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‘She’s Asking For A Nuclear Option’: Jonathan Turley Reacts To ‘Breathtaking’ Demands From NY AG In Trump Case

‘She’s Asking For A Nuclear Option’: Jonathan Turley Reacts To ‘Breathtaking’ Demands From NY AG In Trump Case Harold Hutchison on November 30, 2023 George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley called demands from Democratic Attorney General Letitia James of New York in a civil fraud suit against former President Donald Trump “breathtaking.” Deutsche Bank executives testified Tuesday and Wednesday that the bank was “whale hunting” and thought that Trump could introduce them to other wealthy clients and that an adjustment of his net worth from $4.2 billion to $2.4 billion was not an issue when granting a loan for

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Shopping Under the Influence: New Jersey Governor Demands Alcohol Sales at Shopping Malls

TOMS RIVER, NJ – Governor Phil Murphy is digging a line in the sand on New Jersey’s liquor reform agenda, and the hill he’s willing to die on is having booze sold in New Jersey’s mall. In an odd twist in his ongoing battle with the state legislature that doesn’t seem to agree with the governor’s “booze for all necessarily. booze everywhere” agenda, Murphy specifically mentioned the ability to sell and drink alcohol inside New Jersey’s many indoor and outdoor malls. In an interview on Monday, Phil Murphy said he won’t sign a bill to save the New Jersey craft

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Subpoena Demands Toms River Elected Officials’ Communications Regarding Orthodox Jews

TOMS RIVER, NJ – Toms River is being sued, and nineteen past and present elected officials are named in the complaint lodged two weeks ago by Storzer and Associates on behalf of religious entities operating within Toms River. The lawsuit is about the township’s 2019 and 2020 denials of shuls (houses of worship residing inside residential homes). The plaintiffs are Rabbi Mordechai Sekul of Bais Brucha, who sought to operate a shul at 1181 Hickory Street; and Khal Anshei Tallymawr operating on Brentwood Avenue, both in Toms River. Toms River had settled an arrangement between the Department of Justice and the

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EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep Demands Air Force Justify Threatening Troops’ Careers For Attending Conservative Rally

EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep Demands Air Force Justify Threatening Troops’ Careers For Attending Conservative Rally Micaela Burrow on November 27, 2023 Republican Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana is pressuring the Air Force to conduct an investigation of text messages warning against attending a conservative rally, according to a letter obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation. A master sergeant at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota urged leaders to caution their troops about the potential for violence aimed at military members at a conservative rally or participating in the featured political advocacy group in leaked text messages on Nov.

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Trudeau demands end to antisemitic acts after attack in Montreal

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday condemned an attack on a Jewish community center in Montreal and said antisemitic violence must stop immediately. A Molotov cocktail was thrown into the entrance of the Jewish Community Council of Montreal just after midnight on Sunday, according to the council. No one was present at the center at the time and the building suffered minimal damage, the council said. “The rise in antisemitism in our city is frightening, and the repeated violence and attacks on our community are abhorrent and condemned in the strongest terms,” said Rabbi Saul Emanuel,

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Hamas Delays Release Of Hostages, Demands Israel Allow More Aid Into Gaza: REPORT

Hamas Delays Release Of Hostages, Demands Israel Allow More Aid Into Gaza: REPORT Harold Hutchison on November 25, 2023 Hamas announced it was delaying the release of additional hostages, demanding that Israel allow aid trucks to enter Gaza, according to multiple reports. The radical Islamic terrorist group claimed Israel had violated the terms of the cease-fire, Haaretz.com reported. Hamas demanded that Israel allow aid trucks to enter northern Gaza, according to Axios. BREAKING: Hamas military wing announces it’S delaying the release of the 2nd group of hostages due to Israeli violations of the deal. Hamas demands Israel commits to allowing

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Facebook Shuts Down New Jersey Police Department’s Page, Mayor Demands Resolution

JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NJ – If you live in Jackson Township, New Jersey, and are wondering why you no longer get updates from the Jackson Township Police Department on Facebook, it’s because the social media site’s parent company, Meta, shut it down and de-listed it. Jackson Township Police Chief Matt Kunz doesn’t know why and he says nobody at Facebook will give his department any answers on the matter. Kunz said the department received ‘policy violations’ from Facebook’s automated censorship AI, but he has been unable to speak to a human being at the company regarding the ban. The department, for

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Hit and Run Victim’s Family Demands Tougher Penalties After Killer Gets 1-3 Years in Prison

SOUTH GLENS FALLS, NY – John F. Lincoln-Lynch, perpetrator of a fatal hit-and-run in February, received a 1 to 3-year sentence in state correctional facility. Saratoga County District Attorney Karen A. Heggen announced the sentencing, which concluded a case that claimed the life of South Glens Falls native Paul Trombley. On February 27, 2022, at approximately 7:28 p.m., Lincoln-Lynch struck and killed Trombley near a Stewart’s store in South Glens Falls before fleeing the scene. Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office conducted an investigation that led to a breakthrough two days later. Pieces of the vehicle were identified as coming from a

