MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president said Friday he won’t fight Mexican drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs. Over the years, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has laid out various justifications for his “hugs, not bullets” policy of avoiding clashes with the cartels. In the […]
BOSTON — A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev‘s case to be returned to a lower court to probe claims of juror bias. The order from the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals keeps intact Tsarnaev‘s death sentence for now. But the appeals court said the trial court judge’s investigation […]
I suppose this should have been predictable given the current political climate around the country, but it’s still disappointing. A group of five Democratic voters in Illinois had previously brought a lawsuit seeking to bar Donald Trump from the ballot in their state claiming that he had fomented an insurrection on January 6, 2001. The […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As South Korea’s government made a last plea for junior doctors to end a walkout hours before a Thursday deadline, many were expected to defy orders to return to work, risking suspensions of medical licenses and prosecution. Thousands of medical interns and residents have been on strike for about 10 […]
And it could come as early as this afternoon. After an in camera session with Terrence Bradley, Judge Scott McAfee ruled late last night that Nathan Wade’s divorce attorney could not be shielded from testifying under a claim of attorney-client privilege. As a result, Bradley has to testify as to his personal knowledge about Wade’s […]
SAN FRANCISCO — DoorDash‘s revenues and orders exceeded expectations for the fourth quarter, although its net losses failed to shrink as quickly as Wall Street had hoped. The San Francisco delivery company said Thursday that its revenues rose 27% to $2.3 billion in the October-December period, slightly exceeding the $2.25 billion analysts had projected. Total […]
The Supreme Court told special counsel Jack Smith to respond by next week to former President Trump‘s request for it to halt the appeals court‘s ruling against his presidential immunity claim as the justices weigh how to proceed in the unprecedented legal battle. The court announced on Tuesday that a response is requested by 4 […]
Israel’s evacuation orders in the Gaza Strip now cover two-thirds of the territory, or 246 square kilometers (95 square miles), United Nations humanitarian monitors said Tuesday. More than half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people is now crammed into the town of Rafah on the border with Egypt and surrounding areas, the U.N. Office […]
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered state elections officials Friday to include U.S. Rep Dean Phillips on the state’s Democratic presidential primary ballot, finding that Democrats on a bipartisan presidential selection committee who left him off the ballot without a discussion should have at least talked about him. The unanimous ruling means President […]
Evergrande was once China’s top real estate developer, but ever since it defaulted on loans in 2021 the company has been in a kind of slow-motion collapse. With more than $300 billion in debts and contractors who hadn’t been paid, there seemed to be no way for the company to recover. The central problem at […]
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