Trump Asks Supreme Court To Intervene In Mar-A-Lago Dispute
Trump Asks Supreme Court To Intervene In Mar-A-Lago Dispute https://digitalarkansasnews.com/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-intervene-in-mar-a-lago-dispute-2/
Lawyers for former US President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court today to step into the legal fight over the classified documents seized during an FBI search of his Florida estate, escalating a dispute over the powers of an independent arbiter appointed to inspect the records.
It’s alleged the former US president and his company padded his net worth by billions of dollars by lying about the value of assets.
The Trump team asked the justices to overturn a lower court ruling and allow the arbiter, called a special master, to review the roughly 100 documents with classification markings that were taken in the August 8 search of Mar-a-Lago.
A three-judge panel from the Atlanta-based US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit last month limited the special master’s review to the much larger tranche of non-classified documents. The judges, including two Trump appointees, sided with the Justice Department, which had argued there was no legal basis for the special master to conduct his own review of the classified records.
But Trump’s lawyers said in their application to the Supreme Court that it was essential for the special master to have access to the classified records to “determine whether documents bearing classification markings are in fact classified, and regardless of classification, whether those records are personal records or Presidential records”.
“Since President Trump had absolute authority over classification decisions during his Presidency, the current status of any disputed document cannot possibly be determined solely by reference to the markings on that document,” the application states.
It says that without the special master review, “the unchallenged views of the current Justice Department would supersede the established authority of the Chief Executive”. An independent review, the Trump team says, ensures a “transparent process that provides much-needed oversight”.
An aerial view of former US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. (Source: Associated Press)
The FBI says it seized roughly 11,000 documents, including about 100 with classification markings, during its search. The Trump team asked a judge in Florida, Aileen Cannon, to appoint a special master to do an independent review of the records.
Cannon subsequently assigned a veteran Brooklyn judge, Raymond Dearie, to review the records and segregate those that may be protected by claims of attorney-client privilege and executive privilege. She also barred the FBI from being able to use the classified documents as part of its criminal investigation.
The Justice Department appealed, prompting the 11th Circuit to lift Cannon’s hold on investigators’ ability to scrutinise the classified records. The appeals court also ruled that the department did not have to provide Dearie with access to the classified records.
Trump’s lawyers submitted the Supreme Court application to Justice Clarence Thomas, who oversees emergency matters from Florida and several other Southern states. Thomas can act on his own or, as is usually done, refer the emergency appeal to the rest of the court. Late Tuesday the court said the government was being asked to respond to the petition by October 11.
Thomas has previously come under scrutiny for his vote in a different Trump documents case, in which he was the only member of the court to vote against allowing the US House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot to obtain Trump records held by the National Archives and Records Administration.
Thomas’ wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, is a conservative activist and staunch Trump supporter who attended the January 6 Stop the Steal rally on the Ellipse and wrote to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the weeks following the election encouraging him to work to overturn Biden’s victory and keep Trump in office.
She also contacted lawmakers in Arizona and Wisconsin in the weeks after the election. Thomas was recently interviewed by the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection and she stood by the false claim that the 2020 election was fraudulent.
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KARK Presents The Super-Natural State Each Monday In October
KARK Presents The “Super-Natural State” Each Monday In October https://digitalarkansasnews.com/kark-presents-the-super-natural-state-each-monday-in-october/
by: Caitrin Assaf
Posted: Oct 4, 2022 / 10:42 PM CDT
Updated: Oct 4, 2022 / 10:42 PM CDT
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – With Halloween just a few weeks away, attention shifts to all things spooky.
But, with a state with as much history as Arkansas – it doesn’t have to be a holiday for things to go bump in the night.
This month, KARK presents “The Super-Natural State”: a four-part series that kicks off next Monday, October 10th and brings viewers to a new reportedly haunted Arkansas location each week.
From a haunted cemetery in Lonoke County to the Old State House, and a North Little Rock pillar of history to a Hot Springs theater, each site has a different story – and different ghosts trying to make themselves known.
A group of paranormal investigators travel across Arkansas, looking to uncover what goes bump in the night and find out just how unnatural things can be.
Proof of life beyond? Or tricks of shadow and sound? You be the judge – as we explore the dark and twisted history of the Super-Natural State.
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Unique Low-Income Housing Breaks Ground In Fayetteville
Unique, Low-Income Housing Breaks Ground In Fayetteville https://digitalarkansasnews.com/unique-low-income-housing-breaks-ground-in-fayetteville/
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) – The Excellerate Foundation, Strategic Realty and New Heights Church broke ground Monday on an affordable rental development in West Fayetteville.
The purpose of the development, called “Cobblestone Farm Community”, is to provide easily accessible, affordable housing with a twist. The groups are working together to give residents resources. One of the most notable resources will come from Cobblestone Farms, located right next door to the new development.
One of the co-directional leaders for New Heights Church, Jim Hall, said the church was approached 3 years ago by the Excellerate Foundation. The church was able to offer up 15 acres of land for the housing development. The Cobblestone Farms land, right next door, is also owned by the church.
According to Hall, the farm will work hand in hand with residents of the new rental properties.
“They will have opportunities to have experimental learning experiences with Cobblestone Farms. They’ll also have some food provided in the form of protein as well as vegetables. We’ve got all kinds of ideas about how to make this a real community,” said Hall.
Cobblestone Farms is still working to figure out the involvement the residential community will have in the farm, but Hall said it will be an integral part of the community.
“There will probably be an outlet store on the front of the property for the farm products,” said Hall.
Rental property prices will range from $365 to $625 monthly, with one to four bedroom duplexes listed. The community will house about 100 families.
What started all of the discussion surrounding this unique low-income housing idea, was the growing need for affordable housing in Northwest Arkansas.
“Affordable housing at that price for the quality of life we’re going to have here is a phenomenal benefit,” said Hall.
Ali Johnson, with the Excellerate Foundation, said the low-income housing project is set apart from other affordable housing complexes.
“Cobblestone Farm Community’s mission is to ensure that people from different backgrounds, different socioeconomic statuses are living and doing life together,” said Johnson.
Along with Cobblestone Farms as a resource, Potter’s House will offer opportunities through an on-site community center to help engage and connect residents. Social services will also be provided through Hark, a program within the Excellerate Foundation.
Hall hopes the Cobblestone Farm Community will be a guide for future non-profits who want to come up with creative ways to create affordable housing options.
“We want this to be a model for other communities in Arkansas and in the region. We certainly intend to be a resource for them if no one else is going to do it,” said Hall.
The rental development is expected to be complete by late 2023 or early 2024.
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Herschel Walker Paid For Girlfriends Abortion Report Says
Herschel Walker Paid For Girlfriend’s Abortion, Report Says https://digitalarkansasnews.com/herschel-walker-paid-for-girlfriends-abortion-report-says/
Herschel Walker (Courtesy)
DUNWOODY, Ga. (AP) — Herschel Walker, who has vehemently opposed abortion rights as the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Georgia, paid for an abortion for his girlfriend in 2009, according to a new report. The candidate called the accusation a “flat-out lie” and said he would sue.
The Daily Beast spoke to the former girlfriend, who asked that her name not be used out of concerns for her privacy. In the report published late Monday, the news outlet said it reviewed a receipt showing her $575 payment for the procedure, along with a get-well card from Walker and her bank deposit records showing the image of a $700 personal check from Walker dated five days after the abortion receipt.
The woman said Walker encouraged her to end the pregnancy, saying that the time wasn’t right for a baby, The Daily Beast reported. As a candidate, Walker has characterized abortion as “a woman killing her baby” and has played up his opposition to the procedure in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling earlier this year stripping a woman’s constitutional right to access abortion services.
In a statement, Walker said he would file a lawsuit against The Daily Beast on Tuesday morning.
“This is a flat-out lie — and I deny this in the strongest terms possible,” he wrote.
As of late Tuesday afternoon, Walker had not taken any legal action, according to a campaign spokesman.
Matt Fuller, the politics editor for The Daily Beast, tweeted in response to Walker’s initial denial: “I can tell you we stand behind every word and feel very solid about the story.”
Later Monday night, Walker appeared on Sean Hannity’s program on Fox News, where Walker was asked if he recalled sending a $700 check to a girlfriend.
“Well, I sent money to a lot of people,” he said. “I give money to people all the time because I’m always helping people. I believe in being generous. God has blessed me. I want to bless others.”
Former President Donald Trump, who encouraged Walker to run for Senate, said Walker was being “slandered and maligned.”
“Herschel has properly denied the charges against him, and I have no doubt he is correct,” Trump said in a statement.
Walker and Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock are engaged in a tight contest that is key to the balance of power in the U.S. Senate. The chamber is now divided 50-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris holding the tie-breaking vote to give Democrats control. Warnock won the seat in a special election runoff on Jan. 5, 2021, prevailing by 2 percentage points over then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a Republican.
The allegation against Walker is the latest in a series of stories about the football legend’s past that has rocked the first-time candidate’s campaign in one of the most competitive Senate races in the country. Earlier this year, Walker acknowledged reports that he had three children he had not previously talked about publicly.
Walker has often boasted of his work helping service members and veterans struggling with mental health. Yet The Associated Press reported in May that various records showed he overstated his role in a for-profit program that is alleged to have preyed upon veterans and service members while defrauding the government.
The AP also has reported that a review of public records detailed accusations that Walker repeatedly threatened his ex-wife’s life, exaggerated claims of financial success and alarmed business associates with unpredictable behavior. Walker himself has at times discussed his long struggle with mental illness.
Republicans targeted Warnock as perhaps the most vulnerable of the Democratic Senate incumbents. But they were also skeptical about Walker’s viability as a statewide candidate, especially through the spring and summer as Walker’s past was aired publicly. In recent months, Walker found his footing by attacking Warnock for backing President Joe Biden’s agenda in Washington. Biden won Georgia narrowly but has seen his approval ratings in the state fall significantly since 2020.
But Walker also has made abortion an issue. During the Republican Senate primary, he openly backed a national ban on abortions with no exceptions for cases involving rape, incest or a woman’s health being at risk — particularly notable at a time when the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court precedent has been overturned and Democrats in Congress have been discussing codifying abortion rights into federal law.
“I’m for life,” Walker has said repeatedly as he campaigns. When asked about whether he’d allow for any exceptions, he has said there are “no excuses” for the procedure.
As the Republican nominee, Walker has sometimes sidestepped questions about his earlier support for a national abortion ban, a tacit nod to the fact that most voters, including many Republicans, want at least some legal access to abortion. Walker instead tries to turn the issue against Warnock, who supports abortion rights. Walker often says he doesn’t understand how Warnock, a Baptist pastor, can support the procedure being legal.
Campaigning in Dunwoody, an Atlanta suburb, on Monday night, Warnock stressed his support for abortion rights.
“I have a profound reverence for life. I have a deep and abiding respect for choice. I believe a patient’s room is too small and cramped a space for a woman, her doctor and the United States government,” he said, emphasizing Walker’s support for a national ban.
Warnock was dismissive when told of The Daily Beast story and when asked whether it might affect the outcome in Georgia. “I’ll let the pundits decide,” he said.
Walker’s son, Christian Walker, criticized his father in a series of tweets late Monday, saying his family “asked him not to run for office.”
“I don’t care about someone who has a bad past and takes accountability,” Christian Walker tweeted. “But how DARE YOU LIE and act as though you’re some ‘moral, Christian, upright man.’ You’ve lived a life of DESTROYING other peoples lives. How dare you.”
For now, Republicans in Washington are standing by Walker, with a spokesman for the Senate GOP’s campaign arm dismissing The Daily Beast story as “nonsense” rooted in desperation by Democrats.
“They and their media allies are doing what they always do — attack Republicans with innuendo and lies,” said Chris Hartline, a top aide at the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
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What We're Learning About Victims Of The Stockton Serial Killings
What We're Learning About Victims Of The Stockton Serial Killings https://digitalarkansasnews.com/what-were-learning-about-victims-of-the-stockton-serial-killings/
THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE STOCKTON SERIAL KILLER HAS TAKEN A TWIST AND NOW INVOLVES TWO NEW CASES, ONE IN THE BAY AREA AND ONE WITH A SURVIVOR. MIKE: ERIN HAS THOSE DETAILS. ERIN: THEY FOUND THE FIRST KNOWN SURVIVOR WHO IS ALSO THE FIRST KNOWN WOMAN IN THIS SERIES OF SHOOTINGS. ALSO AFTER THE ANNOUNCEMENT LAST NIGHT THE PERSON SHOT AND KILLED IN OAKLAND AS A FIRST AS WELL BECAUSE IT IS THE FIRST PERSON NOT SHOT AND KILLED KNOWN IN STOCKTON. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS PICTURE. GRAINY AND FROM BEHIND, PEOPLE — PEOPLE HOPE THIS PICTURE CREATES LEADS. DRAIN A LIST OF FIVE OTHERS OF ALL MEN SHOT AND KILLED IN STOCKTON BETWEEN JULY AND SEPTEMBER 2027. PLEASE NOW BELIEVE A SERIAL KILLER OR KILLERS TARGETED THESE PEOPLE. POLICE HAVE SAID THE COMMON THREAD IS THE VICTIMS WERE SHOT WHILE ALONE AND AFTER DARK. THE MAJORITY OF THESE SHOOTINGS HAPPENING JUST A FEW SQUARE MILES IN STOCKS ABOVE THAT CHANGED WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT LAST NIGHT. DR. POLICE HAVE RAISED THE REWARD FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO AN ARREST. REWARD NOW $95,000. THE STOCKTON POLICE HAVE SET UP A TIP LINE FOR ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHOOTINGS. THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN RIGHT NOW. 209-937-8167. BE ALERT, HAVE YOUR HEAD ON A SWIVEL. REPORTER: POLICE HAVE SAID THE MAJORITY OF VICTIMS ARE HISPANIC BUT THEY DO NOT BELIEVE ANY OF THE VICTIMS ARE A RESULT OF ANY TYPE OF HATE CRIME.
