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Florida golf course in an apparent bid to kill the former president wrote a letter months earlier describing an «assassination attempt» and offering a bounty on Trump's life, U.S. prosecutors said on Monday. Ryan Routh, 58, has been charged with two gun crimes after he allegedly pointed a rifle through the tree line on Sept. 15 while the Republican presidential candidate was playing golf at his course in West Palm Beach, according to a criminal complaint. He has not yet entered a plea. Routh is due to appear at a hearing scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) on Monday in which prosecutors where will ask a judge to keep him in jail until his trial. In a court filing released before the hearing, prosecutors said that several months prior to the incident, Routh dropped off a handwritten letter addressed to «the world» that offered a bounty on Trump.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Earlier this month, OpenAI released its most-advanced models yet, saying they had the ability to “reason" and solve complex math and coding problems. The leading AI startup, valued at some $150 billion, also acknowledged that they raised the risk artificial intelligence (AI) could be misused to create biological weapons.

Supreme Court on Monday suggested that Parliament should seriously consider bringing an amendment to the POCSO Act for substituting the term "child pornography" with «child sexual exploitative and abuse material» with a view to reflect more accurately the reality of such offences. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala said the Centre, in the meantime, may consider to bring about the suggested amendment to the POCSO Act by way of an Ordinance. «We put the courts to notice that the term 'child pornography' shall not be used in any judicial order or judgment, and instead the term 'child sexual exploitative and abuse material' (CSEAM) should be endorsed,» the bench said. The apex court delivered a landmark judgement which held that watching and downloading child pornography are offences under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 and the Information Technology (IT) Act.

single litigant" for the courts and it should come with a unified stand after taking on board all the departments concerned, the Supreme Court has said. The observation by a bench headed by Justice BR Gavai came while noting that there appeared to be some inter-se disputes between the forest and revenue departments of the Mizoram government in a matter pertaining to a May 1965 notification. The apex court noted a single judge of the Gauhati High Court's Aizawl bench, in January 2021, held the notification issued in the Assam Gazette dated May 19, 1965, «notifying the order passed by the chief executive officer, Mizo District Council, declaring forests located within half a mile on either side of the river Tuirial and 15 other rivers to be the Council Reserved Forest, is not sustainable in law». It said the state had preferred an appeal before a division bench of the high court but on November 9, 2022, it sought liberty to withdraw the appeal with the liberty to file a fresh one, if required.

Social media platform X has named a legal representative in Brazil — a first step toward being able to resume service in the country — but its suspension will continue until it meets further requirements, a judge has ruled. Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said in a decision published Saturday that X had still «not duly met» all requirements for ending the ban, and he gave it five days to file additional documents. The high-profile judge has been engaged in a long feud with X's owner, billionaire Elon Musk, as part of his drive to crack down on disinformation in Brazil.

Dick Moss, the lawyer who won the arbitration case that created free agency for baseball players, has died

Kamat Hotels (India), the Bombay High Court has directed a clutch of online travel portals including Makemytrip, Goibibo, Booking.com B.V. and Agoda to take down the listings of a company that allegedly infringed the trademark of its brand 'The Orchid'. The BSE-listed hotel chain Kamat Hotels had approached the court against city-based firm Orchid Service Apartment with the argument that the company was infringing its trademark by running a service apartment/hotel and rendering services under the trade mark 'The Orchid'. «The identity/close and deceptive similarity of the rival marks and the services cannot be a mere coincidence,» observed Justice RI Chagla in his order of September 18.

telecommunications in India by drawing private capital into the industry and ensuring it delivers expected services to consumers. Yet, this is not the most sophisticated method of regulation, which should ideally be through enacted rules and their enforcement. In such a scenario, a licence serves as an authorisation while the law addresses detailed contractual obligations.

The Illinois Department of Corrections has spent September moving hundreds of inmates from Stateville Correctional Center in suburban Chicago in preparation for replacing the century-old lockup

Punjab government is likely to effect a cabinet reshuffle on Monday with speculations being rife that four to five MLAs may be inducted while a few ministers may be dropped. However, there was no official confirmation on the reshuffle in the Aam Aadmi Party government. In case there is indeed a reshuffle, the swearing-in ceremony is likely to take place at the Raj Bhavan on Monday, sources said. The likely Cabinet reshuffle would come days after AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal was released from the Tihar Jail upon being granted bail by the Supreme Court in the excise policy case.

arbitral award that a consortium led by ONGC won against the Italian energy multinational ENI Group in 2021. Justice Prateek Jalan passed the stay order after the ENI group deposited over Rs 296 crore in the HC, which also gave liberty to the ONGC to initiate appropriate proceedings with regard to the money lying in the international bank account of the group. However, the HC allowed the Italian energy group to file its objections to the execution petition moved by the ONGC. According to ONGC, the foreign energy company is liable to pay USD 31,577,805 in terms of the award.

Supreme Court is scheduled to deliver on Monday its judgment on a plea challenging a Madras High Court ruling that has said mere downloading and watching child pornography is not an offence under the POCSO Act and the information technology law. A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra is likely to pronounce the verdict. Terming atrocious, the apex court had earlier agreed to hear the plea challenging the high court ruling that has said mere downloading and watching child pornography is not an offence under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Information Technology (IT) Act. On January 11, the Madras High Court quashed the criminal proceedings against a 28-year-old man charged with downloading pornographic content involving children on his mobile phone.

Federal agents boarded a vessel on Saturday managed by the same company as a cargo ship that caused the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse, the FBI confirmed.

Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday revealed why he resigned from his post. «I resigned because I did not come to do corruption or to earn money. I came to change the politics of the country,» said Kejriwal at 'Janta ki Adalat'. «The lawyers said that this case can go on for ten years. I cannot live with this stain. So I thought that I would go to the court of the people,» the AAP leader said.

GCCI) has demanded an urgent review of the mineral taxation ruling by the Supreme Court, stating that the increased cost of mining will inevitably lead to higher prices for essential commodities, including steel, power and cement. The Supreme Court last month allowed states to collect past dues on royalty on minerals bearing land from the Centre and mining companies from April 1, 2005 onwards. «The imposition of further taxes/ cess/ levies, if any, as permitted by the ruling, will further impact the economics of mining operations possibly making it unviable with its natural consequences. »Additionally, the increased cost of mining will inevitably lead to higher prices for essential commodities e.g., steel, power, cement, etc. further fuelling inflation and consequential impact on the nation's economy," GCCI said in a statement.

The FBI has confirmed that federal agents have boarded a vessel managed by the same company as a cargo ship that caused the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse