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  • Judicial Watch Lawsuit: Did Democratic Arizona Attorney General Announce ‘Investigation’ of Trump to Sway Election?

    (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced an open records lawsuit revealing that Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes seems to have used her office for political purposes in threatening a prosecution of President Trump on the eve of the 2024 presidential election (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Kris Mayes et al (No. CV 2025 00675)). Only one document was found (and kept secret) relating to a criminal investigation, while dozens of media-related documents were revealed.

    In an October 31, 2024, interview with Tucker Carlson at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, Trump said of Cheney: “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’ “

    On November 1, 2024, Mayes, a Democrat, said during the taping of the Channel 12 “Sunday Square-Off” news show: “I have already asked my criminal division chief to start looking at that statement, analyzing it for whether it qualifies as a death threat under Arizona’s laws.” She conducted multiple media interviews within days of the election.

    Mayes’ office provided comments to CBS, NBC, CNN, AZ Family, Forbes, Fox, News Nation, Sky View Networks, Law and Crime News Network, Newsweek, and Reuters in what appears to be an attempt to paint Donald Trump as a criminal shortly before the election.

    Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement about the lawsuit’s findings:

    The records show the threatened “investigation” of President Trump was merely an oral request from the Arizona General Mayes to a top staffer to evaluate the Liz Cheney statement.  The only record of the investigation that exists is a 3-page memo from the Attorney General’s criminal division chief back to Mayes, which the Court reviewed in camera and determined was protected attorney work product and therefore can be withheld.  Presumably (and probably from media sources) the memo declined to open a more substantial investigation or initiate a prosecution. 

    The lack of records further supports our theory that the investigation—purportedly launched on the Friday before the 2024 presidential election and dropped shortly thereafter—was a sham to try to influence the outcome of the election in an important swing state. This is yet another example of “lawfare” abuse targeting Trump.

    Mayes ended the “investigation” on November 13, 2024, telling the Arizona Republic that Trump’s comment “very likely may have been an effort to intimidate Cheney” but the investigation showed there was “no reasonable likelihood that we could obtain a conviction for Trump’s statements. We think it’s equally likely a reasonable person could conclude Trump was discussing war, and Liz Cheney not wanting to go to war.”

    The lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court for the State of Arizona Maricopa County this past January after Mayes’ office failed to comply with a November 12, 2024, Arizona Public Records Act request by Judicial Watch for records regarding Mayes’ office and/or the criminal division chief analyzing Trump’s statement as qualifying as a death threat; the determination whether the statement was analyzed to be a violation of Arizona and/or federal law; the costs to carry out the investigation; and any documents in which Mayes addresses the limits of free speech as addressed in the First Amendment.

    Additionally, Judicial Watch asked for records regarding the dismissal of criminal charges against Arizona citizen Rebekah Massie, who was arrested during an August 20, 2024, Surprise City Council meeting after she criticized a proposed pay increase for the city attorney.

    Maricopa County Judge Gerald Williams dismissed with prejudice the trespassing charge against Massie, writing: “No branch of any federal, state, or local government in this country should ever attempt to control the content of political speech. In this case, the government did so in a manner that was objectively outrageous.”

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    Source: Judicial Watch

  • German parties’ boycott of AfD looks to be over – on course for key jobs

    ER Editor: Something has shifted in favour of the AfD and one of the reasons given (‘the AfD will look distasteful to the public’) sounds ridiculous. But opinion polls have shifted significantly in favour of the AfD, and it seems that certain CDU politicians are playing ball with them, finally.

    A snap election was held on Feb 23; a coalition agreement between the Union parties (CDU / CSU) and SPD was made on April 9; Merz will be sworn in on May 6.

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    Here’s a small sample of German news in the last three weeks that we’ve put out, some of which seems frankly crazy to us —

    Incoming German govt from hell enthusiastically promises to make everything more expensive

    German journalist convicted for satirical free speech meme

    Merz Betrayal Spurs Party Exodus

    And a reminder of something more consequential from April 10 —

    AfD tops German opinion poll for first time

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  • ICC sues Hungary for failing to arrest fugitive Israeli war criminal Netanyahu

    File photo of a protester dressing up as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a demonstration in the holy occupied city of al-Quds

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    On Wednesday, the court triggered Article 87(7) of the Rome Statute — the treaty that established the tribunal. The provision allows the court to refer non-cooperative states to the Assembly of States Parties or the United Nations Security Council.

