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☆ Opinion: Harvey Weinstein’s prosecutors made a huge mistake. Trump’s prosecutors risk repeating it
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Opinion Jim Walden | Deanna Paul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Jim Walden Courtesy of Jim WaldenA few days later, New York’s highest court overturned the sex crimes conviction of Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. And the recent dramatic developments in the Weinstein case demonstrate why the presiding judge in the Trump trial, Judge Juan Merchan, needs to reverse his ruling allowing Trump to be questioned about proven misconduct from other cases. If he doesn’t, Trump could have an easy path to having a conviction in the case tossed out. This is essentially what happened in the Weinstein case. If he does not, Trump could get a conviction overturned while the ink hasn’t yet dried on the jury’s verdict.

Persons: Jim Walden, Deanna Paul, Walden, Donald Trump’s Manhattan, Harvey Weinstein, Weinstein, Trump, Juan Merchan, Deanna Paul Meredith Eves Flynn Trump, —, Karen McDougal, Stormy Daniels, David Pecker, Michael Cohen, Cohen, Daniels, Maggie Haberman, Merchan, Letitia James, E, Jean Carroll, Merchan’s, James Burke, Burke’s Organizations: New, CNN, Republican, Hollywood, Trump, Prosecutors, National Enquirer, New York Times, New York, Manhattan, Appeals Locations: New York

☆ The Offense That Harvey Weinstein Can Never Be Convicted Of
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Jodi Kantor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For the first time in years, there is a chance that Harvey Weinstein could walk free. His New York conviction for sex crimes was overturned on Thursday. Manhattan’s district attorney says he wants to retry Mr. Weinstein, but that seems, at most, a maybe. Many of Mr. Weinstein’s accusers say they are horrified. But criminal convictions have never seemed like the ultimate measure of Mr. Weinstein’s behavior.

Persons: Harvey Weinstein, Mr, Weinstein, —, ” Locations: York, Manhattan’s, Los Angeles, New York

☆ How a New Trial for Harvey Weinstein Could Again Test the Legal System
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Jan Ransom | Hurubie Meko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As one of Harvey Weinstein’s key accusers took the witness stand during his trial in New York, she broke down in tears, sobbing uncontrollably. Hyperventilating, the woman was ushered out and her piercing screams bellowed out from a back room. The episode was one of many tense moments in the highly publicized, weekslong trial of the former Hollywood titan in 2020. The appeals court ordered a new trial. But the original trial in 2020 against Mr. Weinstein was about much more than one man’s guilt.

Persons: Harvey Weinstein’s, Weinstein Organizations: New, Mr, Prosecutors Locations: New York, Manhattan

☆ Opinion | Harvey Weinstein and the Limits of ‘She Said, She Said, She Said’
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Jessica Bennett | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Those following Mr. Weinstein’s legal battles always knew there was a possibility that his conviction would be thrown out on appeal. But the nature of the decision, and its focus on several women who testified that Mr. Weinstein had assaulted them, even though none of those allegations had led to charges, revealed something that unsettled me. Until Thursday, it seemed that we had entered a new age of accountability, legal and social, not just for Mr. Weinstein but also for the abusers who’d come after him. Even as the #MeToo movement fell short in some ways, the Weinstein case felt like a cultural marker — an Arthur’s sword in the stone moment, in which something irreversible happened. The monster of #MeToo had been vanquished, and it changed something about the way we understood vulnerability and power.

Persons: Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, Weinstein’s, Weinstein, who’d, MeToo Locations: Manhattan, York

The decision by New York’s top court on Thursday to overturn the conviction of Harvey Weinstein on sex crime charges raised many thorny legal questions. Perhaps chief among them: Will it bolster his chances of a successful appeal in a similar case in California? Mr. Weinstein’s lawyer in California, Jennifer Bonjean, plans to file that appeal next month, and has said she believes the New York decision helps her chances of winning. In both cases, prosecutors offered witnesses who said they had been assaulted by Mr. Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood producer, even though their accounts were not tied to criminal charges. The tactic was at the heart of the 4-to-3 decision on Thursday by New York’s Court of Appeals, which concluded that the judge who presided over Mr. Weinstein’s case in 2020 had deprived him of a fair trial by allowing those witnesses to testify.

