The historic criminal trial of Donald Trump over hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels opened Monday. Defense lawyer Todd Blanche began by declaring: “Donald Trump is innocent”. According to prosecutor Matthew Colangelo, Trump tried to "corrupt the 2016 presidential election". The questioning of the first witness, former National Enquirer editor David Pecker, will continue on Tuesday.
Trump may be trying to wriggle his way out of testifying, which he'd previously pledged to do.
French President Emmanuel Macron said France could send troops if requested by Ukraine in response to a Russian breakthrough.
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A couple of years ago, I noted in passing on Twitter (as it then was) that there was an international border between the UK and Ireland on the island of Ireland. To my surprise, Irish nationalists piled in to deny this objective legal reality. I couldn’t help recalling George Orwell’s comment that, for nationalists, “a known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside … or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact.”
Mark Peterson-Pool/Getty ImagesDonald Trump can dish it out, but he has shown, once again, that he simply cannot take it.As proceedings began Thursday morning in the disgraced ex-president’s criminal hush-money trial, defense attorney Todd Blanche complained to New York State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan that the gag order put in place to prevent Trump from intimidating witnesses, jurors, and court staff was unfair to his client.“Everybody can say anything they want, except for President Tru
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The former president made the chilling remark about the 2024 election to a Wisconsin newspaper.
Londoners will now have to wait until Saturday when they are due to find out who their new mayor is
The latest Ukrainian deep-strike weapon isn’t a drone, a cruise missile or a ballistic missile. It’s a balloon.
The SEC said Trump Media's accounting firm, BF Borgers, committed fraud in more than 1,500 filings and was banned from accounting.
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The former president's niece described a "split screen" effect that she believes could be damaging to the case against her uncle.
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Missiles from North Korea, drones from Iran, and a massive amount of technical assistance from China. Russian President Vladimir Putin may complain about the backing Ukraine is receiving from its Nato allies, but it is doubtful that Russia would be able to maintain its military offensive without the help it is getting from its motley collection of autocratic friends.
No love lost between the one-time double act, then.
Germany on Friday accused Russian military agents of hacking the top echelons of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party and other sensitive government and industrial targets, and was joined by NATO and fellow European countries in warning that Russia’s cyberespionage would have consequences. Relations between Russia and Germany were already tense, with Germany providing military support to Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Russian military cyber operators were behind the hacking of emails of the Social Democrats, the leading party in the governing coalition.
More than 100 Russian soldiers were reportedly killed when a volley of Atacms missiles hit a training base in eastern Ukraine in one of the highest single losses of Russian lives in months.
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