However, many on X noted how the political views espoused by the account under Routh’s name were not exclusively pro-Democrat. The account described voting for Trump when he won the presidency in 2016 and expressed support for a White House ticket combining the unsuccessful Republican presidential primary contenders Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley.

The account’s most recent post was addressed to Harris, timed in between Trump’s failed 13 July assassination at a political rally in Pennsylvania and when she replaced Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket after the president opted to halt his re-election campaign. The post said the vice-president and Biden should visit two spectators wounded and attend the funeral of a rally-goer slain at the shooting before the attacker was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper.

In January of 2023, Secretary of State Antony Blinken defended U.S. diplomats who had come forward to report suspected incidents. "Their pain is real," he said then. "I have no higher priority than the health and safety of each of you."

At that same time, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said it was "very unlikely" that a foreign adversary was responsible for the AHIs reported. Some published reports have suggested that the symptoms were characteristic of "mass psychogenic illness." The declassified report rejects that, finding that the AHIs "do not fit criteria for mass psychogenic illness."

Of particular concern was the evidence that some of the cases occurred on American soil. In 2019 a White House official reported symptoms while walking her dog in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C.

Tasked with examining pregnancy-related deaths to improve maternal health, the experts, including 10 doctors, deemed hers “preventable” and said the hospital’s delay in performing the critical procedure had a “large” impact on her fatal outcome.

Their reviews of individual patient cases are not made public. But ProPublica obtained reports that confirm that at least two women have already died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state.

There are almost certainly others.

Media outlets have been barred from the proceedings, which are expected to unfold with testimony from the media titan and the four children named in the trust over the next week, according to the New York Times, which first brought the dispute to light after obtaining copies of sealed court documents.

These types of family battles often end in settlements. The case could also be prolonged, if it ends in a decision that one side chooses to appeal against.

Prudence is Mr Murdoch's eldest child, from his marriage to his first wife Patricia Booker.

In the name of scientific advancement, clinical education and fiscal expediency, the bodies of the destitute in the Dallas-Fort Worth region have been routinely collected from hospital beds, nursing homes and homeless encampments and used for training or research without their consent — and often without the approval of any survivors, an NBC News investigation found.

The judges agreed, until the conservatives sought to include an additional proposition that mandated anyone seeking to enforce the Constitution’s ban on insurrectionist candidates get congressional approval. Four justices—Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Amy Coney Barrett—thought that idea went too far, and wrote concurrences in disagreement. Roberts himself wrote the majority opinion.

Roberts also took charge of the court’s ruling that declared the government went too far in charging those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.

He had initially assigned the case to Samuel Alito but abruptly took it over himself days after the Times revealed Alito’s wife Martha-Ann hung an upside-down U.S. flag—an emblem of the “Stop the Steal” movement, and propagated by some Jan. 6 rioters—outside his home, according to the Times. It was unclear whether the two episodes were linked; none of the justices answered the Times’ questions

The average life expectancy for American corrections officers is 59, compared with 75 in the general population, according to the Vera Institute of Justice. Officers also experience higher than average rates of depression, PTSD and suicidality.

It was these bleak statistics that in 2019 drove Washington’s corrections secretary at the time, Stephen Sinclair, to explore the Norway model after hearing an Amend presentation at a conference.

Like other states, Washington’s intention has been to adapt elements of Norway’s system, rather than create a carbon copy, and to empower staff and incarcerated people to come up with ideas. “It’s very fluid and dynamic,” Grubb said.

Great info, but a little boring. I suggest speeding it up a bit.

If he loses the 2024 presidential election, former President Donald Trump will likely lobby House Republicans to refuse to certify the results.

This was not as much of a problem in 2020 when Democrats held the majority of seats, but with Republicans now holding a narrow majority, it could become a legitimate issue.

However, Politico reports that a bipartisan group of House lawmakers have banded together to jointly pledge to certify the results of the 2024 presidential election, and the group so far includes six House Republicans.

