Isil Sariyuce | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Istanbul CNN —Allegations of sexual abuse against a child by a Syrian man in Kayseri, Turkey, have sparked overnight riots that targeted Syrian businesses and cars in the city. Protesters in al-Bab, Aleppo, Syria, attack a Turkish truck during demonstrations against Turkey on July 1, 2024. Bakr Alkasem/AFP/Getty ImagesIn another town, Ghazawiah, also in northwest Syria, protesters were seen pulling the Turkish flag town from a military site. At the “Bab al-Salama” border crossing with Turkey, the Turkish flag was removed, burned and replaced with a Free Syrian Army flag, according to a local resident and images circulating on social media. Turkey hosts more Syrian refugees than any other country, but Turkey has often struggled to integrate Syrian refugees fully into society.

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☆ Student-loan borrowers on Biden's new repayment plan get a win after a federal court rules that cheaper monthly payments can go into effect
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The legal roller coaster for millions of student-loan borrowers on President Joe Biden's new repayment plan continues. A court ruled that borrowers on the SAVE income-driven repayment plan can get the new benefits set to go into effect in July, like lower payments, for the time being after a legal challenges blocked their implementation. The Education Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider on the stay. This means that for now, the Education Department can continue working to implement the new SAVE provisions set to go into effect this July. For now, borrowers continue to await further guidance from the Education Department.

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