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CNN — A lawyer disciplinary committee has recommended that Rudy Giuliani be disbarred in Washington, DC, for his efforts on behalf of then-President Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The committee, which weighs legal ethics and attorney misconduct cases in the District of Columbia, issued the report and recommendation on Giuliani on Friday after an attorney misconduct hearing for Giuliani in December that it worked like a trial. “He claimed massive election fraud, but had no evidence,” the committee wrote. “By prosecuting this destructive case, Mr. Giuliani, a sworn officer of the Court, forfeited his right…

During New York City’s crack era in the early 1990s, with homicides five times higher than today, authorities turned to ruthless law enforcement. “The police would pull over your car at will, just because you were black, and go through your car and your pockets,” said Derrick Hamilton, 57, who grew up in public housing in Brooklyn in the 1980s and was arrested for first time as a teenager. “They would take your socks and pants off.” Crime fell across the country in the decades that followed in a sweeping social change, and New York became one of America’s safest…

if there’s a big issue in the state House, like rent control or tax cuts, you can usually expect state Rep. Mike Connolly of Cambridge to take a position to the left of most his colleagues In fact, after the 2021-2022 legislative session ended, Connolly was one of three state representatives named as exemplar by the group Progressive Mass, which gave it earned him an A-plus rating, 100% for those years. Now, however, Connolly faces possible expulsion from the Boston chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America for, among other things, endorsing Maura Healey for governor in the 2022 Democratic…

Adam Mosseri speaks on stage at the WIRED25 Summit 2019 – Day 1 at the Commonwealth Club on November 8, 2019 in San Francisco, California. Matt Winkelmeyer | Getty Images GoalThe new Threads app is less than two days old, but one of the company’s top executives believes that prioritizing news and political discourse on the platform is “absolutely not worth” the apparent downsides to the business and the “platform.” Adam Mosseri, who oversees both Instagram and Instagram’s text-based Threads, offered the comment in a unusually candid post Friday on the new social network. “Politics and hard news will inevitably…

“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson Election season is almost upon us. Run for your lives. Just kidding, of course. Politics is a natural, if somewhat harmful, by-product of democracy. Think of politics as the mess under the feet of a free society. In any case, the presidential candidates are already jumping into the race (when they’re not in the courts). We could be looking at a rematch of the 2020 campaign, but a number of GOP challengers are hoping to change the dynamic. It won’t be long before…

Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and ambassador to the United Nations, five months after her first candidacy for the presidency, recognizes the position in which she finds herself. Although she was the first Republican to announce a challenge to former President Donald J. Trump, she has not spent a single penny on television ads. it is far behind Mr. Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and has at times struggled to make the case for his campaign. But in an interview Friday at a picnic table outside a Veterans of Foreign Wars site in the small…

In the News-Leader article about the June 20 Nixa school board meeting, a picture showed an unidentified woman wearing a “Moms for Liberty” T-shirt. This organization is a leading proponent of banning books under the guise of parental rights and was recently named an anti-government extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. They have quoted Adolf Hitler in a newsletter as justification for their activities. Not identified as a member of the MFL, Nixa’s mother, Mary Hernandez De Carl, called for the books to be banned. He said: “Restricting access to books has nothing to do with a person’s…

An Alabama The TV reporter got the scoop of her life when she found her now-fiancé on one knee for a marriage proposal behind her while she was at work. Valerie Bell, reporter from Birmingham ABC branch WBMA, arrived on scene in response to reports of a vehicle driven into water while speaking with Pell City Police Department officials. Video captured by station chief photographer Bill Castle shows the moment firefighter Blake Bjornson who is friends with the police department officialshe knelt behind her with a ring box in his hand. “So, do you mind if I take some notes?”…