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Mack Trucks says UAW demands unrealistic, no new talks set

(Reuters) – Volvo Group-owned Mack Trucks said Thursday the United Auto Workers’ contract demands are unrealistic and that no new talks are scheduled after workers went on strike on Oct. 9, following their rejection of a proposed five-year contract. About 73% of the unit’s 4,000 workers in Pennsylvania, Florida and Maryland voted against a tentative agreement that included a 19% pay raise that had been endorsed by UAW leaders. Mack Trucks said the UAW leadership’s economic demands “continue to be unrealistic.” The UAW did not immediately comment on Thursday. (Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Tom Hogue)

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Exclusive-German builders to confront Scholz with demands to stem property rout

By Tom Sims and John O’Donnell FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is facing fresh demands to stem a property crisis in Europe’s largest economy after a recent summit aimed at rescuing the sector disbanded in acrimony. The nation’s ailing building industry will present the chancellor with a new set of proposed measures this month to cushion the worst property crisis in a generation, two people involved in the preparations said. In a letter, the contents of which have been described to Reuters, one of the country’s top building groups will ask for support to prevent mass layoffs and

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Striking actors vow resolve, studios balk at latest demands

By Omar Younis and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Striking Hollywood actors vowed to hold firm on Thursday in their push for higher compensation and other gains as studios rejected a union demand for a bonus tied to the number of streaming TV subscribers. Negotiators for Walt Disney, Netflix and other media companies said late Wednesday they were suspending talks after reviewing the latest offer from the SAG-AFTRA actors union. The move dashed hopes of a quick resolution after a deal with film and television writers. At picket lines on Thursday, actors said they were disappointed that talks had

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Did New Jersey Tax Dollars Fund Anti-Jewish Event in Newark? Lawmaker Demands Answers

Senator Declan O’Scanlon has requested Governor Phil Murphy to freeze funds allocated to the “City of Newark — Mayor’s Brick City Peace Collective” following a recent event which reportedly honored figures associated with antisemitic views. In a letter sent to Governor Murphy, O’Scanlon stated, “The antisemitism built into Newark’s event appears to have been funded by State taxpayers.” He further elaborated that the City of Newark receives substantial state funding, with the Mayor’s Brick City Peace Collective specifically receiving special grants totaling $8 million in the last two years. “No spending plans have been shared by the Administration despite past

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Kosovo demands Serbia withdraw troops from border

PRISTINA (Reuters) – Kosovo on Saturday demanded that Serbia withdraw its troops from their common border, saying it was ready to protect its territorial integrity. Tensions between the two countries have been high since last Sunday when Kosovo police fought around 30 heavily armed Serbs who stormed the Kosovo village of Banjska and barricaded themselves in a Serbian Orthodox monastery. Three attackers and one police officer were killed. The gunbattle prompted new international concern over stability in Kosovo, which has an ethnic Albanian majority and declared independence from Serbia in 2008 after a guerrilla uprising and a 1999 NATO intervention.

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Brazil’s central bank employees escalate protests over career demands

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s central bank employees said on Monday they would intensify work stoppages in protest of the government’s alleged failure to address career improvement demands, a move that will impact the development of new initiatives at the bank. The National Union of Central Bank Employees (SINAL) said in a statement that this phase of the protest is expected to affect the timeline for launching the Brazilian central bank’s digital currency, DREX, initially slated for late 2024. The central bank said it would not comment on the matter. Additionally, the labor actions are expected to impact the rollout of

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Volkswagen’s works council demands clarity on VW brand turnaround plan

BERLIN (Reuters) – Volkswagen’s works council is demanding more information on a cost-cutting and efficiency drive being drawn up for the automaker’s main passenger car brand, saying employees needed more transparency from management on its plans. The German group said in June its VW passenger car brand was planning to make 10 billion euros ($10.7 billion) of savings and cost cuts by 2026 to help meet a return-on-sales target of 6.5%. Programme milestones were to be developed and adopted in consultation with employee representatives by October, Volkswagen said – but so far, no further targets have been set beyond the

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EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep Demands Answers Over DOJ Possibly Aiding Dominican Republic’s Detention Of Americans

EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep Demands Answers Over DOJ Possibly Aiding Dominican Republic’s Detention Of Americans Jake Smith on September 14, 2023 Republican Texas Rep. Troy Nehls is demanding answers from the DOJ as to whether the department is emboldening the Dominican Republic’s preventive detention system against Americans. Over 70% of all prisoners in the Dominican Republic are there under preventive detention, a system that requires no charges or evidence of crime for imprisonment, and some are likely American citizens. Nehls called on the DOJ’s inspector general to provide information as to whether the department’s criminal justice reform programs are being mismanaged

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JENNY BETH MARTIN: Impeach Joe Biden — The Evidence Demands It

