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☆ How X Is Trying to Win Over Influencers
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Kate Conger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The last time Don Lemon sat down to film a TV segment in April, he perched on a stool in front of the glaring lights of a CNN studio. He will begin his next act, “The Don Lemon Show,” on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. In its former life as Twitter, the social media service never quite figured out how to attract influencers — and the money that comes with them. Linda Yaccarino, X’s chief executive, is now relying on her television industry ties to make the site a destination for video creators. If successful, the effort could bring advertisers and eyeballs back to the platform after its owner, Elon Musk, excoriated brands and told them not to spend their money with X.

Persons: Don Lemon, Lemon, X, influencers, Linda Yaccarino, Elon Musk Organizations: CNN, Twitter

☆ Harry Connick Sr., New Orleans D.A. Criticized for Overreach, Dies at 97
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Adam Nossiter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Harry Connick Sr., a long-serving district attorney in New Orleans whose office gained national notoriety for prosecutorial overreach that eventually resulted in many reversed convictions, died on Thursday at his home in New Orleans. His death was announced by his son, the singer Harry Connick Jr., in a statement. The older Mr. Connick was a singer himself and became locally renowned for his nightclub performances in the French Quarter. But his national reputation as a district attorney was much darker, particularly after a 2011 dissent by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that blasted the Orleans Parish district attorney’s office, under his leadership, for singular incompetence and misconduct. Justice Ginsburg found that Mr. Connick’s subordinates systematically hid evidence that could aid the defense, in violation of the Constitution.

Persons: Harry Connick Sr, prosecutorial, Harry Connick Jr, Connick, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ginsburg, “, Mr Organizations: Supreme, Orleans Parish ” Locations: New Orleans, Orleans Parish

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — With Turkey completing its ratification of Sweden's bid to join NATO, Hungary is the last member of the military alliance not to have given its approval. Orbán has long promised that Hungary wouldn't be the last NATO member to ratify Sweden's request to join the alliance. Yet Orbán's critics say that there is no such schism within his party, and that when it comes to Hungary's approval of Sweden's NATO membership, Orbán alone is in control. Hungary's opposition parties, which favor Sweden's membership in NATO, have made several attempts over the past year to schedule a vote on the matter. “Anybody who believed that it’s in the hands of the governing party lawmakers was seriously mistaken,” she said.

Persons: Viktor Orbán, Orbán, Hungary wouldn't, —, Agnes Vadai, parliament's, It’s, ”, he'd, Ulf Kristersson, Kristersson hasn't, Tobias Billström, Budapest hasn't, he’d, Jens Stoltenberg, Dorka, Kristersson, “, ” Vadai, Vladimir Putin, Vadai, Orbán's Organizations: —, Turkey, NATO, Central European, Fidesz, European Union, Democratic Coalition, Ministry of Defense, Hungary, Centre, Integration Locations: BUDAPEST, Hungary, Budapest, Sweden, Turkey, Stockholm, Swedish, Ukraine, NATO

☆ Investor JAT Capital sends scathing letter to new Bed Bath & Beyond board over CEO ouster, vacancy
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Gabrielle Fonrouge | In Gabrielle-Fonrouge | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Investment firm JAT Capital sent a scathing letter to the board of the new Bed Bath & Beyond on Friday saying it has refused to answer questions from shareholders and is engaging in what the investment firm called unprecedented "poor behavior." Earlier this month, JAT called on Beyond to fire Johnson. In its letter, dated Friday, JAT questioned why Johnson's board seat was removed after his ouster and said it was an attempt to weaken "shareholders ability to have a say." JAT called on Beyond's board to answer its questions, once and for all, and for everyone from vendors to sell-side analysts to demand more transparency. The actions cited below which the Board has taken in the last 60 days appear to be to the detriment of the company and shareholders," the letter states.

