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With less than two weeks until Sean 'Diddy' Combs is set to stand trial, the disgraced rapper is pulling a few more tricks out his bag. This time around, Diddy is hoping a jury will buy his new defense...and you won't believe what he cooked up. - Phenix S Halley Read More
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- News24
Myanmar junta air strike on ruby mine hub kills 13
A Myanmar junta air strike on Mogok killed 13 people, including civilians like a monk and a father and son. Civil war has raged since the 2021 military coup, with rebel forces seizing territory like Mogok, a ruby mining hub. The junta plans December elections but faces boycott and criticism as opposition groups call it a 'fraud' to maintain power. A Myanmar junta air strike on a rebel-occupied ruby mining hub killed 13 people on Saturday, according to a resident and a spokesperson for an armed opposition group. Civil war has consumed Myanmar since the military seized power in a 2021 coup, sparking resistance from pro-democracy guerrillas who found common cause with long-active ethnic armed groups. Their scattered forces initially struggled to make headway, but a combined offensive starting in late 2023 seized swathes of territory, including the town of Mogok - the centre of the ruby trade. Myanmar is rich in precious stones and rare earth elements coveted by all factions and sold off, mostly to neighbouring China, to boost war chests. A junta spokesperson could not be reached for comment. However, a local who declined to be named for security reasons said the strike took place around 08:15 am (0145 GMT), killing seven instantly, with six dying later of their wounds. READ | Myanmar military offers new truce in bid to 'protect the towns and people's lives' He said among the dead were a Buddhist monk collecting alms and a father and son who were riding the same motorbike. "A car passing through the area was hit, too," he added. "Seven people were wounded, including the driver." A spokesperson for the Ta'ang National Liberation Army, which has occupied Mogok since last summer, matched that death toll but gave a figure of 14 wounded. "It was in the morning time when the airstrike hit a public area," said spokesperson Lway Yay Oo. There were a lot of people walking in the street; therefore, a lot of people were killed. The military was initially backfooted by the rebels' combined offensive but has enacted conscription to boost its ranks. Its troops recently retook several key settlements in central Myanmar, including the gold mining hub of Thabeikkyin, which it seized late last month after a year-long battle. The junta on Thursday ended the state of emergency it had declared after toppling the government of Aung San Suu Kyi more than four years ago, and has touted elections in December as an off-ramp for the conflict. However, with Suu Kyi still jailed, opposition groups, including ousted lawmakers, are boycotting the poll. A UN expert in June described the exercise as a "fraud" designed to legitimise the junta's continued rule.
Fox News
2 days ago
- Fox News
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Politico
4 days ago
- Politico
Pat Leahy has a warning for his former colleagues about Trump's U.S. attorney gambit
Pat Leahy saw it coming. In the throes of a 2007 scandal that seems quaint by modern standards, the then-Senate Judiciary chair issued a warning to all presidents: If you repeatedly sidestep the Senate to jam political loyalists into temporary U.S. attorney posts, you are violating the law. He was particularly concerned about 'double dipping' — an effort by presidents to circumvent legal time limits on unconfirmed U.S. attorneys by creatively reshuffling personnel. 'It is not designed or intended to be used repeatedly for the same vacancy,' Leahy said at the time. Fast forward to 2025: President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi are seeking to shatter that check on presidential power, finding new ways to carry out the 'double dipping' that Leahy warned against: In Washington, D.C., after Trump's initial pick Ed Martin failed to win Senate confirmation, Trump simply appointed a second interim prosecutor, Jeanine Pirro, to a successive 120-day slot. In northern New York and Los Angeles, Bondi maneuvered to put Trump's expiring U.S. attorney picks into 'acting' roles that would give them another 210 days on the job without Senate confirmation. And in New Jersey, the Justice Department went nuclear after district court judges appointed a career prosecutor to replace Trump's favored pick , Alina Habba, as temporary U.S. attorney — a power the courts have had since the Civil War. An aggressive effort to keep Habba in place has already disrupted a handful of criminal cases in New Jersey. With a largely compliant, Republican-led Congress, Trump has faced minimal pushback. But the campaign presages battles to come, particularly in blue states where Democratic senators still wield significant sway over who can be confirmed as permanent U.S. attorneys. It's the latest expression of Trump's effort to shrug off traditional constraints on presidential power and relegate Congress to bystander or cheerleader. And it was a concern that animated Congress' decision to pass the 2007 law checking the president's power to unilaterally install U.S. attorneys in the first place. A Justice Department spokesperson said the moves by Trump and Bondi to reshuffle U.S. attorneys are rooted in a pair of federal laws creating 'separate mechanisms' to appoint different types of temporary office-holders. Those statutes, however, don't speak to whether presidents and attorneys general can deploy those mechanisms in back-to-back succession. POLITICO caught up with Leahy, who's living a peaceful retirement in Vermont, and asked about recent developments in the U.S. attorney saga. His main message: The Senate needs to stand up for itself and its power of 'advice and consent' for all officers of the federal government. 'No senator should have to go back home and have people say why the heck did you let this person come in as a U.S. attorney,' the former Democratic senator said. 'Republicans and Democrats agreed with me on that, that we had to have some say in the matter. We can't tell the president who to appoint. But we can certainly tell them who not to appoint for our states.' Habba's case, in particular, may test whether that longstanding history can outweigh the gravitational force of a president intent on rejecting it. 'The Senate seems to have forgotten that it's an independent body,' Leahy lamented, 'and if it fails to act that way, the Senate suffers but the country suffers.'
