The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office (MCAO) announced Friday that Juan Martinez was fired. Martinez gained national notoriety for prosecuting and securing the conviction of Jodi Arias in 2013 on first-degree murder charges in the death of her ex-boyfriend Travis Victor Alexander. Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel said she’s committed to ensuring public transparency regarding the circumstances of Martinez’s dismissal. “Juan Martinez was dismissed from the Maricopa County […]
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After increases its repo bailout facility twice this week already (from $100billion to $150billion to $175billion per day) and added some longer-term facilities, The New York Fed just went full-retard, with $1 trillion of liquidity in 3-month repo. For some context of how that compares to what they have been doing… Full Statement by NYFed: The Open Market Trading Desk (the Desk) at the Federal Reserve […]
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Iraqi authorities confirmed 10 rockets are fired at Camp Taji near Baghdad, which houses U.S. troops, causing no deaths or injuries. “Ten Katyusha rockets landed inside the Camp Taji, without losses,” said Iraqi military officials on Wednesday, referring to the type Russian-made missiles that are often used by Iran-backed paramilitary forces in the country. A truck with a missile platform was located with […]
The US called out China more than a week after Beijing allegedly fired a laser weapon at the Pentagon’s P-8A Poseidon, with Chinese defence authorities arguing the “aircraft’s behaviour was unfriendly in intention”. China’s Defence Ministry has dismissed as incorrect a report that one of its ships fired a laser last month at a US Navy surveillance plane: it “does not accord with reality”, the ministry […]
‘Get woke, go broke’ might be an entertainment industry cliché, but the Grammys are getting a dose of reality, battling with a terminated first female CEO in a perfect storm of opposing narratives and discrimination accusations. Deborah Dugan was hired in 2019 as the first female CEO and president of the Recording Academy, the organization that runs the Grammy Awards for music. The decision was hailed […]
Philippines police respond to hostage situation in Manila shopping mall, shots fired – reports — RT World News icon bookmark-bicon bookmarkicon cameraicon checkicon chevron downicon chevron lefticon chevron righticon chevron upicon closeicon v-compressicon downloadicon editicon v-expandicon fbicon fileicon filtericon flag ruicon full chevron downicon full chevron lefticon full chevron righticon full chevron upicon gpicon insicon mailicon moveicon-musicicon mutedicon nomutedicon okicon v-pauseicon v-playicon searchicon shareicon sign inicon […]
A video monitor inside the Medical Health and Coordination Center at the California Department of Public Health shows the number of Coronavirus COVID-19 cases around the world on February 27, 2020 in Sacramento, California. ”Know your rights, all three of them,” goes a 1982 song by world music band The Clash. And, for those familiar with the cynical take on rights under the common law, the right […]
Monday witnessed significant escalation over Gaza as Palestinian Islamic Jihad sought to avenge the deaths of three commanders killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza and Damascus the day before. Israeli media counted some 90 total rockets fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip throughout the day since the attacks began Sunday night, with the IDF claiming its Iron Dome defense system had intercepted the vast majority which came […]
Israel has shot down twelve projectiles, hours after the IDF carried out attacks inside Syria and Gaza. The Israeli military has claimed that its initial strikes were aimed at terrorist targets. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Twitter that air sirens had gone off in southern Israel on Monday, after fourteen projectiles were fired into Israel from Gaza. The IDF claims that twelve of the […]
New NHS rules allow staff to deny care to patients who show racist, sexist and anti-LGBTQ views, but this may lead to subjective judgement and won’t protect all personnel, one NHS employee believes. “Nobody wants to see [general practitioners] threatened, so why use the usual victim groups, and not simply have an arrangement for all bad behavior?” Dr. David Mackereth rhetorically asked as he discussed the […]
Several ballistic missiles fired from the direction of Yemen were allegedly intercepted by Saudi Arabia’s air defenses, as the top American diplomat travels the country talking up an “Iranian threat” and the might of US weapons. The missiles are said to have been launched from the direction of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and reportedly targeted an oil terminal near the city of Yanbu early on Friday morning, […]
Authored by Jonathan McCormick via Campus Reform, Following controversy over a Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer’s decision to post a photograph of himself with a profane political sign, one Michigan community college has opted to eliminate the position completely. Citizens of Battle Creek, Michigan gathered to share their thoughts regarding the actions of Kellogg Community College’s Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer, Jorge Zeballos. Campus Reform previously reported that during the […]
Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images E. Jean Carroll, a veteran Elle columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room, said Tuesday that she was fired from the magazine after 26 years. Carroll held Trump responsible for Elle’s decision, writing in a tweet, “I don’t blame Elle. It was the great honor of my life writing ‘Ask E. Jean.’ I blame […]
E. Jean Carroll, the Elle magazine advice columnist who publicly accused President Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room over two decades ago, said she was fired by the magazine after Trump defamed her. “Because Trump ridiculed my reputation, laughed at my looks, & dragged me through the mud, after 26 years, ELLE fired me,” Carroll wrote on Twitter Tuesday evening. “I don’t […]
There had been rumblings for a while now about President Donald Trump commuting Rod Blagojevich’s sentence — something multiple Illinois Republicans were advising against two years ago — but it’s finally happened. And naturally, it’s brought renewed attention to how Trump and Blagojevich know each other — going back to the days of The Celebrity Apprentice. The episode Blagojevich got fired on was focused on the Wizarding World […]
The Israeli police officer who shot a Palestinian child in the face over the weekend has told investigators that he only fired at a wall, reported Haaretz. 9-year-old Malek Issa was walking home from school in Issawiya, occupied East Jerusalem, when he was hit with a sponge-tipped bullet. Issa remains in serious condition in intensive care in hospital, and is expected to lose his sight in […]
Reports of ‘multiple’ rockets fired at US embassy in Baghdad, sounds of explosions — RT World News icon bookmark-bicon bookmarkicon cameraicon checkicon chevron downicon chevron lefticon chevron righticon chevron upicon closeicon v-compressicon downloadicon editicon v-expandicon fbicon fileicon filtericon flag ruicon full chevron downicon full chevron lefticon full chevron righticon full chevron upicon gpicon insicon mailicon moveicon-musicicon mutedicon nomutedicon okicon v-pauseicon v-playicon searchicon shareicon sign inicon sign […]
With General Flynn battling the system (and his previous legal team), and Roger Stone’s case jumping from re-trial to a now-withdrawn reccomendation of up to nine years in jail, it will come as no surprise that, according to The New York Times, former deputy F.B.I. director Andrew McCabe will not face charges in an investigation into whether he lied to investigators about a media leak. As a reminder, the investigation […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed reports that his military launched a missile attack on the Syrian capital, Damascus, saying that perhaps the “Belgian Air Force” was responsible. In an interview with Radio Haifa on Friday, Netanyahu said he didn’t know “what happened last night” and that “maybe it was the Belgian Air Force” that launched missiles over Syria. “I don’t comment on one operation […]