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☆ Lawyer who twice grilled Trump in NY fraud case now helps lead a 14-state war on 'addictive' TikTok
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Wallace twice grilled Trump in James' NY fraud case and also gave opening and closing statements. AdvertisementNew York Attorney General Letitia James with assistant attorneys general Andrew S. Amer, center, and Kevin C. Wallace, right. Related storiesAround-the-clock notifications disrupt their sleep, the "autoplay" feature provides an endless stream of videos, and "beauty filters" encourage young girls to "fix" their appearances, the James lawsuit alleges. AdvertisementThe TikTok lawsuit may be another of the kind of yearslong litigation marathons that James' office hasn't shied from since she first took office in 2019. The Trump fraud investigation began in 2018, and also isn't over yet.

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☆ The RNC is a mess now Ronna McDaniel is likely on her way out, and Trump holds all the cards
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ronna McDaniel offered to step down as RNC chair amid pressure from Donald Trump, per NYT. AdvertisementAn election denier could very well find themselves as the next Republican National Committee chair if Donald Trump gets his way. The former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party received Trump's support to take over as RNC chair in 2017. Under McDaniel, Trump also benefitted from the committee when it came to his legal troubles. Murray, Lindell said, "would be the best pick for the RNC chair."

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Trump, who contends James’ lawsuit is part of a politically motivated “witch hunt” was demonstrative from the outset. Go out and do your own work,” Trump testified. “I considered this the most important job in the world, saving millions of lives,” Trump testified. Would you like to see it?”“I don’t think we’re allowed to open the windows,” Wallace said. “An incredible property … an unbelievable property ... a phenomenal property that fronts on the ocean.”“I don’t want to sell any of them,” Trump testified.

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☆ Trump’s avalanche of dishonesty: Fact-checking 102 of his false claims from this fall
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Daniel Dale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +111 min

Below is a fact check of 102 of Trump’s false claims from the 12 speeches. But contrary to Trump’s claim, it’s not true that people had been attempting for decades to create such an initiative. Trump’s aid to farmersIn speech after speech, Trump claimed that he had given US farmers $28 billion from China. Even if the poll result is off, it’s clear that Trump’s claim that “nobody wants them” is not true. He said he was an airline pilot.”Facts First: Trump made a false claim while mocking Biden for making false claims.

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A satellite identifies tank tracks in the dirt, and a mall security camera catches the moment a bomb in Gaza detonates. While journalists' access to the war in Gaza is limited, a flood of video from all sorts of sources documents what is — and isn't — going on. That means combing through an endless supply of video posted on sources like X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, Instagram, Telegram and Facebook. Sometimes images from video games are passed off as real, but experts can usually spot them. Satellite images, video and photos helped The Washington Post track where Israeli forces went during their initial incursion into Gaza.

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☆ They are tasked with viewing ‘the worst imaginable images’ of the Israel-Hamas war. Its taking a heavy toll
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The task is taking a particular toll on journalists whose specific roles are tasked with surfacing video and images from the war and subsequent humanitarian disaster and authenticating the imagery for use in reporting. However, viewing this graphic footage does have an impact on our team,” James Law, the editor-in-chief of Storyful, told me Wednesday. Storyful is a news organization that sifts through the vast ocean of content posted on social media. “As a result, it is our duty to look closely at the most confronting content posted online,” Law said. Newsrooms have recognized the mental toll that the work is taking on their journalists, with many offering support resources to their staffs.

Persons: ” James Law, Storyful, ” Law, Law, “, Newsrooms Organizations: CNN, ” Locations: Israel, ISRAEL

☆ IMF fiscal chief: U.S., China must rein in debt, face different challenges
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( David Lawder | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

IMF Director of Fiscal Affairs Vitor Gaspar speaks to reporters at the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, U.S., October 12, 2022. Continuing along their projected fiscal paths will ultimately cause difficulties for the world's two largest economies, Gaspar told Reuters in an interview. The U.S. and China are fueling a projected return to higher debt levels after two years of falling debt-to-GDP ratios as a post-COVID growth surge fades. DEFICITS RISINGGaspar said the challenge for the United States was persistently high and growing budget deficits. GROWTH FADESChina faces different challenges, the largest of which is slowing economic growth.