What we’re learning about victims of the Stockton serial killings
“These incidents are occurring in the hours of darkness, these incidents are occurring where folks are alone by themselves, not in lit areas,” Stockton police chief Stanley McFadden said.
The recent shooting deaths of at least five people in Stockton and of one person killed in Oakland last year are believed to be interconnected, according to Stockton police. In addition, the shooting of a woman in Stockton last year who survived is also linked in connection with the serial killings. As the Stockton Police Department searches for the person or people responsible for the serial killings, KCRA 3 is learning more about the lives lost. Leer en español. The family and the medical examiner’s office first identified the five recent victims.35-year-old Paul Alexander Yaw43-year-old Salvador William Debudey Jr.21-year-old Jonathan Hernandez Rodriguez52-year-old Juan Cruz52-year-old Lorenzo LopezTwo more shootings have since been linked to the recent slayings. They included an April 10, 2021, shooting at 4:18 a.m. when a 40-year-old Hispanic man was killed in Oakland, police said. Affiliate KTVU reported that the coroner identified the man as Juan Miguel Vasquez Serrano.And a 46-year-old woman survived her injuries after being shot on April 16, 2021, at 3:20 a.m. at Park and Union streets in Stockton. Video above: Stockton police chief reviews five cases that he said appear to be connected”These incidents are occurring in the hours of darkness, these incidents are occurring where folks are alone by themselves, not in lit areas,” Stockton police chief Stanley McFadden said on Friday, Sept. 30.While most of the victims are Hispanic, Stockton police don’t believe that there is any indication that these are hate crimes. At the moment, it’s unclear if a person of interest being sought by police is a suspect or a witness.Police confirmed that ballistics tests have linked the shootings. | Read More | Stockton police chief says ‘stop the killing’ as they investigate serial homicides; person of interest soughtPaul Alexander Yaw, 35Paul Alexander Yaw was killed on July 8, the family confirmed to KCRA 3. “This is my son Paul. He was a great man with a big heart,” his mother, Greta Bogrow, who lives in Texas, said in a statement. “He was my son, a father, a grandson, nephew, cousin and brother and was loved by many. He has left a huge hole in our hearts, and I hope they catch the person(s) responsible before this happens again.”Yaw was shot just after midnight — around 12:30 a.m. — at a park in the 5600 block of Kermit Lane, police said. He was taken to the hospital, where he died from his injuries. One neighbor told KCRA 3 that she heard the gunshots.Bogrow said her son was unhoused at the time of his death. Salvador William Debudey Jr., 43 Salvador William Debudey Jr. was killed on Aug. 11, the family confirmed to KCRA 3.Debudey was a Stockton native and father. He was shot around 9:49 p.m. in a parking lot on the 4900 block of West Lane, police said. Officers found him with a gunshot wound and started life-saving measures. He died at the scene of the shooting, which was about five minutes away from the first homicide. Debudey’s wife, Analydia Lopez, says that she found out about the possible connection between all homicides through social media and is upset that Stockton police haven’t reached out to give her family information.”It’s caused a lot of pain, a lot of pain to our family,” said Analydia Lopez, the wife of Salvador Debudey.She said she met Debudey roughly 28 years ago when they were students at Franklin High School. They reconnected later in life and were married for 12 years.”To be honest with you, a part of me died with him that day,” Lopez said. “It’s been hard. It’s been really, really hard.”In addition to his wife and daughter, Debudey is survived by his three younger brothers and his mother and father. The family is now left wondering who killed the 43-year-old.Learn more about Dubedy here.Lorenzo Lopez, 54Lorenzo Lopez was killed on Sept. 27, the family confirmed to KCRA 3.He was shot just before 2 a.m. on the 900 block of Porter Avenue, police said. When officers arrived, they found the man on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. A shrine has since been set up at the scene by grieving family members. “My mother and father were just heartbroken from this,” said Jerry Lopez, brother of Lorenzo. “That’s their first baby boy. And I know they have so many memories of him.”Jerry Lopez is hopeful that the Stockton Police Department’s announcement that it’s offering reward money and looking for a person of interest in connection to his brother’s killing, and others believed to be part of that serial murder spree, will make a difference.“He was there for me. He was watching out for me. I wish I could’ve watched out for him,” Jerry Lopez said about his big brother. The original cash reward was $85,000, but Stockton police said they raised the reward to $95,000 after an anonymous donation.Learn more about Lopez here. Jonathan Hernandez Rodriguez, 21Hernandez Rodriguez was killed Aug. 30 at the 800 block of East Hammer Lane, according to police. He was found shot and killed inside his vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene. His family told KCRA 3 that he was born in Stockton, and that his funeral took place on Sept. 11. Related CoverageStockton serial killings: Everything we know and don’t know so farSerial killers are ‘very complicated psychologically, to investigate,’ experts sayVideo of person of interest released, ballistics connect shootingsHow the Stockton community is coming together amid serial killing fears-KCRA 3’s Maricela De La Cruz and Lysée Mitri contributed to this report.
The recent shooting deaths of at least five people in Stockton and of one person killed in Oakland last year are believed to be interconnected, according to Stockton police. In addition, the shooting of a woman in Stockton last year who survived is also linked in connection with the serial killings.
As the Stockton Police Department searches for the person or people responsible for the serial killings, KCRA 3 is learning more about the lives lost.
Leer en español.
The family and the medical examiner’s office first identified the five recent victims.
35-year-old Paul Alexander Yaw
43-year-old Salvador William Debudey Jr.
21-year-old Jonathan Hernandez Rodriguez
52-year-old Juan Cruz
52-year-old Lorenzo Lopez
Two more shootings have since been linked to the recent slayings. They included an April 10, 2021, shooting at 4:18 a.m. when a 40-year-old Hispanic man was killed in Oakland, police said. Affiliate KTVU reported that the coroner identified the man as Juan Miguel Vasquez Serrano.
And a 46-year-old woman survived her injuries after being shot on April 16, 2021, at 3:20 a.m. at Park and Union streets in Stockton.
Video above: Stockton police chief reviews five cases that he said appear to be connected
“These incidents are occurring in the hours of darkness, these incidents are occurring where folks are alone by themselves, not in lit areas,” Stockton police chief Stanley McFadden said on Friday, Sept. 30.
While most of the victims are Hispanic, Stockton police don’t believe that there is any indication that these are hate crimes. At the moment, it’s unclear if a person of interest being sought by police is a suspect or a witness.
Police confirmed that ballistics tests have linked the shootings.
| Read More | Stockton police chief says ‘stop the killing’ as they investigate serial homicides; person of interest sought
Paul Alexander Yaw, 35
Greta Bogrow
Paul Alexander Yaw was the first victim of Stockton serial killings.
Paul Alexander Yaw was killed on July 8, the family confirmed to KCRA 3.
“This is my son Paul. He was a great man with a big heart,” his mother, Greta Bogrow, who lives in Texas, said in a statement. “He was my son, a father, a grandson, nephew, cousin and brother and was loved by many. He has left a huge hole in our hearts, and I hope they catch the person(s) responsible before this happens again.”
Yaw was shot just after midnight — around 12:30 a.m. — at a park in the 5600 block of Kermit Lane, police said. He was taken to the hospital, where he died from his injuries. One neighbor told KCRA 3 that she heard the gunshots.
Bogrow said her son was unhoused at the time of his death.
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Hong Kong's Hang Seng Pops 5% On Return To Trade; Asia Markets Rise After U.S. Stocks Popped
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Pops 5% On Return To Trade; Asia Markets Rise After U.S. Stocks Popped https://digitalarkansasnews.com/hong-kongs-hang-seng-pops-5-on-return-to-trade-asia-markets-rise-after-u-s-stocks-popped/
People cross a street in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.
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Shares in the Asia-Pacific traded higher on Wednesday after U.S. stocks rallied for a second day.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index surged 5.1% on its return to trade after a holiday Tuesday. The Hang Seng Tech index soared 7.11% higher.
The Nikkei 225 in Japan rose 0.35%, rising above the 27,000 level, while the Topix added 0.3%.
In South Korea, the Kospi was flat and the Kosdaq gave up early gains to fall 1.47%. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was up 1.6%. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 2.26%.
On the economic front, inflation in South Korea slowed slightly in September, according to official data released Wednesday.
Mainland China markets remain closed for the Golden Week holiday, and India’s market is also closed for a holiday.
On Wall Street overnight, stocks soared overnight in the U.S. for a second session. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 825.43 points, or 2.8%, to 30,316.32. The S&P 500 advanced nearly 3.1% to close at 3,790.93, and the Nasdaq Composite was 3.3% higher to end at 11,176.41.
“There is no denying incoming U.S. economic data is having a hand in equity, bond and currency moves so far this week,” wrote Ray Attrill, head of FX strategy at National Australia Bank.
The U.S. Job Openings and Labor Turnover report sprang a “big downside surprise” that couldn’t be ignored, he wrote. It’s the “first meaningful sign of some cracks” in the labor market, though it is still very tight, he added.
— CNBC’s Tanaya Macheel and Alex Harring contributed to this report.
Shares of TSMC jump after Morgan Stanley says it’s a ‘top pick’
TSMC’s shares in Taiwan jumped as much as 5.13% after Morgan Stanley named the world’s largest chip maker as the top pick in a note which predicted a semiconductor cycle recovery in the second half of 2023.
The investment bank said TSMC is an industry leader with pricing power.
The company’s U.S.-listed stock also rose about 5% overnight.
— Abigail Ng
CNBC Pro: Bank of America reveals its global picks for this quarter, giving one stock over 100% upside
Interest rate rises, soaring energy prices and political turmoil in some parts of the world have battered stocks going into the final quarter of this year.
To help investors navigate the volatility, Bank of America has revealed its top “short-term stock recommendations” for the next quarter, which they expect to “significantly outperform” their peers.
CNBC Pro subscribers can read about five of their stock picks here.
— Ganesh Rao
BYD’s Hong Kong shares pop after September sales jump, deal with transport firm
CNBC Pro: Market is heading toward the ‘best week of the year,’ pro says — and names 2 stocks to play it
Market veteran Phil Blancato, whose firm has more than $4 billion in assets under management, said he expects next week to be a “turnaround week” for markets.
Investors should take the chance to “jump into the market,” he said, as he named two stocks to take advantage of the rally ahead.
Pro subscribers can read more here.
— Zavier Ong
New Zealand dollar gains after central bank hikes rates by 50 basis points
The New Zealand dollar strengthened against the U.S. dollar after the Reserve Bank of New Zealand raised interest rates.
The official cash rate now stands at 3.5%, after the central bank increased rates by half a point to “maintain price stability and contribute to maximum sustainable employment,” according to an official statement.
The kiwi dollar gained as much as 0.86% against the greenback, and last traded about 0.5% higher at $0.5762.
— Abigail Ng
Core inflation in South Korea may peak in October, BofA Securities says
South Korea’s core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices, could peak in October as demand slows due to higher prices and rising interest rates, said Kathleen Oh, Korea economist at BofA Securities.
Core CPI came in at 4.1% in September compared to a year ago, up slightly from August’s 4%.
“Even after it peaks, I think the slowdown of the inflation is going to be quite gradual, so that the overall level of prices will be elevated for at least next six or nine months ahead,” she told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia.”
Headline inflation may have peaked in July since oil prices have fallen, she added.
— Abigail Ng
CNBC Pro: This isn’t the market bottom, Morgan Stanley says, naming 3 things that have to happen first
There’s unlikely to be a sustainable market bottom unless three conditions are met, according to Morgan Stanley.
“We … remind readers that the last few innings of every bear market are very challenging to trade as volatility becomes extreme,” they wrote. “None of the conditions we have been looking for to call an end to this bear market are in place.”
Pro subscribers can read more here.
— Weizhen Tan
South Korea inflation eased slightly in September
Consumer prices in South Korea rose less than expected in September from a year ago, official data showed.
The CPI print came in at 5.6%, compared with 5.7% that economists polled by Reuters predicted. Prices rose 5.7% in August.
September’s reading marks a second month of softening in inflation, and the slowest growth in four months.
— Abigail Ng
Dollar index falls back to 110
One factor helping equity markets on Tuesday could be a slightly weaker dollar, which is falling for the fifth-straight day.
The DXY US Dollar Currency Index was down 1.5% in afternoon trading at 110.06. The index was trading as high as 114.78 last week, when there was concern about a failure of the UK government bond market.
The British pound and the euro were each more than 1% against the dollar on Tuesday. The greenback was also down against the Japanese yen.
—Jesse Pound, Gina Francolla
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A New Book's Behind-The-Scenes Look At Congress' Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Investigation
A New Book's Behind-The-Scenes Look At Congress' Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Investigation https://digitalarkansasnews.com/a-new-books-behind-the-scenes-look-at-congress-jan-6-capitol-riot-investigation/
9:31pm October 04, 2022
by Tom Dreisbach
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Denver Riggleman, a former Republican Congressman, joined the staff of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. His new book, “The Breach,” describes his work on the investigation and his path to politics.
