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Victims and others affected by the infected blood scandal are waiting to hear how much they will be paid.
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Judge Merchan told Robert Costello not to roll his eyes, stare him down, talk over objections or sigh "jeez." At one point, he cleared the room of reporters.
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 Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.
After it was revealed that an upside down American flag was spotted outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in the days leading up to President Joe Biden's inauguration in 2021, the longtime jurist had several chances to correct the record on why, exactly, a symbol favored by right-wing extremists to signal their false belief that the 2020 election had been stolen turned up outside the home of a supposedly nonpartisan judge.
Alito has since blamed both his wife and a neighborly dispute for the brewing scandal in a pair of interviews—but he hasn't once disavowed the symbolism behind the flag or even suggested that he didn't know what it meant.
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 CNNRudy Giuliani's love for live streams allowed Arizona authorities to finally serve him, the state's attorney general told CNN on Monday.
The former New York mayor, who was indicted in the battleground last month for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election there, was served just after his 80th birthday party on Friday night in Palm Beach, Florida, following weeks of unsuccessful attempts.
It was Giuliani's live stream of the party that gave away his location, Kris Mayes told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on The Source.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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The pace of giving to Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican Party picked up in April, according to his advisers. But President Biden still has far more cash on hand.
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 Mark Peterson/Getty ImagesAs if Donald Trump wanted to actually spend more time in court, his campaign is now threatening to sue the makers of The Apprentice after it was reported the biopic, which premiered at Cannes on Monday, features a scene in which Sebastian Stan's Trump violently rapes his first wife.
"We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers," campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told The Daily Beast on Monday night. "This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked."
Cheung went on to blast the film as "election interference by Hollywood elites" on the same level as the criminal charges brought against Trump in four separate cases over the last year, which Cheung termed "the illegal Biden Trials."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 David Dee Delgado/ReutersHad he still been a daytime anchor on MSNBC, Carlos Watson would no doubt have spent Monday marshaling reports about the Trump hush-money trial in downtown Manhattan.
Instead, Watson was on the other side of the East River, sitting as a defendant in Brooklyn Federal Court, awaiting the start of jury selection in a multi-million dollar fraud case that could leave him facing as many as 37 years in prison.
A 54-year-old Harvard and Stanford educated superachiever, Watson had gone from anchoring a morning news show in 2009 to co-founding the digital startup Ozy Media in 2013, when it seemed there a fabulous fortune to be made online with news articles, newsletters and podcasts. He also produced television, including The Carlos Watson Show, on which he interviewed notables ranging from Bill Gates to Scarlett Johansson to NASCAR'S Danica Patrick.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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PM truly sorry as inquiry finds authorities covered up scandal and exposed victims to unacceptable risks.
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The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor is seeking arrest warrants for five senior officials, including Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas's Yahya Sinwar.
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The report author, Sir Brian Langstaff, thinks a cultural change within government is possible.
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Trump's lawyers landed a significant credibility blow when Michael Cohen admitted he "stole" from the Trump Organization. But at what cost?
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An inquiry concludes that thousands of people were failed repeatedly by the NHS and successive governments.
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 Paramount During its trailblazing heyday, Lollapalooza provided an unparalleled platform for the alternative. The problem was that by doing so it made the alternative mainstream, which ultimately caused the summer music festival to betray its roots—an inevitable evolution that stands as the most fascinating aspect of Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza, a nostalgia-fest which understands that all good underground things must either die or become the very thing against which they rebel.
Ironically, Michael John Warren's three-part Paramount docuseries (May 21) is somewhat undercut by a similar dynamic, given that its own desire to end on a happy note means that it must ignore the fact that there's no going home again to recapture the magic that made a sensation truly sensational in the first place. As a result, it's ultimately more promotion than critique.
Lollapalooza launched in 1991 as the brainchild of Perry Farrell, frontman for the paradigm-shifting band Jane's Addiction, who—along with cofounders Ted Gardner, Don Muller, and Marc Geiger—viewed it a way to channel the spirit of England's Reading Festival (and its ilk) by bringing together an assorted line-up of artists on a single stage. Designed as a farewell for Jane's Addiction, which planned to disband once this run of shows was completed, it quickly blossomed into an invigorating new take on an old format. Attendees were offered not just one great performance after another, but a common area filled with local avant-garde artists, social activist booths that sought to raise awareness about guns, the environment, and voting, and additional attractions that made it an immersive day-long experience directly attuned to the era's youth culture.
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The Trump campaign and RNC reported that they jointly raised about $25 million more than the Biden campaign said it raised across all its committees in April.
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The abortion rights position has won in 7 of 7 states post-Roe v. Wade. But Arizona and Florida are especially big — as are the margins by which their ballot measures currently lead.
