The Scottish government is facing a new legal challenge over its February rejection of a motion to investigate former President Donald Trump's all-cash purchases of two golf courses, reviving an effort to force Trump to disclose how he financed the deals.
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And the international community condemns Belarus after its daring move to jail an opposition journalist.
Gordon Sondland, former President Donald Trump's former ambassador to the European Union, filed a lawsuit on Monday against former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the U.S. government seeking $1.8 million for legal fees incurred during the 2019 House impeachment probe, according to a Washington Post report. The suit alleges that Pompeo reneged on his promise that the State Department would cover the fees after Sondland delivered testimony accusing Trump and his aides of pressuring Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter in exchange for military aid.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene got into it on Twitter with Robert Reich and in the process revealed she doesn’t actually know who he is. Reich has served in a number of administrations, from Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. He was Labor Secretary under Clinton. In addition to the economist’s roles in government, he’s also published 19 books on the economy. After he tweeted, “Can we all agree that Marjorie Taylor Green must be expelled from Congress?” Taylor Greene checked his Twitter bio, however, where he notes upfront he’s currently teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. “It’s Greene with an ‘e’ on the end,” she wrote back. “Don’t know you, but when I saw Berkley in your bio, I got it. Just put the hammer and sickle with it. Being a communists professor, you’ve never done the real hard work that builds the economy, you just teach ideas that will destroy it.” Reich, of course, has done plenty of hands-on work when it comes to the economy, but he chose to simply reply, “Congresswoman, Berkeley has an ‘e’ after the k.” She corrected her spelling and linked to a student newspaper article from 2017 that noted Chinese and Chinese American donations to higher education, including institutions like Berkeley, had been on the rise. “It’s funded heavily by China. Again back to communism. These people are everything wrong in America and they are taking over like kudzu. Let’s throw them out,” she declared. Read original story Marjorie Taylor Greene Disses Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich as ‘Communists Professor’ At TheWrap
On Friday, Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene brought their “America First” road show to Maricopa County, the place that has become ground zero in the Republican effort to keep alive former President Donald Trump’s false claims about his 2020 election loss.
Former Ohio GOP chair Jane Timken briefly defended a home-state congressman who voted for impeachment. It could sink her Senate bid.
The man on federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation is making his appellate argument that his conviction and death sentence should be overturned. Oral arguments in the case of Dylann Roof are scheduled to be held Tuesday before a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Richmond, Virginia. Appellate Judge Jay Richardson, who as an assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuted Roof's case, is not part of the panel.
Bottas retired from the Grand Prix of Monaco with a wheel nut issue. A day later, that wheel is still there.
More than 1.8 million South Carolina residents have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Michael O’Leary, the boss Of Ryanair, has said he believes there were Belarusian KGB agents on board the flight forced to land in Minsk by a Belarusian military aircraft. “It is a case of state-sponsored hijacking,” he told NewstalkFM Ireland after Roman Protasevich, an exiled opposition journalist was arrested on the Ryanair plane "It appears the intent of the authorities was to remove a journalist and his travelling companion," Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary told Ireland's Newstalk radio. "We believe there were some (Belarusian security agency) KGB agents offloaded at the airport as well." The United Kingdom and the European Union has called for the immediate release of Mr Protasevich. Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, said, “The UK condemns yesterday’s actions by the Belarusian authorities, who arrested journalist Roman Protasevich on the basis of a ruse, having forced his flight to land in Minsk. Mr Lukashenko must be held to account for his outlandish actions. “The UK calls for the immediate release of Mr Protasevich and other political prisoners held in Belarus. The UK is working with our allies on a coordinated response, including further sanctions."
Doctors in Japan's second largest city Osaka say they're struggling to cope with a spike in COVID-19 patients.Hospitals there are running out of beds and ventilators as exhausted medical teams warn of a "system collapse."The city is bearing the brunt of Japan's fourth wave, accounting for a third of the nation's death toll in May.Just 14% of the prefecture's COVID-19 patients have been hospitalized, leaving the majority to fend for themselves. Doctors are now warning of an impending disaster if the Olympic Games go ahead in July.Yuji Tohda is a Director at Kindai University Hospital:"Simply put, this is the collapse of the medical system. We cannot take in (patients)...""They say the Olympics will be the symbol of overcoming the coronavirus, but we haven't overcome the virus yet. From a medical point-of-view, the most important thing is to have the number of infected people under control. Everyone wants people to avoid gatherings."Japan has one of the lowest vaccination rates of any major developed nation.Only about half of Japan's medical staff have completed inoculations.Caring for critically ill patients in the face of infection risk has taken a serious toll on staff.Some have been doing hundreds of hours of overtime for a year.Satsuki Nakayama is director of the nursing department at Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital."Some ICU staff say they've reached a breaking point. So I have to think of personnel changes to bring in people from other hospital wings to support the ICU staff."Japan's surge in COVID cases is being driven in part by the UK variant of the virus which is considerably more infectious.In the week leading up to Thursday, there were some 3,900 reported new infections.That represents a more than five-fold jump over the corresponding period three months ago.Much of Japan, including Tokyo, is under a state of emergency which is expected to be extended to June.On Monday, Japan opened its first mass inoculation centres in Tokyo and Osaka, as it races to vaccinate most of its elderly population before the start of the Olympics.