Persons: Jonathan Johnson's, JAT's, John Thaler, JAT, Johnson, Jonathan, Marcus Lemonis, Marcus Lemonis wasn't, Allison Abraham, Marcus, Dave Nielsen Organizations: JAT Capital, Inc, JAT Locations: Bath, CNBC's

☆ Opinion: Marjorie Taylor Greene botches the explanation
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. CNN —On the day after Republicans lost pivotal races in Kentucky, Ohio and Virginia last week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene offered a diagnosis for her party’s ills. On Tuesday, Ohio voters passed an amendment to the state constitution that guarantees abortion rights. The disconnect may or may not cost Trump votes in 2024, but it’s hurting Republicans up and down the ballot. “Democrats will win in 2024 by making the election a choice, not just a referendum on Biden’s performance in office.

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☆ A Republican senator said 'nobody's buying' Tuberville's claims that blocking hundreds of promotions hasn't impacted military readiness
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Sen. Tommy Tuberville has repeatedly said his hold on military promotions isn't affecting readiness. Sen. Dan Sullivan, a Marine Corps veteran, said "nobody's buying that." AdvertisementAdvertisementA GOP senator said on Monday that "nobody's buying" by Sen. Tommy Tuberville's claim that military readiness hasn't been affected by the Alabama senator's hold on promotions. In recent months, Tuberville has maintained that although he's singlehandedly prevented hundreds of military promotions from being approved en masse in the Senate, the readiness of the nation's defenses has remained unchanged. "No matter whether you believe it or not, Sen. Tuberville, this doing great damage to our military," said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, an Air Force veteran.

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Mr. Johnson, the Louisiana Republican who has personally voted against sending military aid to Kyiv, released a $14 billion aid bill for Israel on Monday. But Mr. Johnson spurned that request, in an acknowledgment of how toxic funding for Ukraine has become among Republicans. agents,” Mr. Johnson said. “Instead of advancing a serious proposal to defend Israel, defend Ukraine and provide humanitarian aid, this House G.O.P. My guess is you can get Ukraine aid passed, probably as a stand-alone bill here.

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“There is no time to mourn — more death is on the way,” Mr. Mansour said. “The answer to the killing of Palestinian civilians is not the killing of Israeli civilians,” Mr. Mansour said. Mr. Mansour, the Palestinian representative, also directly responded to a speech the Israeli foreign minister, Eli Cohen, made at the U.N. Security Council this week. Mr. Cohen called for Israeli hostages to be brought home, but “for millions of Palestinians, there is no home to go back to,” Mr. Mansour said. “For thousands, there is no family left to embrace.”“He told you how horrible it was to kill civilians,” Mr. Mansour continued, “just before justifying the killing of Palestinian civilians by the thousands.

Persons: Riyad Mansour, —, ” Mr, Mansour, ”, Gilad Erdan, Erdan, Mr, Eli Cohen, Cohen, “, Dennis Francis of Trinidad, Jordan, Ayman Safadi, ” Anushka Patil Organizations: United Nations, United Nations General Assembly, Palestinian, Islamic, . Security, Arab Locations: Gaza ., Israel, Gaza, Islamic State, Iran, Dennis Francis of Trinidad and Tobago, Jordan

☆ Gavin Newsom Wants to Export California’s Climate Laws to the World
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Coral Davenport | More About Coral Davenport | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Gavin Newsom, the California governor, packed his bags and his ambition Monday and flew to Chinese provinces on a weeklong mission to negotiate climate agreements. Last month, he was the only American invited to address the United Nations about climate change, where he excoriated the fossil fuel industry for what he called its decades of “deceit and denial.”He has signed a raft of laws and regulations to speed the nation’s most populous state away from fossil fuels, including a ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035 and a mandate to stop adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by 2045. He wants to end oil drilling in his state, a major oil producer, also by 2045. The two-term Democratic governor wants California to set an aggressive pace for the nation — and the world — as time is running out to deeply cut the carbon emissions that are dangerously heating the planet. Mr. Newsom’s bold moves on climate have elevated his national profile, just as he is widely believed to be preparing for a White House run in 2028.