This means that, should these six Republicans keep their pledge to certify a win for Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump's allies would be unable to block the certification of the election given the current numbers in the House of Representatives.

A three-judge panel at the second circuit denied Trump’s request, citing Judge Juan Merchan’s delay of Trump’s sentencing date to 26 November from 18 September. Merchan wrote that he wanted to avoid the unwarranted perception of a political motive.

Merchan will now decide on 12 November whether the case should be dismissed because of the supreme court’s immunity decision, which stemmed from a separate, federal criminal case Trump faces over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden. Trump has pleaded not guilty in that case, amid many legal woes still hanging over him.

Speaking to WIRED on Tuesday, a senior FCC official said that the final net neutrality order has been updated to ensure that paid fast lanes in consumer-facing products violate the agency’s rules. The official also said that providers couldn’t mask consumer products as enterprise ones to skirt the rules.

In April, the FCC reinstated net neutrality rules that would reclassify broadband, once again, as a “common carrier” service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. By reinstating net neutrality, the agency can prevent internet service providers, like AT&T and Verizon, from blocking, throttling, or offering pay-to-play fast lanes to online services.

The court concluded that pregnant women in the state have a "fundamental right to choose abortion before viability exists under the enumerated and unenumerated interests protected by" the state's constitution.

"The Court concludes [the law] violates the Constitution of the State of North Dakota and is void for vagueness and of no effect," the order said.

Romanick wrote that implicit in the right to personal autonomy, liberty and happiness is "a woman’s right and responsibility to decide what her pregnancy demands of her in the context of her life and in the context of her health."

"Prior to viability, a woman must retain the ultimate control over her own destiny, her own body, and ultimately the path of her life," he continued. "A woman’s choice of whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term shapes the very nature and future course of her life, on nearly every possible level. The Court finds that such a choice, at least pre-viability, must belong to the individual woman and not to the government. "

As part of his criminal case over Jan. 6, federal prosecutors described the rioter, Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, as a “white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer,” who told his coworkers at a naval weapons station that “Hitler should have finished the job” and “babies born with any deformities or disabilities should be shot in the forehead.”

Court filings featured multiple pictures of Hale-Cusanelli at work with a “Hitler mustache.” A lengthy online video he posted in 2020 attacked what he called a “Hasidic Jewish invasion” of New Jersey and compared orthodox Jews to a “plague of locusts.”

Judge Juan Merchan had partially terminated the order after the former president was found guilty in May on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. With the trial over, Merchan ended the order’s restrictions related to trial witnesses and the jury, but he kept them in place for speech targeting Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s staff, court staff, their family members as well as family members of Bragg and Merchan.

Almost 95% of the union members - who produce planes including the 737 Max and 777 - voted in the ballot rejected the pay deal.

Of those who voted, 96% back strike action until a new agreement is reached.

As well as a 25% pay rise over four years, the preliminary agreement that workers rejected included a commitment from Boeing to build its next commercial plane in the Seattle area if the project started during the lifetime of the contract.

The union had initially targeted a number of improvements to workers' packages, including a 40% pay rise.

On the face of it, it is hard to see a quick solution unless Boeing capitulates.

“I don’t know that I would characterize it as [an] active, recruited, knowing asset in the way that people in the intelligence community think of that term," McCabe said. "But I do think that Donald Trump has given us many reasons to question his approach to the Russia problem in the United States, and I think his approach to interacting with Vladimir Putin, be it phone calls, face-to-face meetings, the things that he has said in public about Putin, all raise significant questions.”

McCabe raised suspicions about Trump's attitude toward Ukraine and NATO in the face of Russian aggression and said he's had concerns about his admiration for Vladimir Putin since the ex-president fired him in March 2018, two days before he was due to retire, during the FBI's investigation of Kremlin interference in the 2016 election.