Denver Riggleman served eight months as a senior technical adviser for the congressional select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In a new book, titled “The Breach,” Riggleman delves into a few key parts of the committee’s investigation, including an examination of a trove of text messages sent and received by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the lead-up to the Capitol riot. The book also revealed for the first time that during the Capitol breach, someone at the Trump White House made a call to a rioter who had entered the building.
Riggleman took a somewhat unusual path to the committee. After serving in the United States Air Force and working as a contractor for the National Security Agency, he ran for – and won – a seat in Congress representing a district in Virginia in 2018.
At the time, Riggleman was a Republican. He describes himself as “a full-blooded redneck.” Former president Trump actually endorsed him – twice – and Riggleman joined the staunchly conservative House Freedom Caucus.
Despite Trump’s endorsement, Riggleman lost a primary to a more hard-right Republican, and Riggleman became more outspoken about the former president’s embrace of extremism and amplification of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory. After the Nov. 2020 election, Riggleman was one of the few Republican elected officials to quickly acknowledge Joe Biden’s victory.
When Congress eventually launched its investigation into the Jan. 6 attack, Riggleman raised his hand and joined the committee, where he found himself examining some of his former colleagues who tried to overturn the election. He ultimately left the investigation in April 2022, before the committee began holding public hearings. Some members of the committee have expressed frustration with Riggleman’s decision to write a book, especially before the final hearing has taken place.
In an interview with NPR, Riggleman discussed his work on the investigation, his experience as a member of congress, and whether the committee should submit a criminal referral to the Department of Justice.
Here are four takeaways from that conversation:
The significance of the White House call to a Jan. 6 rioter remains unclear
“The Breach” revealed for the first time that congressional investigators discovered at 4:34 pm on Jan. 6, 2021, someone used a White House phone to call a man who had participated in the rioting.
“The call was outgoing to an individual rioter as the violence played out,” Riggleman writes.
The identity of the person who made the call remains unknown.
However, multiple news outlets have identified the recipient of the call as a low-level Capitol riot defendant, who pleaded guilty to a non-violent misdemeanor. According to court documents, he had already left the building by the time of that phone call.
The call lasted nine seconds, and the content is also unknown.
Since this detail was made public, some members of the Jan. 6 Select Committee have appeared to downplay its significance.
“That’s one of thousands of details that obviously the committee is aware of,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on NBC’s Meet the Press. “And so, you know, to me, it’s interesting, but much less interesting than the fact that Donald Trump told the crowd in public, ‘You’ve got to fight like hell. And if you don’t, you’re not going to have a country anymore.'”
Still, Riggleman told NPR that the mere existence of the call demands further investigation.
“Nine seconds is an eternity to a counterterrorism analyst,” Riggleman said. “The fact that the call came from inside the White House at a desk, was routed through the switchboard or defaulted to that number and went out to a rioter, is something that’s extremely important.”
Political pressure is driving some elected Republicans further right
During his short-lived political career, Riggleman vocally supported Trump and joined the House Freedom Caucus not out of principle, he says, but out of political expediency.
“There’s some things that you do that you think you have to [do to] win,” he said. “I had a consultant who was correct. He said, ‘hey, Denver, you gotta be a little bit crazy if you’re gonna beat the crazier people on the right.'”
He said a similar dynamic may have played a role in the thought process for some House Republicans, who supported Trump’s lies about the election.
“I know there’s a few that absolutely didn’t believe the election was stolen, but there was no way they could go against the grain,” Riggleman said.
In Riggleman’s case, conservatives in his district turned on his campaign in 2020, in part because he officiated a same-sex wedding for his campaign volunteers. That contributed to his loss of a primary contest against an ever more conservative opponent.
“Being a politician – I wasn’t as talented as I thought I was gonna be at it,” Riggleman told NPR.
He says he now regrets his support for Trump, and in 2020, he did not vote for the then-president.
“I might have been one of the first Republicans that was a sitting member to see that Trump was retweeting some pretty crazy QAnon-based sort of troll-farm conspiracies and some things that were very dangerous, even things that were calling for violence,” he said. “So no, I did not vote for him.”
Instead, Riggleman said he decided to write in himself for president.
Riggleman believes there are grounds to investigate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows provided a large number of text messages to congressional investigators, which Riggleman describes as “the crown jewels” for the committee’s work.
“What we found in the texts was a road map to an insurrection fueled by apocalyptic propaganda,” Riggleman writes in the book. “It was a toxic stew of old-school zealotry and internet authoritarianism.”
Among the trove of messages were texts sent by Ginni Thomas, a longtime conservative activist and spouse of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In those texts, Thomas expressed the view that the 2020 election was stolen, and appeared to brainstorm legal and congressional strategies to overturning the result.
Shortly after the Nov. 2020 election, Thomas wrote a message to Meadows that bore some similarities to rhetoric spread by adherents to the QAnon conspiracy theory:
“Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition.”
“The first time I saw the Ginni Thomas texts, I called it a ‘bourbon text,'” Riggleman said. “You have to take a shot of bourbon to get through it.”
Ginni Thomas testified to the Jan. 6 committee last week, and denied ever discussing her post-election activities with her husband.
In a statement, her lawyer, Mark Paoletta, said, “Mrs. Thomas had significant concerns about fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election. And, as she told the committee, her minimal and mainstream activity focused on ensuring that reports of fraud and irregularities were investigated. Beyond that, she played no role in any events after the 2020 election results.”
Riggleman expressed skepticism that Ginni and Clarence Thomas maintained such a strict firewall when it came to discussions of the election.
“It’s possible that Clarence Thomas didn’t know about Ginni Thomas’ activities not just around Jan. 6 and the election but through the years as a Republican activist,” he said. “But I don’t know if it’s probable.”
Riggleman said Congress would be justified in taking the extraordinary step of seeking information from Justice Thomas himself, though he said it was unlikely given that the committee is currently wrapping up its work.
“I think it would’ve been appropriate to talk to Justice Thomas,” he said. “I think Ginni [Thomas] coming in is a heck of a great step by the Committee. But I do believe, at some point, the American public is going to have to come to their own conclusions about that.”
Should the Jan. 6 committee issue a criminal referral to the Justice Department?
Political and legal commentators – as well as members of the Jan. 6 committee themselves – have debated whether Congress should make a criminal referral to the Department of Justice at the close of their investigation.
The decision on whether to charge former President Trump or any other target of the investigation would still remain with the Justice Department, but a referral could potentially add political pressure on Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Riggleman told NPR he opposed sending a referral.
“Let the DOJ make that decision,” he said. “Instead of getting caught up in the politics of referrals, just present the best case you can to the American public.”
“They’ve already proven that based on conspiracy theories, based on coordination, that based on really a president that decided to really cavort with the craziest in the far-right base…all that suggests that you had a president that was unfit for office,” Riggleman said. “Because even with criminal referrals, it’s gonna be up to the voters if they want to support that kind of nonsense.”
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Retreating Russians leave their comrades’ bodies behind
LYMAN, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops abandoned a key Ukrainian city so rapidly that they left the bodies of their comrades in the streets. The scene offered more evidence Tuesday of Moscow’s latest military defeat as it struggles to hang on to four regions of Ukraine that it illegally annexed last week. Russia’s upper house of parliament rubber-stamped the annexations Tuesday after “referendums” that Ukraine and its Western allies dismissed as fraudulent. Responding to the move, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy formally ruled out talks with Russia. Meanwhile, the U.S. announced it would provide an additional $625 million in military aid to Ukraine, including more of the advanced rocket systems credited with helping Ukraine’s military momentum.
Deal back on? Elon Musk gets closer to buying Twitter
The tumultuous saga of Elon Musk’s on-again off-again purchase of Twitter has taken a turn toward a conclusion. The mercurial Tesla CEO proposed to buy the company at the originally agreed-on price of $44 billion. Musk made the proposal in a letter to Twitter that the company disclosed in a filing Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It comes less than two weeks before a trial between the two parties is scheduled to start in Delaware. In a statement, Twitter said it intends to close the deal at $54.20 per share. Trading in Twitter’s stock had been halted for much of the day pending release of the news. It resumed trading late Tuesday and soared 22% to close at $52.
S. Korea missile crash during drill with US panics wary city
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean ballistic missile has malfunctioned and crashed into the ground during a live-fire drill with the United States, panicking residents of a coastal city already uneasy over increasingly provocative weapons tests by North Korea. The sound of the blast and fire early Wednesday led many in Gangneung to believe it could be a North Korean attack, concern that only grew as officials provided no explanation about the explosion for hours. No injuries from the crash have been reported. The military said it was investigating what caused the “abnormal flight” of the short-range Hyumoo-2 ballistic missile, which is a key weapon in South Korea’s preemptive and retaliatory strike strategies.
You’re a winner: Listening in on ‘the call’ for Nobel Prize
Usually the call telling scientists that they won a Nobel Prize is received in private by the special few. Not in American physicist John Clauser’s case. He was on a Zoom interview with The Associated Press when the call finally came and he asked if it was OK to talk with the Nobel Committee. Sure. Now the world gets a glimpse of what it’s like to be told you are the ultimate winner. Spoiler alert: He already knew he won. Friends had called him earlier. It just took some time for the Swedish Academy of Sciences to get through to his busy home phone.
Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step into the legal fight over the classified documents seized during an FBI search of his Florida estate. The Trump team asked the court Tuesday to overturn a lower court ruling and permit an independent arbiter, or special master, to review the roughly 100 documents with classified markings that were taken in the Aug. 8 search. A three-judge panel last month limited the review to the much larger tranche of non-classified documents. A veteran Brooklyn judge, Raymond Dearie, is serving as special master.
Haiti at breaking point as economy tanks and violence soars
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, is in the grips of an inflationary vise that is squeezing its citizenry and exacerbating protests that have brought society to the breaking point. Violence is raging and making parents afraid to send their kids to school; fuel and clean water are scarce; and hospitals, banks and grocery stores are struggling to remain open. Daily life in Haiti began to spin out of control last month just hours after Prime Minister Ariel Henry said fuel subsidies would be eliminated, causing prices to double. Protesters vow to keep up the pressure until Henry resigns.
Police: California serial killer ‘on a mission’ in slayings
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Police say a California serial killer appears to be “on a mission” throughout the fatal shooting of six men and the wounding of one woman. Ballistics tests and some video evidence have linked the crimes in Stockton and Oakland, about 70 miles apart. Stockton Police Chief Stanley McFadden said Tuesday: “We don’t know what the motive is. What we do believe is that it’s mission-oriented.” Authorities last week announced that five men in Stockton had been slain in recent months, ambushed and shot to death alone in the dark. Police said late Monday that two additional cases from last year have been tied to those killings. There is a $125,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.
Yankees star Judge hits 62nd homer to break Maris’ AL record
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Aaron Judge has hit his 62nd home run of the season to break Roger Maris’ American League record. Judge hit a 1-1 slider from Texas right-hander Jesús Tinoco into the first row of seats in left field when leading off the second game of New York’s day-night doubleheader on Tuesday. The 30-year-old Judge had homered only once in his past 13 games. That was when he hit No. 61 in Toronto last Wednesday to match Maris. While Maris’ 61 for the Yankees in 1961 had been exceeded six times previously, all were tainted by the stench of steroids. That includes Barry Bonds’ 73 for the the San Francisco Giants in 2001, though he has denied knowingly using performing-enhancing drugs.
Son’s images show him rescuing Mom from Ian’s floodwaters
As Hurricane Ian flooded Naples, Florida, one man went to rescue his 86-year-old mom from her home after she had refused to evacuate. He sent photos and short videos to his family, letting them know he was OK. That’s how Johnny Lauder ended up unintentionally documented the whole rescue. His mom Karen had lost a leg and requires a wheelchair. As the waters rose, she called her son for help. Lauder swam, waded and walked about a half mile to her. Several hours later, the water subsided enough for him to push her through the streets to safety.
Jolie details Brad Pitt abuse allegations in court filing
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new court filing from Angelina Jolie alleges that on a 2016 flight, Brad Pitt grabbed her by the head and shook her then choked one of their children and struck another when they tried to defend her. The descriptions of abuse on the private flight came in a cross-complaint Jolie filed Tuesday in the couple’s dispute over a winery they co-owned. A representative for Pitt denied the abuse allegations to The Associated Press. The allegations were first aired soon after the flight, but details have been kept sealed. The FBI and Los Angeles County’s child services agency investigated but found no grounds for action against Pitt.
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Letters To The Editor: Postcard On Gainesville Mayoral Candidate Ed Bielarski Is Deceptive
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Deceptive postcard
The Democrats sent out a deceptive postcard against Ed Bielarski during the August non-partisan mayoral campaign. Checking their references, one finds it actually highlighted Bielarski’s accomplishments and integrity as a human being. Here are their claims vs. the facts:
Taking “Right-Wing PAC money”: Bielarski received $500 from a PAC but donated it to a charity for needy Gainesville Regional Utilities customers, matching it with his own money.
“Raised your GRU bills”: The City Commission (Harvey Ward) votes on and approves the GRU rates. Bielarski helped lower base rates by eliminating the $2.1 billion biomass non-purchase contract in exchange for the $750 million purchase.
