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‘Kind of a serious motion’: Retired judge reacts to Trump’s claim about judge in hush money case Retired US district court judge for the Southern District of New York Shira Scheindlin says there are parts of former President Donald Trump’s legal team’s motion asking Judge Juan Merchan to recuse himself from the New York hush money case that concern her.

Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 771 Ukrainian air defenses shot down 11 of 20 Iranian-built Shahed drones fired by Russian forces, mostly towards the city of Kharkiv, on April 4. In all, 110 Ukrainian settlements have come under Russian artillery fire during the past 24 hours. Primary targets have been the regions of Sumy, Luhansk, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia. Kharkiv. Some 350,000 residents of Kharkiv have lost electricity as a result of the Russian drone attack, which struck a power plant. Following the first barrage on Kharkiv, a team of rescuers and medics arrived at a site in Novobavarskyi district. A second…

Shares of protective clothing maker Lakeland Industries (LAKE) are bucking the current market weakness and are up more than 5% over the past three days even as the S&P 500 has gone nowhere. This relative strength comes on the back of the April 2, 2024 announcement by the company that it will be acquiring the fire and rescue business of LHD Group Deutschland of Germany and its Hong Kong and Australian subsidiaries for $16.7 million in cash. Consistent with LAKE’s long-term growth strategy, this acquisition expands its global presence in the fire service market, adding premium firefighter turnout gear and…

When a 4.8-magnitude earthquake rattled New Jersey, New York, and other East Coast states Friday morning, many people rushed for the nearest doorway.But standing in a doorway is based on an old earthquake myth that might put you in a risky position.”That’s not something you should do, because usually in a building wherever we have an opening, whether a window or a door, that’s a structural weakness in the building,” Lingsen Meng, professor in UCLA’s Department of Earth, Space, and Planetary Sciences, told Business Insider. “So you should stay away from the doorway,” Meng added.Another earthquake of similar or greater…

Why did billionaire Leon Black pay Jeffrey Epstein $158 million for estate-planning advice?Black has an answer: He wasn’t keeping track of it; $158 million doesn’t mean much to him.Black is reportedly worth $14.4 billion. You know how when you’re feeling flush, you sometimes pay a little less attention to how much things cost?Turns out billionaires are like that, too. Or, at least, that’s what financier Leon Black says about his relationship with disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.Black’s long-standing connection to Epstein — the billionaire has said he consulted with Epstein on estate planning — raised all kinds of questions and press…

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun was awarded a giant stock bonus on top of his more-than-a-million-dollar salary last year, despite overseeing a company that has been plagued by chronic losses and safety problems. Calhoun’s total compensation in 2023 was $32.8 million, a 45% increase from the $22.6 million he received for 2022. And it could have been a lot more: He declined to accept his annual incentive bonus of $2,800,000 – a request the board said he made after part of a Boeing 737 Max plane blew off the side of an Alaska Airlines flight in January, kicking off a series…

ADA’s price is at $0.5686 right now after the most recent correction and the breakdown from the 50 EMA. This drop is significant because the price has gone below what is known as the 21-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA), which was at $0.6576. When the price falls below this line, it often means that an asset losses momentum. However, there is still hope that Cardano could find some support at the $0.52 mark. This is where the 200-day EMA comes into play and acts as strong lifeline support for the asset. For growth, Cardano needs to climb back above the…

In a formal written statement on Friday, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated the wildly inaccurate claim that the participants in the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol “carried no weapons” – and then, three hours later, said he was retracting the claim because he had learned he was incorrect. The claim that all of the January 6 rioters were unarmed has been made repeatedly by former President Donald Trump – and repeatedly debunked. But Kennedy nonetheless deployed the claim in the Friday statement that his campaign said was intended to “clarify his views on the events of January 6,…

Ukrainian drone operators surely couldn’t believe their eyes when they focused their cameras on a Russian assault group rolling toward Ukrainian lines outside Novopokrovka in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast on March 30. It seemed the assault force included troops and vehicles from the Russian airborne corps’ 76th Guards Air Assault Division, a once-elite formation with better training and equipment than most Russian divisions. But something was off. The tank leading the assault wasn’t a modern T-72 or T-90, previously the standard tanks of the 76th GAAD. No, it was a 1950s-vintage T-55 fitted with crude anti-drone armor. The assault ended…

Russian drones are increasingly dropping chemical grenades in Ukraine, says Ukraine’s Armed Forces.Ukraine reported 371 cases in March alone.These chemical bombings violate the United Nations’ Chemical Weapons Convention, Ukraine cites. Ukraine’s military is tracking how often Russian drones drop grenades containing dangerous chemical agents. It’s happening a lot and more frequently, the military says.The number of chemical weapons being dropped from unmanned aerial vehicles is becoming a systemic issue, the Command of the Support Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted on Facebook on Friday.Ukraine has recorded 1,412 cases in which harmful chemical substances were discovered in ammunition from…