Tag: Years

Bragg Won’t Drop Trump’s ‘Hush Money’ Sentencing, But May Suspend It for 4 Years

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THE CENTER SQUARE—Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Tuesday that his office will oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss his felony conviction in New York. Bragg said that despite plans to oppose Trump’s motion, his office would agree to hit pause on the proceedings pending the judge’s decision on Trump’s motion to dismiss. Bragg also suggested the case could wait until Trump finishes his term in the White House.  “No current law establishes that a president’s temporary immunity from prosecution requires dismissal of a post-trial criminal proceeding that was initiated…

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Three Years After Insurrection, MoveOn “Disqualify Trump” Petition Nears 500K Signers

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Washington, D.C. – Three years after twice-impeached and criminally indicted former President Trump led the deadly assault at the U.S. Capitol, MoveOn Political Action Executive Director Rahna Epting released the following statement:  “Three years ago, President Trump and MAGA Republicans led a deadly insurrection on our nation’s Capitol, in an attempt to overthrow the will of the American people. No rewriting of history can erase the unprecedented and indefensible acts that Donald Trump steered that day. The latest actions in Colorado and Maine to remove him from the ballot prove…

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In Concession to Reality, UK Pushes Back EV Mandate by 5 Years

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LONDON—British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, after first announcing a mandate requiring all fossil-fueled vehicles sold in the UK after 2030 to be electric, succumbed to pressure from the Conservative Party and within his own government and announced Wednesday a delay until 2035. His goal remains net zero by 2050. Sunak’s goal continues to be based on his view that “climate change” is real and can be affected by what humans do. That remains debatable, but you wouldn’t know it from watching or reading British media which, like U.S. media, regularly…

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DoD’s budget challenges will take years to fix, but reform commission says now’s the time to start

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The expert panel Congress assembled to find fixes to the Pentagon’s archaic planning and budgeting process won’t deliver its final prescription for reform until next spring. But its members say there are at least some steps the Defense Department and Congress should start taking right now, particularly in light of the fact that fixing what’s wrong is certain to be a years-long effort. The Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) Reform published an interim report this week, previewing 10 of the possible recommendations it might make in its…

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Encounters of Chinese Nationals at Southern Border Outpace Past 2 Years Combined

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Chinese nationals are arriving at America’s southern border in growing numbers. In January 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says, it encountered 89 illegal aliens from the People’s Republic of China on the southern border. That number grew over tenfold last month, to 1,084. A similar increase has occurred in encounters with illegal immigrants from Russia, with CBP reporting 1,030 in January 2022, but over four times that—4,509—last month. It is a “source of concern” when an influx of migrants attempts to enter America illegally from a country “that we…

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