“Opposing rooftop solar”: GRU limits individual solar installations to 2 MW (300 times typical residential rooftop solar array), protecting our electrical grid.
“Dumping toxic coal ash”: This harkens back to late 1990s when Bielarski was winning awards from the Environmental Protection Agency for creative solutions to handling coal-fired plant effluents.
“Fighting the city’s Covid vaccine push and spreading right-wing misinformation”: Bielarski simply did his job, informing the commission that a vaccine mandate would (and did) have dire consequences to providing essential services, resulting in high staff vacancy rates at the Gainesville Police Department, Gainesville Fire Rescue and the line crews at GRU.
Thanks, Dems!
Gary Ihas, Gainesville
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Contrast in character
In this time of unprecedented destruction and devastation in Florida we should remember that our governor, Ron DeSantis, one day after taking his congressional seat in 2013, voted against aid to the victims of Hurricane Sandy calling the bill “fiscally irresponsible.”
The bill passed in a 354 to 67 vote, which included scores of reasonable and empathetic Republicans. DeSantis wasn’t one of them.
Now he comes calling for Democratic President Joe Biden for help. He’ll get it from one of the most empathetic and caring presidents the country has ever had. What a contrast in character.
Hal Cohen, High Springs
Foolish decisions
I have always thought our government was incompetent at all levels. But it never ceases to amaze me that some of the same people who brought you the biomass plant and have drained the life blood out of GRU for years are still in power.
I wonder if all those complaining about the cost of utilities are the same ones that voted for these politicians. I give some blame to the media. The Sun should have taken a stronger stand against the reelection of these politicians
It is small consolation to learn that western Europe is managed by the same incompetents. Here is a triangle of foolish decisions made recently.
They outlawed fracking, cut down on oil exploration and refused to build liquified gas terminals. They went off the deep end by spending millions on green energy and driving up the cost of electricity to near unbearable is some areas, Worst of all, against all advice, they decided to buy Russian energy.
Of course, they had to decide between two unreliable suppliers of energy: the USA and Russia. After Joe Biden’s election, Europe probably is thinking it wouldn’t have made a difference which provider they choose.
Jonathan Berger, Gainesville
Sanctuary hypocrisy
“A place of refuge or protection” is Webster’s definition of the word “sanctuary.” A number of American cities/states have declared themselves to be official sanctuaries for immigrants who enter our country without permission. Yet it seems as though the leaders of these sanctuaries are far from thrilled when they find a number of these non-Americans have actually arrived in their hometowns.
Instead of instantly providing for the needs of these surprise visitors, these “leaders” scream and yell about the way in which these individuals have come to be where they are, as though that really matters. Perhaps these places are sanctuaries in name only.
Claiming compassion does make for good “advertising.” Or, perhaps it’s more about a different Webster definition: “a pretending to be what one is not.” You know — hypocrisy. (There seems to be a lot of that going around. Perhaps a vaccine is called for.)
Leonard C. Young, Keystone Heights
Popular president
According to Nate Silver’s 538’s average of the latest polls of registered voters, President Biden’s popularity stands at 43.5%. It is logical to assume that Trump’s base, estimated at 20% of the U.S. population over 18 years of age, automatically answer “disapprove” when asked in a survey if they approve or disapprove of Biden. This means 80% of that population produced the 43.5% Biden approval rating.
If we divide 43.5% by 80.0%, we get 54.3% as the Biden approval rating non-Trump base members had to vote to offset Trump’s base’s disapproval vote.
Conclusion: President Biden’s approval rating among non-Trump base registered voters is higher than he gets credit for. He is a popular president among the majority of registered voters
Larry Jaffe, Gainesville
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Trump Asked The US Supreme Court To Intervene In The Seizure Of Classified Records
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WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene in his fight with the Justice Department as part of a criminal investigation into the handling of government records over classified documents seized from his Florida home.
Trump filed an emergency motion asking the justices to block part of a lower court ruling that prevented an independent arbitrator, known as a special master, from examining more than 100 documents included in the 11,000 records seized by FBI agents. Aug. 8 at Mar-a-Lago Estates in Palm Beach. read more
The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 21 overturned a decision by U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon, who had temporarily barred the special master from examining the classified documents, pending a special investigation. Withheld from investigators.
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Judge Clarence Thomas, who has been assigned to evaluate emergency appeals from the 11th Circuit, late Tuesday requested a response from the Justice Department by Oct. 11. Thomas is one of six conservatives on the nine-member Supreme Court.
11th Circuit Special Master Judge Raymond Deary noted the importance of limiting access to classified information and blocked access to documents with classified markings.
In Tuesday’s filing, Trump’s lawyers said “Deary should have access to determine whether documents with classification markings are in fact classified, regardless of whether the records are personal records or presidential records.”
Trump’s lawyers added that the Justice Department has “attempted to criminalize a document management controversy and now vehemently opposes a transparent process that would provide much-needed oversight.”
The court-authorized Mar-a-Lago search was conducted as part of a federal investigation into whether Trump, who left office in January 2021 after his failed 2020 re-election bid, illegally obtained documents from the White House and tried to block them. Study.
The investigation seeks to determine who had access to the classified materials, whether they were compromised and whether any were unaccounted for. At issue in the 11th Circuit ruling were documents with classified identities classified as Secret, Secret, or Top Secret.
A redacted FBI photo of documents and classified cover sheets recovered from a container stored at former US President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, in a US Department of Justice filing and released on August 30, 2022. Manual by US Department of Justice/REUTERS
Cannon, who led Trump’s lawsuit seeking to limit judicial access to the seized documents, barred review of all materials and named Deary to review the records, impeding the investigation.
On Sept. 15, Cannon, appointed to the bench by Trump, rejected a Justice Department request to partially lift his order on classified materials because it impedes the government’s effort to reduce potential national security risks from unauthorized disclosure.
The three-judge 11th Circuit panel includes two appointed by Trump and one appointed by former President Barack Obama.
Noting that the classified records belong to the US government, the 11th Circuit found that Trump had no “personal interest” in them and “did not even attempt to know the information contained in the classified documents.”
The 11th Circuit rejected any suggestion that Trump had classified the documents — as the former president said — saying there was “no evidence” of such action and the argument was a “red herring” because declassifying an official document does not change its content. Or make it private.”
In Tuesday’s filing, Trump’s lawyers said he “has broad authority to declassify and access classified documents.” In an interview on Fox News last month, Trump again said he had declassified documents without evidence and that he had the authority to do so “even if he thought about it.”
The three statutes underlying the search warrant used by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago make it a crime to tamper with government records regardless of their classification status.
Cannon tasked Deary with reviewing all seized material, including classified material, to identify anything subject to attorney-client confidentiality or executive privilege — a legal doctrine that protects certain White House communications from disclosure.
The dossier investigation is one of several legal issues Trump is considering whether to run for president again in 2024. New York state’s attorney general filed a civil suit last month accusing Trump and his three adult children of financial fraud and misrepresentation. Family real estate company reports. The Trump Organization is also set to go on trial in New York state on felony tax fraud charges on October 24.
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Group Launches Push To Stop Arkansas Recreational Marijuana Bill
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KARK/KAIT) – A group is wanting to put a stop to voters deciding on a measure to permit recreational marijuana use in Arkansas.
According to content partner KARK, the Little Rock-based Family Council Action Committee issued a statement on Tuesday, Oct. 4 that it was forming a campaign for voters to oppose the amendment.
The campaign will include social media graphics and videos, along with a two-week city tour of the state, sharing its reasons for voting down the ballot measure.
If passed, Issue 4 would allow adults to have and use marijuana with the medical use card required in Arkansas. It would also allow for additional marijuana dispensaries and grow facilities in the state.
Executive Director Jerry Cox said it all comes down to not wanting another addictive substance making its way across the Natural State.
“Enough is enough,” he exclaimed. “Arkansas does not need another drug problem.”
The group behind the measure, Responsible Growth Arkansas, said they’re going to support the measure regardless.
“Recent polling shows statewide support is nearly twice as high as the opposition,” said spokesperson Eddie Armstrong. “We plan to continue getting the message out and ask people to make their own choices at the ballot box in November.”
The measure was approved by the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday, Sept. 22 after debates regarding THC concerns and meeting Arkansas code.
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Trump Seeks To Delay Looming Depositions Of Sex Assault Accusers
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NEW YORK — A writer who claims Donald Trump sexually assaulted her during an interview and a former saleswoman who says he groped her on an airplane are among the witnesses whose testimony in a defamation suit he is seeking to put on hold.
The women are set to be deposed by lawyers for New York columnist E. Jean Carroll, who alleges the former president raped her two decades ago in a department store dressing room and then defamed her by denying it. Her lawyers say the testimony will show there is a well-established pattern of Trump assaulting women. He denies it all.
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NEW YORK — A writer who claims Donald Trump sexually assaulted her during an interview and a former saleswoman who says he groped her on an airplane are among the witnesses whose testimony in a defamation suit he is seeking to put on hold.
A spokesman for Kari Lake says the Republican candidate for Arizona governor didn’t mean to suggest abortion should be legal. Spokesman Ross Trumble says Lake is not calling for changes to abortion laws weeks after a judge ruled that prosecutors can enforce a near-total ban on terminating pregnancies. Lake told a Phoenix talk radio host that abortion should be “rare and legal” before saying twice that it should be “rare but safe.” Trumble said Tuesday that she meant to say only “rare but safe.” Arizona doctors stopped performing abortions following the court ruling late last month.
AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge has ordered Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to testify in a high-profile abortion case, a week after the Republican reportedly fled his McKinney home to avoid being served with a subpoena.
LONDON — The U.K. sees the prospect of a deal with the European Union on Northern Ireland’s trade arrangements within weeks as relations thaw following a protracted stalemate.
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County prosecutors have accused the CEO of a small Michigan software company of compromising the personal information of hundreds of county elections employees.
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The founder and CEO of a software company targeted by election deniers has been arrested on suspicion of stealing personal identifying information on Los Angeles County poll workers. The district attorney’s office says Eugene Yu of Michigan-based Konnech Corporation was held Tuesday. The company says it believes he was wrongfully detained and no info was stolen. Konnech won a $2.9-million contract with LA County in 2020 to provide software to track election worker schedules and payroll. But authorities contend that it violated the contract by storing the data on servers in China, not the United States. The New York Times says conspiracy theorists have alleged, without evidence, that Konnech was secretly working with the Chinese government.
Missouri homicide and arson detectives are investigating the deaths of two South American scientists whose bodies were found after a weekend apartment fire near the Kansas City biomedical research center where they worked. Kansas City police identified the victims as 24-year-old Camila Behrensen, of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and 25-year-old Pablo Guzmán Palma, of Santiago, Chile. The Stowers Institute for Medical Research said in a tweet Tuesday that both were predoctoral researchers there. Police released few details but said there is a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. They asked Tuesday for help from anyone with surveillance video.
A county commission in central New Mexico is seeking to remove its top local elections regulator from office just five weeks before Election Day, citing allegations that she improperly certified vote-counting equipment. Torrance County is among a handful of New Mexico counties grappling with simmering mistrust and conspiracy theories about voting systems after former President Donald Trump lost re-election in 2020. State and local authorities say Otero County Clerk Yvonne Otero pre-signed certification papers for ballot-counting machines before the equipment was tested, without ever attending the inspection of machines. Otero could not be reached immediately. The county is repeating its inspection of voting equipment.
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Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., downplayed the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 on Tuesday, saying the violent attackers “did teach us how you can use a flag pole.”
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The founder and CEO of a software company targeted by election deniers has been arrested on suspicion of stealing personal identifying information on Los Angeles County poll workers. The district attorney’s office says Eugene Yu of Michigan-based Konnech Corporation was held Tuesday. The company says it believes he was wrongfully detained and no info was stolen. Konnech won a $2.9-million contract with LA County in 2020 to provide software to track election worker schedules and payroll. But authorities contend that it violated the contract by storing the data on servers in China, not the United States. The New York Times says conspiracy theorists have alleged, without evidence, that Konnech was secretly working with the Chinese government.
Missouri homicide and arson detectives are investigating the deaths of two South American scientists whose bodies were found after a weekend apartment fire near the Kansas City biomedical research center where they worked. Kansas City police identified the victims as 24-year-old Camila Behrensen, of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and 25-year-old Pablo Guzmán Palma, of Santiago, Chile. The Stowers Institute for Medical Research said in a tweet Tuesday that both were predoctoral researchers there. Police released few details but said there is a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. They asked Tuesday for help from anyone with surveillance video.
A county commission in central New Mexico is seeking to remove its top local elections regulator from office just five weeks before Election Day, citing allegations that she improperly certified vote-counting equipment. Torrance County is among a handful of New Mexico counties grappling with simmering mistrust and conspiracy theories about voting systems after former President Donald Trump lost re-election in 2020. State and local authorities say Otero County Clerk Yvonne Otero pre-signed certification papers for ballot-counting machines before the equipment was tested, without ever attending the inspection of machines. Otero could not be reached immediately. The county is repeating its inspection of voting equipment.
PINE ISLAND, Fla. — The helpers were busy in Southwest Florida on Tuesday.