    The move came in response to Hungary’s refusal to arrest Netanyahu, wanted by the court for war crimes committed as part of the Israeli regime’s October 2023-present war of genocide on the Gaza Strip, during his April 3–6 visit to Budapest, where he was warmly received by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

    Hungary’s failure to comply with the ICC’s arrest warrant had earlier prompted the tribunal to formally censure the country for breaching its obligations as a signatory to the Rome Statute.

    Craig Mokhiber, a prominent human rights lawyer and former director of the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, confirmed the development in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.

    ER insert —

    “The International Criminal Court (ICC) has initiated Article 87(7) proceedings against Hungary for refusing to cooperate with the ICC request to arrest Netanyahu while the fugitive was visiting Hungary,” he wrote.

    Mokhiber, who resigned from the UN in October 2023 in protest at the world body’s failure to stop the war, has been a vocal critic of the international community’s inaction concerning the Israeli regime’s atrocities in Gaza. He has repeatedly called the warfare that has claimed the lives of around 51,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, a “textbook case of genocide.”

    In defiance of the court’s decision, however, Hungary has announced plans to withdraw from the ICC, echoing similar decisions by other states that have faced pressure or criticism from The Hague-based tribunal.

    The court issued arrest warrants against Netanyahu and his minister for military affairs, Yoav Gallant last November.

    ER insert —

    International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials

    The warrants have also been issued in response to the duo’s crimes against humanity against more than two million Gazans, whom the regime has subjected to a suffocating all-out siege alongside the war.

    The United States, the Israeli regime’s biggest ally, has repeatedly threatened the tribunal and its officials with sanctions over the warrants.

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  • Trans Women Are Not Legally Women, UK Supreme Court Rules

    Handing down judgment, Lord Hodge said it was the court’s unanimous view that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act refer to biological sex, not acquired gender.

    Gender-critical campaigners hailed Wednesday’s ruling as a victory for common sense, claiming gender “self-ID is dead”.

    It follows a years-long legal battle between campaign group For Women Scotland and the Scottish Government over the definition of a woman.

    Lord Hodge told the court: “The unanimous decision of this court is that the definition of the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

    “But we counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another. It is not.”

    In its 88-page ruling, the court added that the “concept of sex is binary” under the Equality Act 2010.

    For Women Scotland cracked open a bottle of champagne outside the Supreme Court and broke into song to celebrate the ruling.

    Susan Smith, the group’s co-director who was also handed a bouquet of flowers, said the group had been given no steer about which way the decision would go and was “really worried” it may go the other way.

    In a statement outside court, she said: “Today, the judges have said what we always believed to be the case, women are protected by their biological sex – that sex is real.

    “We are enormously grateful to the Supreme Court for this ruling.”

    Speaking afterwards, she said: “Dogs and toddlers know what sex is. It’s one of the most concrete things in nature.

    “Sex can’t be changed but the law had the capacity to make a mess of anything. We’re just really glad common sense prevailed.”

    The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has welcomed the Supreme Court’s ruling.

    Baroness Kishwer Falkner, its Chairman, said: “Today the Supreme Court ruled that a gender recognition certificate does not change a person’s legal sex for the purposes of the Equality Act.

    “We are pleased that this judgment addresses several of the difficulties we highlighted in our submission to the court, including the challenges faced by those seeking to maintain single-sex spaces, and the rights of same-sex attracted persons to form associations.

    “As we did not receive the judgment in advance, we will make a more detailed statement once we have had time to consider its implications in full.”

    Kemi Badenoch has said “you cannot change your biological sex” as she reacted to the Supreme Court’s ruling.

    “Saying ‘trans women are women’ was never true in fact, and now isn’t true in law either,” the leader of the Conservative Party said.

    “This is a victory for all of the women who faced personal abuse or lost their jobs for stating the obvious. Women are women and men are men: you cannot change your biological sex.

    “The era of Keir Starmer telling us women can have penises has come to an end. Well done to For Women Scotland!”

    Follow the Telegraph‘s live coverage here.

    The pushback against woke gobbledegook continues.

    It’s good to see the Supreme Court taking the side of common sense in this case – not something that can be taken for granted. After all, the US Supreme Court has taken the opposite view.

    In its infamous 2020 Bostock ruling, Neil Gorsuch – supposedly a conservative originalist justice – joined with the liberals and authored a majority opinion that claimed constitutional protections for sex apply equally to gender identity (yes, really – he argued that treating men who think they’re women differently to women necessarily means discriminating on the basis of sex, rather than, as common sense would have it, on the basis of delusion). This resulted in the US Government last year mandating the use of preferred pronouns in every workplace in America (at least we can assume this particular measure will be overturned by Trump, if it hasn’t been already).