Persons: Vitor Gaspar, James Lawler Duggan, Gaspar, David Lawder, John Stonestreet Organizations: Fiscal, International Monetary Fund, REUTERS, Rights, Monetary Fund Fiscal, Reuters, U.S, Congressional Budget Office, Social, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, Rights MARRAKECH, Morocco, U.S, China, United States, Washington

REUTERS/Marco Bello/File PhotoAug 2 (Reuters) - Prosecutors who charged Donald Trump and two aides with mishandling classified documents asked a judge on Wednesday for a hearing over potential conflicts of interest with one of the men's lawyers. Trump is accused of taking troves of classified documents with him upon leaving the White House in 2021 and storing them haphazardly at Mar-a-Lago. Nauta and Oliveira are accused of helping him try to hide the documents from investigators seeking their return. Prosecutors said in a July 27 filing that they are not aware of any case where a defendant was granted permission to review classified documents at home. Trump’s lawyers have argued that forcing them to only review and discuss classified documents in a secure location would be too inconvenient.

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[1/2] The sun sets behind the U.S. Capitol dome in Washington, U.S., on midterm election day, November 6, 2018. It was not the first loss for the agency under Khan. In addition, an internal FTC judge ruled for Illumina's (ILMN.O) purchase of Grail (GRAL.O). Lawmakers are also expected to bring up the committee's requests for documents regarding the agency's review of billionaire Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter. Conservatives have accused social media companies, including Twitter before it was acquired by Musk, of seeking to stifle conservative voices.

Persons: James Lawler Duggan, Lina Khan, Jim Jordan, Trump, Black Knight, Amgen's, Elon Musk's, Diane Bartz, Matthew Lewis Organizations: U.S, Capitol, REUTERS, WASHINGTON, U.S . Federal Trade Commission, Republican, Committee, FTC, Microsoft, Activision, Khan, Facebook, Illumina's, Black, Horizon Therapeutics, Twitter, Musk, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, Washington

July 11 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit in which the founder of WallStreetBets, which helped ignite investors' fascination with "meme" stocks, accused Reddit of wrongly banning him from moderating the community and usurping his trademark rights. Rogozinski had applied to trademark "WallStreetBets" in March 2020, when the community reached 1 million subscribers. Meme stocks gain popularity through discussions, often among inexperienced investors, in online forums including Twitter. Prominent meme stocks have included AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC.N), GameStop (GME.N), Koss (KOSS.O) and the now-bankrupt Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBYQ.PK). The case is Rogozinski v Reddit Inc, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No.

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☆ Trump opposes quick trial date in classified documents case
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Donald Trump on Monday night asked a federal court to hold off on setting a date for the criminal trial over his handling of classified documents, arguing that the unprecedented case requires "a measured consideration and timeline." Their 12-page filing put forward a slew of reasons to "postpone any consideration of a new trial date." They also gestured toward the complexities of discussing classified material in a criminal trial and the potential difficulty of selecting a jury during a presidential election. The attorneys also said they believe the indictment against Trump and Nauta will ultimately be dismissed. Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, had initially scheduled the former president's criminal trial to start on Aug. 14.

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[1/2] A worker arrives at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, October 1, 2013. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan/File PhotoWASHINGTON, June 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was among those affected by a wide-ranging hack centered on a piece of software called MOVEit Transfer, a source at HHS said on Wednesday. "While no HHS systems or networks were compromised, attackers gained access to data by exploiting the vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer software of third-party vendors," a health department official familiar with the matter said. Hackers behind the massive breach also claimed credit for stealing data from two major law firms, Kirkland & Ellis LLP and K&L Gates LLP. Kirkland and K&L did not immediately return messages left after hours.