Persons: Gavin Newsom Organizations: Democratic Locations: California, Nations

"I'm very, very lucky because I wouldn't have had the courage to go and do that acquisition, but I give all the credit in the world to Dave Clark," Petersen said. "There's a perfect complement of skill sets," Petersen told Forbes in June 2022. Petersen told Clark he should engage with Shopify's team, according to a person with direct knowledge of the negotiations. Clark, Petersen and Wagers met in Texas in mid-August to fine-tune the forecasts. Flexport told CNBC that an employee's politics are not relevant in personnel decisions.

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☆ Flexport fires CFO, HR chief departs weeks after sudden ouster of Dave Clark as CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Three weeks after Flexport founder Ryan Petersen fired Dave Clark as CEO and returned to run his supply chain software startup, the company has ousted its chief financial officer, and its human resources chief has resigned, CNBC has learned. Flexport informed CFO Kenny Wagers last week that he was being let go, according to people familiar with the situation. Clark and Petersen worked as co-CEOs of Flexport starting last September, and Clark took over as the company's sole CEO in March. Stuart Leung will become Flexport's Chief Financial Officer and report to Ryan Petersen, CEO, effective immediately. WATCH: Flexport CEO Petersen on company's plan to reinvest profits

Persons: Ryan Peterson, Ryan Petersen, Dave Clark, Flexport, Kenny, Stuart Leung, Leung, Petersen's . Petersen, Clark, Jeff Bezos, Petersen, Peter Thiel's, Jennifer Boden, Boden, Darcie Henry, Michael Brown, Stuart, Jennifer, " Petersen, Henry, Teresa Carlson, Tim Collins, Kelly Cheeseman, Andreessen Horowitz, SoftBank, it's, excoriated Clark, — CNBC's Rohan Goswami Organizations: Flexport Inc, CNBC, Amazon, Fund, Restructuring, Founders Fund Locations: San Francisco , California, U.S, Flexport, Shopify, Andreessen

“Russia believes that the world will grow weary and allow it to brutalize Ukraine without consequence,” Mr. Biden said as President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine watched from the audience. I respectfully suggest the answer is no.”“We have to stand up to this naked aggression today to deter other would-be aggressors tomorrow,” Mr. Biden continued. “Ask Prigozhin if one bets on Putin’s promises.”Both Mr. Biden and Mr. Zelensky received strong applause from some of the delegations in the hall, but many others did not clap. On Tuesday evening, Mr. Biden and Jill Biden were to host a reception for other world leaders at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “This is clearly a genocide,” Mr. Zelensky said.

Persons: Biden, Mr, Volodymyr Zelensky, Zelensky, Vladimir V, Moscow, ”, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin, “, Biden’s, Kevin McCarthy, we’ve, Lloyd J, Austin III, Ukraine’s, Xi Jinping, Jill Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Netanyahu, “ Slava Ukraini Organizations: appeasing Moscow, United Nations General Assembly, Republicans, United Nations, International Criminal Court, . Security, Mr, White, Pentagon, Capitol, Defense, General, appeasing, United, Soviet Union —, Turkmenistan —, Metropolitan Museum of Art, United Nations ’ Locations: Russia, Ukraine, United States, Washington, New York, Russia’s, Germany, China, Beijing, Libya, “, United Nations, Soviet Union, Soviet Union — Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, China’s, Brazil, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Moldova, Georgia, Syria, Belarus, Baltic

If the appeal before the Chicago-based First District Appellate Court fails, Smollett would have to finish a 150-day stint in jail that his trial judge ordered during his 2022 sentencing. Smollett spent just six days in jail before his release pending the outcome of the appeal. In the appeal, Smollett’s legal team says chief prosecutor Kim Foxx’s office used proper discretion to drop the original charges four years ago. Authorities said Smollett paid two men he knew from work on the TV show “Empire” to stage the attack. As he sentenced Smollett, Judge Linn excoriated him as a narcissist and pronounced himself astounded by Smollett's actions given the actor’s multiracial family background and ties to social justice work.