    So credit to the UK Supremes for getting it right here, something their US counterparts miserably failed to do, leaving the United States still living in trans cuckoo land. (ER: No.)

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  • Ind. woman dated young father before allegedly robbing, killing him with boyfriend’s help

    INDIANAPOLIS (TCN) — A 19-year-old woman and her 18-year-old boyfriend are accused of robbing and ambushing a young father who was out on a date with the female suspect.

    According to the Indianapolis Star, in the early morning of Jan. 25, Indianapolis Police Department officers responded to a call on East 49th Street and found 26-year-old Jarrell Pryor on the ground suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. Paramedics transported him to a hospital, where he died. He reportedly sustained gunshot wounds to his stomach, jaw, chest, and back.

    Investigators allege Alexis Hawkins set Pryor up in an attempt to rob him. Later on Jan. 25, she allegedly searched topics online such as “shootings Keystone” and “news today near me.”

    Court records cited by the Indianapolis Star allege Hawkins messaged her boyfriend the night of the date, saying, “Been trynna find sum licks if you need me to rob anybody down here.” She reportedly later texted her boyfriend, “Don’t say too much,” and “Delete these messages too by the way.”

    WXIN-TV identified the boyfriend as Brian Winston, who was arrested April 12. Court records show they are both being charged with murder and two counts of robbery resulting in serious bodily injury. Winston is facing two counts of murder, while Hawkins is charged with one.

    Pryor leaves behind a 3-year-old daughter. Pryor’s father, Travis Wiley, told WXIN, “You can’t escape this type of pain. There’s no running from it. There’s no getting away.”

    His mother, Tamekia Wiley, added, “No justice will ever cure my broken heart. It will not ever bring my baby back.”

    • Teen tricked man into date-turned-fatal-robbery on Indy’s north side, court records reveal, 2/27/2025 – Indianapolis Star
    • Teen’s 18-year-old boyfriend also arrested after date-turned-fatal robbery on northside – Indianapolis Star
    • 2 charged with murder after date turns to deadly ambush of young father – WXIN

    Source: True Crime Daily

  • Handyman identified as person of interest after missing elderly woman’s remains found encased in concrete

    THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. (TCN) — Detectives located the remains of an elderly woman buried under a shed and have identified her handyman as a person of interest in her disappearance and death.

    According to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office, the family of 82-year-old Marcia Norman reported her missing on April 4 after they last heard from her three days prior. Norman’s two vehicles reportedly remained parked at her home in Tenino.

    Deputies responded to Norman’s residence and determined she “may have left abruptly,” as certain household tasks had been left halfway done. Norman reportedly had dinner on the evening of April 1 with her handyman, Jeffrey Zizz, who authorities believe was the last person to have seen her alive.

    Zizz had allegedly built a shed on a separate property in Olympia on April 5, the day after Norman was reported missing. Investigators moved the shed and dug out the ground, where they later found Norman’s remains buried and partially encased in concrete.

    The sheriff’s office alleges that Zizz fled to Missoula, Montana, which violated his previous sentence conditions for an unrelated sex offense. Deputies traveled to Montana on April 13 and brought Zizz back to Washington. He remains held in the Thurston County Jail without bond for a child molestation sentencing violation warrant as Norman’s death investigation continues.

    • Update on the Marcia Norman case – Thurston County Sheriff’s Office
    • Tenino Resident Missing Under Suspicious Circumstances – Thurston County Sheriff’s Office

    Source: True Crime Daily

  • Mom allegedly crashed into canal and left her 4-year-old daughter trapped in submerged car to die

    STANISLAUS COUNTY, Calif. (TCN) — A 26-year-old woman faces charges after allegedly driving while under the influence, crashing, and leaving her young daughter trapped inside the car to die.

    According to the Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office, on the night of March 8, authorities initially arrested Juliette Acosta on a DUI charge. KCRA-TV reports that Acosta was driving with her 4-year-old daughter when she allegedly sideswiped a telephone pole and crashed into an irrigation canal near the town of Hickman.

    A deputy reportedly attempted to rescue the child, identified by prosecutors as Reagan Herrin. She was transported to a hospital, where she later died.

    The criminal complaint alleges that Acosta was driving with a blood alcohol content around three times the legal limit at the time.

    Acosta allegedly “left her partially submerged car while her daughter remained trapped inside.” The mother reportedly failed to render aid to her daughter, and authorities found her taking a bath “while her daughter remained in peril at the crash scene.”