Persons: Harvey Weinstein, Weinstein’s, Jennifer Bonjean, Weinstein Organizations: New, Hollywood, Appeals, Mr Locations: California, York

New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned the felony sex crimes conviction of the notorious Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, a staggering reversal of a bedrock case in the #MeToo era that prompted countless victims of sexual harassment and assault to come forward as accusers. In a bitterly contested 4-to-3 decision, the New York Court of Appeals found that the judge who had presided over Mr. Weinstein’s case deprived him of a fair trial in 2020 by allowing prosecutors to call witnesses who said Mr. Weinstein had assaulted them — but whose accusations were not the basis for any of the charges against him. Responding on Thursday, the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, announced that he would seek to prosecute Mr. Weinstein again. “We will do everything in our power to retry this case, and remain steadfast in our commitment to survivors of sexual assault,” a spokeswoman for Mr. Bragg’s office said. The case was originally prosecuted by his predecessor, Cyrus R. Vance Jr.

Persons: Harvey Weinstein, Weinstein’s, Weinstein, Alvin L, Bragg, Mr, “, ”, Cyrus R, Vance Jr Organizations: Hollywood, New, Appeals, Mr Locations: Manhattan

☆ Harvey Weinstein’s Conviction Was Fragile From the Start
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Jodi Kantor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s New York sex crimes conviction on Thursday morning may feel like a shocking reversal, but the criminal case against him has been fragile since the day it was filed. New York’s top judges, many of them female, have held rounds of pained debates over whether his conviction was clean. The issue of whether Mr. Weinstein’s trial was fair “is a really close question that could have gone either way.”Outside the justice system, evidence of Mr. Weinstein’s sexual misconduct is overwhelming. But while Mr. Weinstein’s alleged victims could fill an entire courtroom, few of them could stand at the center of a New York criminal trial. One of the original accusers was dropped from the trial because of allegations of police misconduct.

Persons: Harvey Weinstein’s, I’m, ”, Deborah Tuerkheimer, Weinstein’s, Weinstein Organizations: Prosecutors, Northwestern, New York Times, New Locations: York, Manhattan, New York

☆ Harvey Weinstein sex crime conviction overturned and new trial ordered
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Eric Levenson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The New York Court of Appeals on Thursday overturned the sex crimes conviction against Harvey Weinstein, the powerful Hollywood producer whose downfall stood as a symbol of the #MeToo movement. Douglas H. Wigdor, an attorney who has represented eight of Weinstein’s accusers, including two of the “prior bad acts” witnesses at his New York criminal trial, criticized the ruling. In addition, three other women testified during the trial as “prior bad acts” witnesses as prosecutors sought to show Weinstein had a pattern of abuse. The use of “prior bad acts” witnesses has increased in recent years with the rise of the #MeToo movement. “Prior bad acts” evidence is one exception to this rule.

Persons: Harvey Weinstein, “, uncharged, Jenny Rivera, ” Weinstein, Weinstein, ” Donna Rotunno, ”, Emily Tuttle, Douglas H, Weinstein’s, MeToo, Bill Cosby, Miriam Haley, Jessica Mann, Haley, Mann Organizations: CNN, The New, Hollywood, Correctional Facility, of Corrections, Attorney’s, Manhattan, The New York Times, Yorker Locations: The New York, Rome , New York, Los Angeles, New York, Manhattan, York, Hollywood, Love, Pennsylvania

☆ Live Updates: Harvey Weinstein’s Conviction Is Overturned by New York’s Top Court
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Jonah E. Bromwich | Maria Cramer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

PinnedNew York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on felony sex crime charges, a stunning reversal in the foundational case of the #MeToo era. Citing that decision and others it identified as errors, the appeals court determined that Mr. Weinstein, who as a movie producer had been one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, had not received a fair trial. The four judges in the majority wrote that Mr. Weinstein was not tried solely on the crimes he was charged with, but instead for much of his past behavior. It was not immediately clear on Thursday morning how the decision would affect Mr. Weinstein, 71, who is being held in an upstate prison in Rome, N.Y. Mr. Weinstein was accused of sexual misconduct by more than 100 women; in New York he was convicted of assaulting two of them.

