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Trump Reportedly Floats Sidney Powell as Special Counsel

Published by Nikki Ratay on Sat, 12/26/2020 - 2:00am

Washington – President Donald Trump floated naming lawyer Sidney Powell, who was booted from his campaign’s legal team after pushing unfounded conspiracy theories, as a special counsel investigating allegations of voter fraud as he grasps for straws to stay in power.

Biden Won’t Talk About Son With Attorney General Candidates

Published by Nikki Ratay on Sat, 12/26/2020 - 1:00am

Washington – President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming press secretary said that Biden would not discuss the investigation of his son with any prospective candidates for attorney general.

Last Minute Sales Could Make or Break Struggling Stores

Published by Nikki Ratay on Fri, 12/25/2020 - 4:00am
Holiday shoppers keep their distance and wear face masks while riding an escalator to battle the spread of the coronavirus Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, in Park Meadows Mall in Lone Tree, Colo. Many are stepping up discounts while heavily promoting curbside pickup as a way to get shoppers, worried about being infected with the virus, to visit their stores. But experts believe that any burst of sales will be too little and too late to save some stores. (AP)

New York – Clothing stores and specialty retailers have been offering big discounts and heavily promoting curbside pickup in hopes of rescuing a lackluster holiday shopping season in which surging coronavirus cases have kept many shoppers at home.

For some, it could be their last chance at survival. And even a last-minute sales boost could be too late to save them.

‘Charlie Brown’ Christmas Trees Lift Virgina School, Spirits

Published by Nikki Ratay on Fri, 12/25/2020 - 3:00am
Pedestrians walk by Frank Pichel’s tree lot, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, in Richmond, Va. A Virginia man has found a way to use Charlie Brown-style Christmas trees to benefit a middle school that provides scholarships for students from an impoverished area. (AP)

Richmond, Va. – Frank Pichel’s Christmas trees will probably never be chosen to light up New York’s Rockefeller Center. They look more like the droopy, pitiful tree made famous in the 1965 children’s animated classic, “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”

Antitrust Case Against Google Won’t Go to Trial Until 2023

Published by Nikki Ratay on Fri, 12/25/2020 - 1:00am

San Ramon, Calif. – The U.S. government’s attempt to prove Google has been using its dominance of online search to stifle competition and innovation at the expense of consumers and advertisers won’t go to trial for nearly three years.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta on Friday set a tentative trial date of Sept. 12, 2023 for the landmark case  that the Justice Department filed two months ago.

Google Rejects DOJ Antitrust Claims in Filing

Published by Nikki Ratay on Fri, 12/25/2020 - 12:00am

Google is pushing back in court this week on antitrust claims brought against it by the Justice Department two months ago.

Snow Days, Virtual Opera: The Office Holiday Party Goes On

Published by Nikki Ratay on Thu, 12/24/2020 - 5:00am
Revelers enjoy drinks and each other's company at the 2017 Barristers Club Christmas Show. The annual show is one holiday party that won't happen this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Office parties have also had to be reimagined in a year when many professionals shifted to working from home to maintain social distance from their colleagues. (Lorraine Boyd/Daily Record)

New York – An online murder mystery. Law-themed opera arias. A snowman-building competition.

With dancing, drinking and fancy dinners a no-go because of virus concerns, companies are getting creative about their holiday office parties this year. The challenge is how to organize a virtual celebration that doesn’t feel like yet another Zoom meeting.

Barr Undercuts Trump on Election, Hunter Biden Inquiries

Published by Nikki Ratay on Thu, 12/24/2020 - 3:00am

Washington – Undercutting President Donald Trump on multiple fronts, Attorney General William Barr said Monday he saw no reason to appoint a special counsel to look into the president’s claims about the 2020 election or to name one for the tax investigation of President-elect Joe Biden’s son.

DOJ Charges Bombmaker in 1988 Pam Am Explosion

Published by Nikki Ratay on Thu, 12/24/2020 - 2:00am

Washington — The Justice Department announced new charges Monday against a Libyan bombmaker in the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, an attack that killed 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground.

Colorado Court OKs Rules on Sealing Criminal Court Records

Published by Nikki Ratay on Thu, 12/24/2020 - 12:00am

Denver – The Colorado Supreme Court approved rules earlier this month governing how criminal trial judges can restrict public access to court records, a direct response to newspaper stories that exposed how thousands of cases have been kept from public view with little to no oversight for how that was done.

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