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The death toll from a bloody fight among prison inmates has risen to 16. And Ecuadorian authorities say one of the dead was an alleged drug gang boss who had evaded charges in Peru by faking his death during the pandemic. Officials say the number of wounded from clashes among inmates armed with guns and knives at the state prison in Latacunga stands at 43, with two in critical condition. The fighting erupted Monday and continued into the early hours of Tuesday. The drug capo was identified as Leonardo Norero, alias “El Patron.” Officials say he was seized in late May along with weapons, and $7 million in cash.
As Hurricane Ian flooded Naples, Florida, one man went to rescue his 86-year-old mom from her home after she had refused to evacuate. He sent photos and short videos to his family, letting them know he was OK. That’s how Johnny Lauder ended up unintentionally documented the whole rescue. His mom Karen had lost a leg and requires a wheelchair. As the waters rose, she called her son for help. Lauder swam, waded and walked about a half mile to her. Several hours later, the water subsided enough for him to push her through the streets to safety.
Legislative leaders sought to cement their ability to gerrymander their own districts without courts being able to strike them down, in arguments they made Tuesday to the N.C. Supreme Court.
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North Korea Fired A Missile Over Japan For The First Time In Five Years. Here's What You Need To Know | CNN
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Seoul, South Korea CNN —
North Korea fired a ballistic missile without warning over Japan on Tuesday for the first time in five years, a highly provocative and reckless act that marks a significant escalation in its weapons testing program.
The missile traveled over northern Japan early in the morning, and is believed to have landed in the Pacific Ocean. The last time North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan was in 2017.
This marks North Korea’s 23rd missile launch this year, including the most ballistic missiles fired in a single year since leader Kim Jong Un took power in 2012. By comparison, Pyongyang conducted four tests in 2020 and eight in 2021.
Here’s what you need to know about North Korea’s missile tests.
Tuesday’s missile flew a distance of about 4,600 kilometers (2,858 miles), with an altitude of some 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) and a top speed reaching Mach 17 – meaning 17 times the speed of sound, according to Japanese officials.
By way of comparison, the US island territory of Guam is just 3,380 kilometers (2,100 miles) from North Korea.
Two experts told CNN these flight details suggest the missile fired was likely a Hwasong-12 – an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) last tested in January.
“This is a missile that North Korea started testing in 2017 … So it’s not really a new missile,” said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at CNS.
But, he added, its launch is significant because of the distance it can travel.
“North Korea has a bunch of missiles that are shorter range, and that wouldn’t go over Japan – but they have a small number of missiles that could make that journey,” he said.
North Korea usually fires its missiles into waters off the coast of the Korean Peninsula – making this flight over Japan considerably more provocative, for both practical and symbolic reasons.
This kind of unannounced launch could pose risks to aircraft and ships as the missile travels down to its target, since they would have no prior warning to avoid the area.
And if the test had failed, causing the missile to fall short, it could have endangered major population areas. The missile flew over Japan’s Tohoku region, according to Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, which is home to more than 8 million people.
In the past, US planes have been grounded as a ‘precaution’ following North Korean missile launches. And in late November 2017, several commercial jet pilots were reported to have seen what appeared to be the re-entry of a North Korean missile as it approached the Sea of Japan.
However, Lewis emphasized, such risks are statistically low, especially that far out in the Pacific and that high above Japan as it flew overhead. Mostly, it’s an escalation simply because “it’s provocative to fire a missile over your neighbor.”
“For the Japanese especially, it feels like a violation of their sovereignty,” Lewis said. “If Russia fired a missile over Florida, we would have a fit.”
And, experts say, it’s a sign of Kim’s ambitions for North Korea’s weapons development – and of what’s yet to come.
There are differing opinions on what may have driven North Korea to fire Tuesday’s missile.
Robert Ward, senior fellow for Japanese Security Studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, pointed to the multiple security threats faced by Japan, from an aggressive Russia to its north and China to its south.
“North Korea may be trying to exploit the unstable international situation, which it will see as a tailwind,” he said.
Lewis disagreed, saying that although North Korea sometimes responds or retaliates to specific actions by Western players or groups, for the large part “they have their own schedule … and I don’t think that we have a lot of impact on the timing.”
There are also practical reasons; North Korea often takes breaks in testing during the summer when weather is bad, and pick up again once the fall and early winter arrive – meaning now could just be the right conditions for a test, he added.
Joseph Dempsey, research associate for defense and military analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, added that Tuesday’s flight path could just make for a better test.
These types of missiles are meant for long-range targets – so flying it over Japan could help North Korea gauge its accuracy over a longer distance, its ability to withstand different forces exerted on the missile, and other factors, compared to its usual “lofted” tests – which travel higher in altitude and splash down west of Japan.
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Kim had vowed earlier this year to develop North Korea’s nuclear arms at the “highest possible” speed – and experts say Tuesday’s launch is part of that push for weapons advancement.
“North Korea is going to keep conducting missile tests until the current round of modernization is done,” Lewis said, adding that a nuclear test could come “anytime.”
South Korean and US officials have been warning since May that North Korea may be preparing for a nuclear test, with satellite imagery showing activity at its underground nuclear test site.
If North Korea conducts a test, it would be the country’s seventh underground nuclear test and the first in nearly five years.
There are also other missile tests to watch. Apart from the Hwasong-12, North Korea also has three intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of flying over Japan, though these have not been tested “to their full range yet,” said Lewis.
“This is probably an appetizer for the main course, which is yet to come,” he added. “I would expect that when North Korea has more confidence in one of their ICBMs, they might fly one of those to full range over Japan.”
Leif-Eric Easley, associate professor of international studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, added that North Korea could be waiting until after China holds its Communist Party Congress in mid-October to “conduct an even more significant test.”
“The Kim regime is developing weapons such as tactical nuclear warheads and submarine-launched ballistic missiles as part of a long-term strategy to outrun South Korea in an arms race and drive wedges among US allies,” Easley said.
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In Major Reversal Elon Musk Again Proposes Buying Twitter At Full Price | CNN Business
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Elon Musk on Monday sent a letter to Twitter proposing to follow through with his deal to buy the company at the originally agreed upon price of $54.20 per share, according to a securities filing on Tuesday.
In the letter, Musk said he would proceed with the acquisition on the original terms, pending receipt of the debt financing for the deal and provided that the Delaware Chancery Court stay the litigation proceedings over Musk’s initial attempt to pull out of the deal and adjourn the upcoming trial over the dispute.
A Twitter spokesperson said in a statement to CNN that the company received Musk’s letter and reiterated its previous statement that the “intention of the Company is to close the transaction at $54.20 per share.”
Musk on Tuesday night tweeted: “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app.”
News of the letter was first reported by Bloomberg earlier on Tuesday. Twitter (TWTR) stock was halted twice, the second time for news pending. After the stock resumed trading, it was up more than 20%, topping $51 a share and approaching the agreed upon deal price for the first time in months.
The news comes as the the two sides have been preparing to head to trial in two weeks over Musk’s attempt to terminate of the $44 billion acquisition agreement, which Twitter had sued him to complete. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal had been set to be deposed by Musk’s lawyers on Monday, and Twitter’s lawyers had planned to depose Musk starting on Thursday.
It also follows the release on Friday of a trove of Musk’s personal text messages about the deal. The messages offered a look at the cast of Silicon Valley insiders and billionaires — from Larry Ellison to members of the Murdoch family — who contacted him to weigh in on and, in some cases, offer financing for the deal.
Such an agreement could bring to an end a contentious, months-long back and forth between Musk and Twitter that has caused massive uncertainty for employees, investors and users of one of the world’s most influential social media platforms.
The ball will now be in Twitter’s court to determine how to respond to Musk’s proposal. Twitter’s board will likely agree to move forward with closing the deal, according to Josh White, assistant professor of finance at Vanderbilt University.
“The very public saga has certainly taken a toll on them and Twitter employees,” White said. “It is best for all parties to finish the deal and make a quick and seamless transition. I suspect it will close quickly.”
However, Twitter may not want to hit pause on the litigation, per Musk’s proposal, until the deal is officially closed, according to Columbia Law School professor Eric Talley. The company may want to proceed with the litigation process as it negotiates with Musk, in case his offer to complete the deal falls through again.
“Twitter is probably going to say, ‘look, we definitely want to engage you on this … But we’ve still got a trial on Oct 17 and until this is signed, sealed and delivered, we’ve got to get ready for trial,” Talley said.
The saga began in April when Musk revealed he had become Twitter’s largest shareholder. Over the next several months, Musk accepted and then backed out of an offer to sit on Twitter’s board, threatened a hostile takeover of the company, signed an agreement to buy the company, started raising concerns about bots on the platform, attempted to terminate the agreement, was sued by Twitter to follow through with the deal and added claims from a Twitter whistleblower to his argument.
Musk initially moved to terminate the deal citing claims that the company has misstated the number of spam and fake bot accounts on the platform. Twitter claimed that Musk had breached the deal and was using bots as a pretext to exit a deal he’d gotten buyer’s remorse over after the broader market decline, which also hurt Tesla stock and, by extension, Musk’s personal wealth.
Throughout the back and forth, Twitter had maintained that it planned to follow through with deal at the price and terms originally agreed upon.
Many legal experts have said that Twitter has the stronger argument heading into court, and that Musk would a face a significant burden in trying to prove that the company had made materially misleading statements in its securities filings or in the deal contract.
The lawsuit was the final hurdle remaining in the way of the deal getting closed, after Twitter shareholders last month voted to approve the deal. The deal had originally been set to close this month.
With news that the deal could end up closing, attention may once again shift to what Musk’s control could mean for the social media platform.
Musk has previously suggested a series of potential changes to Twitter, the most significant of which could be returning former President Donald Trump to the platform and doing away with permanent account bans. Musk has also said he wants to make Twitter more open to “free speech” and could change its content moderation policies.
Twitter employees have also raised questions about what a Musk takeover could mean for benefits such as remote working and parental leave.
Twitter General Counsel Sean Edgett said in a message to employees Tuesday that the company had received Musk’s letter and planned to close the deal at $54.20 per share. “I will continue to keep you posted on significant updates, but in the meantime, thank you for your patience as we work through this on the legal side,” he said, according to a copy of the message obtained by CNN.
Blind, an anonymous private forum popular among Twitter employees, was abuzz on Tuesday amid reports about Musk’s reversal. Reaction on the forum was overwhelmingly negative, according to screenshots provided to CNN by a Twitter employee.
“Cue the layoffs,” one comment read. Several other employees expressed fear that Musk would roll back Twitter’s benefits package, including the severance offered to departing employees.
–CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan contributed to this report.
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Voter Registration Deadline Nears For Nov. 8 Elections In Arkansas
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Oct. 11 is the deadline
Voters in Arkansas have until Oct. 11 to register in time to vote in the Tuesday, Nov. 8 midterm and local elections.
More:A guide to voter rights in Arkansas. What you need to know before you cast a ballot
For Sebastian County and Fort Smith voters, races for three Fort Smith Board of Directors positions, a state senate district, U.S. Senate, Congress and a state question about recreational marijuana will await voters on ballots in Sebastian County. An Election Board official said sample ballots were being prepared Tuesday and should be ready by the Friday, Oct. 7 and will be posted on the county website.
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A few of the key races for Fort Smith voters include board of directors races and the State House 49 race in north Fort Smith between incumbent Democrat Rep. Jay Richardson, and Republican challenger Max Avery, a commercial driving training center owner.
Republican State Rep. Justin Boyd is running for a seat in State Senate District 27 against Democrat Rebecca Ward.
Boyd currently is serving in House District 77 for the southwest side of Fort Smith.
Board of Directors
Three Fort Smith Board of Directors seats will be decided Tuesday, Nov. 8.
Christina Catsavis will challenge director Robyn Dawson for at-large director position five.
Two men are competing for the at-large position seven seat.
Jackson Goodwin, 25, is running against incumbent Neal Martin, 46. Martin has served one term on the board.
Goodwin is a fifth-generation Fort Smith resident who works as a civil engineer with Mickle Wagner Coleman.
Director Kevin Settle, 48, is challenged by Drew Smith, 31, for the position six at-large seat.
More:Longtime director to take on 31-year-old for board of directors position
Heavy voter turnout expected?
With recreational marijuana legalization for those 21 and older to be decided by votes on the Nov. 8 ballots, voter turnout is expected to be heavier.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders faces Democrat Chris Jones.
U.S. Sen. John Boozman faces Democrat Natalie James. Boozman was elected to his second term in 2016 and is running for the third term. Kenneth Cates, Libertarian, is also on the ballot.
In the Arkansas 3rd Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, Republican, faces Lauren Mallet-Hays, Democrat, and Michael J. Kalagias, Libertarian.
How to register
Those who want to register can go to the Sebastian County Election Board or by mail.
A voter registration day was hosted by the NAACP Saturday, Oct. 1 at the Elm Grove Community Center in Fort Smith.
People can register to vote at their local election board office.
Mail-in registrations must be postmarked by Oct. 11.
The deadline to request an absentee ballot is Nov. 1
Absentee ballots by mail must be received by 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8. Absentee ballots returned in-person must be done by Nov. 4.
Early voting is Oct. 24 to Nov. 7.
To register in Fort Smith go to the Sebastian County Clerk’s office at 35 S. 6, room 102 in the Sebastian County Courthouse. Or in Greenwood go to 301 E. Center, Room 104. Both locations are open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
People will need a photo ID to vote. A photo ID is not required to register to vote.
As of Tuesday, Oct. 4, there were 70,840 registered voter’s in Sebastian County.
