The 45th president is named in several lawsuits related to the January 6 storming A judge has rejected former US President Donald Trump’s attempts to have lawsuits accusing him of sparking the January 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol dismissed, ruling on Friday that Trump should not be immune from civil damages. District Judge Amit […]
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Court rejects Manson Family murderer’s parole bid
Leslie Van Houten has been recommended for parole five times, and rejected every time The California Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to hear a petition by 72-year-old murderer Leslie Van Houten to reverse Governor Gavin Newsom’s denial of her parole. Van Houten, a member of notorious killer Charles Manson’s ‘family,’ was involved in two murders. […]
Judge rejects New York Covid mask mandate
The judge ruled the governor lacks the authority to require those aged two and above to mask up in public New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s order for everyone to wear masks in public was shut down by a New York State Supreme Court judge, who ruled that such decisions must be passed by lawmakers instead. […]
NASCAR rejects ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sponsorship
Stock car circuit blocks LGB cryptocurrency firm from sponsoring driver whose interview with NBC gave rise to anti-Biden chant Racing driver Brandon Brown may again face a funding crisis after NASCAR reportedly shot down his deal with cryptocurrency company LGBcoin to sponsor a “Let’s Go Brandon”-themed car. After initially approving the new car design and […]
France rejects 1,000s of doses of Covid anti-viral treatment
France has canceled its order for Merck’s new Covid-19 antiviral treatment molnupiravir due to its weak performance in trials, and ordered Pfizer’s Paxlovid instead, Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Wednesday. “With molnupiravir, we had to cancel the order,” Veran told BFMTV, explaining that the latest trial results of Merck’s treatment were “not good.” The […]
UN rejects envoys from 2 state players
The UN has decided not to recognize, for now, the envoys put forward by Taliban militants in Afghanistan and the military junta in Myanmar. Both governments argued that their current ambassadors don’t represent them. The nine-nation Credentials Committee of the UN General Assembly, which is responsible for approving the diplomatic representation of each member state, […]
Hezbollah rejects Saudi pressure in Yemen comments row
Hezbollah’s secretary-general has accused Riyadh of escalating tensions with Beirut and rejected calls for the resignation of a minister who sparked a diplomatic row over his comments on the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen. In a live broadcast on Thursday, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said events in Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition is backing the government in […]
‘Not in treaty’: Hungary’s Orban sides with Poland, rejects EU law primacy ahead of bloc’s summit
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has once again challenged the idea of the primacy of EU law, accusing Brussels of attempts to infringe upon the rights of the national governments as he arrived at an EU summit on Thursday. Orban dismissed the idea of imposing sanctions against Poland over its decision to make EU law […]
Putin rejects Security Council veto reform, says UN would ‘die same day,’ turn into ‘debate club’
Russian President Vladimir Putin has pushed back on his Turkish colleague’s proposal to remove the veto power of UN Security Council permanent members, saying it would turn the world body into another ‘League of Nations’. “If we remove the veto right of the permanent members, the UN would die the very same day – it […]
Berlin rejects Moscow’s accusation of involvement in YouTube ban of RT’s German-language channels
The German government had nothing to do with YouTube’s decision to ban RT’s German-language channels, Berlin has said, rejecting Moscow’s allegations to the contrary. Moscow claimed that the German government gave its tacit or open approval to the decision by the US tech giant to delete two channels of RT DE, RT’s Berlin-based German-language news […]
France rejects Malian PM’s ‘indecent’ claim that Paris is abandoning the African nation
France’s defense minister, Florence Parly, responded to Malian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga on Monday, rejecting the African leader’s “unacceptable” claims that Paris is abandoning the Sahel region by withdrawing troops. Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, Maiga accused France of abandoning Mali by ending Operation Barkhane “before a fait accompli,” as […]
South Africa top court rejects ex-president Zuma’s bid to overturn 15-month jail sentence
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma’s plea to overturn his 15-month prison sentence handed to him after failing to attend a corruption hearing has been rejected by the country’s top court. South Africa’s Constitutional Court ruled in a majority on Friday and rejected Zuma’s request to annul his jail time, which the disgraced former leader had […]