The Daily Populous

Saturday January 27th, 2024 evening edition

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“When I watched her in the fancy dress that probably wasn’t so fancy, I said, ‘What’s she doing?

Trump had just won the first primary election of 2024 and all but clinched the Republican nomination for US president.

Party leaders and campaign surrogates are now eager to banish Haley to irrelevance, move on from the primary and unify against Democrats.

The sooner this gets wrapped up then he doesn’t have any more of those impromptu late night speeches.

Trump’s investment of emotion and energy in attacking Haley is wildly out of proportion for the minimal threat that Haley poses.

He won the Iowa caucuses in a landslide – she was third – and beat her by double digits in New Hampshire.

It’s why Republicans keep losing, and Republicans have chosen a candidate who is ultra-Maga to be their nominee in 2024. »

E. Jean Carroll's book sells for fortune after Alina Habba mentions it at Trump trial

Authored by rawstory.com

During proceedings in writer E. Jean Carroll's second defamation trial against Donald Trump, his lawyer Alina Habba asked Carroll to explain the title of her book "Female Difficulties: Sorority Sisters, Rodeo Queens, Frigid Women, Smut Stars and Other Modern Girls.".

"On Friday morning, a used copy of "Female Difficulties" was listed for about $2,141 on used book site AbeBooks, but by Friday afternoon the book was no longer available.

In a post to X Tuesday, New Yorker writer Emily Nussbaum said she heard the 1985 book was mentioned in court this week. »

It Looks Like Skull and Bones Will Actually, Finally Be Released

Authored by insider-gaming.com

Recently, Ubisoft (and other developers) have canned several projects, so it’s lucky something as troublesome as Skull and Bones has gotten this close to being released.

Skull and Bones reportedly went gold a long time ago, but since then, Ubisoft has worked to perfect the game as far as possible.

This is the closest we’ve ever been to Skull and Bones hitting the market – will the final three or so weeks go by without incident?. »

Ronnie Long, Black man wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 44 years, gets $25 million settlement and apology from city

Authored by cbsnews.com

A man wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 44 years has reached a $25 million combined settlement with a central North Carolina city and the state of North Carolina involving a lawsuit accusing authorities of misconduct, the man's lawyers said Tuesday.

The city, located about 25 miles northeast of Charlotte, has agreed to pay $22 million of the settlement.

Long, now 68, was a young Black man living in Concord when he was accused of raping a White woman. »

US approves sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey

Authored by aljazeera.com
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The United States has approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey after the Turkish parliament this week ratified Sweden’s NATO membership.

The US Department of State notified Congress of the $23bn agreement to sell the warplanes to NATO ally Turkey on Friday night, along with a companion $8.6bn sale of advanced F-35 fighter jets to Greece, also an ally in the Western military bloc.

The sale to Turkey includes 40 Lockheed Martin F-16s and equipment to modernise 79 of its existing F-16 fleet. »