Persons: Smollett’s, ”, Smollett, Nenye Uche, Uche, Dan Webb’s, Kim Foxx’s, “, he’d, Prosecutors, Donald Trump’s, James Linn, Judge Linn excoriated, ___ Organizations: CHICAGO, Authorities Locations: Illinois, Chicago, Cook, MAGA, Cook County

☆ Analysis: Donald Trump's $200,000 bond drives home the unique peril of his Georgia indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Trump had to agree, for example, to make no threats on social media against co-defendants, witnesses and the 30 unindicted co-conspirators. The former president has excoriated special counsel Jack Smith, who indicted him twice, on social media and in speeches. Elliot Williams, a former federal prosecutor and CNN legal analyst, said that the terms were fair and did not infringe on Trump’s rights. Trump’s many late-night social media eruptions will make it hard for observers to believe that he will stick to the conditions to which he’s agreed. By Monday evening, Trump had already posted on his social media network about the bond.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Norm Eisen, Barack Obama, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, he’d, Fani Willis, Geoff Duncan, “ shouldn’t, Duncan, Willis, Scott McAfee, Jack Smith, Tanya Chutkan, Chutkan, Elliot Williams, “, ” Williams, Trump’s, he’s, it’s, Anthony Michael Kreis, CNN’s Brianna Keilar, ” Trump’s, John Eastman, Bond, Ray Smith, Ken Chesebro, Scott Hall, Smith, –, Tolstoy Organizations: CNN, Trump, Democrat, Manhattan, Attorney’s Office, Florida –, Republican, Georgia State University, Conservative, Washington Locations: Atlanta, Milwaukee, Georgia, Fulton County, Washington, Florida, Texas, Washington , DC, Iowa

☆ A federal judge wondered if Elon Musk was trying to 'cozy up' to Trump by trying to inform him about a search warrant into his social media account
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In January, federal prosecutors obtained a search warrant to obtain information from Trump's personal Twitter account. Twitter's legal team argued that it needed to inform Trump of the warrant. The judge asked if this was a result of Twitter owner Elon Musk trying to "cozy up" to Trump. News of the search warrant broke on August 9, though it was not clear at the time what data, Smith and his team were working to obtain. Twitter's team simply said it has "no interest other than litigating its constitutional rights"Howell ended up fining Twitter $350,000 for taking too long to comply with the warrant.

Persons: Trump, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Jack Smith's, Smith, Beryl Howell, Howell excoriated, Howell, Twitter's, Musk Organizations: Twitter, Trump, Service, US, Prosecutors, Truth Locations: Wall, Silicon, .

☆ South Africa’s stance on Russia puzzles many. Could a mine in the desert hold answers?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( David Mckenzie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Johannesburg, South Africa CNN —To many observers, South Africa’s stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine is puzzling. This week, while many African leaders stay away, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is attending a Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg along with key ministers. So, why is South Africa putting this important relationship at risk? The US had long treated South Africa with kid gloves, he said, mindful of not risking an important relationship. Officials have denied that anything was loaded up, but the claim is now subject to a sealed South African government inquiry.

Persons: South Africa CNN —, Cyril Ramaphosa, Viktor Vekselberg, Vladimir Putin, Byron Blunt, Chancellor House, Mogopodi Mokoena, Mokoena, UMK, ”, Karam Singh, Steven Gruzd, Reuben Brigety II, Brigety, Mikhail Metzel, Chancellor House’s, Putin, Yuri Trutnev, Konstantin Zavrazhin, Vekselberg, “, “ Mr Organizations: South Africa CNN, Russia, United Nations, Russian Navy, National Congress, Soviet Union, AmaBhungane, Investigative Journalism, CNN, Chancellor House Holdings, ANC, Mail & Guardian, Chancellor House, Corruption Watch, Chancellor, South African Institute of International Affairs, US, South, AP Mokoena, International Criminal Court, ICC, Getty, Treasury, FBI, Renova Group Locations: Johannesburg, South Africa, Ukraine, Africa, United States, Russian, Russia, St . Petersburg, States, St, Petersburg, Cape Town, African, Cape Town , South Africa, Mallorca, UMK, Cyprus, South

☆ Why Won’t Simon Ateba Stop Shouting?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

(Mr. Ateba currently has a “hard pass,” which confers regular access to White House grounds. After the meeting, which Mr. Ateba recalled as being cordial, Ms. Psaki did call on him during a briefing, on Sept. 1, 2021. Mr. Ateba asked a friendly question about whether Mr. Biden’s detractors should apologize for calling him “sleepy.”What followed, Mr. Ateba said, were several amicable months. Ms. Psaki and Mr. Ateba met privately again. As their briefing room exchange made the rounds on Twitter, Fox News invited Mr. Ateba to appear on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”“I wondered, is it in my best interest?” Mr. Ateba recalled.

