Month: August 2022

Authorities have released the names of the two men who died Friday night in a boating accident in Stonington. A spokesman for the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection identified the two men as Brian Collie, 52, of Littleton, Colo., and David Motherway, 54, of Stonington. A preliminary investigation determined the men died after the Motherway boat hit a wall. Authorities pronounced both men dead at the scene. According to a DEEP spokesman, the Connecticut Environmental Conservation Police, the Stonington Police Department, the Stonington Fire Department and the U.S. Coast Guard found the center console of the Motherway vessel…

The country’s second-highest-ranked barrister is today due to provide legal advice to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over his predecessor Scott Morrison’s portfolio scandal. The attorney general has been asked to find out exactly what happened, how it happened and if there are any legal ramifications. Albanese has not ruled out further consultations and reforms to ensure there is no similar scandal in the future. Morrison has come under fire from all sides of politics following revelations that he had secretly taken on ministerial responsibilities in the Health, Home Affairs, Resources, Treasury and Finance portfolios. He has claimed that this was…

Sarah Paulson earned her eighth Emmy nomination this season for her portrayal of Linda Tripp on FX’s Impeachment: American Crime Story, delivering a nuanced and compelling portrayal of the official whose involvement in the Clinton-Lewinsky affair made her a familiar name after delivering it. recorded phone calls between her and Monica Lewinsky (played in the limited series by Beanie Feldstein) to independent counsel Kenneth Starr: conversations in which the latter reveals her sexual relationship with President Bill Clinton while she was a White House intern. For showrunner Sarah Burgess, who is also nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for…

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A Texas man with alleged ties to white nationalist and “incel” movements was arrested after federal agents were alerted to a social media post indicating he planned to attack a conservative student event in Tampa last month. . Federal counterterrorism investigators allege 19-year-old Alejandro Velasquez threatened “retribution” against attendees at the Turning Point USA student action summit and made plans to travel to Tampa to carry it out. Velasquez, known as “LatinoZoomer” online, was also arrested for child pornography after images of pre-pubescent children being exploited by adults were allegedly found on his phone. Florida Holocaust…

Atlanta – A federal appeals court agreed Sunday to temporarily stay a lower court’s order requiring Sen. Lindsey Graham to testify before a special grand jury investigating plots to overturn the loss of former President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential election in Georgia. A subpoena had ordered the South Carolina Republican to appear before a special grand jury on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May had denied Graham’s request last Monday to quash his subpoena and on Friday rejected his effort put his decision on hold while he appealed. Graham’s lawyers appealed to the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals….

Following the Gestapo-like raid on President Trump’s home, the Democratic-controlled Justice Department has revealed nothing to justify this unprecedented action against America’s leading presidential candidate. In the first step of many to come, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, filed articles of impeachment against Attorney General Merrick Garland, who admitted that he approved the raid. “Attorney General Garland has taken steps to silence the voices of millions of United States citizens by prosecuting the duly elected and legitimate former President of the United States and potential presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump,” the first article reads impeachment . Refusing to answer questions…

Contemporaries, competitors and friends, each has written a memoir exploring some of the events that have left the electorate so disillusioned. Miller, expelled from the GOP for the depredations of Donald Trump, catalogs a “Republican road to hell,” he fears “could go on forever,” says Smith, a Democrat, in “political love story“this has tested his idealism, but nevertheless left him intact. Stylish and tart, Smith has endured many disheartening experiences as a campaign operative. But they have been specific rather than systemic, and have involved the weaknesses of the individual politicians it has served. He begins and ends “Any Given…