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Kari Lake, the Loony Tune republican candidate for governor in Arizona in 2022, her attorney, and another far-right candidate have been fined a total of $122,000 for filing frivolous lawsuits.
A federal judge on Friday ordered failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, along with her attorney Alan Dershowitz and fellow right-wing fringe candidate Mark Finchem, to pay a $122,000 fine for their pursuit of a “frivolous” lawsuit to overturn the 2022 election, The Messenger reports.

Lake has filed multiple lawsuits in connection with the 2022 election, of which one lists Finchem, a member of the extremist Oath Keepers who lost his bid to become Arizona’s Secretary of State, as a co-plaintiff, the report said.
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Homicide suspect accused of escaping prison in Pennsylvania taken into custody

A homicide suspect who has been on the run since July 6 after he escaped from a prison in Pennsylvania has been taken into custody.

Micael Burham, 34, was captured in a wooded area near Warren at 5:50 p.m. on Saturday.

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This needs to be addressed these mergers can't be allowed to move forward thanks to our messy judiciary & corrupted broken system.

U.S. appeals court refuses FTC request to pause Microsoft deal for Activision

July 14 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected the Federal Trade Commission's request to pause Microsoft's (MSFT.O) $69 billion purchase of "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O).

The decision removes one of the few remaining hurdles stopping Xbox maker Microsoft from closing the deal and expanding its gaming business.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeal ... 023-07-14/
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Zelensky fires ambassador to UK after ‘gratitude’ critique

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired his ambassador to the United Kingdom on Friday, after he criticized the president’s recent “sarcasm” in response to British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace suggesting Kyiv should be more grateful for western support.

Zelensky said in a presidential decree on Friday that the ambassador, Vadym Prystaiko, had been dismissed but did not provide a reason.

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RIP Democracy In Israel.

Israeli parliament passes key part of Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan

JERUSALEM — Israel’s parliament passed a key law Monday as part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's effort to overhaul the country’s judicial system, despite international criticism and huge protests.

The bill will remove the power of judges to overrule Cabinet members’ decisions in which they fail a “reasonableness” test, according to an announcement by the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament.

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Former Columbia University gynecologist Robert Hadden sentenced to 20 years in prison

A federal judge in Manhattan sentenced former Columbia University gynecologist Robert Hadden on Monday to 20 years in prison and a lifetime of post-release supervision, for four counts of encouraging patients to cross state lines so he could sexually assault them at their appointments.

Hadden was convicted in January of abusing those four patients, in incidents that occurred between 1993 and 2012 at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, which later became New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

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ap215 wrote: Mon Jul 24, 2023 8:27 am RIP Democracy In Israel.

Israeli parliament passes key part of Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan

JERUSALEM — Israel’s parliament passed a key law Monday as part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's effort to overhaul the country’s judicial system, despite international criticism and huge protests.

The bill will remove the power of judges to overrule Cabinet members’ decisions in which they fail a “reasonableness” test, according to an announcement by the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/neta ... -rcna95881
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8z7tSUc438
The impact of Israeli government's controversial plan to overhaul judicial system

They treat the Palestinians so bad and for so long normalizing so many awful things that the oppression creeps in to its own government.
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David McGuire Leaves Telepictures After 30 Years

David McGuire, executive VP of programming and development for Warner Bros.’ first-run and unscripted arm, Telepictures, is departing the company on the heels of Warner Bros. Unscripted Television president Mike Darnell.

Both executives are leaving the Warner Bros. Television Group after a restructuring. McGuire worked at Telepictures for more than 30 years, having started his tenure there as a production assistant on syndicated talk show Jenny Jones.

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DeSantis's presidential campaign is imploding it was doomed from the very start

DeSantis lets go of more than a third of campaign staff as reset continues

Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign is expanding the number of staff it’s cutting to include more than a third of his payroll as the Florida governor looks to get his primary bid back on track.