JENNY BETH MARTIN: Impeach Joe Biden — The Evidence Demands It Jenny Beth Martin on September 9, 2023 In recent weeks, new game-changing evidence of Joe Biden’s corruption has emerged – evidence that demands the launching of an impeachment inquiry to establish whether or not Biden solicited and accepted a bribe while he was vice president. This evidence raises serious questions about the entire narrative of Biden’s December 2015 visit to Kyiv – when he says he used the threat of blocking $1 billion in U.S.-backed loan guarantees to pressure the Ukrainian government to remove the nation’s prosecutor general, Viktor

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Russia sticks to demands on Black Sea grain deal, rejects UN bank proposal

(Reuters) -Russia said on Saturday it was sticking to its conditions for a return to the Black Sea grain deal which it quit in July. In particular, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia needed its state agricultural bank – and not a subsidiary of the bank, as proposed by the United Nations – to be reconnected to the international SWIFT bank payments system. “All our conditions are perfectly well known. They do not need interpretation, they are absolutely concrete and all this is absolutely achievable,” Peskov said. “Therefore Russia maintains its responsible, clear and consistent position, which has been repeatedly

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Lawmaker Demands More Action to Safeguard Veterans at State Run Homes

TRENTON, NJ – Assemblywoman Aura Dunn is urging legislative leaders to advance a bill necessitating improvements at state-run veterans homes in Menlo Park and Paramus. The call to action comes on the heels of a U.S. Department of Justice report released Thursday that revealed subpar infection control and medical care at the facilities. Dunn stated that the DOJ’s findings should motivate the Legislature to enact laws safeguarding veterans residing in these homes. The proposed bill, known as A4923, would mandate the conversion of portions of the Paramus and Menlo Park facilities into single-occupancy rooms and require upgrades to their ventilation

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Exclusive-Kurdish-led Syria force vows to meet tribal demands after clash

By Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Reuters) – The head of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pledged to meet Arab tribal demands in eastern Syria and fix “mistakes” he said had been made in administering the region, seeking to defuse tensions that fuelled days of deadly fighting. Scores of people have been killed since Arab tribal fighters revolted against the SDF in Deir al-Zor last week, the first such uprising since the Kurdish-led force drove Islamic State from the region more than four years ago with U.S. support. Widely seen to reflect simmering Arab grievances, the revolt has prompted U.S. efforts

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GM exec says UAW demands ‘would threaten…manufacturing momentum’

DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors’ global head of manufacturing, Gerald Johnson, said in a video statement released on Tuesday the demands received from the United Auto Workers union have “significant costs attached that would threaten our ability to maintain our manufacturing momentum.” Johnson appeared in the video with GM President Mark Reuss. Both executives reiterated they want to reach a “fair” agreement without a strike. The executives did not detail GM’s economic proposals to the UAW. (Reporting By Joe White; Editing by Leslie Adler)

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From Bans to Demands: Is Governor Murphy Really a Dictator?

Governor Phil Murphy’s tenure has been marked by aggressive enforcement policies, covering a wide range of issues including COVID-19 measures, gun control, illegal immigration, and sanctuary cities. Critics argue that Murphy seems to be on a mission to ban anything he does not like and force New Jerseyans to abide by his own beliefs, raising questions about the balance between governance and individual freedoms. Most of the time, he circumvents the state legislature to accomplish his goals. The COVID-19 Pandemic: Stringent Enforcement and Hypocrisy Murphy, along with Lt. Col. Patrick Callahan and former Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, had been stringent

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Exclusive-Moscow demands bigger discounts from foreign companies exiting Russia-sources

By Elena Fabrichnaya and Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) – Some foreign companies trying to exit Russia are facing a big jump in costs as Moscow is demanding bigger discounts on the price tags of assets they want to sell, three people with knowledge of the matter said. Russia has steadily tightened exit requirements since Western companies started leaving soon after Moscow began what it calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine in February 2022. Executives say navigating the rules is becoming harder. Foreign companies have already been hit by losses of more than $80 billion from their Russian operations due

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‘Sick And Tired’: Dem Mayor Demands Reversal Of Injunction On Homeless Ordinances

‘Sick And Tired’: Dem Mayor Demands Reversal Of Injunction On Homeless Ordinances Brandon Poulter on August 23, 2023 Democratic San Francisco Mayor London Breed called on an appeals court to overturn an injunction Wednesday against the city’s enforcement of homeless ordinances. After an explosion in crime and drug use in 2020 and 2021, the city issued a state of emergency in December 2021 and began more stringent enforcement, then in November 2022, Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu of the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, issued an injunction barring the city from enforcing its homeless ordinances. City officials and Breed rallied outside

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Phil Murphy Demands Equity, But Cut Funding to Students Whose Parents Didn’t Vote For Him

TRENTON, NJ – State legislators are pointing to New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s actions as hypocritical based on his calls for equity and equality in New Jersey. In recent years, the governor has slashed school funding to school districts in counties and towns that voted against him when he ran for office. Politicians stopped short of calling Murphy’s actions political payback but noted his blatant hypocrisy. Murphy has threatened to cut school funding further in three districts if they did not follow his administration’s policies. Senator Joe Pennacchio expressed concerns over recent decisions by the State Board of Education and

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