    The district attorney’s office announced April 11 that Acosta now faces charges of murder, vehicular manslaughter, driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, permitting a child to suffer under circumstances likely to cause great bodily injury or death, and resisting, delaying, or obstructing a public officer, peace officer, or emergency medical technician.

    Acosta faces up to life in prison if convicted on all charges. She remains held in the Stanislaus County Jail without bail.

    • News Release – Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office
    • Stanislaus County Jail
    • Oakdale mother faces murder charge after suspected DUI crash that killed her 4-year-old daughter – KCRA

    Source: True Crime Daily

  • Canada Waives Retaliatory Tariffs On US-Made Cars And Trucks

    Canada Waives Retaliatory Tariffs On US-Made Cars And Trucks

    John Carney is left licking his wounds

    (ZH) – The first skirmish in the US-China trade war just concluded and John Carney is left licking his wounds.

    Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government will allow automakers to import US-manufactured cars and trucks without tariffs, as long as the companies continue to build cars in Canada, and continued with previously announced expansions. Which of course, they all will vow to do – after all, there is no downside to a promise – meaning Canada just conceded to a key Trump demands.

    Last week, Carney put retaliatory tariffs of as much as 25% on vehicles made in the US, effectively matching an earlier move by US President Donald Trump on foreign autos.

    The move provides relief from the trade war to companies including General Motors and Stellantis that have assembly plants in Ontario but still export large quantities of vehicles from the US into Canada.

    Commenting on the capitulation, Rabobank’s Michael Every writes that “Canada will now let automakers import US-assembled cars and trucks tariff-free if they preserve domestic manufacturing. This isn’t being heralded as a Carney “retreat” and “fold”, of course. But in economic statecraft terms, it’s clear Canada had, and has, no real choice.”

    “Our counter-tariffs won’t apply if they continue to produce, continue to employ, continue to invest in Canada,” Carney told reporters at a news conference. But if a manufacturer cuts production or investment in Canada, the number of tariff-free vehicles it will be permitted to import will be reduced, Canada’s Finance Department said in a news release.

    François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s finance minister, did not specify in his statement exactly how many U.S.-made cars and trucks each of the five major automakers would be allowed to import without tariffs. But his statement suggested that those numbers would be linked to Canadian manufacturing: “The number of tariff-free vehicles a company is permitted to import will be reduced if there are reductions in Canadian production or investment.”

    While the great majority of Canadian-made cars and trucks end up in the United States, Trump has repeatedly said that he wants carmakers to move all of their manufacturing to the United States, a move widely seen in Canada as a direct assault on the country’s largest export aside from oil and gas.

    Auto trade between the United States and Canada has become tightly integrated since the two countries signed a trade deal 60 years ago that eased the flow of vehicles and related goods across the border.

    Only Toyota and Honda, which account for about two-thirds of Canadian auto production, are currently operating at or near full capacity in Canada.

    Stellantis recently stopped renovating a factory in the Toronto suburb of Brampton that would have made gasoline and electric Jeeps, in what the company described as a pause. Its larger plant, in Windsor, Ontario, is in the middle of a two-week shutdown that was induced by the U.S. tariffs.

    Ford’s factory in Oakville, Ontario, was closed for a now-abandoned plan to convert it for electric vehicles. It is now retooling to make large pickups. And General Motors announced that it would largely shut down production of a poor-selling electric van made in Ingersoll, Ontario, until October.

    But the winning blow in this particular trade war battle came from Japanese media outlet Nikkei which reported that Honda Motor is looking at shifting some of its auto production from Canada and Mexico into the US, with a goal of having 90% of its US vehicles sales produced locally.

    Honda currently builds CR-V and Civic vehicles at a plant in Alliston, Ontario, and last year it announced a C$15 billion ($10.8 billion) long-term plan to build out an electric-vehicle supply chain in Canada — with significant help from taxpayers.

    Anita Anand, the industry minister, was scheduled to meet with the head of Honda’s Canadian division on Tuesday, according to a statement. “We are in close contact with the company, and Honda has communicated that no such production decisions affecting Canadian operations have been made, and are not being considered at this time,” her office said by email.

    A Honda spokesperson said by email that the plant “will operate at full capacity for the foreseeable future and no changes are being considered at this time.”

    Carney, currently campaigning for the national election on April 28, told reporters that he and other government ministers have had a number of conversations with the executives of global automakers.

    “We are very seized with the issues” around the auto tariffs, Carney said, pointing to a campaign promise he made to set up a C$2 billion fund to help strengthen the Canadian auto supply chain. Whoever wins the election will need to negotiate with Trump on a broader strategy to resolve the tariff war, he said.