The cuts, which were confirmed by advisers, will amount to a total of 38 jobs shed across an array of departments. They will include the roughly 10 event planning positions that were announced several weeks ago, in addition to the recent departures of two senior DeSantis campaign advisers, Dave Abrams and Tucker Obenshain.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/2 ... s-00108046
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Bannon co-defendant Shea sentenced to 5-1/4 years over 'We Build the Wall' fraud

NEW YORK, July 25 (Reuters) - The sole person convicted at trial of defrauding donors to an online campaign to build Donald Trump's signature wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was sentenced on Tuesday to 5-1/4 years in prison.

Timothy Shea's sentence was the longest imposed over the "We Build the Wall" campaign, which federal prosecutors said raised more than $25 million from hundreds of thousands of donors.

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DeSantis team fires aide who secretly made video with Nazi symbol

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' 2024 campaign fired an aide this week who secretly created and shared a pro-DeSantis video that featured the candidate at the center of a Sonnenrad, an ancient symbol appropriated by the Nazis and still used by some white supremacists.

Driving the news: Nate Hochman, a speechwriter on the DeSantis campaign and a former writer for National Review, created the video on his own and shared it through a pro-DeSantis Twitter account, according to a person familiar with the matter.

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/25/desant ... -sonnenrad
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Oldest Black fraternity moves 2025 convention out of Florida over 'racist' policies

July 26 (UPI) -- The oldest Black intercollegiate fraternity in the country is moving its 2025 convention out of Florida, citing what it said was Gov. Ron DeSantis' "harmful, racist and insensitive policies against the Black community."

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, which was founded in 1906 at Cornell University and whose membership includes civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall, announced the convention's relocation from Orlando on Wednesday.

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Alabama authorities charge Carlee Russell for fabricating story about kidnapping, finding toddler

ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities in Alabama said Friday they filed criminal charges against a woman who confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to check on a toddler she saw walking on the side of an interstate highway.

Carlee Russell was charged with false reporting to law enforcement and falsely reporting an incident, both misdemeanors that carry up to a year in jail, Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis said. Russell turned herself in to jail Friday and was released on bond, he said.

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Trump-appointed judge torches former president's lawsuit against CNN

Late Friday night a judge appointed to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida by Donald Trump tossed out a lawsuit filed by the former president against CNN in which he claimed he was defamed when hosts on the network used the expression "The Big Lie" which he felt equated him with Adolf Hitler.

According to reporting from Poltico's Kyle Cheney, Judge Ragg Singhal dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice which puts an end to yet another Trump legal gambit.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 5768&ei=17
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CNN Chief Business Correspondent and ‘Early Start’ Anchor Christine Romans Exiting Channel

CNN Early Start anchor and chief business correspondent Christine Romans has decided to exit the cable news channel.

Romans announced her decision Friday morning, in conjunction with an on-air sendoff on CNN This Morning. Her last day at the channel is today.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cnn ... 19247.html
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Cardinals' Miles Mikolas suspended 5 games for retaliatory HBP over backswing that injured C Willson Contreras

One exit begat another in the first inning of Thursday's game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals, with two suspensions coming the day after.

Cardinals catcher Willson Contreras had to exit the game after three batters when Cubs outfielder Ian Happ hit him hard in the head with his backswing on a swing-and-miss. Contreras immediately went down in pain and was bleeding from the right side of his head as Cardinals trainers escorted him out of the game.

https://sports.yahoo.com/cardinals-mile ... 15661.html
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Patience Roggensack retires after 20 years on Wisconsin Supreme Court

After serving on the Wisconsin Supreme Court for 20 years, Justice Patience Roggensack retired on Friday, marking an end to the court’s longtime conservative majority.

The fifth woman ever to serve on the high court, the legacy of Roggensack, 83, is fixed into the hundreds of opinions she wrote over her tenure and the six years she spent as chief justice.

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Commanders radio host fired after 'sexually disparaging remarks' about female reporter

The new Washington Commanders ownership group took swift action Saturday to remove two radio hosts after they discovered sexist remarks were made on-air toward a female reporter. By the end of the day, one of them was fired.

