Month: June 2023

The father and aunt of accused Rep. George Santos, who supported the congressman’s $500,000 bond in his money laundering and wire fraud case, own no property and were not required to post bond to satisfy the release prior to the congress, according to a published transcript. Friday of the May 15 bond hearing in Central Islip. But the 15-page document, released by federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York, indicates that Gercino dos Santos, the congressman’s father, and Elma Preven, his aunt, would take personal financial responsibility, including damage to his credit rating and the ability to obtain…

DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston announced Friday that her office was withdrawing from all cases involving the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center that opponents have dubbed “Cop City.” That includes domestic terrorism and related charges for about 42 people arrested during demonstrations against the center. In an exclusive interview with WABE’s Rose Scott, Boston cited “fundamentally different prosecution philosophies” between her and Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr’s office. “We had some differences, when I say we, I mean me and the attorney general’s office, about who should be charged and what they should be charged with,” Boston said. DeKalb…

The sports betting ecosystem has been abuzz after FanDuel employee Shams Charania reported that Scott Henderson “was gaining a lot of momentum” as the second overall pick in Thursday’s NBA Draft. That didn’t happen: Brandon Miller went to the Hornets with that pick, but Charania’s tweet just hours before the draft dramatically altered the betting market for the second overall pick. Sources: Scoot Henderson is getting a big push at No. 2 with the Charlotte Hornets in tonight’s NBA draft. Hornets have been torn over the past week between Henderson and Brandon Miller. The team has final meetings today to…

About two years after Northern Virginia’s first Rosie’s Gaming Emporium opened in the town of Dumfries, the gaming operation is trying its luck in Manassas Park. Churchill Downs Incorporated, the parent company of Rosie’s Gaming Emporium, announced Friday that it has launched a petition to collect the 450 signatures needed to get a referendum on the Nov. 7 ballot to request Manassas Park voter authorization to open a new Rosie’s Gaming Emporium in Manassas. park The number of signatures is just above the 5% of registered voters required by Virginia law for a referendum to allow mutual betting in a…

Given Gov. Chris Sununu’s recent media schedule, which has featured dozens of cable news interviews, it’s understandable that the details can be a little fuzzy at times. “Was it on CNN, did you see it? Or was it on some station,” Sununu said last week, trying to recall a particular television appearance. “It was good.” Sununu’s streak of national media hits was perhaps most intense as he mulled a long-term presidential bid until the spring. But they’ve continued even though he announced earlier this month that he’s not running for president and indicated he likely won’t seek another term in…

Like Joe Biden’s ascension to the White House, the impeachment of Donald Trump for illegally keeping classified documents and obstructing justice offers a partial answer to a big question in American politics: Can the nation’s institutions contain your excesses? The reaction to the accusation highlights another one: what happens when they do? When the Democrat defeated him, armed supporters of Mr. Trump stormed the Capitol to prevent the transfer of power, assaulting police officers and chanting “Hang Mike Pence”. Within minutes of his indictment last week, threats and even calls for civil war surged on social media platforms used by…

AUSTIN, Texas – The latest poll from the University of Texas/Texas Policy Project finds that Texans had negative views of the Legislature and its responsiveness to the needs of Texans. Fewer than 1 in 5 Texans said they were “very” or “extremely” confident that the Legislature had increased the reliability of the electric grid or water supply, improved the safety of Texas public schools, or improved the along Texas-Mexico. border When asked to describe their views of the Legislature, nearly half of Texans surveyed (49 percent) said Texas state government “largely ignores the needs of Texas residents,” a up nearly…

On June 23, 2023, in Washington DC and Patna, he has framed the lines of the Great Battle of 2024 for which India is preparing. The red carpet welcome to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the US, a state banquet for US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, attended by 400 guests who competed with each other to be there, a vegetarian meal specially curated by the First Lady, speech by Modi to a joint session of the US Congress (the first prime minister to do it twice), the promise of technology transfers, the end of a regime…