Guatemalan prosecutors request that President-elect Bernardo Arévalo be stripped of immunity

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala’s Attorney General’s office formally requested Friday that President-elect Bernardo Arévalo and others be stripped of their immunity so it can investigate them for allegedly encouraging the student occupation of the country’s only public university. Cultural Heritage prosecutor Ángel Saúl Sánchez had announced on Thursday that he planned to make the request … Read more

Judge denies Greene’s request that NY man pay for security fence after threatening her

A federal judge on Tuesday denied Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) request that a New York man convicted of threatening her pay the roughly $65,000 cost of a fence the congresswoman installed at her home. Joseph Morelli was sentenced to three months in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of transmitting interstate threats over … Read more

Meta and Snap latest to get EU request for info on child safety, as bloc shoots for ‘unprecedented’ transparency

Meta and Snap are the latest tech firms to get formal requests for information (RFI) from the European Commission about the steps they’re taking to safeguard minors on their platforms in line with requirements set out in the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA). Yesterday the Commission sent similar RFIs to TikTok and YouTube also focused … Read more

Hamas is seeking eight Gaza hostages at Russia’s request

(Reuters) – Hamas is looking for eight people identified by Russia as possibly being among the hostages in Gaza and is ready to free them, Hamas Politburo member Abu Marzouk told Russian state news agency RIA on Saturday. RIA cited Marzouk, who has been visiting Moscow, as saying that the Russian foreign ministry had handed … Read more

Judge sets hearing on gag order request in Trump election case in DC

WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge said Friday that she would hear arguments next month on federal prosecutors’ request for a limited gag order in the case charging former President Donald Trump with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The October 16 hearing before U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan will center on … Read more

Judge Chutkan denies Trump’s request to recuse herself in federal election subversion case

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said Wednesday she won’t recuse herself from Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington, rejecting the former president’s claims that her past comments raise doubts about whether she can be fair. Chutkan, who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama and was randomly assigned … Read more

Trump opposes US request to limit his comments on election case

By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump pushed back at U.S. prosecutors’ request to curb some of his public statements about people involved in the federal court case accusing him of attempting to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election. The former U.S. president’s lawyers sharply opposed the request from Special Counsel Jack … Read more

Russia-Ukraine warfare information: 9 injured in Dnipro strike; Brazil rejects U.S. request for Sergey Cherkasov

A missile strike injured 9 individuals, together with two youngsters, within the Ukrainian metropolis of Dnipro, the regional governor Serhiy Lysak mentioned late on Friday. He mentioned the Russian missile assault, the primary on town middle in months, hit a high-rise and a constructing belonging to the Safety Service of Ukraine, also referred to as … Read more

Hong Kong decide rejects authorities request to ban pro-democracy anthem

Touch upon this storyComment Hong Kong courtroom on Friday declined to the federal government’s request to ban the favored protest anthem “Glory to Hong Kong,” in a shock resolution that can come as a aid to world tech firms like Apple, Google and Meta that may have needed to censor it — and to many … Read more

Democratic Colleague Burns Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Speech With 4-Phrase Request

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) spoke about stripping a provision from the Nationwide Protection Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal 12 months 2024 on Thursday, however her speech truly made a Home colleague extra involved about well being care. Her personal. Greene is trying to strip a provision within the laws that may create a Middle … Read more