Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the most prestigious law firms in the world, has developed a mutually beneficial relationship with President Donald Trump -- rankling some of the firm's top talent in the process. The elite firm represents Trump in a variety of his personal legal matters, including an appeal of his criminal conviction on 34 counts of business fraud in the Manhattan hush money case, his effort to move that case to federal court and his appeal of a New York state civil fraud verdict.
After the NATO Summit concluded in Ankara, Turkiye, Canada PM Mark Carney made an official visit to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he conferred with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the culprit the USIC assesses ordered the murder of Saudi dissident-journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul on 2 Oct 2018.
Declassified ODNI Report on "Mohammad Bone Saws" and his role in the brutal and bloody assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
Less than one month after Charlie Kirk's death, Candace Owens made an incendiary claim: Kirk came to her in a dream and told her he had been betrayed. Owens, a conservative podcaster who worked for Turning Point USA from 2017 to 2019, had taken it upon herself to investigate Kirk's death, homing in on potential betrayers. On her popular podcast, she denied that Tyler Robinson, the troubled 23-year-old from Utah who is standing trial for allegedly murdering Kirk, had acted alone. She suggested Israel somehow played a role. And she said Kirk's former colleagues at Turning Point " including his wife, Erika Kirk " should face scrutiny.
Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. She died June 26 in Oklahoma, the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister said. She was 78. "They told her she wasn't supposed to live past 20 years old," Lillard's younger sister, Cindy McVey, told The Associated Press on Friday. "She had the enthusiasm and the drive to continue living and make the best of her life." McVey attributes her sister's death to the effects of long Covid. A death certificate lists causes as chronic pulmonary failure and post-polio syndrome, McVey said.
WASHINGTON ' South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham died on July 11, according to his office. He was 71. Graham's death marks the passing of a longtime conservative fixture of the Senate, and one of President Donald Trump's closest political allies.
VPOTUS JD Vance prejudiced the homicide trial of Tyler Robinson (23), accused of assassinating good-for-nothing Charlie Kirk, when he bleated there is "clear evidence" that the defendant killed the nefarious hatemonger, then speculated on who might have radicalized the alleged culprit.
Infamous example of trial interference by a US politician
The Honorable USDJ Timothy Kelly granted the Justice Department's motion to dismiss the case with prejudice against Proud Boy members Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola, after a federal appeals court had already vacated their convictions.
The provenance for all of the Jan 6 case dismissals
The US said it launched a fresh wave of strikes on Iran after Tehran struck a ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it closed the waterway until further notice and warned of a severe response to US "aggression", according to state media. Read more
China has successfully landed a reusable rocket for the first time in a major breakthrough for the country's space programme, according to state media. Read more
Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) was detained by Israeli settlers armed with US-made rifles during a West Bank visit this week. "We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it," he reported.
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New Mexico officials are accusing Donald Trump's Department of Justice of obstructing access to documents connected to the federal government's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein as the state performs its own probe into the sex offender's alleged crimes at his Zorro Ranch property.
The state's Attorney General Ral Torrez is demanding immediate access to files requested by his office several months ago and suggested the Justice Department is now withholding those records despite what he called "verbal assurances" from the federal government.
Exxon Lawyer's Appointment at DOJ Shows Big Oil's Capture of Government Now Complete'
WASHINGTON, D.C. " Trump's Department of Justice is appointing Robert Levy, a senior attorney at Exxon Mobil, to lead the DOJ's newly-renamed Energy and Natural Resources Division.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said that the American military stood ready to "completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran" in response to threats to his life. Trump made the post on Truth Social in the early hours of Saturday morning. Media reports indicate that Trump received intelligence briefings from Israeli authorities that the Iranian regime was targeting him for assassination. In the post, the president said that "1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran" should the regime attempt to assassinate him. However, talks between Washington and Tehran are ongoing despite the recent hostilities. "PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!" added the U.S. president, signing off his social media post.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he had "just finished" a physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, without specifying when the exam was conducted. It was not clear whether Trump had a new physical or he was referring to the one he had in late May, following which he said "everything checked out perfectly." "I just finished a perfect physical at Walter Reed, I do it every six months, and I requested another Cognitive Test, the only President to do so, three times, and I aced them all " Got every question right," Trump, who turned 80 in June, wrote in a Truth Social post.
A federal judge in California Friday awarded Hunter Biden $1.7 million in punitive damages in his defamation dispute against former Overstock.com CEO and 2020 election denier Patrick Byrne.