Persons: Harvey Weinstein’s, Weinstein’s, Weinstein, Alvin L, Bragg —, Donald J, Trump Organizations: New, Appeals, Mr, Beverly Hills Locations: Hollywood, Manhattan, Rome, California, Beverly, New York

☆ Weinstein’s Conviction Is Overturned: 5 Takeaways
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Maria Cramer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In a 4-to-3 decision on Thursday, New York’s highest court overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on felony sex crime charges, a reversal that horrified and dismayed many of the women whose decision to speak out against Mr. Weinstein, a prominent Hollywood producer, accelerated the #MeToo movement. The New York Court of Appeals agreed with Mr. Weinstein’s defense team that the trial judge who presided over the sex crimes case in Manhattan, Justice James Burke, made a critical error when he let prosecutors call as witnesses several women who testified that Mr. Weinstein had assaulted them, even though none of those allegations had led to charges. The women became known as Molineux witnesses, a term that refers to trial witnesses who are allowed to testify about criminal acts that the defendant has not been charged with committing. In writing for the majority, Judge Jenny Rivera said permitting such testimony in Mr. Weinstein’s case had served to wrongly “diminish defendant’s character before the jury.”

Persons: Harvey Weinstein’s, Weinstein, James Burke, Jenny Rivera, Weinstein’s, ” Organizations: New, Mr Locations: Hollywood, New York, Manhattan, Molineux

The Harvey Weinstein Appeal Ruling, AnnotatedThe 2020 conviction of Harvey Weinstein on felony sex crime charges in Manhattan was overturned on Thursday by New York’s top court. The ruling by the New York Court of Appeals said the trial judge in Mr. Weinstein’s case, Justice James M. Burke, erred in letting prosecutors call some women as witnesses who said Mr. Weinstein had assaulted them, but whose accusations were not included as charges. The appeals court found that Mr. Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood producer whose case ignited the #MeToo movement, had not received a fair trial. The New York Times is annotating the ruling. Download the original PDF.

Persons: Harvey Weinstein, James M, Burke, Weinstein, “, Mr Organizations: New, Appeals, Hollywood, New York Times Locations: Manhattan, California

☆ Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned by New York appeals court
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, California, October 4, 2022. Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction was overturned Thursday in New York, making way for a new trial. The court called the errors "egregious" and ordered a new trial, meaning his accusers could again be called to testify. "This Court has continued a disturbing trend of overturning juries' guilty verdicts in cases involving sexual violence," Singas wrote. The charges came to light in 2017 following investigative reports published by The New York Times and The New Yorker.

Persons: Harvey Weinstein, Clara Shortridge Foltz, Harvey Weinstein's, uncharged, Madeline Singas, Singas, Juda, Weinstein, Engelmayer Organizations: Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal, Center, Appeals, NBC News, The New York Times, Yorker Locations: Los Angeles , California, New York, California, Los Angeles

☆ Alvin Bragg: We Must Address New York City’s Mental Health Crisis - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Alvin L. Bragg Jr. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed with a seven-inch steel letter opener. The woman who stabbed him was named Izola Ware Curry. The many Izola Ware Currys in New York today are far more likely to find themselves in jail, or relegated to street corners and subway stations, than they are to receive comprehensive treatment. This disconnect can set the stage for people with mental illness to be both victims and perpetrators of real violence. Mental illness isn’t a crime, and jail isn’t the answer for those experiencing it.

Persons: Martin Luther King Jr, Izola Ware Curry, King, “, Ware Locations: Harlem, New York

☆ Opinion: How Trump plans to win the presidency
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Julian Zelizer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

A potentially successful multi-prong strategy with electoral, media, legal, legislative and third-party intervention appears to be in place. Julian Zelizer Larry LevantiWhile 2020 was about subverting the Electoral College, Trump has been trying to work the rules to his advantage in 2024. These tactics build on the ways that Trump’s campaign had moved to shift primary rules to favor him. Trump is also working the 24-hour cable news and social media ecosystem to his advantage. When a bipartisan group of senators pushed a right-of-center immigration and foreign aid bill, Trump rallied his House minions to subvert passage.