Thursday’s oral arguments pitted plaintiffs against state officials in a challenge over DeSantis’ 2022 congressional map that eliminated a district where Black voters had consistently elected their preferred candidates for three decades. DeSantis’ map dismantled the former 5th Congressional District, which stretched about 200 miles across North Florida from Jacksonville to Tallahassee and was formerly held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Al Lawson. In its stead, DeSantis spread those Black voters across four separate districts, all of which elected white Republicans in 2022.

Alito reported two trips for which he received transportation, food, or lodging in 2022. He received lodging and meals during a trip to Duke University to teach a class, and he was reimbursed for a four-day trip to Rome paid for by Notre Dame Law School.

Alito reported one gift in 2023: concert tickets worth $900 from Gloria von Thurn und Taxis. A recent article in Tatler, the British high society magazine, indicated that von Thurn und Taxis, a German princess, is best known these days “as a Catholic activist and proselyte.” The form does not indicate who played at the concert.

Alito continues to maintain a robust investment portfolio that contains mutual funds but also shares in individual companies – including Molson Coors, 3M, Abbott Laboratories, Boeing, Caterpillar, and Dow – that sometimes appear at the court.

The US Secret Service said the decision to treat the procedure at the Capitol as a "national special security event" was made after they received numerous calls from politicians, including Washington's mayor.

The agency said the classification will allow for "significant resources" at local, state and federal levels and a "comprehensive security plan".

This will be the first time lawmakers confirm election results since the US Capitol riot, when supporters of former President Donald Trump violently breached the complex.

Using closed captioning of the videos we downloaded before the videos were removed, we've compiled lists of terms frequently mentioned in them, along with a searchable database:

In his ruling Thursday, Davis granted parts of both sides' motions, denying other parts. He agreed with Newsmax that not all of the allegedly defamatory statements had been proven false, allowing it to dispute falsity at trial. He also said there was no evidence that Newsmax was acting with intent to harm Smartmatic with its coverage.

But in wins for Smartmatic, he ruled firmly that the rigged election claims were definitely false, published by Newsmax and specific to Smartmatic.

The attorney, Adam Richardson, also included DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody in his petition, alleging that they have “waged a campaign to interfere with the election.” Richardson asked justices “to forbid them from misusing or abusing their offices and agencies to interfere with the election for Amendment 4.”

Justices could have dismissed Richardson’s complaint. Instead, they ordered the agency to respond to his allegations by 5 p.m. on Sept. 23.

The lawsuit is the most significant legal pushback so far to DeSantis’ efforts to marshal state resources to defeat Amendment 4, which would overturn the state’s six-week abortion ban if passed by 60% of voters in November. The amendment says, in part, that “no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.”

"Power is intoxicating and based on Trump's rhetoric and conduct it appears unlikely that he would respect the power of the presidency in all instances; rather, he would abuse it for personal and political gain, and not on behalf of the American people," he added.

Gonzales cited the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as one of the "most revealing" examples of Trump's conduct, saying the former president "failed to do his duty" that day. The former attorney general also pointed to the convictions and criminal charges Trump faces, saying they "show that Trump is someone who fails to act, time and time again, in accordance with the rule of law," and casting doubt on whether he "has the integrity and character to responsibly wield the power of the presidency within the limits of the law."

It's actually not a bad recap of the debate.

The U.S. Trade Representative's said that many of the tariffs, including a 100% duty on Chinese EVs, 50% on solar cells and 25% on steel, aluminum, EV batteries and key minerals, would go into effect on Sept. 27.

The USTR determination published on Friday but first reviewed by Reuters, showed a 50% duty on Chinese semiconductors, which now include two new categories - polysilicon used in solar panels and silicon wafers - are due to start in 2025.

Adjustments to the punitive "Section 301" tariffs on $18 billion worth of goods announced in May by President Joe Biden were minimal and disregarded auto industry pleas for lower tariffs on graphite and critical minerals needed for EV battery production because they are still too dependent on Chinese supplies.