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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s hush money lawsuit Closing arguments are scheduled to be made to the jury on Tuesday, with both sides looking to give the panel their final score. Before the discussion begins The fate of the first former US president to be indicted on a felony charge.The arguments, expected to last all day, will give lawyers one final opportunity to argue to the Manhattan jury hearing the landmark case. After more than four weeks of testimonythe summary presents a significant and historically unprecedented challenge for jurors deciding whether to convict the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Payments…
fashionby Sarah Joseph17 minutes ago Summer sparkle will be taking center stage in summer 2024. This year, sequins are clearly taking center stage beyond the festive season.Celebrities are also embracing this micro-trend, with various A-list celebs, including Sofia Richie, being spotted recently wearing Rodarte’s barely there, disco-ball style mini halter dress on their honeymoons. Sequins on the beach? We’re totally obsessed.Channel your inner Studio 54 groupie by wearing clothes that sparkle with sequins, rhinestones and metallics, or take a page from Gucci and 16Arlington and pair your most eye-catching pieces with plain jeans, leather pants and tees.Sequins are all the…
The story of the 2024 election is looking deeply strange.Donald Trump boasts a small but significant lead over Joe Biden in national polls, while also besting the president in most surveys of battleground states. By itself, this is less than shocking. Voters have long disapproved of the president, lamented inflation, and expressed more faith in Trump’s capacity to manage the economy.If the Trump coalition’s formidable size is unsurprising, however, the same can’t be said of its demographic composition. In many polls, Biden’s level of support among white voters and senior citizens is comparable to his 2020 marks. Yet he has lost…
BALTIMORE — You’ve probably heard of football player Torrey Smith.He was a sure-footed receiver for the Ravens and played a key role in leading Baltimore to a Super Bowl title in early 2013 before winning his second NFL crown with the Eagles in February 2018.Have you heard of baseball player Torrey Smith?Baseball was Smith’s favorite sport, but he quit because it was too expensive.”I was super competitive,” Smith told USA Today Sports, “and then when I got to high school and really started to understand what money meant, I was like, ‘Oh man, I can’t keep doing this.'””The (baseball) team…
Portuguese home services app OSCAR raises over €6 million. OSCAR instantly connects users with over 12,000 highly qualified technicians, including plumbers, electricians, cleaning professionals, laundry technicians and even beauticians offering in-home manicure and pedicure services, and offers fixed prices on over 150 services. The idea for OSCAR was born when Marques called three technicians from different websites to fix his water heater at home, but faced difficulties when no one showed up. After this experience, Joan Marques saw a gap in the market and decided to take action. He left his job as a software engineer and embarked on this…
PHOENIX — His high school had a graduating class of 65 and no baseball field. They were relegated to playing games in a city park with no locker room, an all-dirt infield and a sandy pitching mound.Today, the big left-handed kid with the bad foot and the unique name, from the dusty town of Kingman Ariz., just so happens to be one of the finest starting pitchers in the American League.The name is Tarik Skubal (pronounced TARE-ick SKOO-bull).Skubal, who pitched for tiny Kingman Academy, was ignored by every four-year university in the country except one. He was overlooked in the Major…
Trump campaign rep Vivek Ramaswami appeared on “Kudlow” to discuss former President Trump’s presidential campaign’s announcement that it would begin accepting cryptocurrency donations, as well as President Biden’s speech at Morehouse College. Vivek Ramaswami, a former 2024 Republican presidential candidate, sent a seven-page letter to BuzzFeed’s board of directors reviewed by Fox Business, urging the struggling media company to add three more directors he vetted and adapt its business model to survive amid ongoing capital outflows. Since going public in December 2021, BuzzFeed’s market capitalization has plummeted from about $1.5 billion to just under $100 million. BuzzFeed’s shares are up…
Lahore: Three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif is set to be re-elected as leader of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday, six years after he lost his premiership following the Supreme Court ruling in the Panama Papers case.The general council meeting is scheduled to be held at a local hotel, Dawn reported. The 74-year-old veteran politician, who returned to Pakistan in October last year after four years of self-imposed exile in Britain, is likely to win unopposed, despite 11 party members having received their nomination papers for the party leadership, the paper said. According to reports, the PML-N had…
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain and Norway moved forward on Tuesday to formally recognize a Palestinian state as part of a coordinated effort by three Western European countries, with Ireland set to follow suit. Israel slammed the diplomatic move, which has no immediate impact on the country’s raging war in Gaza but will increase international pressure on Tel Aviv to soften its devastating response to last year’s Hamas-led offensive.Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the Spanish Cabinet would recognize a Palestinian state at a meeting on Tuesday morning. “This is a historic decision with the sole aim of helping to achieve…
KAVARATHI (Lakshadweep): Petrol and diesel prices in the four islands of Lakshadweep — Kavaratti, Minicoy, Androt and Kalpeni — have been reduced to Rs 100.75 and Rs 95.71 per litre respectively from Saturday, island authorities announced.The reduction was announced just hours before the Election Commission notified the dates for the Lok Sabha elections today.A reduction of around Rs 5.2 per litre in retail prices (RSP) of petrol and diesel will be announced in Kavaratti and Minicoy, while a cut of around Rs 15.3 per litre will be announced in Androt and Kalpeni.”The reduction in petrol and diesel prices has been…