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Human remains have been found at Florida nature preserve that may be connected to the death of Gabby Petito and the disappearance of Brian Laundrie. The partial remains were uncovered in an area that had previously been underwater. The remains were found near a backpack consistent with items Laundrie may have had when he disappeared in September, according to NBC News. “Further forensic analysis” will be conducted to identify the remains, a law enforcement official said. Hours earlier, the FBI located a number of Laundrie’s items on a trail in Florida after the his family told law enforcement ...
In a deal that could eventually net Donald Trump around $3 billion or more, shareholders in Digital World Acquisition Corporation this Friday voted in favor of a merger with the former President's social media company.
The vote comes over two years after DWAC said it planned to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns the Truth Social platform, NBC News reported.
"It also comes as Trump faces the possibility that New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday will start trying to collect on a massive $454 million civil fraud judgment against him," NBC News' report stated, adding the the combined company now known as "Trump Media" could begin to be publicly traded next week under the stock symbol DJT, Trump’s initials.
Russia's financial watchdog said Friday it had added what it calls the "international LGBT movement" to its list of terrorists and extremists.
The implication of its listing was not immediately clear.
The Rosfinmonitoring watchdog has the power to freeze bank accounts of specific entities named on the list, but did not name any person or organisation on its website.
Russia's Supreme Court declared the movement as "extremist" last November, without saying to whom it referred but effectively banning LGBTQ activism across the country.
The Kremlin has taken a conservative turn since launching its offensive in Ukraine two years ago, casting the conflict as a battleground against the West and its ideas.
Russia banned what it calls "gay propaganda" among adults in 2022, extending an earlier law that forbade it among minors. That effectively outlawed any representation of "non-traditional sexual relations" in public and in the media.
A Russian court on Wednesday ordered two employees of a gay bar to be held in pre-trial detention, accusing them of organising an "extremist organization", the first such case after the Supreme Court decision.
Former President Donald Trump's lawyers are scrambling to explain away his $500 million boast, posted to Truth Social Friday morning, after they said in court filings their client couldn't come up with that kind of cash, according to a new report.
Trump's attorneys told CNN reporter Kara Scannell Friday morning that Trump's all-caps claim that he currently has almost $500 million in cash — more than the $464 million he's been ordered to pay in his New York City civil fraud trial — wasn't exactly right.
"His lawyers clarified that statement to me this morning, saying Trump was referring to the cash he has made through running his business, which he has disclosed on his campaign forms," Scannell told host Jim Acosta. "But that's not the actual amount of cash that he currently has on hand."
Trump's contradictory statement arrived just three days before the payment comes due and as New York Attorney General Letitia James readies her team to begin seizing the former president's eponymous golf course and Westchester estate Seven Springs.
Acosta then turned to Trump's former White House lawyer, and CNN commentator, Jim Schultz for his take on Trump's financial standing ahead of the looming deadline.
"Trump has repeatedly said that his paying this half-billion-dollar bond would be impossible, but he just posted that he has raised nearly $500 million," Acosta said. "Which is it?"
Schultz said he'd trust the lawyers over the former president.
"His lawyers were making the argument that he doesn't, right?" said Schultz. "So I think that's the representation that I would probably trust the most as it relates to what he has and what he doesn't have."
Schultz then urged Trump to seriously consider filing for bankruptcy, which he argued was the former president's best option from a legal perspective, if not a political one.
"If he were to file bankruptcy, a lot of this would be stayed," said Schultz. "But that might not look so good during a presidential campaign."