Persons: Julian Zelizer, Donald Trump, Julian Zelizer Larry Levanti, Trump, Joe Biden, —, Biden, MAGA, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Greene, Mike Johnson, Robert Kennedy Jr, Jill, Timothy Mellon — Organizations: CNN, Princeton University, New York Times, America, Twitter, Electoral College, Republicans, GOP, MAGA Republicans, FISA, Green, The New York Times, Inc, Cornel Locations: In Nebraska, New York, Trump’s, Ukraine

☆ Chasing the eclipse with sounding rockets and high-altitude planes
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

NASA will launch sounding rockets and WB-57 high-altitude planes to conduct research on aspects of the sun and Earth that‘s only possible during an eclipse. During the 2017 eclipse that crossed the US, NASA and other space agencies conducted observations using 11 different spacecraft and two high-altitude planes. Three sounding rockets will launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on April 8 to study the eclipse. During the 2023 annular eclipse, instruments on the rockets measured sharp, immediate changes in the ionosphere. The jets have custom noses that can carry specialized scientific instruments.

Persons: Bill Stafford, Albert Einstein’s, Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington, Allison Stancil, Barjatya, ” Barjatya, Peter Layshock, Amir Caspi, Layshock, ” Caspi Organizations: CNN, NASA, International Space, Embry, Riddle Aeronautical University, WB, NASA Airborne Science, Johnson Space Center, Southwest Research Locations: Mexico, United States, Canada, Brazil, West Africa, Virginia, Daytona Beach , Florida, Houston, Boulder , Colorado

☆ Third-party candidates are the worrisome wild card amid Biden-Trump rematch in Wisconsin
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Jeff Zeleny | Gregory Krieg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

In 2020, Biden won the state by fewer than 21,000 votes, with no Green Party candidates on the ballot. Four years earlier, Trump carried Wisconsin by nearly 23,000 votes, with the Green Party’s Jill Stein earning more than 30,000 voters. When third-party candidates were added to the mix, both Biden and Trump saw their numbers fall by about 10 percentage points. “It really brings forward the idea that the two big parties just hand us candidates to choose from,” Anderson said. But Democrats have long viewed Stein’s campaign as one of the decisive factors in delivering Trump the state of Wisconsin and the presidency.

Persons: Donald Trump, Robert Kennedy Jr, Mike Crute, Joe Biden, ” Crute, “, Biden, Trump, Jill Stein, Stein, Kennedy, Cornel West, –, ”, Crute, CNN’s “ Erin Burnett OutFront ”, ” Kennedy, Phil Anderson, ” Anderson, Anderson, ‘ Kennedy, they’ll, Brian Schimming, ” Schimming, Schimming, Robert F, Jr, Kelda Roys, Hillary Clinton’s, Clinton, “ It’s, Biden’s, ” Roys, we’re, Anthony Gray, “ I’m, ” Gray, Bobby Jr Organizations: Wisconsin CNN, Republicans, Trump, Biden, Green Party, Marquette University Law School, West, Wisconsin Libertarian, Wisconsin Republican Party, Republican, Democratic, Democratic National Committee, ”, Dane County, of Supervisors Locations: Madison, Wisconsin, Gaza, Dane

☆ You Know Him From N.B.A. Games. You Know His House From ‘Selling Sunset.’
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Sam Lubell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

So it makes sense that James Goldstein’s house, hovering over a canyon atop Beverly Hills, Calif., is one of the most strange, fascinating and perplexing architectural projects in the world. Goldstein, 84, a controversial figure who made his fortune investing in mobile-home parks in California, may be familiar to you. He’s that leathery-skinned, frizzy-haired guy always sitting courtside at N.B.A. “The word subtle doesn’t exist for me,” Goldstein said, dressed in all-black tennis gear and a palm tree-emblazoned black jacket. He’s sitting on the sprawling lower terrace of his home’s recently-completed (for now), three-level addition, which is a separate compound overlooking the towers of Century City and, beyond that, the glinting bend of the Pacific Coast.

Persons: James Goldstein’s, Goldstein, —, John Lautner, Rihanna, ” Goldstein Locations: Beverly Hills, Calif, California, N.B.A, Paris, Milan, City, Pacific Coast

☆ Hugh Grant says he’s considered a career in politics
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —British actor Hugh Grant has admitted that he thought about embarking on a career in politics before reconsidering due to the abuse faced by politicians. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly about his role in political satire miniseries “The Regime,” Grant, who has played politicians on screen, was asked whether he had ever entertained the thought of entering politics in real life. I never know if they’re real or if they’re bots. And it was absolutely terrifying,” said Grant. The abuse “was really extreme and shocking and threatening to one’s family,” he added.

