The president of Belarus says Russian strategic nuclear weapons might be deployed in his country |Pacific Updates
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Donald Trump's lawyer says he's been told of NY indictment, making Trump 1st former US president charged with a crime |Pacific Updates
[ad_1] Donald Trump’s lawyer says he’s been told of NY indictment, making Trump 1st former US president charged with a crime [ad_2]
Manhattan DA confirms Donald Trump has been indicted, says prosecutors are working to arrange surrender |Pacific Updates
[ad_1] Manhattan DA confirms Donald Trump has been indicted, says prosecutors are working to arrange surrender [ad_2]
Climate, coups risk African goal of silencing guns by 2030 |Pacific Updates
[ad_1] UNITED NATIONS — The goal of silencing the guns in Africa this decade is being challenged by climate change, terrorism, coups and the continent’s history, the head of the African Union initiative told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday. Attaining the goal is at risk even after the date was pushed back once to…
Trump calls indictment 'political persecution,' says it will damage Democrats in 2024 |Pacific Updates
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Trump’s indictment, long expected, still stuns at NYC court |Pacific Updates
[ad_1] NEW YORK — If you didn’t know what you were looking for, you might’ve missed it. Even then, it was hard to know at the moment that history was unfolding before your eyes. Donald Trump’s indictment, the first of a former U.S. president, was quietly brought to the clerk’s office at the Manhattan criminal…
Florida Senate OKs easier path to imposing death penalty |Pacific Updates
[ad_1] TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Senate on Thursday passed a bill repealing a law requiring a unanimous jury recommendation for the death penalty, a reaction to the life sentence handed to the man who massacred 17 people at a Parkland high school. The bill passed on a 29-10 vote and will allow the death…
San Diego County supervisor to resign after assault lawsuit |Pacific Updates
[ad_1] SAN DIEGO — The chair of San Diego County’s board of supervisors said he will resign amid accusations that he sexually assaulted a government employee, completing a swift and shocking fall for a decorated Marine combat veteran whose star rose with his Democratic Party’s ascendancy in the nation’s eighth-largest city. Nathan Fletcher, who defected…
Longtime LA politician guilty on federal corruption charges |Pacific Updates
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — A longtime Los Angeles politician was convicted Thursday on federal corruption charges in a scheme in which prosecutors said he promised to help steer a multimillion-dollar government contract to the University of Southern California if his son got a scholarship and a teaching job. Former Democratic City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas —…
Mississippi pushes more state policing in mostly Black city |Pacific Updates
[ad_1] JACKSON, Miss. — The majority-white and Republican-led Mississippi Legislature is taking final steps to expand the the territory of a state-run police department inside the capital city of Jackson, which is majority-Black and governed by Democrats. Critics say the proposal would stomp on local self-governance and create unequal systems of justice in different parts…