Day: March 22, 2024

Former soccer star Robinho turns himself in to start serving 9-year prison sentence for rape

1:19 am March 22, 2024

SAO PAULO (AP) — Former soccer star Robinho turned himself in Thursday to start serving a nine-year prison sentence in his native Brazil more than 10 years after he was first accused of raping a woman in Italy. The 40-year-old Robinho left his apartment building in the beachfront city of Santos, outside Sao Paulo, in […]

Ukraine aid could be saved by obscure congressional rules, Reagan-era politics, Boll Weevils and Gypsy Moths

1:18 am March 22, 2024

It’s a little late in 2024 to compose an “in and out” list. Baby reveals are apparently in. Swag is in. So are press-on nails. The outs? Supposedly podcasts. (Really?) Mullets (I thought they already were). Vaping. Congress is usually behind the times. So, that’s why it took Capitol Hill until spring to craft an […]

Boston Marathon bomber’s case thrown back to lower court for probe of ‘juror bias’

1:16 am March 22, 2024

A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered the case of the Boston Marathon bomber to be returned to a lower court to probe for juror bias. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the trial judge did not adequately probe juror claims from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense team. The defense had pushed for […]

How the Ukraine aid debate could bring back a House infestation of boll weevils and gypsy moths

1:02 am March 22, 2024

It’s a little late in 2024 to compose an “in and out” list. Baby reveals are apparently in. Swag is in. So are press-on nails. The outs? Supposedly podcasts. (Really?) Mullets (I thought they already were). Vaping.Congress is usually behind the times. So that’s why it took Capitol Hill until spring to craft an “in […]

Pro-Palestinian protest breaks out inside Senate office building, interrupts interview with cease-fire chants

12:53 am March 22, 2024

Over a dozen pro-Palestine demonstrators were arrested at the Russell Senate Office Building on Thursday afternoon. The pro-Palestine demonstrators were heard repeatedly chanting, “We call for a permanent cease-fire,” in the rotunda of the government building, which is connected to the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. In one video, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., was […]