Persons: Hugh Grant, ” Grant, You’ve, ”, Grant, Anna Elisabet Eberstein’s, Susanne Eberstein, “, Edward Keplinger, Martha Plimpton, –, Kepliner, Elena Vernham, Kate Winslet, Will Tracy, Stephen Frears, Jessica Hobbs Organizations: CNN, Weekly, Conservative Party, HBO Locations: British, Central Europe

☆ Pop art: Explaining it’s enduring appeal
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-18 | by ( Christian House | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —As accidental adverts for art shows go, a giant pooch made of flowers is a crowd pleaser. Outside the Guggenheim Bilbao in northern Spain, Jeff Koons’ much-loved flower 1992 sculpture “Puppy,” shows how Pop art — that high kick of counter-intuitive artistic expression so often equated with the 1960s — never really went away. The Pop baton has been handed over numerous times in art history. The Guggenheim Museum was pivotal to the development of the movement, both in terms of its fame and its art historical importance. The show features works by many American Pop art A-listers like Roy Lichtenstein (above).

Persons: Jeff Koons ’, —, Koons, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg —, Lauren Hinkson, ” Erika Ede, ”, Claes Oldenburg, Maurizio Cattelan, Pinocchio, Lucia Hierro, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, Coosje van Bruggen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Erika Ede, Joan Young, “ Andy Warhol, “, Lucía Hierro, Hierro, Lucía Guzmán, –, “ I’ve, begonias, Pop Organizations: CNN, Guggenheim, Highland, Guggenheim Museum Locations: Spain, York, Manhattan, Bilbao, Dominican American, New York, Hierro

☆ Pi Day means pizza deals
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York CNN —Pi Day isn’t just about showing off how many numbers you have memorized – restaurants from Burger King to California Pizza Kitchen are offering deals and discounts on Thursday, March 14th. Pi Day has also become synonymous with pizza pie (and other round foods) – here are some deals to round out your celebration. Pizza HutFrom March 12-14, Pizza Hut has been offering a free large one-topping pizza with purchase of a large menu-priced pizza. 7-ElevenLoyalty members can get any flavor large pizza for $3.14 in 7-Eleven, Speedway and Stripes stores – limited to one transaction, two per day. Burger KingAs part of its week of breakfast deals, Burger King is offering a free Hershey’s sundae pie with a $3.14 purchase.

Persons: Albert Einstein’s, Burger Organizations: New, New York CNN, Pi, BJ’s, Burger King Locations: New York, Burger King, California, United States, Burger

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is seeking to delay his March 25 hush money trial until the Supreme Court rules on the presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases. Trump contends he is immune for prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office. His lawyers argue some of the evidence and alleged acts in the hush money case overlap with his time in the White House and constitute official acts. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments April 25, a month after the scheduled start of jury selection in Trump’s hush money case. A federal judge last year rejected Trump’s claim that allegations in the hush-money indictment involved official duties, nixing his bid to move the case from state court to federal court.

Persons: — Donald Trump, Juan Manuel Merchan, Merchan, Trump, Michael Cohen, Cohen, Stormy Daniels, Daniels, nixing, could’ve, —, Alvin Hellerstein, ”, Hellerstein’s, Eric Tucker Organizations: Republican, Monday, Manhattan, D.C, White, U.S, Capitol, Trump, Prosecutors, Associated Press Locations: York, Washington, Manhattan, U.S

☆ Why Don’t More American Maestros Lead American Orchestras?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Javier C. Hernández | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Leonard Bernstein was named music director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958, his appointment was hailed as a breakthrough for orchestra conductors from the United States. For decades, American maestros had been cast aside in classical music, seen as inferior to Europeans. But Bernstein’s rise, recently glamorized in the Oscar-nominated “Maestro,” showed that conductors from the United States could compete with their finest counterparts across the Atlantic. Commentators predicted a golden age for American conductors at the top American orchestras. Four of the 25 largest ensembles in the United States have an American at the podium, and at the nation’s biggest, most prestigious orchestras, American music directors are entirely absent.

