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]
American detained in Russia a ‘brave, committed’ journalist |Pacific Updates
[ad_1] Working as a journalist in Moscow seemed a natural fit for Evan Gershkovich, the son of immigrants from the Soviet Union who grew up speaking Russian at home in Princeton, N.J. After he graduated in 2014 from Bowdoin College, one of the country’s most selective schools, however, “it took me awhile to figure out…
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…
Conservative media figures leap to Donald Trump’s defense |Pacific Updates
[ad_1] NEW YORK — Conservative media figures leaped to Donald Trump’s defense with apocalyptic language Thursday, claiming the former president was being unfairly persecuted by a Manhattan grand jury’s indictment and predicting his 2024 bid for the White House would get a boost from his perceived martyrdom. “This is totally unacceptable and a disgrace to…
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…
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…