(Bloomberg) -- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said all public school students will return to their school buildings come September and that a remote option will no longer be available.Reopening the largest school system in the U.S. for the roughly one million students represents a big move toward the city’s full reopening and will be crucial to the economic recovery of New York, which has been battered by the pandemic.“You can’t have a full recovery without full strength schools,” de Blasio said on an appearance Monday on MSNBC. “More and more kids will be vaccinated, we’ve made vaccination available everywhere. It’s really time to go full strength right now.”New York joins neighboring New Jersey in eliminating a virtual option for students in the fall, among the first in the nation to pledge to bring back all students to in-person schooling.The move will be a step toward easing some of the inequities compounded by the pandemic as students of color and low-income students have struggled disproportionately. Over $100 billion of of stimulus aid from the American Rescue Plan act, in addition to aid from prior relief bills, is headed to school districts across the country to help cover the cost of reopening and addressing those differences.De Blasio had long expressed his hope that kids would return in the fall, but it was unclear whether a remote option would be offered. As the end of the school year approaches, most of the city’s students remain at home. About 600,000 students opted to remain in remote learning due to health and other concerns despite having the option to return to schools. The city began allowing in-person learning for elementary schools last December, middle schools in February and high schools in March.After new distancing guidance in March from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allowed the school system to open classrooms for more students, nearly two thirds of kids again chose to stay home.De Blasio said city schools would welcome parents to come into the schools starting in June to view safety protocols and get them re-acclimated. “Anyone who has a question or concern, come into your child’s school, see what’s going on, get some answers,” he said.He will also have to win over the city’s teachers, thousands of whom remain home due to safety concerns.Michael Mulgrew, the president of the largest New York City teachers union, said he supports getting as many students back in school this fall but that a remote option should remain.“There is no substitute for in-person instruction,” he said in an emailed statement. “We still have concerns about the safety of a small number of students with extreme medical challenges.”City officials have maintained that health and safety protocols have kept Covid-19 rates relatively low at schools, despite frequent closures throughout the year prompted by student cases. With nearly half of New York City vaccinated, the city’s hospitalization rate has dropped precipitously to below 1 per 100,000 residents.De Blasio said Monday that by Sept. 13, he expects more kids will be vaccinated and Covid rates will continue their steady decline. Kids ages 12 and up are now eligible for the vaccine. De Blasio said the CDC may drop their guidance to keep kids three feet apart, but that “we could make that work if we have to.”Jasmine Gripper, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education, a coalition of parent groups, said she was surprised about the mayor’s move on Monday and that she was concerned about returning to large classes.“I think there’s a hesitancy about bringing children back if there are overcrowded classrooms,” Gripper said. “It’s not just the CDC it’s parents concerns about overcrowding. There’s a hesitancy about putting 35 people in a room together, whether six feet apart or three feet apart.”(Updates with Mulgrew comments)More stories like this are available on bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.
Gordon Sondland, the former U.S. ambassador who testified against President Donald Trump during his first impeachment, sued former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the U.S. government for $1.8 million in legal fees on Monday. Sondland, in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, accused Pompeo of not covering his legal expenses as promised after the ambassador told lawmakers about Trump's interactions with Ukraine before the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Gordon Sondland, former President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, has filed a lawsuit against former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the U.S. government for legal fees incurred during the 2019 House impeachment probe.
"If you look at the Georgia laws, for example, there's been a lot that's been said nationally ... that turns out not to be true," Cheney told Axios.
It’s official: Bennifer 2.0.
Virginia race, coming a year after Biden won on a wave of anti-Trump sentiment, will test the parties' strength ahead of the 2022 midterm election.
Hundreds of people were present at a Payne Street party in Lexington where a 20-year-old college student was fatally shot last year, but witnesses have provided no help to police trying to find the shooter.
Trevor Gernon issues video message accepting his ‘poor judgment’ after son was kidnapped and killed
Scott Brown, who was the ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, said Trump's achievements were "by the wayside now" because of the Capitol riot.
