BARRE — May will be the new March this year as flood-related fiscal uncertainty just prompted a skittish Barre City Council to postpone the ci…
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Donald Trump's lawyers are pressing to have special counsel Jack Smith’s team held in contempt. The Republican former president's lawyers said Thursday prosecutors have taken steps to advance the 2020 election interference case against him in violation of a judge’s order that put the case on hold. The attorneys told U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., she should consider holding Smith and two of his prosecutors in contempt. A spokesman for Smith has declined to comment. Prosecutors have acknowledged the deadlines in the case are on hold pending an appeal. But prosecutors say they'd continue meeting the deadlines to ensure the prompt resumption of the case once it's returned to the court.
BERLIN — It took three tries, but the select board in Berlin finally blessed the Washington Central School Board’s request to mail the distric…
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After tumbling in polls, Netanyahu clings to power and aims to improve political standing during war
Critics say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is increasingly using his perch as wartime leader to improve his political fortunes. Netanyahu has long been polarizing. He's served longer than any other Israeli leader, after 17 years in power. Since sinking in opinion polls in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, Netanyahu has been taking steps that show he's looking for political redemption. He's been conducting political messaging, trying to appease his coalition partners and shirking responsibility for the Hamas attack. Netanyahu’s backers say has long been unfairly demonized and that engaging in politics amid war is unavoidable.
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Over the past three years, the world’s oldest democracy has been tested in ways not seen in decades. Former President Donald Trump tried to overturn Democrat Joe Biden's win, And then Trump called his supporters to Washington, where they violently stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to halt congressional certification of the 2020 vote. At the same time, American democracy has proved resilient. Trump's attempt ultimately failed. And candidates who supported his false stolen election claims lost their own races to win statewide offices that had some election oversight in battleground states. Another big test for democracy awaits in 2024, with Trump again running for the White House.
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Maine’s Democratic secretary of state is removing former President Donald Trump from that state’s primary ballot. Shenna Bellows becomes the first election official to take action unilaterally to bar Trump under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment. The Civil War-era clause bans those who “engaged in insurrection” from office. It’s the same provision cited recently by the Colorado Supreme Court to remove Trump from the ballot in that state. The Trump campaign says it will appeal Bellows’ decision to Maine’s state courts, and Bellows suspended her ruling until that court system rules. The U.S. Supreme Court will likely rule on whether the provision applies to Trump and whether he is still eligible to return to the White House.
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Michigan’s Supreme Court is keeping former President Donald Trump on the state's primary election ballot. The court said Wednesday it will not hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling from groups seeking to keep Trump from appearing on the ballot. Wednesday's ruling follows a Dec. 19 decision by a divided Colorado Supreme Court, which said Trump is ineligible to be president after his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Michigan's high court says it is “not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this court.” Trump hailed the order, calling attempts to keep him off the ballot a “pathetic gambit.”
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Rudy Giuliani has filed for bankruptcy, days after being ordered to pay $148 million in a defamation lawsuit. The former New York City mayor listed nearly $153 million in existing or potential debts. Those included hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax liabilities, money he owes his lawyers and many millions of dollars in potential legal judgements in lawsuits against him. The biggest of those is the $148 million he was ordered to pay a week ago for making false statements about two former election workers in Georgia stemming from the 2020 presidential contest. A Giuliani spokesperson says the filing will give Giuliani a chance to pursue an appeal of last week's jury award.
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In a politically polarized nation, Americans seem to agree on one issue underlying the 2024 elections — a worry over the state of democracy and how the outcome of the presidential contest will affect its future. They just disagree over who poses the threat. A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 62% of adults say democracy in the U.S. could be at risk depending on who wins. That view is held by 72% of Democrats and 55% of Republicans, but for different reasons. President Joe Biden has warned about former President Donald Trump's promises to seek retribution against opponents, while Trump says the federal charges against him show Biden has weaponized the government.
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A judge says Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington will be put on hold while the former president further pursues his claims that he is immune from prosecution. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed Wednesday to pause any “further proceedings that would move this case towards trial or impose additional burdens of litigation on Defendant.” But the judge said that if the case returns to her court, she will “consider at that time whether to retain or continue the dates of any still-future deadlines and proceedings, including the trial scheduled for March 4, 2024.”
