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Hearing to determine if Trump can be barred from office reaches far back in history for answers

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:23 GMT

DENVER (AP) — The effort to ban former President Donald Trump from the ballot under the Constitution’s “insurrection clause” turned to distant history on Wednesday, when a law professor testified about how the post-Civil War provision was indeed intended to apply to presidential candidates.Gerard Magliocca, of Indiana University, said there was scant scholarship on Section Three of the 14th Amendment when he began researching it in late 2020. He testified that he uncovered evidence in 150-year-old court rulings, congressional testimony and presidential executive orders that it applied to presidents and to those who simply encouraged an insurrection rather than physically participated in one.Magliocca didn’t mention Trump by name, but the plaintiffs in the case have argued that Colorado must ban him from the ballot because his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, which was intended to halt Congress’ certification of Joe Biden’s win and keep T...

Dennis Schroder’s 24 points and 11 assists lead the Raptors past the Bucks 130-111

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:23 GMT

Sospechoso enfrenta varios cargos tras persecución y posible secuestro en Virginia

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:23 GMT

Un conductor está bajo custodia después de que dirigió una persecución desde el condado Loudoun hasta el condado Fairfax la tarde del lunes, de acuerdo a las autoridades en Virginia. El sospechoso impactó a varios otros vehículos e intentó robarle el auto a una persona en el proceso, de acuerdo a la Oficina del Alguacil del Condado Loudoun. Una mujer que estaba en el auto con el sospechoso durante la persecución le dijo a oficiales que estaba herida, pero no estuvo claro de inmediato cómo o cuándo quedó herida. La persecución comenzó poco antes de las 2 p.m., después de que alguien reportó lo que creían ser un secuestro en progreso, según la Oficina del Alguacil del Condado Loudoun. Mientras respondían los agentes a la situación, un hombre en un Hummer negro huyó del lugar en Loudoun County Parkway en Ashburn, indicaron las autoridades. Los agentes intentaron detener al conductor, luego identificado por la policía como Joseph Daniel de 44 años. En cambio, Daniel se di...

Nets rally in 2nd half, top Heat 109-105 to add to Miami’s miserable 1-4 start

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:23 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Armoni Brooks had practice on Tuesday, on Long Island, for Brooklyn’s G League team. He was told to get on a flight to Miami a couple hours after that workout essentially because of roster depletion.Good call.Brooks scored 17 points off the bench in 16 minutes, Mikal Bridges led Brooklyn with 21 points and the Nets erased a 15-point second-half deficit to beat the Miami Heat 109-105 on Wednesday night.“That’s the best part of basketball, showing up with who you have and staying together as a team and pulling out a victory on the road against a really good team,” Nets coach Jacque Vaughn said.The Nets outscored Miami 55-25 when Brooks was on the floor, 36-16 in his two second-half stints. He was 6 of 7 from the floor, 5 of 6 from 3-point range.“Landed about 7 o’clock last night, went to shootaround and prepped ourselves to get ready to play,” Brooks said.It was his first NBA game since April 2022, and it was Trendon Watford’s Nets debut. He h...

Texas Rangers win first World Series title with 5-0 win over Diamondbacks in Game 5

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:23 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Nathan Eovaldi pitched six gutsy innings, Mitch Garver broke a scoreless tie with an RBI single in the seventh and the Texas Rangers are World Series champions for the first time in their 63-year franchise history after beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-0 in Game 5 on Wednesday night.Marcus Semien homered late and the Rangers, held hitless for six innings by Zac Gallen, finished a record 11-0 on the road this postseason by capping the Fall Classic with three straight wins in the desert.One night after Texas took a 10-run lead by the third in a Game 4 snoozer, it finished the Series by outlasting the Diamondbacks in a white-knuckle pitchers’ duel through eight innings, piling on four runs in the ninth for good measure.Gallen took a no-hitter into the seventh before giving up an opposite-field single to Corey Seager, whose weak grounder found a hole. Rangers rookie Evan Carter — all of 21 years old — followed with a double into the right-center gap. Garver then d...

