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International Criminal Court:
Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in the State of Palestine  —  Today I am filing applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court in the Situation in the State of Palestine.
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CNN:
EXCLUSIVE: ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes over October 7 attack and Gaza war  —  The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes …
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Warrant Applications by the International Criminal Court  —  The ICC prosecutor's application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous.  And let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas.
New York Times:
Middle East Crisis: Israeli Leaders Rally Behind Netanyahu Despite Divisions Over War … The I.C.C. prosecutor requests warrants for Hamas leaders and Netanyahu.  —  The International Criminal Court prosecutor, Karim Khan, said Monday that he had requested arrest warrants for the leaders …
Gram Slattery / Reuters:
Exclusive: Donald Trump foreign policy advisers met Israeli PM Netanyahu, source says  —  Three former U.S. foreign policy officials in Donald Trump's administration met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other public figures in Israel on Monday, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
Financial Times:
Why we support ICC prosecutions for crimes in Israel and Gaza
Kara Kennedy / Washington Free Beacon:
ICC Seeks Arrest Warrants Against Israeli Leaders
CNBC:
Trump trial: Prosecution rests after Michael Cohen's fiery testimony … Prosecutors on Monday rested their criminal hush money case against Donald Trump after their star witness, the former president's onetime personal lawyer Michael Cohen, delivered dramatic testimony.
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Bonchie / RedState:
Alvin Bragg's Case in Shambles After Michael Cohen Admits to Stealing From Trump and More  —  It's not quite time for closing arguments in the New York-based criminal case against Donald Trump, but the crescendo is building.  —  On Monday, disgraced felon Michael Cohen retook the stand …
Discussion: acecomments.mu.nu
Politico:
Trump claims he wants to testify at his trial.  No one else thinks he should.  —  “Anybody testifying for their own sake, it doesn't play out well,” said one Trump ally.  —  On the eve of his criminal trial, Donald Trump told reporters in Florida that he would take the stand and testify if necessary.
Reuters:
Iranian President Raisi feared dead as helicopter wreckage found  —  Hopes are fading that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister have survived a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain and icy weather, an Iranian official said on Monday after search teams located the wreckage.
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Iran's president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site, state media says
ABC News:
Iran's President Raisi dead in helicopter crash, former foreign minister blames US sanctions
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Supreme Court Justice Alito sold Bud Light stock, then bought Coors during boycott … Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sold shares of beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev as conservatives were ditching the Bud Light brewer over its partnership with a transgender social media influencer.
Discussion: National Review
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New York Times:
A Former Leader of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Gang Joins Trump in Court  —  Chuck Zito, who did time on drug conspiracy charges, has tried to recast his persona as a general-purpose tough guy around town.  —  An entourage of more than a dozen supporters who joined President Donald J. Trump …
Discussion: New Republic, Mediaite and Raw Story
ProPublica:
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe  —  Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies.  Her bosses halted her work.  As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water …
Discussion: New Yorker
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Scared about America losing democracy?  Texas is already gone  —  “I might go to Dallas to murder looters,” a then-active duty U.S. Army sergeant named Daniel Perry texted a friend in the spring of 2020, as protest marches over the police murder of George Floyd swept across Texas and the nation.
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Embattled FDIC chair ‘prepared to step down’ if a successor is confirmed  —  FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg testified at hearings before House and Senate lawmakers last week, where Democrats stopped just shy of calling for his ouster.  —  FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg on Monday announced …
Rolling Stone:
Giuliani Was Tracked Down by Arizona AG Because He Couldn't Stop Posting  —  Rudy Giuliani was dodging being served his Arizona indictment.  Agents found him in Florida based on “his nightly live video streams” … According to two people who talked to him about it …
Allysia Finley / Wall Street Journal:
Gavin Newsom's Battleground Gift to Donald Trump  —  The governor's war on gasoline will hike prices in California, but also Arizona and Nevada.  —  Is Gavin Newsom trying to help Donald Trump?  You have to wonder from the California governor's plan to raise gasoline prices in Nevada and Arizona before the November election.
Discussion: New York Post
Luke Gentile / Washington Examiner:
Social media slams latest transgender state champion  —  Activists on social media were quick to blast the nation's latest transgender state champion after a biological male who identifies as a woman took first place in the Oregon Girls' 6A 200-meter championship.
Brad McElhinny / WV MetroNews:
Sources: Manchin is being encouraged to hop into governor's race against Morrisey  —  Sources close to Senator Joe Manchin, a mainstay of Democratic politics in West Virginia, say he is being encouraged to run for governor.  —  Two sources confirmed that the outreach comes from Republicans …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Ramon Antonio Vargas / The Guardian:
Robert F Kennedy Jr lists foreclosed New York home as voting address  —  Independent presidential candidate does not own the listed property and is not in public searches as one of its residents  —  Robert F Kennedy Jr has listed a home in foreclosure for non-payment as his voting address …
Isabel Keane / New York Post:
Biden bizarrely suggests he was VP during pandemic in latest blunder  —  President Biden bizarrely declared Sunday that things got “kinda bad” when he was vice president during the pandemic — even though COVID-19 hit three years after the Obama administration left office.
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Why isn't Donald Trump in jail already?  —  Donald Smith would be in a cell by now! … “Why isn't Donald Trump in jail already?”  —  It's a fair question, particularly in light of the flagrant gag order violations in Trump's Manhattan criminal trial, both by the man himself and his surrogates.
Discussion: Kansas Reflector
The Atlantic:
New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity  —  Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day.  —  For more than two decades, through two wars and domestic upheaval, the idea that al-Qaeda acted alone on 9/11 has been the basis of U.S. policy.
Discussion: Hartford Courant
 
 
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