Author: sorecery

NEW YORK (AP) — Claims by Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell that her sex trafficking conviction was a “complete miscarriage of justice” were rejected Tuesday by a federal judge who said her assertions were based on “speculation, distortions, and/or outright falsehoods.” Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said in a written ruling that Maxwell’s habeas petition seeking to set aside her conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence on the grounds that there was “substantial new evidence” was “demonstrably meritless.” READ MORE: State of New Mexico sues Justice Department and Todd Blanche, saying they blocked its…

Francisco Villarruel and Gustavo Galvez sat in a park in Los Angeles reminiscing on their first boxing lesson together. They had gone to a big commercial gym, where they took turns hitting boxing pads and doing footwork exercises. They then started regularly training together. For Villarruel, 40, working out together wasn’t really about boxing. It was about giving Galvez, 19, an opportunity to open up and to mentor someone whose pain he understands. “ I think a lot of the traumatic scenarios that he went through are very similar to mine in my upbringing,” Villarruel said. Like Villarruel, Galvez grew up…

Ahead of the 2027 presidential election, the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Director of New Media and Strategic Communications, Theo Abu Agada, on Tuesday declared that Nigerians don’t need people too big to talk to them. Agada made the remark while faulting President Bola Tinubu, who is the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku’s absence from the Peace Accord signing. The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, had organised a Peace Accord signing for political parties and their candidates in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Faulting their absence, Agada said only the NDC’s…

Analysis Mike Huckabee Reckons With the Disturbing Reality of Settler Violence Huckabee, a longtime supporter of settlements, recently invoked the Bible against Israeli settlers. By John Haltiwanger, a staff writer at Foreign Policy. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is seen here standing in the Oval Office and looking at something off camera.U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee attends a meeting at the White House in Washington on April 23. Alex Wong/Getty Images [embedded content] Get audio access with any FP subscription. Subscribe Now ALREADY AN FP SUBSCRIBER? LOGIN August 25, 2026, 10:54 AM U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee…

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has urged Nigerians, both Christians and Muslims, not to allow themselves to be divided along religious lines ahead of the 2027 general elections. CAN stated this in its Eid-el-Maulud message to commemorate this year’s celebrations. Eid-el-Maulud marks the commemoration of the birth of the Prophet of Islam, which provides an opportunity for Muslims to reflect on a life associated with mercy, justice, compassion for the poor and vulnerable, honesty and peaceful coexistence. CAN, in a statement signed by Archbishop Daniel Okoh, its President, noted that these values are especially important today for Nigerian citizens because they…

The Supreme Court’s decision giving preliminary approval for President Donald Trump’s order restricting mail voting may not lead to a single election procedure changing during the November midterms, but it has already thrown into uncertainty the method that nearly one-third of the country uses to vote. Rather than saying that Trump’s order is legal, the high court said Monday it was too early for Democratic-run states to challenge it in June, when they convinced a federal judge in Boston to freeze the order for November’s election. That effectively restarts the legal fight over the order in an incredibly compressed timeline,…

Argument An expert’s point of view on a current event. Why Even a Cornered Putin Won’t Press the Red Button Great powers have been humbled many times without escalating to nuclear war. By Andreas Umland, an analyst at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. An activist wearing a mask of Russian President Vladimir Putin poses with a mockup of a nuclear missile in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin on June 23, 2023.An activist wearing a mask of Russian President Vladimir Putin poses with a mockup of a nuclear missile in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin on…

A jury on Monday awarded $300,000 to a Louisiana supreme court justice over a 2019 editorial by the state’s largest newspaper in a rare defamation trial involving an elected public official. Jurors in Iberville parish, Louisiana, found that the editorial whose headline included “Jeff Hughes … made a mockery of justice” and was published by the Advocate had defamed state supreme court justice Jefferson Davis Hughes III. The $300,000 in damages that the jury awarded Hughes were nonetheless significantly less than the $10m he sought for what he described as injury to his reputation and emotional distress. In a complex…

Two unvaccinated individuals have died of measles in Pennsylvania, state health officials announced on Tuesday. The deaths are the first in the state in 35 years and have been announced just one day after Maryland declared a measles outbreak in three counties. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases known to medicine, and is preventable with a highly effective vaccine. “My deepest sympathies are with the loved ones who are facing this unimaginable loss,” said the Pennsylvania secretary of health, Dr Debra Bogen, in a statement. “Because measles was largely eliminated in the Commonwealth for more than three decades,…

Despite being a card-carrying member of the International Order of Confirmed Homosexuals, I have spent quite a lot of time lately thinking about Abdul El-Sayed’s biceps. I mean, have you seen them? The progressive Michigan senate nominee is jacked and he knows it. He almost always wears a tight black T-shirt to show off his muscles and incorporates a lot of fitness content in his campaign. I’m not the only one who has noticed El-Sayed’s prominent muscles. They have had a lot of coverage, and are seen as part of a wider attempt to rebrand the Democratic party. Which, I…