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...The four criminal counts include conspiracy to defraud the US, obstructing an official proceeding and threatening individual rights....
...Trump has been charged in a federal criminal case relating to January 6 and his wider efforts to overturn the election, as well as a state case in Fulton County, Georgia....
...All 19 defendants, including Trump, have until next Friday, August 25, to voluntarily surrender at Rice Street jail, Fulton County....
...Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff in the final months of the administration; Jeffrey Clark, a former justice department official; and Jenna Ellis, a lawyer for the former president, were also named as...
...Most of the Republican candidates have shied away from attacking the former president, and instead echoed his claims that he has been unfairly targeted by Democratic officials....
...Unlike in federal proceedings, defendants convicted in state courts may start serving jail time while appeals are pending....
...“Please tell me we’re not going to jail,” said Slowensky, a high-school-band director....
...“[Trump] should be in jail, but I don’t think that he ever will be....
...“Malcolm spent his life helping us Colombians understand ourselves,” said Sergio Jaramillo, a former Colombian defence official who designed the country’s peace process....
...But as their colleague Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s 10 years in jail reminded them, they were never safe. It’s similar in China, where the regime occasionally jails or disappears oligarchs....
...European officials are increasingly concerned about the flow of aid next year to Ukraine as the US enters a divisive presidential campaign....
...After the peace accord, there were plans to develop the site of that notorious jail into a state of the art stadium shared by football, rugby and Gaelic games....
...The constitutional outcome of the clash between a potential jail sentence and Trump being duly elected president by the people is highly uncertain....
...Klasky-Gamer of LA Family Housing noted that county officials accompanied Bass as she made her announcement this past week, which she took as a good sign....
...On June 1, Strand was sentenced to 32 months in prison for obstruction of an official proceeding as well as several misdemeanours....
...Credible reports of “torture and other forms of ill-treatment” amounted to a “general situation of violence” in Chinese jails, the court ruled....
...Many other cities and counties across the US have issued similar advisories....
...They added that new prisons would be equipped with high-quality scanners to stem the flow of narcotics into jails....
...Los Angeles county has been the most prominent US city to reinstate its mask mandate, which came into effect again last weekend. Workplace vaccination mandates are a patchwork across the US....
...The decision applies to counties, cities, school districts, public health authorities and government officials, and any of those entities attempting to “impose a mask mandate or impose a limitation inconsistent...
...“So far we don’t see any real progress,” says an Istanbul municipal official. “It’s just talk.”...
...It will take more protesting, including at the homes of public officials, but it will happen, he said....
...Miami Beach — a separate city — is the southern part of a skinny barrier island that runs alongside Miami (both are part of Miami-Dade County)....
...In December, Amazon was granted a request by Jefferson County officials to change the timing on the lights to allow cars to leave more quickly, a move the company said was unrelated to the union effort and...
...Just one polling station was open on Tuesday in each of Kentucky’s two largest counties, Jefferson and Fayette, which have high concentrations of black voters....
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