CNN- Prosecutors, defense attorneys and the judge are hashing out the final details of Paul Manafort’s trial with just eight days to go before it begins — including whether five witnesses will be forced to testify and if the schedule will change. The former Trump campaign chairman’s jury trial in the federal District Court for […]
CNN- The owner of the Mandalay Bay hotel says it bears no liability in last year’s Las Vegas concert massacre and is asking the courts to grant federal protections that shield companies who provide anti-terrorism products and services to civilians. MGM Resorts International, which is facing a barrage of lawsuits over the shooting, responded Friday by […]
Philly.com- A 14-year-old boy was killed in a shooting overnight in North Philadelphia that left three other boys and a man wounded, officials said. Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said possibly two shooters were involved in the bloodshed on the 2100 block of North 4th Street and that investigators had a possible name for one of […]
CNN– For as long as history remembers Donald Trump, it will be a day that will live in infamy. The President’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday is already one of the most notorious moments in the tortured relations between Washington and Moscow. Trump’s humiliation is taking its place alongside John […]
Philly.com- Renee Tartaglione, scion of one of Philadelphia’s most enduring political dynasties, was sentenced Thursday to six years and 10 months in federal prison for bleeding more than $2 million from a publicly funded mental health and substance abuse clinic she ran with her husband, a Democratic ward leader and a felon. U.S. District Judge Joel […]
6 ABC- A woman has been arrested in connection with a brutal beating of a 92-year-old man in Southern California, sheriff’s officials said. The beating happened on July 4. An eyewitness said the elderly man, later identified as Rodolfo Rodriguez, was walking down the sidewalk when he passed a woman. The witness said for some reason, […]
CNBC- Papa John’s founder John Schnatter has resigned as chairman of the board after admitting and apologizing for using the N-word during a May conference call. Shares of the pizza chain were up more than 5.2 percent in premarket trading Thursday — recovering all of the $96.2 million in market value the company lost after Schnatter’s […]
Philly.com- The law firms and individual lawyers waging a fierce fight over a secret grand jury report detailing sexual abuse by Catholic clergy across the state have together donated more than $180,000 to the campaigns of the Supreme Court justices now weighing whether to release the report, records show. Justice Debra Todd was the first to publicly disclose […]
CNN- The Trump administration is once again slashing funding for a program that helps Americans sign up for Obamacare. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Tuesday that it would provide only $10 million for the navigator program for this fall’s open enrollment season. The move is the latest effort by the Trump administration to […]
Philly.com- City officials haven’t made a decision on renewing Philadelphia’s contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which expires Aug. 31 — but seven years ago the contract drew strong opposition in City Council. In 2011, Council unanimously passed a resolution introduced by then-Councilman Jim Kenney and Councilwoman María Quiñones-Sánchez urging the city not to share with ICE […]
CNN- President Donald Trump pardoned two men on Tuesday who were involved in a dispute with federal authorities over federal land usage that sparked the takeover of a wildlife refuge in Oregon. Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son Steven Hammond were granted executive grants of clemency by Trump, according to a White House statement. The father-son […]
Philly.com- Local governance of the School District of Philadelphia is here. To applause and cheers, the city’s new, nine-member Board of Education held its first public meeting on a “historic” Monday night, as Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. termed it — seven months after Mayor Kenney announced the city was taking back control of its schools. A crowd that roundly […]