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  • It's Happening Already: Joe Biden Calls a Lid Four Days Into Presidency

    01/24/2021 10:18:04 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 198 replies
    PJ Media ^ | JANUARY 24, 2021 | MATT MARGOLIS
    Joe Biden’s campaigning from his basement and frequent lids, where Biden was kept away from the media, were a common punchline in conservative media. “How can Joe run a campaign from his basement and hiding from the media?” “How can he be trusted to run the country if he can’t handle a campaign?” Even when he did leave the basement he got questions about milkshakes. There were times when Joe Biden wouldn’t be seen for days. His campaign told us that it was because of debate prep, but no one actually believed it. But the campaign is over now. Regardless...
  • Pervez Musharraf, former president of Pakistan, sentenced to death for treason

    12/17/2019 3:46:53 AM PST · by nuconvert · 51 replies
    Fox ^ | Dec. 17, 2019
    Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former president who has been living outside the country, was sentenced to death in absentia Tuesday on charges of high treason stemming from his decision to suspend the constitution and detain judges in 2007.
  • DNC serves WikiLeaks with lawsuit via Twitter

    08/10/2018 3:25:45 PM PDT · by Magnatron · 24 replies
    CBS News ^ | 10 August 2018 | Kathryn Watson
    The Democratic National Committee on Friday officially served its lawsuit to WikiLeaks via Twitter, employing a rare method to serve its suit to the elusive group that has thus far been unresponsive. As CBS News first reported last month, the DNC filed a motion with a federal court in Manhattan requesting permission to serve its complaint to WikiLeaks on Twitter, a platform the DNC argued the website uses regularly. The DNC filed a lawsuit in April against the Trump campaign, Russian government and WikiLeaks, alleging a massive conspiracy to tilt the 2016 election in Donald Trump's favor. All of the...
  • Jury deadlocked over Hamlet's mock murder trial

    02/04/2011 11:58:42 PM PST · by Slings and Arrows · 13 replies · 1+ views
    AP via Newsvine.com ^ | Tue Feb 1, 2011 | Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
    LOS ANGELES — A notorious criminal case that waited 400 years to go before a jury resulted in no definite answer to the question of whether the defendant — Hamlet Prince of Denmark — was sane when he committed murder.
  • Hussein refuses to attend his trial (Trial resumes without him)

    12/07/2005 12:54:18 AM PST · by HAL9000 · 133 replies · 6,755+ views
    AFP via Babelfish translation | December 7, 2005
    <p>BAGHDAD - the judges of the High Iraqi penal Court and the lawyers of Saddam Hussein are brought together Wednesday before the audience because of the refusal of the former Iraqi president to take part in it, one learned near the court.</p>