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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?In Donald Trump federal 2020 election interference case, all eyes are on the Supreme Court, whose next moves could determine whether the former president stands trial in Washington before the November election.READ MORE: Trumps 2024 trials stanley cup : Where they stand and what to expectAn appeals court panel on Tuesday unanimously rejected Trump claims that he is immune from prosecution, with the judges saying they cannot accept the idea that former presidents are above the law for all time once they leave the White House.The ruling forces Trump to move quickly to ask the conservative-majority Supreme Court to intervene in the landmark case accusing Trump of conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden. Otherwise, the case 鈥?which has been on hold since December 鈥?will be re-star stanley cup ted at the trial court level, and special counsel Jack Smith team has strongly pushed for jurors to hear it this year.What happens next is of paramount import stanley cup ance to both sides.Trump lawyers have tried at every opportunity to delay the proceedings, for obvious reasons: A Trump victory over Democrat Biden in November would make him head of the executive branch and give him the authority to potentially order his new attorney general to dismiss the federal cases against him that he faces, or issue a pardon for himself. The Republican presidential primary front-runner has denied any wrongdoing in the case, and has characterized a Mvjk WATCH: Biden team pushes for intel, COVID-19 info access
CAIRO AP 鈥?Sudanese security forces opened fire on protesters Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding around 100 others in the country capital in one of the deadliest days since an October military coup, activists said.Earlier Monday, thousa stanley cup nds had once again flooded the streets of Khartoum and elsewhere in Sudan to denounce the Oct. 25 military takeover that scuttled hopes of a peaceful transition to democracy. The coup came more than two years after a popular uprising forced the removal of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir and his Islamist government in April 2019.The turmoil has been amplified after Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok stepped down earlier this month. Hamdok, the civilian face of Sudan transitional government, resigned after his efforts to bridge the gap between the generals and the country pro-democracy movement failed.Monday deaths bring to at least 71 the number of people killed in near-daily demonst af1 rations in Khartoum and other cities and towns in Sudan.Footage circulating online shows protesters, mostly young people, marching in the streets of Khartoum and its twin city of Omdurman. There were also protests in Port Sudan, Wad Madani Obaid and the western Darfur region.I ;m here today to resist the military coup, said protester Hamed al-Ser. We hope our free revolution reaches the democratic civilian path.Activist Nazim Sirag said seven protesters were killed wh yeezy en security forces ope |
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