(Al Jazeera Media Network) Top United States Senator Bob Menendez has been found guilty of all 16 criminal counts he faced in a widely watched corruption trial in New York, including bribery and acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
A Manhattan federal court jury delivered its verdict on Tuesday after deliberating for more than 12 hours over three days.
After the verdict was read out, Menendez rested his elbows on the table, clasped his hands together, and stared...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A Florida judge appointed by Donald Trump has dismissed the criminal case against the former US president on charges of mishandling top secret documents, saying the way that Special Counsel Jack Smith was appointed was improper.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon granted the defence motion to dismiss the case on Monday, voiding a prosecution that at the time it was brought was seen as the most perilous of the multiple legal threats Trump faced.
“Former...
(BBC News) “I’m a ‘never Trump’ guy. I never liked him.”
“My god what an idiot.”
“I find him reprehensible.”
That was from JD Vance in interviews and on Twitter in 2016, when the publication of his memoir Hillbilly Elegy catapulted him to fame.
A few short years later, Vance transformed himself into one of Trump’s steadfast allies.
And a few years after that, the first-term senator from Ohio is now by Trump’s side as vice-presidential running mate – and,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks as the suspect in the attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania’s Butler County.
The suspect, a resident of Bethel Park in Pennsylvania, was shot and killed by the Secret Service seconds after he allegedly fired shots towards a stage where Trump was speaking at the rally on Saturday days before the Republican convention.
Trump said...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Former United States President Donald Trump is “safe” after being escorted off the stage with blood on ear and cheek after shooting at Pennsylvania rally.
Secret Service says its personnel killed the suspected shooter; one spectator has been killed, and two others critically injured in the shooting.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/7/13/donald-trump-live-news-ex-us-president-walked-off-stage-after-shots-heard
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A court in Pakistan has acquitted former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife on charges of unlawful marriage, according to his party and lawyer.
Khan and his wife Bushra Khan, also known as Bushra Bibi, were sentenced to seven years in prison, days before Pakistan’s election in February, a court ruling at the time that their marriage in 2018 violated Islamic law.
In June, a court rejected their plea to have the February...
(BBC News) The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says at least 71 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a designated humanitarian area, in an attack which Israel says targeted senior Hamas leaders.
More than 289 people were injured, according to the health ministry's statement.
The strike hit the al-Mawasi area near Khan Younis, which the Israeli military has designated as a humanitarian zone.
An Israeli military official said he did not know how many...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hungary’s Viktor Orban has met with former US President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida where they discussed the “possibilities of peace”, the latest stop in the prime minister’s solo run to secure a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Orban, a longtime Trump supporter, has visited Ukraine, Russia, and China in the past two weeks on a self-styled “peace mission”, which has angered Hungary’s NATO allies.
“It was an honour to visit...
(BBC News) The Israeli military has told all residents of Gaza City to evacuate south to the central Gaza Strip, amid intensified operations in the north.
Leaflets dropped by aircraft instruct "everyone in Gaza City" to leave what is described as a "dangerous combat zone" via designated safe routes - marked as two roads that lead to shelters in Deir al-Balah and al-Zawaida.
The UN has said it is deeply concerned about the evacuation orders being...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Archegos Capital Management founder Sung Kook “Bill” Hwang has been convicted of fraud and other charges by a jury in a Manhattan federal court at a criminal trial in which prosecutors accused him of market manipulation ahead of the 2021 collapse of his $36-billion private investment firm.
On Wednesday, the jury, which began deliberations on Tuesday, found Hwang guilty on 10 of 11 criminal counts, and Patrick Halligan, his Archegos deputy...