The team banned Don Geronimo and Crash Young of local WBIG "BIG 100" from training camp Friday after the pair called WUSA9 sports anchor Sharla McBride "Barbie" and thought she was a cheerleader during Thursday's practice. McBride has worked at WUSA9 since 2020 and has been a sports reporter since 2007, according to her LinkedIn page.

https://sports.yahoo.com/commanders-rad ... 42808.html
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Florida woman gets more than four years in prison for swindling Holocaust survivor out of millions

(CNN) - A New York judge has sentenced a Florida woman to more than four years in prison for swindling a Holocaust survivor out of his life savings after meeting him on a dating website.

Peaches Stergo, 36, was sentenced Thursday, according to a news release from the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York. She had been charged six months earlier with one count of wire fraud for bilking the 87-year-old victim out of $2.8 million.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/28/us/flori ... New%20York.
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Idaho mom Lori Vallow Daybell sentenced in deaths of 2 children and her romantic rival

Boise, Idaho • Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell has been sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday in the murders of her two youngest children and a woman she saw as a romantic rival in a case that included bizarre claims that her son and daughter were zombies and that she was a goddess tasked with ushering in an apocalypse.

Vallow Daybell, 50, was found guilty in May of killing her two youngest children, 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, as well as conspiring to kill Tammy Daybell, her fifth husband’s previous wife. Vallow Daybell, will serve three life sentences one after the other, the judge said.

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US restricts visa-free travel for Hungarian passport holders because of security concerns

BUDAPEST, Hungary -- The United States imposed new travel restrictions on citizens of Hungary on Tuesday over concerns that the identities of nearly 1 million foreigners granted Hungarian passports over nine years weren't sufficiently verified, according to the U.S. Embassy and a government official.

The restrictions apply to the U.S. Visa Waiver Program, which allows passport holders from 40 countries to enter the United States for business or tourism without a visa for up to 90 days.

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NBA suspends Spurs' Devonte’ Graham for two games without pay

NEW YORK – San Antonio Spurs guard Devonte’ Graham has been suspended for two games without pay for pleading guilty to a charge of impaired driving, in violation of the law of the State of North Carolina, the NBA announced today.

Graham’s suspension will commence with the next NBA regular season game that he is eligible and able to play.

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Arlington reverses use of ranked-choice voting system for fall elections

The Arlington County Board declined to move forward Saturday with ranked-choice voting for November’s general election, halting the Northern Virginia suburb’s experiment with the increasingly popular voting system, for now.

Local lawmakers had voted last fall to institute ranked-choice voting in the Democratic primary for two open seats on the board this spring. It was the first publicly-run ranked-choice election in Virginia, offering a highly visible test for a voting system that’s been used in a growing number of races around the country.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va ... arlington/
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Deep-red Arizona county rejects proposal to hand-count ballots in 2024 elections

PHOENIX (AP) — A northwestern Arizona county has rejected a proposal to hand-count ballots in the 2024 election cycle after the local elections director warned that it would cost more than $1.1 million and involve hiring hundreds of new workers.

The Mohave County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday against adopting a hand count, with supervisors Ron Gould and Hildy Angius voting in favor. Board Chair Travis Lingenfelter said during the meeting that he couldn’t justify the steep costs of a hand count because of Mohave County’s projected budget deficit.

https://apnews.com/article/mohave-count ... 5a7845bfe9
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Former first-round NBA draft pick is sentenced to 10 years in prison in $4M health care fraud

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge sentenced a former first-round NBA draft pick to 10 years in prison Thursday, saying he used his people skills to entice others to aid his $5 million health care fraud after he “frittered away” substantial earnings from his professional career.

Terrence Williams, 36, of Seattle, was also ordered to forfeit more than $650,000 and to pay $2.5 million in restitution for ripping off the NBA’s Health and Welfare Benefit Plan between 2017 and 2021 with the help of a dentist in California and doctors in California and Washington state. Profits were generated by claims for fictitious medical and dental expenses.

https://apnews.com/article/nba-health-f ... 1efaed74e7
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