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☆ Why Warren Buffett is so keen on Japan's versions of Berkshire Hathaway
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Tim Hornyak | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

But Warren Buffett added a spark in April when he visited Japan to announce that Berkshire Hathaway boosted its investment in Japanese trading houses to 7.4%. Buffett said the five — Itochu Corp., Marubeni Corp., Mitsubishi Corp., Mitsui, and Sumitomo Corp. — are comparable to Berkshire itself. Samurai roots for Buffett's Japanese stocks The five trading firms that Berkshire has invested in are the biggest of Japan's so-called sogo-shosha, or general trading companies. Today, Japan's trading companies derive most of their revenue from non-trade activities. Shosha: The Big Five Mitsubishi The largest of Japan's trading companies is Mitsubishi Corp. , set up in 1954.

☆ CDC will have less data to track Covid and new variants after public health emergency ends
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

"The end of the public health emergency means CDC will have less authority to collect certain types of public health data — that means less data will be available to us," Dr. Nirav Shah, the CDC's principal deputy director, told reporters during a call Thursday. Congress required these labs in March 2020 to send results to the federal government, but that mandate was tied to the public health emergency. "In some of the jurisdictions or some of the states those authorities will go away with the end of public health emergency," he said. The spotty reporting of case data also means the CDC will no longer report virus transmission at the county level after the public health emergency ends. Shah said the CDC will still have ways to monitor Covid after the public health emergency ends.

☆ A real estate investor who owns over 1,000 units shares the 21 investing, personal development, and leadership books that helped him find financial freedom at age 36
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Lisa Kailai Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Today, real estate investor Dave Allred has ownership in over 1,250 units across the country. He shared the 21 books that helped him achieve financial freedom at age 36. These books cover real estate and investing, personal development, business, and leadership. In a recent interview, Allred shared with Insider the 21 books — spanning areas such as real estate, investing, personal development, business, and leadership — that helped him find success. This principle is especially close to Allred's heart, since reverse engineering his financial freedom took a meticulous goal-setting process.

☆ Trump loses latest fight with New York Attorney General Letitia James over $110K contempt payment
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The battle was an odd sideshow to AG Letitia James' $250 million fraud lawsuit against Trump Org. A New York appellate court spent just four paragraphs rejecting the former president's 1,000-page appeal of the contempt fine. The contempt fine was Trump's penalty for repeatedly failing to fully comply with James' subpoena for his personal business documents. In January, Engoron rejected what he called Trump's "borderline frivolous" request to dismiss James lawsuit altogether. Also in January, Trump dropped his efforts to challenge James' lawsuit in federal court in Florida.

☆ Trump's NY fraud trial starts on time 'come hell or high water,' judge warns warring lawyers at hearing
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Oral arguments focused on whether something called the "Trump Organization" legally exists. The judge, meanwhile, warned that "come hell or high water" an October trial will not be delayed. "Come hell or high water, and pardon my French," the judge added of his set-in-stone trial start time: 10 a.m. on Monday, October 2, 2023. It's shorthand for them, as well — James' lawsuit references "the Trump Organization," for convenience's sake, some 300 times in its 222 pages. The judge urged the attorney general's office and the defendants' lawyers to avoid a protracted argument over sanctions.

☆ Trump claims lawsuits are a conspiracy to 'keep him busy' ahead of 2024. He's the one making lawsuits political, judges say.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Judges have repeatedly slammed Trump for using lawsuits "to advance a political narrative." "Keep Trump busy, because this is the way you defeat him, to keep him busy with litigation," Trump testified in the deposition, speaking in the third person. US District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks said that Trump has a "pattern of misusing the courts to serve political purposes." Trump's lawyers have to deal with his 2024 runIn the Trump lawsuits that haven't been dismissed, those trials may need to be scheduled around his 2024 campaign events. A trial for Carroll's claims is set for April of this year, and James' lawsuit against Trump is on track for October.

☆ Trump dropped his lawsuit against Letitia James a day after a judge fined him $1 million for a frivolous case against Hillary Clinton
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

On Thursday, a judge fined Trump $1 million over his "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton. Friday, Trump dropped another lawsuit before the same judge, this one against NY AG Letitia James. He wrote that like the Clinton suit, the James suit "had all the telltale signs of being both vexatious and frivolous." On Thursday, Middlebrooks went further, issuing a scathing rebuke of Trump's legal tactics along with fining Trump and his lawyers for bringing the case. In that case, too, a New York state judge recently threatened money sanctions in response to what he called Trump's pattern of "borderline frivolous" litigation.

