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CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA – Pete Buttigieg pushed back against criticism from President Donald Trump on the job he did as transportation secretary in former President Biden’s administration and declined to say if Biden experienced cognitive decline during his final years in the White House, as he took questions from reporters on Tuesday night. Buttigieg, speaking…
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Almost 36 years after Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their parents with shotguns in a crime that captivated the nation, they appeared via video to address the Los Angeles judge who would decide whether they could ever be freed from prison. “I killed my mom and dad,” Lyle Menendez, now 57, said at a resentencing…
President Donald Trump continued to defend his decision to accept a $400 million jet from Qatar during an exclusive interview with Sean Hannity on Air Force One on Tuesday. Trump has received backlash for planning to accept the jumbo Boeing 747-8 jet from the Qatari royal family since news of the gift broke on Sunday….
A Sacramento rapper who was formerly incarcerated with the Menendez brothers is celebrating their resentencing. On Tuesday, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic reduced the brothers’ sentences from life in prison without parole to 50 years to life, making them immediately eligible for parole.”Going through the board myself, I can assure everyone here…
Representative Image (AI-generated) A South Korean court handed two men jail terms Wednesday for their role in a January riot which saw supporters of impeached ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol attack a court building.Protesters stormed the Seoul Western District Court in January this year after a judge extended the detention of Yoon — South Korea’s first…
Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman, who stood by his belief the Menendez brothers were “not yet” ready to be resentenced, said his office’s “commitment to presenting all relevant facts and perspectives was pivotal to the Court’s ruling” following a judge’s decision to resentence them. In a statement Tuesday, Hochman described Judge Michael Jesic’s ruling…
Photo: MIKE NELSON/AFP via Getty Images Erik and Lyle Menendez have had their sentences reduced and are now eligible for parole. Per the BBC, Los Angeles judge Michael Jesic resentenced the brothers on Tuesday to 50 years to life in prison. The pair of convicted first-degree murderers were previously serving life sentences without the possibility…
CNN — Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg made a campaign-like appearance at a town hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday, where he blasted the Trump administration, alluded to his past presidential run, and took questions on what Democrats should do to rebuild their brand. “We’ve never been a perfect democracy, but democracy is the…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jacob Rothman, who has been making kitchenware in China sold by US retailers including Walmart for more than two decades, was “shocked and elated” when Washington and Beijing reached a truce in their tariff war….