Month: May 2023

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The former lobbyist for the San Francisco 49ers has testified that a Silicon Valley alderman illegally leaked a confidential report critical of the team’s political influence, it was reported Friday. Rahul Chandhok told a criminal grand jury on March 21 that Santa Clara City Councilman Anthony Becker digitally sent him the report, which was drawn up by a civil grand jury last October, the San Francisco Chronicle. reported after reviewing a transcript of his testimony. Prosecutors accuse Becker of providing the secret report to Chandhok and a local news outlet before its official release and then…

The bipartisan political group No Labels is stepping up a well-funded effort to field a “unity ticket” for the 2024 presidential race, prompting stiff resistance even from some of its closest allies who fear taking back the White House to Donald J. Trump. At the top of the list of potential candidates is Sen. Joe Manchin III, the conservative West Virginia Democrat who has been a headache for his party and could bleed President Biden’s support in areas crucial to his re-election bid. The centrist group’s leadership was in New York this week raising some of the money — about…

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy He met with Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox News parent Fox Corp., in late April in New York, according to two people familiar with the meeting who were not authorized to discuss private events. One person described it as a “getting to know you” session and said Murdoch often meets with rising political figures. Murdoch’s meeting with Ramaswamy came at a tumultuous time at Fox Corp., which parted ways in late April with star host Tucker Carlson and weeks before settled a defamation suit for a billion dollars from Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5…

By Fredreka Schouten | CNN Rep. George Santos has named himself treasurer of his campaign committee, marking the latest twist in a months-long saga of baffling filings his campaign has made with federal regulators. The new presentationmade Friday afternoon with the Federal Election Commission, comes a little more than a week after federal prosecutors filed a 13-count criminal indictment, charging the New York Republican with wire fraud, fraudulently obtaining unemployment benefits due to Covid-19 and lying about his personal finances on forms he submitted to the US House of Representatives as a candidate. He has denied doing any harm and…

CNN — Debt ceiling talks resumed Friday night on Capitol Hill, after multiple sources told CNN that earlier discussions between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s office and the White House had hit a snag , causing a pause. McCarthy told Fox Business on Friday evening that they would be “back in the room tonight,” adding that he remained “very frustrated” with the White House’s position. A source familiar with the negotiations told CNN separately Friday evening that negotiators would meet shortly. Negotiators had met briefly at the Capitol on Friday before breaking off, hoping there could be a deal in principle…

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Based on staff reports It was 30 days ago when the Committee to Recall Apopka Mayor Bryan Nelson, also known as Citizens of Apopka for Honest Government, took on the task of collecting 1,762 signed petitions from registered Apopka voters to move on to the next stage of the recall process. But today, the 30-day deadline ended, and his goal fell short. New and his team of volunteers collected 1,692, 70 short of the mark. New released a statement to The Apopka Voice. “Remember the final update, “First of all, I want to thank the people on the committee, Abbey…

On Sunday, Zhanna Charniauskaya, a Belarusian living in exile outside Chicago, plans to march down Michigan Avenue for all those returning home who can’t. Charniauskaya, 55, will march for her former neighbors in Minsk, the country’s capital, who were imprisoned: Ales Bialiatski, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate she met in Chicago, who has been imprisoned since 2021, and the thousands of ‘others that are found. detained in penal colonies with political charges, according to human rights watchdog groups. “In the diaspora, we become the voices of these political prisoners,” he said. “We need to talk about their pain and let…