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Stormy Daniels must pay nearly $122,000 of Donald Trump’s legal fees that were racked up in connection with the porn actor’s failed defamation lawsuit, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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The decision in California came at about the same time that Trump became the only ex-president to be charged with a crime. Trump pleaded not guilty in a New York City courtroom to a 34-count felony indictment accusing him of falsifying business records in a scheme to hush up allegations of extramarital affairs with Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal that broke during his first White House…
For most people, being implicated in a crime would represent the scandal of a lifetime. Especially if it’s connected to the unprecedented arrest of a former US president.
For Donald Trump, this wasn’t even the scandal of the weekend.
The trail leading to Tuesday’s history-making indictment began on the gob-smackingly eventful second weekend of October 2016.
His presidential campaign was updated by an old video in which he crudely joked about grabbing women’s genitals.
That same day, WikiLeaks begin releasing hacked emails from the Clinton campaign, in a chain of events that led to Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
That’s when…
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The federal government is backing away from setting a timeline to introduce legislation that would declare First Nations policing an essential service, but at least one regional chief hopes to see it this spring.
Ghislain Picard, a member of the Assembly of First Nations executive, said it has been fighting for improvements to First Nations policing on two fronts: securing better funding for existing services and helping to draft new legislation.
“We’ve been talking about this for years,” said Picard, one of the leads on justice and policing issues for the national advocacy organization that represents more than…
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A judge’s erroneous direction that Canadian officials should secure the release of four men from detention in northeastern Syria amounts to a “wholesale expansion” of the law, a federal lawyer told an appeal hearing Monday.
Lawyer Anne Turley said the decision created a new right to be returned to Canada, or even be rescued by Ottawa, when a citizen finds himself in trouble abroad, despite no involvement of Canada in the foreign detention.
Turley made the argument while asking a Federal Court of Appeal panel to overturn a January ruling by Federal Court Justice Henry Brown.
The Court…
Some of the problems that commonly arise relating to finances upon separation include:
Hiding of assets
Bank accounts being drained
Selling off property
Bills not being paid (eg mortgages, loans, credit cards)
Lack of access to financial resources; or
Lack of knowledge about current financial position
When it comes time to finalize how you are going to divide your assets (referred to as a financial or property settlement), it is what is remaining that is shared. So, if money is moved, spent or wasted, what is left over is what can be divided in that settlement. There is no opportunity…
The move will increase the size of electoral districts, a decision widely supported by the country’s Iran-backed Coordination Framework coalition.
Iraqi lawmakers passed controversial amendments to the country’s election law that could undermine the chances for smaller parties and independent candidates to win seats in future polls.
The amendments increase the size of electoral districts, a move widely backed by the Coordination Framework, a coalition of Iran-backed parties. The coalition formed the majority bloc in the current parliament, which brought Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to power last year.
The bill passed in a 206-12 vote in the 329-seat assembly,…
PARIS — A proposed French law for the 2024 Paris Olympics that critics contend will open the door for privacy-busting video surveillance technology in France and elsewhere in Europe passed an important hurdle on Tuesday with lawmakers overwhelmingly voting for it.
The bill will legalize the temporary use of so-called intelligent surveillance systems to safeguard the Paris Games, which run next year from July 26-Aug. 11, and the Paralympics that followed. The systems combine cameras with artificial intelligence software to flag potential security concerns, such as abandoned packages or crowd surges. Human operators would decide whether action is needed.
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Han Dong is threatening legal action against Global News and its parent company after the media outlet published an allegation the Toronto MP spoke to a Chinese diplomat about delaying the release of two Canadians.
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Han Dong to sit as Independent MP following ‘serious’ allegations in new report
“Yes, I am taking legal action against Global News and Corus Entertainment,” Dong said in a statement on Monday. “I have retained a lawyer to begin legal action to its fullest extent.”
The statement follows a Global News report last week, citing anonymous security sources, that alleged the Toronto MP…