The Daily Populous

Sunday November 17th, 2024 night edition

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SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH is closing up shop, with a final task ahead of him: the drafting and filing of reports to outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland on his investigations and indictments of Donald J. Trump.

Which means Smith now has fewer than seventy days to complete his work—including his final report.

with a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions reached by the Special Counsel.”

Garland must then “notify the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Judiciary Committees of each House of Congress.”.

Smith must decide whether to complete two separate reports covering the two distinct investigations or a single report encompassing both.

It’s worth keeping an eye on two categories of information that could be released in Smith’s final reports: classified information and grand jury records.

In the meantime, anyone who worked on the investigations—prosecutors, FBI agents, paralegals, analysts—will have to worry about getting a new job. »

Lindt admits its chocolate isn’t actually ‘expertly crafted with the finest ingredients’ in lawsuit over lead levels in dark chocolate

Authored by fortune.com

“In its defence strategy, the company has dismantled its own promises of quality,” claimed the Swiss newspaper NZZ am Sonntag, raking over a September US court decision.

The court, which dismissed Lindt’s motion, defined product puffery as “exaggerated advertising, blustering, and boasting upon which no reasonable buyer would rely”.

The Swiss newspaper Le Temps said Lindt was “walking a tightrope” with this “daring defence”. »

Bullet strikes Southwest Airlines plane without injuries at Dallas airport

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DALLAS (AP) — A bullet struck the body of a Southwest Airlines airplane preparing for departure from a Dallas airport, forcing the cancellation of the Friday evening flight, the airline said.

No injuries were reported and law enforcement was contacted after the bullet struck the right side of the aircraft just under the flight deck.

At the time, the crew of Flight 2494 was preparing the plane for departure from Dallas Love Field Airport, Southwest said in a statement. »

Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law

Authored by voanews.com

Pakistan’s top advisory body on religious affairs on Friday declared that using virtual private networks to access blocked content on the internet is against Shariah, or Islamic law.

The Council of Islamic Ideology said the technology was being used in Pakistan to access content prohibited according to Islamic principles or forbidden by law, including “immoral and porn websites or websites that spread anarchy through disinformation.”.

“Using VPNs to access blocked or illegal content is against Islamic and social norms, therefore, their use is not acceptable under Islamic law. »