Persons: Ateba, don’t, Biden, Psaki, Biden’s, Dr, Anthony Fauci, Mr, Ms, “ It’s, “ Tucker Carlson, “, Jesse Watters, Trump Organizations: White House, Twitter, Fox News Locations: United States, Africa, Asia, Europe, South Africa

☆ In a First, Louisville Taps a Black Woman to Lead Its Troubled Police Force
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Orlando Mayorquin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Louisville’s interim police chief, Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel, will continue permanently in her role and take over a department that has been in turmoil since the 2020 police killing of Breonna Taylor and was excoriated this year in a scathing U.S. Department of Justice report. Ms. Gwinn-Villaroel, 49, will be the first Black woman to serve permanently as the Louisville Metro Police Department’s chief. She had been interim chief since January, after the resignation of her predecessor, Erika Shields, one of several recent leadership changes. “Over the past six months, Chief Gwinn-Villaroel has shown our city that she has exactly what I’m looking for in a chief and exactly what our community is looking for in a leader,” Mayor Craig Greenberg, who took office in January, said Thursday in a news release announcing her hiring. “She has extensive experience in law enforcement leadership and a record of reform.”Chief Gwinn-Villaroel, a 26-year law enforcement veteran, started with the department in 2021 as a deputy chief after having spent her entire career at the Atlanta Police Department.

Persons: Jacquelyn, Breonna Taylor, Erika Shields, Gwinn, Villaroel, Craig Greenberg, “ Organizations: Department of Justice, Louisville Metro Police Department’s, ”, Atlanta Police Department

☆ House Democrat says 'perhaps we should call Hunter Biden' the 'Big Guy' after Marjorie Taylor Greene displays lewd photos
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Bryan Metzger | Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene displays lewd photos of Hunter Biden at a committee hearing on Wednesday. "Perhaps we should call Hunter Biden the 'Big Guy,'" he tweeted. On Wednesday, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia displayed lewd photos of the younger Biden at a House Oversight Committee hearing that purportedly showed Biden engaged in sexual acts with prostitutes. Hunter Biden has been in Republican lawmakers' crosshairs since his father became a frontrunner in the 2020 presidential election. "Marjorie Taylor Greene is literally showing dick pics at our Oversight Hearing," tweeted California Rep. Robert Garcia.

Persons: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Hunter Biden, Jared Moskowitz, Guy, Joe Biden, Biden, Jared Moskowitz —, —, Moskowitz, they've, Hunter, Greene, Donald Trump's, Jamie Raskin, Maryland, Robert Garcia Organizations: Democratic, Service, Privacy, Republican, Twitter, GOP, Capitol Locations: Florida, Wall, Silicon, Georgia

All eyes are onJudge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over the first pretrial hearing Tuesday in the DOJ's prosecution of Donald Trump. Since the confirmation, a least one other Cannon case made national headlines. Judge Aileen Cannon gave her confirmation testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee over Zoom on July 29, 2020. There, she prosecuted cases involving narcotics, fraud, firearms, and immigration cases, according to her Senate confirmation document. Cannon during her confirmation hearing thanked Rubio as well as fellow Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida for their "continued support."

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☆ 'A tragedy for us all': Supreme Court Justice Jackson blasts majority's affirmative action ruling
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson excoriated her colleagues who voted to strike down race-conscious college admissions policies, accusing the majority of "turning back the clock" on affirmative action. "With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces 'colorblindness for all' by legal fiat," Jackson wrote in a thundering dissent to the major court ruling Thursday. By all accounts, they are still stark," Jackson wrote. But if that is its motivation, the majority proceeds in vain," the justice wrote. Thursday's ruling dealt with two separate cases related to affirmative action policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.

