(CN) — President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and the Republican Party have until Friday to provide evidence of mail-in voting fraud in Pennsylvania, a federal judge on Thursday. Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan, a Trump appointee, decided that it is time for Republicans to back up their unsubstantiated claims of potential massive mail-in voter fraud in the battleground state.Furthering the president’s as the November election draws near, the Trump campaign and the RNC had all 67 counties in Pennsylvania over the state’s absentee ballot drop-off sites in June. The Republicans asked...…(CN) — President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and the Republican Party have until Friday to provide evidence of mail-in voting fraud in Pennsylvania, a federal judge on Thursday. Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan, a Trump appointee, decided that it is time for Republicans to back up their unsubstantiated claims of potential massive mail-in voter fraud in the battleground state.Furthering the president’s as the November election draws near, the Trump campaign and the RNC had all 67 counties in Pennsylvania over the state’s absentee ballot drop-off sites in June. The Republicans asked...WW…

MANHATTAN (CN) — Calling the subpoenas of President Donald Trump overbroad and “illegally harassing,” Trump’s attorneys complained Monday that New York prosecutors have yet to specify the scope of their financial probe.  “The district attorney’s attempt to convert this into a pseudo summary-judgment proceeding in which he gets to submit any material he wants — while the president is given no chance to test the strength of that evidence or develop a record — should thus be rejected,” Trump legal team .The opposition brief comes a week after Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus that...…MANHATTAN (CN) — Calling the subpoenas of President Donald Trump overbroad and “illegally harassing,” Trump’s attorneys complained Monday that New York prosecutors have yet to specify the scope of their financial probe.  “The district attorney’s attempt to convert this into a pseudo summary-judgment proceeding in which he gets to submit any material he wants — while the president is given no chance to test the strength of that evidence or develop a record — should thus be rejected,” Trump legal team .The opposition brief comes a week after Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus that...WW…

NEWPORT, Ky. (CN) — A Kentucky family court judge accused of having sex in her chambers and asking an attorney to participate in a threesome admitted she violated campaign finance laws but denied several other allegations during the first day of disciplinary proceedings against her.Dawn Gentry, 39, who was selected by former Republican Governor Matt Bevin to fill a judicial vacancy on the Kenton County Family Court in 2016 and then won re-election in 2018, faces 12 disciplinary charges and was placed on in January.Gentry, who makes $136,900 a year, also faces impeachment at the hands of...…NEWPORT, Ky. (CN) — A Kentucky family court judge accused of having sex in her chambers and asking an attorney to participate in a threesome admitted she violated campaign finance laws but denied several other allegations during the first day of disciplinary proceedings against her.Dawn Gentry, 39, who was selected by former Republican Governor Matt Bevin to fill a judicial vacancy on the Kenton County Family Court in 2016 and then won re-election in 2018, faces 12 disciplinary charges and was placed on in January.Gentry, who makes $136,900 a year, also faces impeachment at the hands of...WW…

More than two-thirds of respondents said they are concerned about bias in the news other people are getting, while less than a third said they worry about their own preferred sources being biased.(CN) — A survey released Tuesday shows Americans’ trust of the news media is declining even though they still see the institution as invaluable to democracy, indicating growing skepticism toward what many see as journalists straying from objectivity in the internet age.  The assembled by Gallup and the Knight Foundation surveyed 20,000 Americans as part of the firms’ Trust, Media and Democracy...…More than two-thirds of respondents said they are concerned about bias in the news other people are getting, while less than a third said they worry about their own preferred sources being biased.(CN) — A survey released Tuesday shows Americans’ trust of the news media is declining even though they still see the institution as invaluable to democracy, indicating growing skepticism toward what many see as journalists straying from objectivity in the internet age.  The assembled by Gallup and the Knight Foundation surveyed 20,000 Americans as part of the firms’ Trust, Media and Democracy...WW…

HOUSTON (CN) — A former Citgo executive received bribe payments of $2.5 million, World Series and Super Bowl tickets from two business partners who have pleaded guilty for their roles in the scam, federal prosecutors claim in an indictment unsealed Thursday.A federal grand jury Jose Luis De Jongh-Atencio, a 48-year-old dual U.S.-Venezuelan citizen, with five counts of money laundering and conspiracy to launder money while serving as a procurement officer from 2013 into 2019 for Citgo, the Houston-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela S.A.“With the...…HOUSTON (CN) — A former Citgo executive received bribe payments of $2.5 million, World Series and Super Bowl tickets from two business partners who have pleaded guilty for their roles in the scam, federal prosecutors claim in an indictment unsealed Thursday.A federal grand jury Jose Luis De Jongh-Atencio, a 48-year-old dual U.S.-Venezuelan citizen, with five counts of money laundering and conspiracy to launder money while serving as a procurement officer from 2013 into 2019 for Citgo, the Houston-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela S.A.“With the...WW…