Persons: Leonard Bernstein, maestros, Oscar, “ Maestro, ” Organizations: New York Philharmonic, D.C, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Locations: United States, Atlanta , Baltimore, Boston , New York, San Francisco, Seattle, St, Louis, Washington, American

☆ Schiff and Garvey will advance to California Senate general election , CNN projects
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Arit John | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey have advanced to the general election in the open primary for California’s open Senate seat, CNN projects, setting up an uphill battle for the state’s beleaguered GOP. Under California’s open primary system, all candidates run on the same ballot, and the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, move on to the general election. Garvey beat two Democratic congresswomen – Reps. Katie Porter and Barbara Lee – to secure a place on the general election ballot, despite raising a fraction of what his opponents did and airing no TV ads. During the general election, Schiff will likely continue to emphasize his profile as one of the chief Trump antagonists in the House, a role bolstered by his work on the former president’s impeachment and various other Trump investigations. Schiff, Porter and Lee entered the race early last year, while Garvey launched his campaign in October.

Persons: Adam Schiff, Steve Garvey, Schiff, Garvey, Democratic Sen, Dianne Feinstein’s, Laphonza Butler, Butler, Katie Porter, Barbara Lee –, Porter, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Eric Early, Trump, ” Garvey, Lee, Feinstein Organizations: CNN — Democratic, CNN, Democratic, Republicans, Democratic congresswomen, Trump, Republican, House Intelligence Locations: California

☆ Schiff and Garvey Advance in the California Senate Race for Feinstein’s Seat
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Shawn Hubler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Representative Adam Schiff, the lead prosecutor in Donald J. Trump’s first impeachment trial, and Steve Garvey, a former Major League Baseball star, advanced on Tuesday night to the California general election for a Senate seat, according to The Associated Press. Representative Barbara Lee, a Democrat and well-known Bay Area progressive, was in fourth place. The November general election will determine who will replace Dianne Feinstein, who held the seat for more than three decades until her death in September. During the campaign, Ms. Porter, 50, had accused Mr. Schiff, 63, and his supporters of engineering Mr. Garvey’s ascendance to set up an easier November election. Mr. Schiff, who had raised more than $30 million by last month, spent lavishly on statewide ads that compared Mr. Garvey to Mr. Trump, and that framed him as Mr. Schiff’s chief opponent.

Persons: Adam Schiff, Donald J, Trump’s, Steve Garvey, Schiff, Garvey, Katie Porter, Barbara Lee, Dianne Feinstein, Porter, Garvey’s ascendance, Mr, Trump, Schiff’s Organizations: Major League Baseball, Associated Press, Democratic, Orange County Democrat, Democrat Locations: California, Los Angeles, Orange

☆ Albert Einstein College of Medicine to offer free tuition after billion-dollar gift
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York will receive free tuition after a $1 billion dollar donation from a former faculty member. In 2010, their gift of $25 million to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine went towards creating the school’s Institute for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine. Professor Emerita of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and The Lizette H. Sarnoff Award recipient Ruth L. Gottesman, Ed.D. Brent N. Clarke/Getty ImagesDr. Ruth Gottesman joined the medical school in 1968 and developed screening, evaluation and treatments for children with learning disabilities. In 2018, in part due to Langone’s donations, NYU’s School of Medicine became the first medical school in the country to offer free tuition to accepted students.

Persons: Ruth Gottesman, David “ Sandy ” Gottesman, Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, Philip Ozuah, Sandy Gottesman, “, Sandy, ”, H, Sarnoff, Ruth L, Brent N, Clarke, Emily Fisher Landau, Ruth Gottesman’s, Michael Bloomberg, Ken Langone, Yaron Tomer, Albert Einstein Organizations: New, New York CNN, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medicine, Manhattan Co, school’s, Stem Cell Research, Regenerative, Sinai, Pediatrics, Rehabilitation Center, Emily Fisher Landau Center, Johns Hopkins University, Home Depot, NYU’s School of Medicine, Association of American Medical Colleges, ” Locations: New York, Berkshire, Manhattan, New York City, Bronx

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