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The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has announced he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and three leaders of Hamas: Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif. The charges against Netanyahu and Gallant include starvation of civilians, extermination, intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population, among other crimes. The charges against the Hamas leaders include extermination, murder, taking hostages, rape, among other crimes. "It places Israel's leaders of this genocidal onslaught on the Gaza Strip in the dock," says Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani, who explains why this will be "very significant" for Israel's allies and signatories to the ICC. "They now have to make a choice between Israeli impunity and obligations under the Rome Statute."
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The National Democratic Redistricting Committee and Planned Parenthood Votes are joining together to help their preferred candidates for 2024 as state-level party battles gain steam.
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 Stephen J. Cohen/Getty ImagesBob Ritchie, a.k.a Kid Rock, will readily admit he lives in his own world—"and it's great," as he insisted to a Rolling Stone journalist in a recent interview. The rules of that world, though, apparently dictate that Ritchie can do as he likes, including get "belligerently" drunk in front of someone with a tape recorder.
After switching from white wine to bourbon and Coke midway through a sitdown with Rolling Stone, the MAGA-loving rocker began "shouting" at the journalist, David Peisner, who reports that his subject proceeded to pull out a handgun and wave it in his face.
"And I got a fucking goddamn gun right here if I need it!" he writes Ritchie yelled. "I got them everywhere!" To be fair, the preceding two hours of the interview were also pockmarked with bizarre exchanges, including a moment where Ritchie railed against immigrants before crying out "9/11!"
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Addressing the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday promised to roll back the Biden administration's gun-control measures if elected.
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For nearly 40 years, the Commission on Presidential Debates has made the rules for the most-watched events in politics. This year, both campaigns said no thanks.
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Donald Trump's ex-attorney Michael Cohen is expected to testify Monday in the former president's criminal hush money trial in New York. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.
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Even after Hamas accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal Monday, Israeli forces moved in with tanks to seize the Rafah crossing with Egypt. Israel says the ceasefire deal falls short of its demands, and Hamas has called for "international intervention." Former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy says the limited information and political maneuvering of all parties raises more questions than answers right now, but the core issue is whether all parties can maintain a sustained end to hostilities. "In addition to testing each other, the Hamas and Israeli parties are testing the United States of America and the Biden administration in an unprecedented way," says Levy. "Hamas detects that the U.S. may finally be serious about offering a sustained calm." While Levy says growing external pressure from global protests are "having an impact," he doubts U.S. and Israeli leaders feel they must change course yet. "The pressure does not feel sufficient that Netanuahu's politics needs him to accept a ceasefire. He still thinks he can wiggle out of this," says Levy. "If this deal doesn't go through, I fear we're in for the much longer haul."
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We speak with journalist and author Ari Berman about his new book, Minority Rule, which details how the United States has since its founding privileged the rights and interests of a small elite over the needs of the majority. He outlines how, for the first time in U.S. history, five of six conservative justices on the Supreme Court were appointed by Republican presidents who lost the popular vote, and confirmed by senators elected by a minority of Americans. Berman says the court's makeup is the product of two skewed institutions: how we elect our presidents through the Electoral College and how we appoint U.S. senators — both of which are flawed because they violate one person, one vote, violating the principle of equal representation, and empowering white, rural, conservative and wealthy citizens at the expense of more diverse and progressive parts of the country. "Our institutions are so antiquated, so undemocratic, that we need fundamental reform to change them, to democratize them," Berman says.
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More Bodies Uncovered at Nasser Hospital Grave as U.N. Warns of Intergenerational Trauma in Gaza, U.N. Commission Says Israel Still Has Not Provided Evidence of Oct. 7 Allegations Against UNRWA, Gaza Solidarity Encampments and Protests Burgeon Across College Campuses Amid Police Crackdown, PEN American Forced to Cancel Awards Ceremony Amid Fallout over Gaza Stance, Google Fires Another 20 Employees in Retaliation for Project Nimbus Protest, Prosecution and Defense Offer Opening Arguments in Trump's Hush Money Trial, Liberal Justices Challenge Oregon City's Homelessness Ban as SCOTUS Considers Key Case, U.K. Rams Through Plan to Deport Asylum Seekers to Rwanda Despite Major Legal and Rights Concerns, Two Mexican Mayoral Candidates Killed in One Day, Less Than 2 Months Away from Elections, Biden Administration Issues Rule Protecting Privacy of Reproductive Healthcare, Biden Announces $7B Solar Energy Plan, Including Thousands of American Climate Corps Jobs, Black and Indigenous Climate Leaders Organize Against Citigroup's Funding of Fossil Fuels, Students File Complaints Against Universities' Ties to Fossil Fuel Industry, South Korean Youth Activists Take Government to Court over Climate Crisis
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