US President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was found guilty on five charges of tax fraud, two of bank fraud and one of failure to disclose a foreign bank account on Tuesday. Manafort also faced another 10 charges on which the jury could not reach a verdict. Judge TS Ellis of the US [...]
US President Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty on Tuesday to five counts of tax fraud, one count of making a false statement to a financial institution, one count of causing an unlawful corporate contribution and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution. According to the plea agreement, the maximum term of [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday announced a regulation change to replace the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan with the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule. In the EPA’s press release , Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler said: The ACE Rule would restore the rule of law and empower states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide modern, reliable, [...]
Argentina President Mauricio Macri expressed his plan to report Venezuela to the International Criminal Court (ICC) during an interview on CNN’s Spanish service Sunday night. From a transcript of part of the interview published in el Nuevo Herald , Macri, along with the leaders of Colombia, Paraguay and other Latin American countries, plan to propose a petition [...]
Former Nazi guard Jakiw Palij was deported from the US to Germany on Tuesday, fulfilling a 2004 federal court order, according to a statement from the White House . Palij was a guard at the Trawniki Labor Camp in 1943 and allegedly served to further “Operation Reinhard,” which was code for the Third Reich’s plan to murder all [...]
Attorneys general for 22 states and the District of Columbia on Monday urged the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to reverse President Donald Trump and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision to strike down the rule rolling back net neutrality. Led by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood, the lawsuit [...]
Mali’s Constitutional Court on Monday declared sitting President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita the winner of the country’s August 12 presidential runoff election. According to electoral officials, Keita garnered 67.2 percent of the vote, easily besting Soumaila Cisse, who received 32.8 percent. The court listed the official vote count at 2,753,698 or 34.42 percent of the country’s 8 million registered [...]
A Kentucky federal judge on Monday dismissed a counter-lawsuit filed by Governor Matt Bevin against 16 Medicaid recipients who want to stop him from adding a work requirement. The defendants sued the federal government in the US District Court for the District of Columbia back in January to block Bevin’s efforts to implement work as a [...]
A judicial commission probing corruption under former South African president Jacob Zuma began its public hearings Monday. Zuma resigned last February and was charged with corruption in March. Zuma’s fall began with the State of Capture Report , tasked with investigating the upper levels of the Zuma administration for corruption. Specifically, the former president stands accused [...]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi signed a cybersecurity law Saturday that allows the government broad authority to block websites while setting jail sentences and jail fines for violations. Amnesty International described the new law as giving “the state near-total control over print, online and broadcast media.” There is another cybersecurity law pending before the president, [...]
