Day: January 4, 2024

NBA fines Nets $100,000 for violating the league’s player participation policy

11:47 pm January 4, 2024

The Brooklyn Nets became the first team to be disciplined by the NBA for violating the league’s player participation policy Thursday and were fined $100,000 for sitting four players for the team’s Dec. 27 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks. The league issued a press release announcing the fine after an investigation that found the four […]

Jeffrey Epstein list: 2nd batch of documents unsealed in Ghislaine Maxwell lawsuit

11:41 pm January 4, 2024

A federal judge in New York overseeing a lawsuit between Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre and his convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell ordered the unsealing of dozens of names connected to the disgraced financier. A second batch of files has been made public after Giuffre’s lawyers uploaded 40 previously redacted documents Wednesday evening. U.S. District Judge […]

Guatemala’s former president released on bond; leaves prison for first time since 2015

11:40 pm January 4, 2024

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala‘s former President Otto Pérez Molina was released from prison — the first time since his resignation and arrest in 2015 — after posting bond of more than $10.3 million quetzales ($1.3 million), according to his lawyer. Pérez Molina was convicted and sentenced to 16 years in prison in December 2022 […]

Professor says Gay’s defenders expose progressive academics’ ‘soft bigotry’ on race

11:00 pm January 4, 2024

A professor wrote a scathing rebuke of those defending former Harvard President Claudine Gay this week after she resigned in disgrace following mounting allegations of plagiarism and controversial comments on antisemitism. In his op-ed for The Atlantic on Wednesday, Bates College assistant professor Tyler Austin Harper criticized liberals in academia and in the media who’ve […]

Colorado voters seeking Trump ballot ban file response in effort to speed up Supreme Court decision

10:51 pm January 4, 2024

Colorado voters seeking to remove Donald Trump from their state’s ballot responded on Thursday to the former president’s appeal, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to disqualify him from appearing on the ballot for another term. “The Court should decline Trump’s invitation to second-guess the Colorado Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Colorado Election Code,” the court […]

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