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Impeachment Inquiry: Witness Denounces ‘Fictional’ Ukraine Election Interference
But even the 2017 Politico article - which reported that the Ukrainian ambassador to the USA and some embassy staff had passed on incriminating information about Trump adviser Paul Manafort to a Democratic operative - noted that this was "far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia's alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic email" in 2016. [Full Article...]
Oxford names 'climate emergency' as word of the year
Oxford claimed it has become "one of the most prominent and debated terms of 2019", defining the climate emergency as "a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it". [Full Article...]
Google Announces New Political Ad Rules to Curb Fake News
The Alphabet Inc. unit said in a blog post on Wednesday it would no longer allow election ads to be targeted based on political affiliation on Google Search, YouTube and across the web. Rival social media firm Facebook has faced repeated calls to ban all political advertising after a number of misleading ads were taken down from the platform. [Full Article...]
Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu to face corruption charges
For Netanyahu, not securing a fifth term as prime minister has legal implications; it may increase his vulnerability to possible indictment on corruption charges. Police recommended indicting Netanyahu over accepting almost $300,000 in gifts from Hollywood mogul Arnon Milchan and Australian billionaire James Packer. [Full Article...]
Maude Lores Bonney's 122nd birthday on Google Doodle
The main lady to fly solo from Australia to England, Bonney made her historic journey in 1933, enduring heavy storms, two accidents and a confrontation with a crowd of water buffalo. The following year she became the first woman to circumnavigate the Australian mainland by air, a 12,800km journey. She received her primary education in Melbourne, and afterward, at a completing school in Germany. [Full Article...]
Jeffrey Epstein's Prison Guards Are Indicted On Federal Charges
Prosecutors said they filed the false false paperwork the afternoon of August 9, a few hours before security cameras showed Epstein escorted to his cell. They both surrendered to the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty at a hearing in U.S. District Court. "Upon being moved back to the SHU on July 30, 2019, the MCC took steps to guard against future suicide attempts ... [Full Article...]
Two held over Kevin Lunney abduction
They were released in the early hours of Saturday 16 November and gardaí said a file would be sent to the public prosecutions director. In September, Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) director Mr Lunney, 50, was abducted outside his home near Derrylin, Co Fermanagh, and taken to a horsebox across the border, where he was savagely beaten. [Full Article...]
Judge temporarily stops 1st federal execution in 16 years
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The federal executions would have been the first conducted in more than 16 years. Finally, because the public is not served by short-circuiting legitimate judicial process, and is greatly served by attempting to ensure that the most serious punishment is imposed lawfully, this court finds that it is in the public interest to issue a preliminary injunction. [Full Article...]