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Bill Richardson, a two-term Democratic governor of New Mexico and a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who dedicated his post-political career to working to free Americans detained overseas, has died. He was 75.
The Richardson Center for Global Engagement, which he founded and led, said in a statement Saturday that he died in his sleep at his home in Chatham, Massachusetts.
“Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Erika Jayne conspired with a Secret Service agent who once reportedly had ties to Hunter Biden — to pursue bogus credit card fraud charges against her former costume designer, according to a bombshell $18 million lawsuit.
Christopher Psaila accused Jayne, 52, of filing fraudulent refund requests with American Express and, through her hubby, Tom Girardi, bribing Secret Service Agent Robert Savage III to “weaponize” the agency and unjustly prosecute the designer over legitimate charges he billed her in 2015 and 2016, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Central California.
Text messages labeled as being from Robert Savage III were reportedly found on the first son’s abandoned laptop.
Savage’s lawyer has insisted to The Post that “my client has never met or communicated with Hunter Biden.”
Federal officials shut down the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert Saturday after torrential rains turned the site of the annual arts and music event into a treacherous, muddy pit and organizers told more than 73,000 participants to shelter in place.
Those heading to the festival this weekend were told to “turn around and head home,” by the federal Bureau of Land Management, the public agency which manages the land where the event is held.
“Rain over the last 24 hours has created a situation that required a full stop of vehicle movement on the playa,” the BLM said in a statement announcing the closure of access roads.
“More rain is expected over the next few days and conditions are not expected to improve enough to allow vehicles to enter the playa.”
Earlier, organizers had told participants to conserve their food and water, and banned vehicles from roads as Burners, as participants are known, spent the night huddled in mud-streaked tents and RVs.
The New York City Police Department will deploy a fleet of hi-tech drones during the Labor Day weekend to monitor complaints about large gatherings associated with West Indian American Day celebrations, a tactic that has been denounced by civil liberties advocates.
Mayor Eric Adams, a former NYPD officer himself, has pushed back against criticism of the policing tactic. The technology isn’t to spy on revelers but to better deploy officers and crisis management teams, he said at a Friday briefing.
“There are a number of calls of loud music, disruptive behavior. Instead of the police having to respond and look at those, they’re going to utilize drones from a safe distance, not down, flying into someone’s backyard to see what they have on the grill,” Adams said.
“They’re going to utilize the drones to determine, should they send crisis management teams there right away to help mitigate the problem,” he added.
Gauvain knows that Cimourdain will guillotine Lantenac after a show trial. He visits him in prison, where Lantenac expresses his uncompromising conservative vision of society ordered by hierarchy, deference and duty. Gauvain insists that humane values transcend tradition. To prove it, he allows Lantenac to escape and then gives himself up to the tribunal that was convened to try him. Gauvain's forgiveness after Lantenac's courageous act contrasts with Lantenac's executing the sailor at the beginning of the novel. Gauvain is then tried for treason. The tribunal comprises Cimourdain, Radoub and Gauvain's deputy, Guéchamp. Radoub votes to acquit, but the others vote to condemn Gauvain to be executed, with Cimourdain casting the deciding vote. Visited by Cimourdain in prison, Gauvain outlines his own vision of a future society with minimal government, no taxes, technological progress and sexual equality. The following morning he is executed by guillotine. At the same moment, Cimourdain shoots himself.
originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
Looks like the priming of the public for a Michael Obama presidential run has started: