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Judge delays Trump hush money sentencing in order to decide where case should go now

Nov. 22, 2024 11:29 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge confirmed Friday that President-elect Donald Trump won't be sentenced this month in his hush money case, instead setting a schedule for prosecutors and his lawyers to expand on their ideas about what to do next. Amid a flurry of filings in the case since...

US regulators seek to break up Google, forcing Chrome sale as part of monopoly punishment

Nov. 21, 2024 10:07 AM EST

U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade. The proposed breakup floated in a 23-page document...

Donald Trump's lawyers urge judge to ignore prosecutors and dismiss hush money conviction

Nov. 20, 2024 15:30 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — As prosecutors push to preserve President-elect Donald Trump’s historic hush money conviction, his lawyers urged a judge Wednesday to ignore them and scrap the case before he takes office in January. Echoing their stance since Trump's win, his lawyers argued in a...

Prosecutors oppose tossing Trump’s hush money conviction but are open to sentencing delay

Nov. 19, 2024 17:19 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors oppose any effort to dismiss President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction, but they expressed openness Tuesday to delaying sentencing until after his second term. The Manhattan district attorney’s office said in a court filing that...

A Singapore oil magnate faces prison in a major fraud case over financing trade

Nov. 18, 2024 08:01 AM EST

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Singapore oil magnate was sentenced Monday to 17.5 years in prison for fraud and forgery in a case that prosecutors said has tarnished the city-state's reputation as Asia’s leading oil trading hub. Lim Oon Kuin, 82, was convicted in May on two...

Health workers go on trial in Turkey accused of private care scheme linked to 10 infant deaths

Nov. 18, 2024 07:05 AM EST

ISTANBUL (AP) — Doctors, nurses and an ambulance driver are among 47 people on trial accused of causing the deaths of 10 infants as part of an alleged scheme to defraud Turkey’s social security system. The defendants are accused of transferring babies to neonatal units of 19...

Winston Churchill portrait returns to Ottawa after international art caper

Nov. 15, 2024 13:40 PM EST

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A stolen portrait of Winston Churchill that was swapped with a forgery during the pandemic has returned to its rightful place, after two Ottawa police detectives traveled to Rome to retrieve it. Police said ”The Roaring Lion" was stolen from the Fairmont...

Latvia charges 2 Lithuanians for counterfeiting Ariel laundry products in organized criminal venture

Nov. 14, 2024 12:54 PM EST

HELSINKI (AP) — Latvian police said Thursday that criminal proceedings have been initiated against two Lithuanian citizens suspected of counterfeiting Ariel laundry detergent products and distributing them in significant quantities across Europe as part of an organized international crime...

European fake art network involving Banksys, Warhols, Modiglianis uncovered in Italy

Nov. 12, 2024 21:47 PM EST

ROME (AP) — Italian authorities say a network of European art forgers who painted fake Warhols, Banksys and Picassos and then tried to sell them to unsuspecting buyers with the help of complicit auction houses has been dismantled. Thirty-eight people have been placed under...

Judge delays ruling on whether to scrap Trump's conviction in hush money case

Nov. 12, 2024 16:43 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has postponed a decision on whether to undo President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction as prosecutors consider how to proceed in light of last week’s election and his lawyers argue for dismissal so he can run the country. The postponement...