The Daily Populous

Saturday December 14th, 2024 day edition

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The civil trial jury found Las Vegas police and two detectives, now retired, fabricated evidence during their investigation and intentionally inflicted emotional distress upon Lobato.

Lobato was 18 when she was interviewed by police without an attorney, arrested and charged with killing Duran Bailey in Las Vegas in July 2001.

No physical evidence or witnesses connected Lobato to the killing, and she maintained she never met Bailey.

But police maintained she confessed in jail that she had killed a man who tried to rape her during a three-day methamphetamine binge.

She was exonerated and freed from prison in late 2017 after the Innocence Project and attorneys in Las Vegas again took her case to the state Supreme Court.

Justices said evidence showed that Lobato was in her hometown of Panaca, Nevada, some 150 miles (214 kilometers) from Las Vegas when Bailey was killed.

Last October, a state court judge in Las Vegas issued a certificate declaring Lobato innocent of Bailey’s killing. »

President Yoon Suk Yeol impeached

Authored by koreajoongangdaily.joins.com

He transitioned into politics less than a year before the last presidential election, which he narrowly won by a margin of less than 1 percent.

If his impeachment is upheld, Yoon will become the second Korean president to be removed from office during their term, following Park's ouster in 2017. »

South Korea latest: South Korea's President Yoon suspended after MPs vote to impeach him

Authored by bbc.com

The passage of the impeachment motion is "not the end of South Korea’s political turmoil," says Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul.

"It is not even the beginning of the end, which will ultimately involve election of a new president," he said.

The constitutional court now has up to 180 days to rule on whether President Yoon should be impeached or restored. »

Whoops! Donald Trump Admits He Doesn’t Know How to Fix Inflation

Authored by newrepublic.com
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You go out to the docks and you see all these containers,” Trump said.

He proceeded to describe a port in California that held over a dozen full shipping containers as evidence for a “broken” supply chain.

In 2022, Mexico accounted for a whopping 69 percent of U.S. vegetable imports and 51 percent of fresh fruit imports. »