For more information in Sebastian County call county clerk’s office 479-782-5065.
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Reuters US Domestic News Summary | Politics https://digitalarkansasnews.com/reuters-us-domestic-news-summary-politics-3/
Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.
Measuring Hurricane Ian’s toll on Florida’s ‘forgotten’ neighborhoods
Betty and Hubert Toney have lost count of all the hurricanes they’ve lived through since moving into their house in the modest Dunbar neighborhood of Fort Myers, Florida, in 1958. But they had never before experienced anything like Ian. The powerful Category 4 hurricane sheared the roof off the Toneys’ green flat-top home, leaving the interior exposed to the torrential rain.
Biden, doctors say new abortion laws have chilling impact
U.S. President Joe Biden and top White House officials announced new guidelines and grants to protect abortion and contraception rights on Tuesday, and said women’s rights have already been curtailed since the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade 100 days ago. Speaking at a meeting of the reproductive rights task force, with Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden said the decision that rescinded women’s constitutional right to an abortion has had frightening ripple effects in some states, include restricting a teen’s access to medicine she needed for arthritis. “We’re not going to sit by and let Republicans throughout the country enact extreme policies,” he said.
Biden approval slips to 40%, Reuters/Ipsos finds
U.S. President Joe Biden’s public approval rating edged lower this week and was close to the lowest level of his presidency, with just five weeks to go before the Nov. 8 midterm elections, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday found. The two-day national poll found that 40% of Americans approve of Biden’s job performance, down from 41% a week earlier.
Exclusive-Republican clerk could be charged in Michigan voting-system breach
A Michigan township official who promotes false conspiracy theories of a rigged 2020 election could face criminal charges related to two voting-system security breaches, according to previously unreported records and legal experts. A state police detective recommended that the Michigan attorney general consider unspecified charges amid a months-long probe into one breach related to the Republican clerk’s handling of a vote tabulator, according to a June email from the detective to state and local officials. Reuters obtained the email through a public-records request.
Michigan judge drops charges against 7 ex-state and city officials in Flint water crisis
A Michigan judge on Tuesday threw out felony charges against seven former state and local officials in connection with the Flint water scandal, ruling that the indictments brought against the individuals were invalid due to a procedural error. Under state-appointed managers, the government of Flint, a majority-Black city, switched its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River to cut costs in 2014. Corrosive river water caused lead to leach from the pipes, exposing thousands of children to lead poisoning and leading to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease.
Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to intervene over seized classified records
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in his fight with the Justice Department over classified documents seized from his Florida home as part of a criminal investigation into his handling of government records. Trump filed an emergency request asking the justices to block part of a lower court’s ruling that prevented an independent arbiter requested by Trump, known as a special master, from vetting more than 100 documents marked as classified that were among 11,000 records seized by FBI agents at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach on Aug. 8.
Outside dollars help Republican U.S. Senate candidates close financial gap with Democrats
Republicans in the tightest U.S. Senate races are getting help from deep-pocketed allies who are unleashing a late advertising blitz, potentially neutralizing their Democratic rivals’ fundraising advantage heading into the Nov. 8 midterm elections. Led by a fundraising group tied to Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, dozens of conservative organizations reported spending more than $104 million in September to help Republican candidates in seven Senate races widely seen as competitive, a Reuters analysis of federal disclosures found.
Oath Keepers leader said Trump ‘will need us and our rifles’, U.S. court hears
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes told followers of his far-right group that Donald Trump “will need us and our rifles” just days after the then-Republican president lost the 2020 election, an FBI witness said in court on Tuesday. Rhodes and four co-defendants – Thomas Caldwell, Kenneth Harrelson, Kelly Meggs and Jessica Watkins – are on trial in federal court in Washington, accused of conspiring to prevent Congress from certifying the election victory of President Joe Biden, a Democrat, in a failed bid to keep Trump in power.
Angelina Jolie accuses ex-husband Brad Pitt of abuse in court filing
Angelina Jolie detailed what she described as abusive behavior by ex-husband Brad Pitt in a court filing on Tuesday, escalating a legal battle over a French winery the former couple once shared and revealing new details about the dissolution of their marriage. The filing in a Los Angeles court alleges that Pitt sought to condition Jolie’s sale of her stake in the winery on a nondisclosure agreement that would have barred her from publicly discussing “Pitt’s physical and emotional abuse of her and their children.”
Soccer-U.S. captain Sauerbrunn says responsible parties in NWSL abuse case must leave
United States captain Becky Sauerbrunn called for the removal of individuals at the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) and U.S. Soccer who failed to protect players from abuse, after an inquiry found widespread misconduct in the professional league. U.S. Soccer brought in former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and King & Spalding LLP a year ago to conduct an independent investigation after a report in The Athletic outlined allegations of abuse in the NWSL, prompting a reckoning across the league.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Obituaries In Fort Smith, AR | Times Record https://digitalarkansasnews.com/obituaries-in-fort-smith-ar-times-record-62/
Betty West McGee, 88, of Fort Smith, passed away peacefully on Sunday, October 2, 2022. She was born February 8, 1934, in Osage, Iowa to Charles Edward Clayton and Bertha Matilda (Popp) Clayton. Betty graduated from Mountain Home High School in 1952. She moved to Fort Smith and then attended Arkansas Tech University for one year. Betty was a First United Methodist Church member for sixty-four years, where she served as Nursery Supervisor for thirty-one years, including eighteen years as Children’s Day Out Director. She also conducted church receptions for six years.
After she retired, Betty volunteered at Sparks (Baptist) Regional Medical Center, Methodist Village, and First United Methodist Church.
Betty enjoyed ballroom dancing, going to the lake, enjoying a good book, and listening to music.
She was preceded in death by her husbands, Robert “Pete” West and Marshall “Mac” McGee; her sisters, Mary Talburt, Joann Ice, and Dorothy Clayton; and her two brothers, Robert and Donald Clayton.
She is survived by two daughters, Sandra Burks and husband Richie of Southlake, TX, and Lynda Burton and husband Steve of Fort Smith; one grandson, Ryan Burks of Denton, TX; sister-in-law, Dorene Clayton; step-son, Patrick McGee and wife Dede; step-daughters, Terry Rath and husband Jeff, and Jeannie Horan; and her step-son-in-law, Matt Horan. She was predeceased by her step-daughter, Kathleen Lease and husband Steve. She is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews, step-grandchildren, and step-great-grandchildren, other family, and many dear friends.
Funeral Service will be at 2:00 PM Thursday, October 6, 2022, in Roebuck Chapel at First United Methodist Church under the direction of Edwards Funeral Home. Burial will be at Oak Cemetery.
Visitation will be one hour prior to the service Thursday, from 1 PM – 2 PM in the church Narthex.
Live streaming will be available on Facebook and YouTube at Fort Smith First United Methodist Church.
Memorials may be made to First United Methodist Church, 200 N. 15th Street, Fort Smith, AR 72901 or to a charity of your choice.
Online condolences may be sent to: www.edwardsfuneralhome.com
Posted online on October 04, 2022
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Man Killed At Scene Of Catalytic Converter Theft In Oakland Police Say
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Oct. 4, 2022
The Oakland Police Department is investigating the city’s 101st homicide of 2022.
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A man was shot and killed early Tuesday at the scene of a catalytic converter theft in Oakland, officials said.
The Oakland Police Department said officers were responding to a call about a catalytic converter theft on the 4000 block of Everett Avenue in Oakland’s Glenview neighborhood near Dimond Park at 4 a.m., when they received an additional report that a shooting occurred at the same location.
At the scene, officers found a male Oakland resident with gunshot wounds, police said. First responders took life-saving measures, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
The department did not respond to a question about whether the homicide was associated with the catalytic converter theft.
The man’s death marks the 101st homicide in Oakland since the start of the year. The city is experiencing a rash of shootings; two teenage brothers who attend Berkeley High were shot and killed at a house party in Oakland on Saturday night, and six people, including two students, were injured in a Sept. 28 shooting at the King Estates campus that houses several schools.
The recent homicide is under investigation. Anyone with information about the incident can call the department’s homicide section at (510) 238-3821 or the tip line at (510) 238-7950.
This is a developing story and details will be added as they become available.
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Trump Goes To Supreme Court Over Mar-A-Lago Search And Seizure Of Documents | CNN Politics
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CNN —
Former President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene in the dispute over materials marked as classified that the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate this summer.
His emergency request with the Supreme Court is the latest example of the former President seeking to involve the justices in investigations that entangle him – at a time when the high court’s legitimacy in politically explosive cases is under intense scrutiny.
Trump is specifically asking the court to ensure that the more than 100 documents marked as classified are part of the special master’s review. The request, if granted, could bolster the former President’s attempt to challenge the search in court, as he has argued that he may have had a right, as a former president, to possess certain government documents, including documents potentially containing the country’s most sensitive secrets.
Trump, though, is not asking the Supreme Court to block the Justice Department from using the documents in its criminal probe into how materials from his White House were mishandled.
Justice Clarence Thomas – the recipient of Trump’s application because he oversees litigation coming from the circuit court that is handling the special master order appeal – gave the Justice Department a deadline of 5 p.m. Tuesday, October 11, to respond.
It remains to be seen whether allowing the special master – a third-party attorney tasked with reviewing evidence and filtering out privileged documents – to also access classified documents poses a real threat to the criminal investigation. Nor is it clear how sympathetic the high court will be to Trump’s claims, which rest largely on technical arguments about whether an appeals court had the authority to carve out the 100 documents from the review.
Late last year, Trump asked the justices to block the release of documents from his White House to congressional January 6, 2021, investigators. The high court rejected the request.
Trump’s emergency application to the Supreme Court comes after the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Justice Department and said that the department’s criminal investigation into the documents marked as classified could continue. The probe’s use of the records had been put on hold by a district judge in Florida, who granted a Trump request for a third-party review of the materials obtained in the Mar-a-Lago search. That appeals court is now considering whether to wipe away the rest of the special master order.
Trump is not asking the high court to restore the hold that Judge Aileen Cannon – a US district judge he nominated in 2020 – put on the Justice Department probe accessing the documents marked classified. But Trump wants those documents put back within the scope of the materials special master is reviewing.
In the new filing, Trump’s attorneys said that “any limit on the comprehensive and transparent review of materials seized in the extraordinary raid of a President’s home erodes public confidence in our system of justice.”
They also pushed back on the Justice Department’s claims that including the documents in the special master review would pose national security risks.
“The Government argued on appeal, without explanation, that showing the purportedly classified documents to Judge Dearie would harm national security,” Trump’s attorneys said, referring to senior Judge Raymond Dearie, who has been appointed special master in the dispute. The Trump team said that position “cannot be reconciled” with the DOJ saying it may want to show those same documents to a grand jury or to witnesses during interviews.
In filings before the lower court, the Justice Department had also cautioned that having Dearie’s review cover those documents would potentially allow members of Trump’s legal team to access them, including lawyers whom the department has signaled it views as possible witnesses in its investigation.
Cannon, the Justice Department previously told the 11th Circuit, had “ordered disclosure of highly sensitive material to a special master and to Plaintiff’s counsel—potentially including witnesses to relevant events—in the midst of an investigation, where no charges have been brought.”
The purpose of getting a special master to review those documents is not entirely fleshed out by Trump’s new filing with the Supreme Court. Trump nodded to Cannon’s assertion that he, as former president, would suffer “reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude” if he was indicted based on evidence that had been unlawfully seized. That rationale was squarely rejected by the 11th Circuit, when it carved out the documents from the special master review.
Elsewhere in the new application, Trump indicated his desire to include the documents marked as classified in the churn of challenges his lawyers will get to hash out before Dearie as part of the special master process. He re-upped arguments – viewed with extreme skepticism by a broad range of legal experts – that the Presidential Records Act may shield him from criminal charges brought for how he handled the materials. Trump also hinted at the idea that he may have declassified the records in question. As he has in earlier stages of the litigation, however, Trump stopped short of making the assertion outright.
On Tuesday, Trump told the Supreme Court that Cannon had the authority to refer “these matters to a special master to determine whether documents bearing classification markings are in fact classified, and regardless of classification, whether those records are personal records or Presidential records, such that their disposition may be managed properly under the PRA.”
“The Government’s position presumes certain documents are in fact classified, affording President Trump no opportunity to contend otherwise. This presumption is at the core of the dispute,” he said.
Trump’s application is landing at the Supreme Court’s door step as it embarks on a new term where the justices will consider several high-profile cases.
The Supreme Court, with its current conservative majority, is already viewed by the American public as partisan following a string of controversial rulings this year, including overturning Roe v. Wade, and will likely make the Mar-a-Lago search even more of an issue in the upcoming congressional midterm elections.
Trump appointed three of the current justices: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
In addition, the justice who receives Supreme Court emergency requests out of Florida is conservative Thomas, although he is almost guaranteed to refer the petition to the full court to consider.
Thomas’ wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, promoted efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and has testified before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack.
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said the appeal is intended to delay the Justice Department’s investigation into the former President, if possible.
“This is part of the delay strategy,” Honig said on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” noting Trump lost at the appeals court. “So either he accepts that loss and those documents don’t go to the special master and they go right over to DOJ, or his only remaining recourse is to try to get the Supreme Court to take it, and that’s the course he’s taking now.”
Honig said it’s a “close call” if the court will take up the case.
