A former top aide to New York Govs. Andrew Cuomo (D) and Kathy Hochul (D) used her high-ranking position in the state’s government to peddle influence for China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) while profiting millions in the process, an unsealed federal indictment alleges.
The US market regulator charged and fined six major ratings agencies on Tuesday, including Moody’s, S&P and Fitch, over what it called “significant recordkeeping failures.” The six agencies were fined a total of more than $49 million “for significant failures by the firms and their personnel to maintain and preserve electronic communications,” the US Securities […]
From April to June, the European Union bought more than 12.7 billion cubic meters from Russia and 12.3 billion cubic meters from the United States.
Director of the Russian Department of Economic Cooperation of the Foreign Ministry, Dmitri Birichevski, says Russia now supplies 15 percent of the total volume of natural gas imported by the European Union. This despite the EU’s REPowerEU instituted back in May 2022 to shift away from Russia and cut it off from its flow of energy profits.
Birichevski noted, in particular, the fact that France imported 4.4 billion cubic meters of liquid natural gas (LNG) in the first quarter of 2024, more than double the circa 2 billion it imported in 2023.
Norway is still in first place, having supplied the EU with 23.9 billion cubic meters in Q2. Prior to its invasion of Ukraine, Russia held the top spot.
The German government maintains it no longer imports any gas from Moscow. However, many member states clearly do.
In the face of renewed demands to end Russian imports and defund Putin’s war chest, the energy policy spokesman for the Free Democratic Party (FDP) suggested that the EU “pay a fixed amount of aid and arms supplies to Ukraine for every cubic meter of imported Russian gas.“
After Hungarian FM Szijjártó’s meeting with Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller, Hungary doubles down on Russian gas, saying it is not a matter of ideology but physics.
The government has repeatedly put families and households first when it comes to securing energy supply, and with the… pic.twitter.com/iBL0Rl6J3p
The matter of Russian gas imports has been an ongoing saga, with reports of shipments from Russia being essentially laundered through other countries and pipelines to avoid being stamped as “Russian.”
This new data comes in the face of no less than 14 sanctions packages, including the latest one adopted in June, which specifically prohibits the transit of Russian LNG.
Man on trial for allegedly drugging his wife and then watching and filming her being raped. “For the first time, she will have to live through the rapes that she endured over 10 years,”
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has ordered police to arrest opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González as the socialist government continues to suppress its political enemies after a disputed election.
Donald Trump said Tuesday he has plans that are “guaranteed” to end the deadly war in Ukraine, but will only reveal them if he wins the US presidential election in November. The former US president and current Republican nominee is locked in a neck-and-neck race with his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris. “If I […]
Tom Shilling, a retired Army sergeant first class who served with Gov. Tim Walz, said Monday during an interview that the governor’s 30 trips to China while serving in the National Guard “alarms me the most.”
The Tennessee Starreleased on Tuesday the purported manifesto of Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale, who killed three 9-year-old children and three adult staff members at the Covenant School on March 27, 2023.
Much of the material in Hale’s 90 pages of writings has already been reported, including her rantings about her gender.
“So now in America, it makes one a criminal to have a gun or, be transgender, or non-binary,” Hale wrote in one journal entry. “God I hate those s***head politicians.”
Michael Patrick Leahy, editor-in-chief of The Star, said on Tuesday that he’s releasing the entire document for the public to see.
Nashville shooter Audrey Hale’s full ‘manifesto’ was released today. I didn’t see much new when I scanned it briefly. Hale did view Columbine as an inspiration, hated her dad, and had fantasies of anal sex w/ a ‘young brown girl w/ a big ass’ pic.twitter.com/bfHczmydoz
“We legally obtained this handwritten journal – which we refer to as The Covenant Killer’s 2023 Journal to distinguish it from the many journals written by Hale prior to 2023 – in early June of 2024 from a source familiar with the MNPD investigation,” Leahy said.
“We have had a First Amendment right to publish these unredacted documents from the moment we legally obtained them.”
Leahy did say that he hesitated to publish the documents after he was threatened with contempt proceedings by NashvilleJudge I’Ashea Myles, who has ruled that the materials should be kept secret.
“This ‘Sword of Damocles’ has been held over my head by Judge Myles since June 17, 2024, and we have held off on publishing The Covenant Killer’s 2023 Journal, in part, until our legal defense financial resources have reached a sufficient level such that I can hire counsel to represent me in the event Judge Myles seeks to resurrect this false claim against me,” he said.
The Star has an appeal pending against Myles’ ruling.
According to Myles’s July ruling, the evidence held by law enforcement includes more than 100 gigabytes of data—far more evidence than her 90-page manifesto.