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www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/nyregion/trump-fraud-trial-letitia-james.html
Year after year, loan after loan, defendants misrepresented Mr. Trump’s net worth,” Kevin Wallace, a lead lawyer for Ms. James, said during opening statements on Monday morning. He noted that while it might be one thing to exaggerate for a television audience or Forbes Magazine’s list of the richest people, “you cannot do it while conducting business in the state of New York.”
If the attorney general’s office proves its case, the judge could impose a sweeping array of punishments on Mr. Trump, including a $250 million penalty and a prohibition on operating a business in New York ever again.
At trial, Ms. James is seeking more from Justice Engoron, asking that he impose the $250 million penalty on Mr. Trump and that the former president be permanently barred from running a business in New York. The trial will determine what penalty Mr. Trump must pay and whether he will be banished from the world of New York real estate that made him famous.
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www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/magazine/benjamin-netanyahu-israel.html
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bent on using the government’s majority to pass a package of bills that would do away with judicial oversight in the country and concentrate power in its hands
The governing coalition has the majority and the means to impose its decisions there. Now it was proposing to neutralize the only curb to executive overreach: the country’s Supreme Court.
The judicial overhaul has now jeopardized every one of his perceived accomplishments, including Israel’s economic success and its international standing. Netanyahu is “in a Job-like state,” Nahum Barnea, a veteran columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth, told me. His coalition members embarrass him on a daily basis. His legal woes are mounting. On top of which, Barnea added, “He can’t travel to the White House, and it’s killing him.” (Netanyahu’s meeting with President Biden on Sept. 20 was the first since Netanyahu’s re-election last November and came on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.) Still, many who know Netanyahu well rebuff the suggestion that he is losing control. “That’s like saying that Orban or Erdogan has lost control,” a former senior aide to Netanya
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www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/us/watchdog-surveillance-law-extension.html
Congress previously reauthorized the law in 2012 and 2018. But it faces an uncertain fate this cycle. A faction of hard-right Republicans are opposing it in alignment with former President Donald J. Trump’s hostility to the “deep state,” joining forces with liberal-leaning civil liberties advocates who have long had concerns about how Section 702 allows the government to scoop up some communications of Americans without a warrant and make it available to intelligence and law-enforcement officials.
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Françoise Mouly speaks with Sara Sauers, the granddaughter of James Thurber, about Thurber’s cover for the September 4, 2023, issue of The New Yorker, “New Tricks.”
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Opinion | An extremely unusual event for Russia’s hinterland took place in the small village of Porechye halfway between St.
— Read on www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/27/russias-african-villages-are-white-supremacy-in-disguise-a82577 -
The House speaker embraced major spending reductions to win conservative support for a government funding bill.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/26/mccarthy-conservatives-cut-spending/
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The high court has been telling politicians that flagrant corruption is now perfectly legal.
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Latest news from Ukraine today. British intel: Failed Russian counterattacks underscore minimal offensive capability. Follow updates on Euromaidan Press.
— Read on euromaidanpress.com/2023/09/25/british-intel-failed-russian-counterattacks-underscore-minimal-offensive-capability/- Over the last week, Russian forces have made a concerted effort to conduct local counter attacks against advancing Ukrainian forces in both the Orikhiv and Bakhmut sectors. In both areas, Ukrainian forces have defeated the Russian attacks and maintained their hold on recently liberated territory.
- Comments posted by the Russian military community suggest extreme disillusionment amongst those involved in these counter attacks, especially near Bakhmut, with reports of ‘ill-conceived’ advances, lack of artillery support, and heavy casualties.
- Over the last nine months, the Russian force in Ukraine has proved itself capable of conducting stalwart defensive operations. However, it continues to display only minimal capability on the offensive. Commanders struggle to orchestrate complex joint effects, to concentrate sufficient artillery ammunition, and to maintain high morale and offensive spirit.
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