“The Supreme Court typically likes to stay out of messy, political disputes,” Honig said. “On the other hand, when it comes to sort of unique, novel issues of constitutional law, of separation of power, of issues like executive privilege and classification of documents, that’s sort of why the Supreme Court exists – to adjudicate those high level disputes between branches that involve sort of core constitutional principles.”
This story has been updated with additional details Tuesday.
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Report: Donald Trump Told Mike Pence Gay People Love Me | EDGE Media Network
Report: Donald Trump Told Mike Pence Gay People ’Love Me’ | EDGE Media Network https://digitalarkansasnews.com/report-donald-trump-told-mike-pence-gay-people-love-me-edge-media-network/
by Emell Adolphus
EDGE Media Network Contributor
Tuesday October 4, 2022
Donald Trump (Source:Associated Press)
Do the gays really have love for former President Trump? A new book by Maggie Haberman of The New York Times paints an interesting picture.
As reported by Newsweek, Haberman’s book “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America” delves into the former president’s behavior and how he was able to drive his empty confidence to the highest office in the land.
In one particular part of the book, “on page 299,” Newsweek reports, Haberman recounts a conversation Trump had with conservative donor and philanthropist Paul Singer. In a sit down, Singer made it clear that he was staunchly conservative on some issues and more moderate on other issues, such as same-sex marriage and gay rights.
After Trump asked Singer if he was indeed gay, he explained that his son is gay, which is what garnered his support for the LGBTQ community.
“Pence began to leave. Trump gestured toward the vice president and said ‘you’re not like those guys, that kind of conservative?'”, the extract from the book reads. He then added, “the gays, they love me,” referring to the applause he received in his convention speech after emptily vowing to protect LGBTQ people from oppression.
In true Trump form, the former president took to social media (Truth Social, specifically) and called Haberman a “maggot”
“Maggot Hagerman [sic] of the Unfunded Liability plagued New York Times is my self appointed Biographer, even though she got the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax & the Mueller Report conclusion completely wrong, & refused to write about the FACT that the Democrats spied on my campaign, Lied to Congress, & Cheated and Lied to the FISA Court,” Trump wrote.
He continued, “Maggot was also duped on Impeachment Hoax #1 & Impeachment Hoax #2, & said in 2016 that, ‘Trump will NOT run for President.’ She is a bad writer with very bad sources!”
Despite what he believes, Haberman seems to have struck a ill chord with Trump over the books release, which makes us want to read it even more.
Will you be reading? Tell us in comments. Haberman’s book is out now.
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Elon Musk Suggests Buying Twitter At His Original Price
Elon Musk Suggests Buying Twitter At His Original Price https://digitalarkansasnews.com/elon-musk-suggests-buying-twitter-at-his-original-price/
The billionaire’s surprise move came months after he tried to back out of a $44 billion deal to acquire the company.
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Elon Musk, center, has agreed to acquire Twitter at $54.20 per share, according to filings made public on Tuesday. Credit…Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Oct. 4, 2022Updated 7:23 p.m. ET
The monthslong battle over Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter has been massive in scale and drama. One of the tech industry’s biggest deals in recent years, it has captured the public’s imagination, with cinematic twists that have been closely followed even by people who have never written a tweet.
Now Mr. Musk, in a surprise move, has added another plot turn. After months of trying to get out of a deal that he struck in April, the billionaire made a proposal on Monday night that could bring the acrimonious legal fight to an end.
Mr. Musk said he would do exactly what he said he would do in April: Acquire Twitter at $54.20 per share, according to regulatory filings made public on Tuesday.
Twitter, which sued Mr. Musk in July to force him to go through with the $44 billion deal, has yet to accept his new proposal and plans to add conditions to try to ensure that he doesn’t change his mind again.
In a short statement, Twitter said it had received Mr. Musk’s letter and reiterated the company’s intention to close the deal. Twitter may ask a court in Delaware, where it filed its suit, for protections that would force Mr. Musk to follow through with his new proposal, said three people familiar with the company’s plans, who were not authorized to speak publicly about them. The company could also demand that Mr. Musk pay interest on the deal price for the delays in completing the acquisition, one of those people added.
A deal would allow both sides to avoid a messy trial that was expected to start in two weeks in Delaware Chancery Court. The trial most likely would have featured testimony from Mr. Musk, who runs the electric automaker Tesla, and senior Twitter executives. Mr. Musk is scheduled to be deposed on Thursday and Friday in Austin, Texas, according to a legal filing.
Twitter has barely been profitable for most of its history and is dwarfed in size by other social media platforms like Facebook and the much younger TikTok. But the fight with Mr. Musk has preoccupied Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Washington because Twitter has for years been an online bullhorn for opinionated tech industry billionaires like Mr. Musk and politicians like former President Donald J. Trump, whom the company barred from its platform last year after the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill.
If Mr. Musk does take over Twitter, one of his first big moves could be allowing Mr. Trump to return. Mr. Musk has said it was a “mistake” for Twitter to bar Mr. Trump.
The potential agreement follows months of disputes that have created existential challenges for Twitter, cratering its share price, demoralizing its employees and spooking the advertisers it relies on for revenue.
Mr. Musk, with his repeated, scathing criticism of Twitter and its management, has often seemed more interested in taking a wrecking ball to the company than becoming its new owner. His critics have argued that he has simply been looking for anything to justify backing out of a rash decision that he quickly came to regret.
What Happened to Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal
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A blockbuster deal. In April, Elon Musk made an unsolicited bid worth more than $40 billion for the social network, saying he wanted to make Twitter a private company and allow people to speak more freely on the service.
Shareholders give approval On Sept. 13, as the start of the trial approached, Twitter’s shareholders voted to approve the company’s deal with Mr. Musk, even as it remains uncertain whether the acquisition will be completed. The company said a preliminary tally of shareholder votes determined support for the deal, but it did not immediately release a vote count.
A surprise move. On Oct. 4, Mr. Musk proposed a deal to acquire Twitter for $44 billion, the price he agreed to pay for the company in April. An agreement at the original price, which would be a victory for Twitter, could bring to an end the acrimonious legal fight between the billionaire and the social media company.
“I think he recognized that litigation is not going well on his part,” said Ann Lipton, a professor of corporate governance at Tulane Law School.
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Mr. Musk submitted his latest proposal to Twitter on Monday evening, informing the company that he intended to proceed with his original offer.Credit…Jim Wilson/The New York Times
A deal at the original price would be a victory for Twitter. Mr. Musk declared in July that he no longer intended to continue with the acquisition because he believed Twitter’s service was overrun by spam. Twitter sued him soon after.
Mr. Musk submitted his latest proposal to Twitter on Monday evening, informing the company that he intended to proceed with his original offer. “We write to notify you that the Musk parties intend to proceed to closing of the transaction,” a lawyer for Mr. Musk wrote in the letter, according to a regulatory filing. The letter asked that the court battle be paused, pending the closing of the deal.
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The two sides met in court in an emergency virtual hearing on Tuesday to discuss the proposal before Kathaleen McCormick, the judge overseeing the trial. The proposal was reported earlier by Bloomberg.
Lawyers for Mr. Musk and Twitter were expected to meet again in court later on Tuesday to discuss next steps, the person said. If they opt to proceed with the sale of Twitter, a deal could possibly close within weeks, or as soon as Mr. Musk hands over the $44 billion.
Twitter may request that Mr. Musk agree to have the court supervise the deal’s closing, three people familiar with the matter said. The company may also ask Mr. Musk to pay a daily interest fee for every day that has passed since shareholders approved the deal on Sept. 13, one of those people said.
“Procedurally, Twitter has done everything they need to do to close this deal,” said Brian J.M. Quinn, a professor at Boston College Law School. If the company accepts Mr. Musk’s proposal, it could request that the trial be postponed until the deal is completed, Mr. Quinn said. Once the acquisition is completed, Twitter will most likely dismiss its lawsuit against Mr. Musk.
On Tuesday evening, Mr. Musk tweeted that “buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app.” X is the name of holding company that Mr. Musk formed to buy Twitter.
Shares in the social media company spiked more than 12 percent on the news of Mr. Musk’s latest offer, before a halt in trading. Trading resumed in the afternoon, and Twitter’s share price closed at $52, a 22 percent increase.
The economic backdrop has changed significantly since Mr. Musk announced his intent to buy Twitter last spring. Amid inflation and geopolitical uncertainty, investors are facing the kinds of losses they haven’t seen since 2009. That has also made it more difficult to finance deals.
Investment banks, led by Morgan Stanley, have already agreed to help finance the deal with about $13 billion in debt. The banks remain on the hook until April, according to the terms of their contract.
Mr. Musk has said he would finance the rest of the deal in cash. In April, he sold about $8.5 billion shares in Tesla to help fund the deal; in May, he said he had lined up about $7 billion in cash from an array of investors including the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and the tech mogul Larry Ellison. It was not immediately clear what commitments those investors had to Mr. Musk.
In August, Mr. Musk sold an additional $7 billion worth of Tesla’s stock in “the (hopefully unlikely) event that Twitter forces this deal to close and some equity partners don’t come through,” he wrote at the time.
Twitter employees learned of Mr. Musk’s proposal from media reports while participating in a companywide meeting about corporate plans for 2023 on Tuesday, reigniting confusion and speculation that have roiled Twitter’s work force over the past six months, four employees said.
Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s chief executive, did not immediately address Mr. Musk’s offer with employees, those people added. Sean Edgett, Twitter’s general counsel, said in an email to employees on Tuesday afternoon, “I will continue to keep you posted on significant updates, but in the meantime, thank you for your patience as we work through this on the legal side.”
On the internal Slack messaging system on Tuesday, employees discussed the implications for the company, their jobs and their stock compensation. In a channel with nearly 2,000 members that is used to joke about company news, some wondered what would happen if Twitter’s board did not accept Mr. Musk’s renewed offer. Some speculated that Twitter’s stock would plummet, while another, referring to Mr. Musk, said the company would not have to be owned by “a moron.”
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Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s chief executive, did not immediately address Mr. Musk’s latest proposal with employees.Credit…Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
While an agreement would signify an end to the uncertainty clouding Twitter’s immediate future, Mr. Musk’s plans for the company are not clear. He told investors before trying to back out of ...
As Ukrainian Forces Advance West Plays Down Threat From Russian Nuclear Weapons
As Ukrainian Forces Advance, West Plays Down Threat From Russian Nuclear Weapons https://digitalarkansasnews.com/as-ukrainian-forces-advance-west-plays-down-threat-from-russian-nuclear-weapons/
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Matthew Luxmoore
Updated Oct. 4, 2022 7:23 pm ET
Ukrainian forces accelerated their advance into Russian-held areas of the southern Kherson region as Western officials played down the likelihood of Russia using nuclear weapons in retaliation for its military defeats.
Ukrainian troops announced the liberation of several towns, while Moscow sought to prevent an encirclement of its forces in the east and southof the country. Soldiers posted footage of themselves unfurling the Ukrainian flag over Davydiv Brid and claimed the liberation of Starosillya, Arkhangelskoye and Velyka Oleksandrivka.
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Arkansas Secretary Of State Staffers Hold Young Voters Workshop In Little Rock
Arkansas Secretary Of State Staffers Hold Young Voters Workshop In Little Rock https://digitalarkansasnews.com/arkansas-secretary-of-state-staffers-hold-young-voters-workshop-in-little-rock/
by: Alex Kienlen
Posted: Oct 4, 2022 / 06:00 PM CDT
Updated: Oct 4, 2022 / 06:00 PM CDT
by: Alex Kienlen
Posted: Oct 4, 2022 / 06:00 PM CDT
Updated: Oct 4, 2022 / 06:00 PM CDT
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Central Arkansas high school students had a chance to learn about the democratic process Tuesday.
A workshop at the Arkansas State University system office in Little Rock walked students through the voting process. The Arkansas Secretary of State’s education outreach program put on the workshop.
The students learned about the American political process, including debating and the value of a vote.
“[Students learned] that voting is a civic responsibility, but it’s also an honor to participate in as Americans, and they’ll take that seriously and want to get involved, be aware of what’s going on in their country, and have a say in it,” Chris Powell from the Secretary of State’s office said.
Students were also allowed to examine how a voting machine works. Students who were old enough were also registered to vote.
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Oath Keepers Trial: Jan. 6 Was rebellion Prosecutor Says
Oath Keepers Trial: Jan. 6 Was ‘rebellion,’ Prosecutor Says https://digitalarkansasnews.com/oath-keepers-trial-jan-6-was-rebellion-prosecutor-says-2/
FILE – This photo provided by the Collin County Sheriff’s Office shows Stewart Rhodes. Federal prosecutors are preparing to lay out their case against the founder of the Oath Keepers’ extremist group and four associates. They are charged in the most serious case to reach trial yet in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack. Opening statements are expected Monday in Washington’s federal court in the trial of Stewart Rhodes and others charged with seditious conspiracy. (Collin County Sheriff’s Office via AP, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The founder of the Oath Keepers extremist group and four associates planned an “armed rebellion” to keep President Donald Trump in power, a federal prosecutor contended Monday as the most serious case yet went to trial in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Stewart Rhodes and his band of extremists were prepared to go to war were prepared to go to war to stop Joe Biden from becoming president, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Nestler told jurors. The group celebrated the Capitol attack as a victory in that fight and continued their plot even after Biden’s electoral victory was certified, Nestler alleged.
