Top Trump donor and former RNC finance chair charged in foreign lobbying scheme
Top Trump donor and former RNC finance chair charged in foreign lobbying scheme
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Louisville has settled Breonna Taylor’s wrongful death lawsuit
Attorney Sam Aguilar confirmed to CNN there is a settlement in the case.
“The city’s response in this case has been delayed and it’s been frustrating, but the fact that they’ve been willing to sit down and talk significant reform was a step in the right direction and hopefully a turning point,” he said.
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Bannon has been telling friends he and Trump occasionally speak, source says
Trump distanced himself from Bannon on Thursday following the conservative firebrand’s arrest on charges of fraud stemming from his involvement in a private funding project for a wall along portions of the US-Mexico border.
But according to the source, Bannon has boasted of his conversations with Trump as recently as a few months ago. The source said Bannon described his discussions with Trump as sounding board sessions covering a variety of topics.
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Judge orders the release of children held in ICE detention facilities over risks from COVID-19
As the Times reports, Judge Gee’s order explicitly criticizes ICE over how shelters are not following guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The shelters have not made enough space for those being held to practice social distancing, or halted practices that put large numbers of detainees together. Neither the detainees nor staff at the facilities are consistently wearing masks despite CDC recommendations.
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Judge Amy Berman Jackson criticizes Trump’s attacks on Roger Stone juror
Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Tuesday said attacks from President
Donald Trump and commentary from conservative media are part of a
campaign of intimidation and harassment of jurors in Roger Stone’s
criminal case.