☆ World Bank chief says poorest countries owe $62 bln on bilateral debt
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( David Lawder | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] World Bank President David Malpass holds a news conference at the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund during the annual meetings of the two organizations in Washington, U.S., October 13, 2022. REUTERS/James Lawler DugganWASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The world's poorest countries now owe $62 billion in annual debt service to official bilateral creditors, an increase of 35% over the past year, World Bank President David Malpass said on Thursday, warning that the increased burden is increasing the risk of defaults. Malpass told the Reuters NEXT conference in New York that two thirds of this debt burden is now owed to China, providing some details of the development lender's annual debt statistics report due next week. "I'm worried about a disorderly default process where there's not a system to really address" debts for poorer countries," Malpass said. Reporting by David Lawder; Editing by Andrea RicciOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

[1/2] Zambia's Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane attends the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, U.S., October 15, 2022. Zambia's Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane told Reuters that China had sought clarification from the Zambian government and the IMF on their debt agreement, he said. At the end of 2021, Chinese creditors accounted for almost $6 billion of Zambia's external debt, which was then $17.27 billion. The Export-Import Bank of China is representing all Chinese creditors in their restructuring negotiations with Zambia, Musokotwane said. These include commercial banks, the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (601398.SS), Jiangxi Bank (1916.HK) and China Minsheng Bank (600016.SS).

☆ Ronna McDaniel says RNC 'cannot pay legal bills' for Donald Trump if he announces a 2024 bid
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ronna McDaniel said the RNC cannot pay Donald Trump's legal bills if he announces his candidacy. The committee has paid over $2.3 million in legal fees for Trump, CNN reported. McDaniel did not say whether Trump will run for president, stating she is "only focused on 2022." "We cannot pay legal bills for any candidate that's announced," McDaniel said. I don't even know what I'm doing for Thanksgiving right now, let alone thinking about 2024," McDaniel said.

☆ Responding to yet another Trump lawsuit, New York's attorney general says he's still committing fraud
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

New York Attorney General Letitia James responded to Donald Trump's new lawsuit filed against her Wednesday night. James alleged Trump is still committing fraud and is "seeking to put assets beyond this Court's reach." Trump accused the attorney general of abusing her power by investigating him and his family. Kevin Wallace, a lead prosecutor in the James lawsuit against Trump, told a judge that the AG is still "seeking an injunction against ongoing fraudulent activities by the Trump Organization." Trump's lawsuit on Wednesday is the latest legal action he's taken against James, who he has frequently railed against and accused of being corrupt.

After James announced the lawsuit, Trump in a social media post called the action "Another Witch Hunt." NEW YORK CRIMINAL PROBEThe Trump Organization is set to go on trial on Oct. 24 on New York state criminal tax fraud charges. Legal experts said Trump may have violated at least three Georgia criminal election laws: conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and intentional interference with performance of election duties. A California federal judge said on Wednesday in a separate lawsuit that Trump had knowingly made false voter fraud claims in a Georgia election lawsuit, according to emails the judge reviewed. read moreIt is not immediately clear what ramifications Trump could face from the ruling.

Ethiopia's State Finance Minister Eyob Tekalign attends the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, U.S., October 15, 2022. Ethopia's state finance minister Eyob Tekalign Tolina acknowledged the war was a key factor in the delay as well, and said he hoped there would be peace talks in "the coming few weeks" in an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund-World Bank annual meetings in Washington. He said Ethiopia was requesting "exceptional access" to IMF funding of more than 100% of its allowance, but declined to say how much exactly. "As you know, we have been calling for the AU process, the AU-led peace talks, which is advancing now." He declined to specify how much debt relief the country requires, saying that the IMF still needs to finish a Debt Sustainability Analysis, which forms the basis of debt restructurings.

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