Who needs the EU’s ‘irrelevant’ Gaza peace plan? The EU does, of course

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:23 GMT

When is a Middle East peace plan not a Middle East peace plan? When it’s really a plan to pacify bickering Europeans.  Last week, the EU’s 27 national leaders called for an “international peace conference,” in addition to diplomatic and security initiatives to address in the longer Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the wake of the recent Israel-Hamas war. It was the bloc’s latest attempt to influence events in the Middle East following a series of open disagreements over how to handle the crisis among top officials. But a week after the call was issued at a gathering of leaders in Brussels, key questions about where such a summit would be hosted, who would attend and what its aims would be remain unanswered. A spokesperson for the Israeli mission to the EU said they are “not in a position to say if we would attend or not because we don’t know yet what it would actually mean,” adding that so far, no European officials had reached out on the ...

Tools of economic statecraft are powerful — and can cause lasting harm

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:23 GMT

Julia Friedlander is CEO of Atlantik-Brücke in Berlin and former advisor for European affairs at the U.S. National Security Council and Department of the Treasury. Josh Lipsky is senior director of the Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center and previously was an advisor at the IMF.In director Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” which chronicles the life of the father of the atomic bomb, the character of physicist Niels Bohr warns: “We have to make the politicians understand, this isn’t a new weapon, it’s a new world.” And for many economists watching the film, the moment may have rung eerily true.Over the past few years, politicians have leaned heavily on the power of economics to shape foreign policy — what we call “economic statecraft.” From sanctions and export controls to the blocking of assets overseas, these tools appeal to policymakers who want to make an impact on a competitor or adversary, while avoiding direct military conflict.Of course, sanctions are nothing like atomic wea...

This global right-wing movement wants to save the world. It just needs a plan

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:23 GMT

GREENWICH, England — Call it the anti-Davos — a major conference where right-wing populists take aim at liberal elites and plan their revolution.Some of the most powerful people in Western politics joined forces for the first Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Conference (ARC) in southeast London this week, from U.S. presidential hopefuls and former Australian prime ministers right through to serving U.K. Cabinet members and even the newly-elected speaker of the U.S. Congress.But despite a star-studded cast of right-wingers and some high-minded aims, the three-day ARC conference in Greenwich — billed as creating a “better story for the future” — at times struggled to define itself, and may have its work cut out to turn sometimes-competing ideas into concrete action.“They need to be careful it doesn’t just become a center-right talking shop,” said one attendee.  Another, a theologian, mused that he was having a great time, but didn’t quite understand the point.ARC of the moral...

Keir Starmer strikes uneasy truce with his MPs on Israel — for now

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:23 GMT

LONDON — Keir Starmer still isn’t calling for a ceasefire in Gaza — but he has agreed a temporary truce with his own MPs.In a speech Monday, the Labour leader set out why he isn’t backing a ceasefire in the Middle East despite open revolt in his own party.The address was a response to dozens of Labour MPs — including those on his front bench team — who have urged Israel to stop its offensive on Gaza amid the rising civilian death toll. They have been joined by some of the party’s most senior politicians including Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.Having ridden high in the polls for months, the row threatens to derail what appeared to be a smooth path for Starmer to victory in the general election due to be held by January 2025. Under the last Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, the party came close to splitting amid accusations of anti-Semitism.Keen to avoid reopening the fault line, Starmer said in his speech he understo...

Sunak defends China invite at AI summit while facing down Tory hawks

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:23 GMT

BLETCHLEY, England — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he had been vindicated in inviting China to his AI summit after securing Chinese and American backing for a shared communique on the emerging technology — including his predecessor Liz Truss.Talking on POLITICO’s Power Play podcast ahead of day two of his inaugural AI summit at Bletchley Park, Sunak said it had been the “right decision” to invite China, despite vocal opposition to that choice from his Tory backbenchers. “It’s the right decision for the country in the long term. I think there can’t really be a substantive conversation about AI without involving the world’s leading AI nations. And China is indisputably one of those.“I’m pleased that they’ve engaged … it hasn’t happened for a long time that, you know, we’ve all signed the same bit of paper, whether that’s us, the Americans, Europeans [or] China, which I think is a good sign of progress.”It’s been nothing sh...