Month: June 2023

Joran van der Sloot will be extradited to the US Joran van der Sloot will be extradited to the United States to face extortion charges 02:17 The suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American Natalee Holloway in Aruba, Joran van der Sloot, has been “severely beaten” in a prison in Peru, his lawyer Maximo Altez told CBS News. “It was a fight between prisoners. I don’t know who assaulted Joran,” said Altez, without giving further details about his client’s condition. Holloway disappeared during an upper class trip to Aruba, where Van der Sloot is from. She was last seen leaving…

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a defeat for gay rights, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled Friday that a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples. The court ruled 6-3 for designer Lorie Smith despite a Colorado law that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, gender and other characteristics. Smith had argued that the law violates their right to freedom of expression. Smith’s opponents warned that a win for her would allow several businesses to discriminate, refusing to serve black, Jewish or Muslim customers, interracial or interfaith couples or immigrants. But…

BRASILIA, June 30 (Reuters) – Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro’s political career appeared all but dead on Friday as the country’s federal electoral court appeared poised to conclude a trial that could leave him ineligible for public office for nearly a decade If a majority of the seven judges on the Brasilia court find that he abused his power by summoning ambassadors to make unsubstantiated claims about Brazil’s voting system ahead of last year’s vote, Bolsonaro will be deemed ineligible to hold public office until 2030 So far, three judges have voted to convict the far-right nationalist of abuse of…

Tampa Police Department officers shot and killed a 42-year-old man after police say he fired multiple shots during a traffic stop Thursday night. Officers responded to the 3700 block of Busch Boulevard at 10:50 p.m. for a report of an armed person firing shots from a gray Kia Soul, according to a news release and details provided by Deputy Chief Calvin Johnson during a press conference at the scene. Minutes later, officers saw the car heading south on North 40th Street. Shortly before 11 p.m., officers attempted a felony traffic stop at the intersection of 40th Street and East 32nd…

Foreign Secretary Zac Goldsmith has announced his resignation over what he described as the government’s “apathy” towards the environment. Here is his resignation letter in full: Dear Prime Minister, I got into politics mostly because of my love and concern for the natural environment. We depend on nature for everything, and we are degrading the natural world at an astonishing rate. Logically, there is nothing more important. So when you asked me to stay on as international environment minister, of course I agreed. I did this with the aim of monitoring the progress we had seen in recent years in…

The usually very active Facebook account of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen appeared to have been deleted on Friday, a day after the supervisory board of Meta, Facebook’s parent company, recommended that he be suspended from the platform for threatening to violence against political opponents. The showdown pits the social media giant against one of Asia’s oldest autocrats. Mr Hun Sen, 70, has ruled Cambodia since 1985 and has maintained power in part by silencing his critics. It is a staunch ally of China, a country whose support comes free of American-style admonitions about the value of human rights and…

Gov. Josh Shapiro and Pennsylvania’s politically divided legislature appeared Thursday to begin the state’s fiscal year without a set spending plan, with closed-door talks that drew optimism from Republicans but dismay from Democrats. For Shapiro, getting his first budget across the finish line is perhaps the biggest test yet of his political skills under the Capitol dome. Republicans have spoken positively of their discussions with Shapiro, but discussions with Shapiro’s fellow Democrats they have tensed — in part by Shapiro’s side with Republicans on a plan to send $100 million to private schools. Many Democratic lawmakers have muted their criticism…

Former President Donald Trump’s claims that absolute presidential immunity and free speech rights protect him from defamation claims by a New York columnist were rejected by a federal judge on Thursday. What you need to know A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to dismiss a New York columnist’s defamation claims against him because he is entitled to absolute presidential immunity. A. Kaplan said Thursday that writer E. Jean Carroll can continue her claims that Trump owes her at least $10 million in compensatory damages and substantially more in punitive damages for comments she made after she…