    Canada currently has 25% counter-tariffs on about C$60 billion worth of US products, aside from autos. Those taxes are hitting a wide range of US steel and aluminum products, plus items such as tools, computers and consumer goods.

    The exemptions announced Tuesday will provide a break to Canadian businesses that rely on US inputs, as well to institutions such as hospitals, long-term care facilities and fire departments, the government said.

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  • Miami nurse guilty of abusing and torturing 3 adopted daughters, killing 7-year-old

    MIAMI (TCN) — A jury found a 56-year-old former nurse guilty of abusing and torturing her three adopted daughters, one of whom later died.

    Miami-Dade County court records show Gina Emmanuel was convicted of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated child abuse in connection with the death of a 7-year-old girl and abuse of two others. WTVJ-TV reports the deceased victim, Samaya, died from acute and chronic physical abuse. The medical examiner noted she had injuries throughout her entire body.

    According to WPLG-TV, on Nov. 3, 2019, paramedics responded to Emmanuel’s house on West Dixie Highway after receiving a call that Samaya was unresponsive. She was transported to a local hospital, where she died. Homicide detectives reportedly saw bruises and marks on Samaya’s body, so they contacted the Department of Children and Families, who opened an investigation. Officials found signs of abuse on the other two daughters.

    WPLG reports the children told investigators that Emmanuel beat them with belts, burned their hands on hot stoves, covered their eyes with socks, forced them to stand for long periods of time, and made them sleep on the floor sometimes. On one occasion, Samaya and her sister reportedly ate bread that Emmanuel put aside for her son, so she put their hands on a hot stove and forced their other sister to watch. Their hands were reportedly “permanently disfigured as a result.”

    Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested Emmanuel Oct. 16, 2019.

    At her trial, prosecutors argued Emmanuel “kept her refrigerator chained. These three girls were forced to urinate and defecate in a bucket. they were malnourished, whipped.” WPLG reports Emmanuel also refused to get them medical care. Pneumonia contributed to Samaya’s death.

    Miami-Dade County State’s Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said in a statement following the verdict, “The guilty verdict in Gina Emmanuel’s first-degree murder and child abuse trial brought to the light of day the horrors 7-year-old Samaya so tragically suffered before her death. No one could ever imagine that a trained nurse would beat, torture, and starve Samaya and her two adopted sisters as a means of instilling the defendant’s vision of discipline.”

    The statement continued, “The jury fully understood that she ultimately ignored the suffering of young Samaya, which led to this child’s death. One should admire the courage it took for Samaya’s sister, 12 years old at the time of the abuse, to come forward and testify in court, before judges, lawyers, jurors, and others in order for the truth to be told.”

    • State of Florida vs. Gina Emmanuel
    • Jury convicts Miami-Dade nurse in 2018 murder of adoptive daughter, abuse of 2 others – WTVJ
    • Miami-Dade nurse guilty of murder, child abuse in death of foster child she later adopted – WPLG
    • Police say Miami foster mother abused children, causing one girl to die, 10/26/2019 – WPLG

    Source: True Crime Daily

  • Trump takes action to Lower prescription drug prices

    Trump takes action to Lower prescription drug prices

    The order expands on the president’s efforts during his first term to lower prescription drug prices, including reauthorizing his order that drastically reduced out-of-pocket prices for insulin and EpiPens for low-income Americans.

    By Misty Severi

    President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that seeks to lower prescription drug prices for Americans on Medicare, and low-income patients.

    The order expands on the president’s efforts during his first term to lower prescription drug prices, including reauthorizing his order that drastically reduced out-of-pocket prices for insulin and EpiPens for low-income Americans.

    This time, insulin prices will be lowered to as low as $0.03, plus a small administrative fee for low-income and uninsured Americans, and injectable epinephrine prices will be as low as $15, plus a small administrative fee.

    The new directive instructs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to improve the Medicare Drug Pricing Negotiation Program, align prescription drug prices for Medicare patients with the costs hospitals pay for the medication, and standardize Medicare payments for prescription drugs regardless of where the patient was treated.

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    “President Trump is delivering on his promise to once again put American patients first by building off of the historic efforts of his first term to lower prescription drug prices,” the White House said in a fact sheet on the order. “President Trump will not stand for inaction, and his Administration is working rapidly to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Americans.”

    The White House also accused the Biden administration of allowing Trump’s first-term efforts to reduce drug prices to expire. 

    The Biden administration did reach an agreement with drugmakers last year to reduce prices on 10 of the most expensive prescription drugs available under Medicare.

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