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Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned by New York top court
The ruling is the second major #MeToo setback in the last two years and reopens a painful chapter in America’s reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures.
- by Michael Sisak
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Arizona charges 18 over 2020 election, including Giuliani and Meadows
“I will not allow American democracy to be undermined,” Democratic state Attorney-General Kris Mayes said.
- by Jacques Billeaud, Jonathan Cooper and Josh Kelety
Opinion
US politics
Whether Trump did or didn’t let loose, there’s a whiff of defeat about him
Just when you thought the most buffoonish member of the US right could not get any sillier, he managed to pull it off – and it stinks.
- by Bill Wyman
In warning for Trump, Nikki Haley wins almost 17 per cent of Pennsylvania’s primary vote
Haley suspended her presidential campaign last month. If the voters who backed her this week refuse to support Trump in November, it could damage his prospects of victory.
- by Marc Levy
Two Australians had ringside seats to Trump’s 2016 ‘catch and kill’ plot
One of them is still grappling with feelings of guilt over what is now alleged to have been a successful attempt at election interference.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Opinion
US politics
Joe Biden just had a significant win, but he’s still in the wars
Ongoing wars in Ukraine – and especially in Gaza – remain politically problematic, and potentially fatal, for US President Joe Biden.
- by Bruce Wolpe
Judge tells Trump lawyer he is ‘losing all credibility’ in hush-money trial
“You’ve presented nothing,” the judge told Trump’s lawyer, who sought to argue the ex-president was responding to online criticism.
- by Luc Cohen, Jack Queen and Andy Sullivan
US Senate passes bill forcing TikTok sale
A decision made by House Republicans last week to attach the TikTok bill to the high-priority Ukraine and Israel package helped expedite its passage in Congress.
- by Haleluya Hadero
A brewery worker’s drink-driving defence: his stomach made the alcohol
A number of drink-driving acquittals have resulted from a rare condition known as auto-brewery syndrome, in which a person’s gut effectively brews alcohol inside the body.
- by Ali Watkins
Mass arrests at university campuses as pro-Palestine protests escalate in US
Crackdowns by police came after Columbia University cancelled in-person classes in response to tent encampments at its New York City campus last week.
- by Caitlin Ochs and Jonathan Allen
World of photos, April 24, 2024
The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.