Persons: Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joe Bidens, Jackson, Joe Biden, Thursday's, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, John Roberts, Roberts Organizations: Chamber, U.S, Capitol, Supreme, Harvard University, University of North, Harvard, Harvard's, UNC, Constitution Locations: Joe Bidens State, University of North Carolina

☆ The GOP push to censure Adam Schiff may only help his Senate campaign in California
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

But with Schiff running for Senate as a #Resistance hero, the censure is only likely to help him. His Senate campaign fundraised heavily on it, and he thanked his GOP colleagues in a floor speech. In a floor speech earlier on Wednesday, Schiff thanked his Republican colleagues for bringing the censure resolution, saying he stood "proudly" before them. The censure resolution alleges that Schiff "misled the American people and brought disrepute upon the House of Representatives" for his handling of the Trump-Russia investigation. Schiff has also led Porter in recent fundraising, though the congresswoman has amassed a large war chest from her House campaign account.

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☆ Barr Says Documents Case Against Trump Is ‘Entirely of His Own Making’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Chris Cameron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

William P. Barr, who served as attorney general under President Donald J. Trump, excoriated his former boss on Sunday for “reckless conduct” that led to Mr. Trump’s indictment on charges of mishandling classified documents, saying that the case was “entirely of his own making.”Mr. Barr, in an interview with CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” walked through the severity of the charges against Mr. Trump. He described the former president’s actions — laid out in a 49-page indictment — as harmful not only to the country, but also to the Republican Party and the conservative movement that Mr. Trump leads. Mr. Barr also attacked Mr. Trump’s character in extraordinary language, describing him as “a consummate narcissist” and a “fundamentally flawed person” who would always put his own ego ahead of everything else. He added that he believed Mr. Trump had lied to the Justice Department about the classified documents in his possession. “He’s like a defiant 9-year-old kid who is always pushing the glass towards the edge of the table, defying his parents from stopping him from doing it,” Mr. Barr said, adding that “our country can’t be a therapy session for a troubled man like this.”

Persons: William P, Barr, Donald J, Trump, excoriated, Mr, ”, —, “, ” Mr Organizations: CBS, Mr, Republican Party, Justice Department

☆ Texas dropped off dozens of migrants in Los Angeles after a 30-hour bus ride with no food or water
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Greg Abbott bused 42 migrants from the state's border area to Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Daily News reported that the migrants were not given food or water during the 30-hour busride. The bus ride from the Texas border area to Los Angeles was about 30 hours without food or water, said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, director of communications for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights. Eight of the migrants are children, including toddlers and babies, the Los Angeles Daily News reported. Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass excoriated the Texas governor, accusing him of pulling a cheap "stunt" that treated humans like "pawns."

Persons: Greg Abbott bused, Abbott, —, Greg Abbott, Jorge, Mario Cabrera, Karen Bass excoriated, Biden's, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis — Organizations: Texas Gov, Los Angeles Daily News, Service, Gov, Union, Croatian Catholic Church, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Immigration, Angeles, Daily News, Florida Gov, GOP Locations: state's, Los Angeles, Texas, California, St, Chinatown, Mexico, Biden's, Florida, Massachusetts

☆ Merck sues Biden administration over Medicare drug price negotiations
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Global drugmaker Merck on Tuesday sued the Biden administration over Medicare's new powers to substantially reduce drug prices for seniors under the Inflation Reduction Act, the opening salvo in the pharmaceutical industry's efforts to weaken the program. In a scathing complaint filed in federal court in Washington D.C., Merck excoriated the negotiation process as a "sham" and "tantamount to extortion." The Inflation Reduction Act, which became law last summer, was a major victory for President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress, who have long pushed to empower Medicare to combat rising drug prices. The pharmaceutical industry has fiercely opposed the law, arguing it will stifle new drug development. Merck has asked a judge to block HHS from compelling the drugmaker to participate in the program.

Persons: Merck, Joe Biden Organizations: Global, Merck, Biden, Washington D.C, Department of Health, Services, Government Locations: Washington

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