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NBA Podcast: LeBron hits 40k, Wemby’s DPOY case & more

NBA Podcast: LeBron hits 40k, Wemby’s DPOY case & more

Subscribe to Ball Don’t Lie Now that we’ve entered March, the NBA regular is entering its home stretch as the playoffs fast approach. Vincent Goodwill welcomes TNT’s Jared Greenberg onto the podcast today to discuss three end-of-season awards races and where the playoff picture stands as of March 4th. Kicking off the show, the guys discuss how the Rookie of the Year race is shaping up between top contenders Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs and Chet Holmgren of the Oklahoma City… Source link

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Republican opponent of US aid to Ukraine brings his case to an international conference

Republican opponent of US aid to Ukraine brings his case to an international conference

MUNICH (AP) — A Republican opponent of new U.S. funding for Ukraine argued at an international security conference Sunday that the package stuck in Congress wouldn’t “fundamentally change the reality” on the ground and that Russia has an incentive to negotiate peace. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and others have advocated passage of the $60 billion in aid at the Munich Security Conference, which coincided with Ukraine withdrawing troops from… Source link

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Trump avoids ‘corporate death penalty’ in civil fraud case, but his business will still get slammed

Trump avoids ‘corporate death penalty’ in civil fraud case, but his business will still get slammed

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump won’t face the corporate death penalty after all. A New York judge on Friday spared the ex-president that worst case punishment as he ruled in a civil case alleging Trump fraudulently misrepresented financial figures to get cheaper loans and other benefits. Still, Trump got slammed hard, facing big cash penalties, outside supervision of his companies and restrictions on his borrowing. In a pretrial ruling last year, the same judge threatened to shut down much of… Source link

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Trump takes the witness stand in E. Jean Carroll case that could cost him millions

Trump takes the witness stand in E. Jean Carroll case that could cost him millions

Former President Donald Trump takes the witness stand in the second civil defamation trial brought against him by columnist E. Jean Carroll. His lawyers join a motion by a co-defendant in the Georgia election interference case to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis because of allegations of an improper relationship with the lead prosecutor in the case. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, meanwhile, sentences Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser in Trump’s administration, to… Source link

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Lauren Boebert to argue her case in first Republican primary debate after hopping districts

Lauren Boebert to argue her case in first Republican primary debate after hopping districts

FORT LUPTON, Colo. (AP) — Rep. Lauren Boebert will argue her case Thursday in the first Republican primary debate for the district she switched to last month, facing off against opponents who have already attacked her with accusations of being a “carpetbagger.” The congresswoman is running in the 4th Congressional District, which spans Colorado’s eastern plains, over fears she could have lost reelection for the seat she currently holds on the state’s western slope. Colorado’s… Source link

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Trump seeks to hold special counsel in contempt for violating pause in election case

Trump seeks to hold special counsel in contempt for violating pause in election case

By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump‘s lawyers on Thursday asked a judge to hold U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith in contempt of court, accusing his office of violating an order pausing activity in its prosecution of the former president for trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Trump’s legal team said Smith and prosecutors working on the case have disregarded an order from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan by continuing to turn over evidence to the defense and… Source link

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