The Daily Populous

Tuesday October 17th, 2023 night edition

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The order restricts Trump’s ability to publicly target court personnel, potential witnesses, or the special counsel and his staff.

“This is not about whether I like the language Mr. Trump uses,” Judge Tanya Chutkan said.

Trump will appeal Chutkan’s order, he said in a post on his social media website Truth Social.

Following the two federal indictments against the former president, Trump has lashed out against prosecutors, potential witnesses and the judge overseeing the election subversion case in Washington.

Prosecutors with special counsel Jack Smith’s office say these comments are enough to warrant a narrow restriction on Trump’s speech around the case.

“He does not have the right to say and do exactly what he pleases.

If Chutkan does decide to place restrictions on what the former president can say, she won’t be the first judge to do so. »

Steve Irwin’s son Robert Irwin becomes emotional after breeding rare turtle named after late TV star

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Robert Irwin, the son of the late conservationist Steve Irwin, has celebrated breeding a rare turtle that his father discovered in 1990.

After the clip shows images of Steve with the turtles, Robert is then seen letting the baby turtle into the zoo’s pond.

Earlier this year, fans were excited by the news that Robert was dating Rorie Buckley, the niece of another late Australian star, actor Heath Ledger. »

Bulgaria shocks Hungary, Serbia with huge transit fees on Russian gas

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Serbia and Hungary receive all quantities of Russian gas through the “Balkan Stream”, as do North Macedonia and Austria.

Bulgaria expects the new transit fees to generate additional revenues of €1.2 billion.

This will lead to a drastic increase in the price of gas by an additional €100 per 1000 cubic metres of gas. »

Mickey Mouse Parliament? EU train to Strasbourg takes wrong turn, ends up at Disneyland

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ON A (DIFFERENT) TRAIN FROM BRUSSELS TO STRASBOURG — A train carrying hundreds of MEPs and European Parliament officials briefly ended up at Disneyland on Monday, after taking the wrong turn on the way to Strasbourg.

It was an incident that will do nothing to deter those who deride the institution as a Mickey Mouse Parliament.

Every month the European Parliament charters trains exclusively for lawmakers and EU officials to get them between its two seats in Brussels and Strasbourg, in eastern France. »

Judge imposes gag order on Donald Trump in D.C. trial

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She did not elaborate on those sanctions, although she said she planned to issue a written order with further details.

Earlier this month, in an ongoing civil trial in New York over alleged business fraud by Trump and his companies, a Manhattan judge issued a limited gag order after Trump posted an attack on the judge’s top clerk.

Lauro said early in the hearing that Trump would immediately appeal any order similar to the one prosecutors had requested. »