WASHINGTON (CN) — Negotiations to continue much-needed economic assistance for millions of Americans hamstrung by the Covid-19 pandemic stalled out in Congress this week prompting President Donald Trump on Saturday to attempt to bypass lawmakers by issuing a host of executive orders reinstating relief. There are four orders. The first directs federal unemployment insurance to be renewed at $400 per week, less than the current level previously agreed upon under the Cares Act at $600. Upon signing them from his country club in Bedminster, New Jersey, President Trump said “I’m taking...…WASHINGTON (CN) — Negotiations to continue much-needed economic assistance for millions of Americans hamstrung by the Covid-19 pandemic stalled out in Congress this week prompting President Donald Trump on Saturday to attempt to bypass lawmakers by issuing a host of executive orders reinstating relief. There are four orders. The first directs federal unemployment insurance to be renewed at $400 per week, less than the current level previously agreed upon under the Cares Act at $600. Upon signing them from his country club in Bedminster, New Jersey, President Trump said “I’m taking...WW…

(CN) — Mike Krondak has been busting his hump nearly every day of the week for upwards of three decades. “This body has had enough,” he said. Krondak, in his late 50s, works for SLC Inc., a California-based company that specializes in the construction of cellular communication towers so critical to the wireless communication infrastructure in the United States. He pours concrete, runs heavy machinery, digs trenches and spends his day doing the type of hard manual labor that would send most able-bodied young people to the infirmary after a couple of days. He doesn’t like...…(CN) — Mike Krondak has been busting his hump nearly every day of the week for upwards of three decades. “This body has had enough,” he said. Krondak, in his late 50s, works for SLC Inc., a California-based company that specializes in the construction of cellular communication towers so critical to the wireless communication infrastructure in the United States. He pours concrete, runs heavy machinery, digs trenches and spends his day doing the type of hard manual labor that would send most able-bodied young people to the infirmary after a couple of days. He doesn’t like...WW…

Environmental groups, state regulators, a waste company and others oppose a federal plan to let disposal sites that aren’t specifically licensed for radioactive waste request an exception to take in the waste.(CN) — In a far-flung corner of West Texas, just off a lonely oilfield highway on the state’s dusty border with New Mexico, a small facility that the New York Times “America’s most valuable hole in the ground” has drawn the ire of environmentalists for years.The Waste Control Specialists facility in rural Andrews County has bold ambitions to become the nation’s primary home – for the...…Environmental groups, state regulators, a waste company and others oppose a federal plan to let disposal sites that aren’t specifically licensed for radioactive waste request an exception to take in the waste.(CN) — In a far-flung corner of West Texas, just off a lonely oilfield highway on the state’s dusty border with New Mexico, a small facility that the New York Times “America’s most valuable hole in the ground” has drawn the ire of environmentalists for years.The Waste Control Specialists facility in rural Andrews County has bold ambitions to become the nation’s primary home – for the...WW…

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — After six years of litigation and two appeals, the Ninth Circuit on Friday revived a class action claiming the National Football League negligently allowed teams to push painkillers on hurt athletes, causing permanent injuries and drug addictions for players.“Despite the NFL’s one-step-removed relationship to the players, it was within the NFL’s control to promulgate rules or guidelines that could improve safety for players across the league,” Senior U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Tallman, a Bill Clinton appointee, wrote in a .Lead plaintiff Richard Dent, a former Chicago...…SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — After six years of litigation and two appeals, the Ninth Circuit on Friday revived a class action claiming the National Football League negligently allowed teams to push painkillers on hurt athletes, causing permanent injuries and drug addictions for players.“Despite the NFL’s one-step-removed relationship to the players, it was within the NFL’s control to promulgate rules or guidelines that could improve safety for players across the league,” Senior U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Tallman, a Bill Clinton appointee, wrote in a .Lead plaintiff Richard Dent, a former Chicago...WW…

BERLIN (AP) — The United States and Russia concluded two days of arms control talks Tuesday with the two sides still at odds over the U.S. demand to include China in any new treaty but showing signs of a possible willingness to extend the existing New START deal, which expires next year.U.S. negotiator Marshall Billingslea told reporters after the talks in Vienna ended that “there are some areas of convergence between Russia and the United States, but we do remain far apart on a number of key issues.”The U.S. argues that any new nuclear arms limitation treaty should cover all types of...…BERLIN (AP) — The United States and Russia concluded two days of arms control talks Tuesday with the two sides still at odds over the U.S. demand to include China in any new treaty but showing signs of a possible willingness to extend the existing New START deal, which expires next year.U.S. negotiator Marshall Billingslea told reporters after the talks in Vienna ended that “there are some areas of convergence between Russia and the United States, but we do remain far apart on a number of key issues.”The U.S. argues that any new nuclear arms limitation treaty should cover all types of...WW…