“Their goal was to stop, by whatever means necessary, the lawful transfer of presidential power, including by taking up arms against the United States government,” the prosecutor said during his opening statement. “They concocted a plan for armed rebellion to shatter a bedrock of American democracy.”
The defendants are the first among hundreds of people arrested in the Capitol riot to stand trial on seditious conspiracy, a rare Civil War-era charge that calls for up to 20 years behind bars. The stakes are high for the Justice Department, which last secured such a conviction at trial nearly 30 years ago, and intends to try two more groups on the charge later this year.
The trial comes as Trump continues to insist, against much evidence, that the 2020 election was stolen from him, and as vocal pushback against the charges filed against those who entered the Capitol continues in some quarters. The broader reaction could show how the American public, as well as the jury, sees the attack, nearly two years later.
Defense attorneys accused prosecutors of cherry-picking comments from messages and videos and said the government has no evidence there ever was any plan to attack the Capitol. Rhodes’ attorney said his client will take the stand and show that the Oath Keepers had merely been preparing for orders they expected from Trump but never came.
“Stewart Rhodes meant no harm to the Capitol that day. Stewart Rhodes did not have any violent intent that day,” Rhodes’ attorney, Phillip Linder, said. “The story the government is trying to tell you today is completely wrong.”
On trial with Rhodes, of Granbury, Texas, are Kelly Meggs, leader of the Florida chapter of the Oath Keepers; Kenneth Harrelson, another Florida Oath Keeper; Thomas Caldwell, a retired U.S. Navy intelligence officer from Virginia, and Jessica Watkins, who led an Ohio militia group. They face several other charges as well.
They are among roughly 900 people who have been charged in the attack, which temporarily halted the certification of Biden’s victory, sent lawmakers running for cover and left dozens of police officers injured.
In the Oath Keepers case, prosecutors will try to prove that their actions were not a spontaneous outpouring of election-fueled rage but part of a detailed, drawn-out plot to stop Biden from entering the White House.
The Oath Keepers “were prepared in November, they were prepared in December and when the opportunity finally presented itself on Jan 6, 2021, they sprang into action,” Nestler said.
Rhodes began plotting to overturn Biden’s victory right after the election, Nestler said. In November 2020, Rhodes sent his followers a step-by-step plan for stopping the transfer of power based on a popular uprising that brought down Yugoslavia’s president two decades earlier.
Around the same time, Rhodes was also communicating in another internet group — which included Trump ally Roger Stone — that was called “FOS,” or “Friends of Stone,” according to testimony. On Nov. 7, 2020, Rhodes said in a message to that group that he was on his way to D.C. for a possible “op” and was available to meet “face-to-face.”
As December approached, Rhodes’ rhetoric became increasingly violent and desperate, Nestler said.
In messages and comments read to the jury, the Oath Keepers repeatedly warned of violence if Biden were to become president. During a December interview, Rhodes called senators “traitors” and warned that the Oath Keepers would have to “overthrow, abort or abolish Congress.” He described Jan. 6 as a “hard constitutional deadline” for stopping the transfer of power.
The Oath Keepers organized training, including one session on “unconventional warfare.” Before coming to Washington, they stashed “weapons of war” at a Virginia hotel to serve as “quick reaction force” that could get guns into the capital quickly if necessary, the prosecutor said.
As Oath Keepers stormed the Capitol in helmets and other battle gear, Rhodes remained on the outside, like “a general surveying his troops on a battlefield,” Nestler said. After the attack, the elated Oath Keepers went to a Virginia restaurant to celebrate their victory, the prosecutor said.
In the days between the riot and Biden’s inauguration, Rhodes spent more than $17,000 on firearm parts, ammunition and other items, prosecutors say. Shortly after the insurrection, Rhodes was secretly recorded saying that his “only regret is that they should have brought rifles,” Nestler said.
Among those who may testify during the trial, which will last several weeks, are three Oath Keepers who’ve pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy and are cooperating with prosecutors in hopes of getting lighter sentences. They include a man who says that after arriving in Washington, Meggs told him that another Florida Oath Keeper had brought explosives in his RV.
The government’s first witness was a FBI agent, who responded on Jan. 6 to help rescue senators. He described lawmakers crying, broken doors and windows and a scene that “looked like a bomb had gone off.”
Defense lawyers say prosecutors have ripped the Oath Keepers’ messages out of context to paint them unfairly. The Oath Keepers came to Washington to provide security at events for figures such as Stone before the president’s big outdoor rally behind the White House, defense lawyers said. Rhodes’ attorney described the group as a “peacekeeping” force and called his client an “extremely patriotic” man who “loves this country.”
Rhodes’ attorneys plan to argue that Rhodes believed Trump was going to going to invoke the Insurrection Act and call up a militia, which Rhodes had been calling on him to do to stop Biden from becoming president. Rhodes’ lawyers have said he was merely lobbying the president to invoke a U.S. law.
Prosecutors say it’s clear the Oath Keepers were going to act regardless of what Trump did. Nestler told jurors that Rhodes, a Yale Law School graduate, was only using the Insurrection Act as “legal cover.” In one message, Rhodes wrote in December 2020 that Trump “needs to know that if he fails to act, then we will.”
An attorney for Caldwell said his client is a disabled veteran who didn’t even know of the Oath Keepers until November 2020. The defense lawyer, David Fischer, called Jan. 6 a “black eye” for the country, but said Caldwell merely came to Washington “on a date with his wife” and wasn’t een planning to go to the Capitol until Trump’s speech on the Ellipse before the riot.
“Mr. Caldwell couldn’t storm his way out of a paper bag,” Fischer said. “I came here to clear his name.”
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Judge Rules Naughty Bits Off Limits At Trump Dossier Trial
Judge Rules Naughty Bits Off Limits At Trump Dossier Trial https://digitalarkansasnews.com/judge-rules-naughty-bits-off-limits-at-trump-dossier-trial/
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that prosecutors cannot present evidence to a jury about the most salacious parts of a flawed dossier alleging connections between former President Donald Trump and Russia at an upcoming trial of an analyst who served as a primary source for that report.
Igor Danchenko is scheduled to go on trial next week in U.S. District Court in Alexandria on charges of lying to the FBI. Special Counsel John Durham says Danchenko was a primary source of information in a dossier about Trump prepared by British spy Christopher Steele at the request of Democrats during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The indictment alleges that Danchenko’s primary source of information was actually a Democratic operative named Charles Dolan, a public relations executive who volunteered for Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton. Prosecutors say the FBI would have been able to judge the veracity of the dossier more accurately if Danchenko had admitted his primary source was a Clinton supporter.
The dossier most famously includes allegations that Trump engaged in salacious sexual activity with prostitutes at a Moscow hotel that was purportedly bugged by Russian intelligence — raising the possibility that Russians had information they could use to blackmail Trump.
Trump had called the dossier fake news and evidence of a political witch hunt against him.
The five specific counts in the indictment don’t charge Danchenko with lying about his sourcing for the sex allegations. Still, prosecutors wanted to present testimony at trial that they said would have shown that Danchenko lied about his sourcing for those allegations just as he lied about other aspects of his sourcing,
Danchenko’s lawyers objected. They say the testimony would be highly prejudicial and would confuse the jury.
In a ruling issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga agreed with the defense. Specifically, he said the testimony that the government planned to introduce wouldn’t actually prove Danchenko lied.
“(G)given the low probative value of these allegations, they are not admissible … as they are substantially outweighed by the danger of confusion and unfair prejudice,” Trenga wrote.
The ruling is another setback for Durham’s case. At a hearing last week, Trenga rejected a motion from Danchenko’s lawyers to toss out the case entirely. But in doing so, he said it was “an extremely close call” and said jurors may well be persuaded by Danchenko’s defense.
Danchenko’s lawyers have called the case an example of prosecutorial overreach and have said that the answers Danchenko gave to the FBI were all technically true, even if they weren’t particularly illuminating.
Also in Tuesday’s ruling, Trenga denied — at least for now — a request from the government that Danchenko be barred from arguing to jurors or presenting evidence that the prosecution is politically motivated.
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Donald Trump Reportedly Pitted His Then-Wife Marla Maples Against Ex Ivana Over Pizza Hut Commercial
Donald Trump Reportedly Pitted His Then-Wife Marla Maples Against Ex Ivana Over Pizza Hut Commercial https://digitalarkansasnews.com/donald-trump-reportedly-pitted-his-then-wife-marla-maples-against-ex-ivana-over-pizza-hut-commercial/
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The Donald Trump–Ivana Trump–Marla Maples love triangle might have lasted far longer than people could have ever imagined. Maggie Haberman’s new book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, shares a story about the former president not letting his then-wife know that he filmed a provocative Pizza Hut commercial with ex Ivana until after it was completed.
Donald Trump, who had a highly publicized affair with Maples while married to Ivana, was completely comfortable with the script that teased a post-divorce affair with his ex. He says, “it’s wrong” in the ad while Ivana quips, “but it feels so right.” Of course, they are talking about the stuffed-crust pizza, but that certainly didn’t make Maples feel much better.
The former duo filmed the commercial at Trump Tower while Maples was thousands of miles away at Mar-a-Lago — she had no clue what her husband was up to. When he did confess that he worked with Ivana while she was out of town, Maples had a severe reaction to the news. Donald Trump recalled the story to Nick Ribis, the chief executive of the Trump casino empire at the time, and Alan Marcus, a consultant, about how she took the news. “The poor kid,” he said in Haberman’s book. “I started to tell her, and she got sick. She said she had to go.” Maples reportedly went to the restroom to “puke her f**king guts out.”
Donald Trump seemed to have no problem keeping that information from his wife until he absolutely felt like she needed to know — and perhaps his ego didn’t mind the idea of two women fighting over him. Even though Maples was wrong to engage in an affair with a married man (who should have honored his vows to Ivana) in the first place, she probably worried that he might go back to Ivana because they shared so much history together, including a Pizza Hut commercial.
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19 Of The Last 9 Honorees For 2022 Announced Arkansas Tech University
19 Of The Last 9 Honorees For 2022 Announced – Arkansas Tech University https://digitalarkansasnews.com/19-of-the-last-9-honorees-for-2022-announced-arkansas-tech-university/
Arkansas Tech University has selected its 19 of the Last 9 award winners for 2022.
The honorees will be recognized during an ATU Homecoming 2022 weekend reception on Saturday, Oct. 15.
Visit www.atualumni.com/homecoming for more information about Homecoming events.
The 19 of the Last 9 award is named in recognition of ATU’s founding year, 1909. It is presented each year to 19 ATU alumni who have graduated within the last nine years.
According to the ATU Alumni Association, criteria for the 19 of the Last 9 award include:
Alumnus of the university and graduated with in the last 9 years of the award year
An emerging leader through profession and/or community achievements
Attained increasingly responsible positions within their organization, business or field of work
Received recognition for significant professional contributions, discoveries or creative work through honors, awards and/or media attention
Served as an outstanding young role model for current and future ATU students
These are the 2022 recipients of the ATU 19 of the Last 9 award:
Tamara Bell of San Diego, Calif.
Class of 2017 (Management and Marketing)
BioSplice Therapeutics
Clinical Research Associate
Bailey Devane of Springdale
Class of 2020 (Broadcast Journalism)
KFSM Channel 5 Television
News Reporter
Katy Dodd of Charleston
Class of 2014 (English)
ATU-Ozark Campus
Instructor of English
Abbey Clark Eddy of Russellville
Class of 2013 (Political Science)
Gordon and Caruth PLC
Associate Attorney
Emery Gower of Fayetteville
Class of 2014 (Psychology)
University of Arkansas
Assistant Director for Investigations
Kody Griffin of Conway
Class of 2014 (Agriculture Business)
Tucker Creek Veterinary Clinic
Associate Veterinarian
Ben Hollaway of Fort Smith
Class of 2020 (Business Data Analytics)
ArcBest Corporation
Senior Pricing and Supply Chain Engineer
Chris Hoover of Van Buren
Class of 2019 (Emergency Management)
Office of Senator Tom Cotton
Projects Director
Rebecca Brannon Karnes of Van Buren
Class of 2015 (English)
Jernigan Law Group
Attorney
Miles McDonnell of Little Rock
Class of 2017 (Emergency Management)
AEDI
Emergency Management Specialist
Robert Moore of Charleston
Class of 2017 (College Student Personnel)
Northwest Arkansas Community College
Academic Advisor for Business and Computer Information Systems
Hannah Oyler of Fort Smith
Class of 2013 (Accounting)
Landmark CPAs
Accountant
Eric Perez of Green Forest
Class of 2019 (Spanish Education)
Green Forest School District
High School Spanish Teacher and Head Boys’ Soccer Coach
Stacey Phillips of Austin
Class of 2019 (Professional Studies-Child Development)
Early Impressions Childcare Centers
Owner and Director
Sarah Reynolds of Little Rock
Class of 2012 (History and Political Science)
Republican Party of Arkansas
Executive Director
Meagan Robinson of Russellville
Class of 2013 (Hospitality Administration)
RNR Endless
Owner
Joshua Sperry of London
Class of 2014 (Emergency Management)
Tracer Communications Inc.
Owner and Chief Executive Officer
Tyler Tuskey of Texarkana
Class of 2019 (Mathematics)
Murphy USA
Enterprise Analyst
Kelby Wiles of Fayetteville
Class of 2015 (Economics and Finance)
JB Hunt
Senior Manager, ICS Finance
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