[ad_1] LANSING — Former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield embezzled public and private funds to support a lavish lifestyle of fine dining, ritzy hotels and trips to exotic locations, Attorney General Dana Nessel said Tuesday in announcing felony charges against the former GOP leader and his wife, Stephanie. Chatfield, 35, who held a powerful post …
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[ad_1] Lansing — Attorney General Dana Nessel unveiled 13 criminal charges against former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield on Tuesday, saying he had flagrantly misused nonprofit dollars to pay off his credit card and fund purchases at wineries and retail stores. Nessel’s office is also charging Lee Chatfield’s wife, Stephanie Chatfield, for her role in …
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[ad_1] You’ve seldom seen Nigel Farage look quite so happy. Beatific bordering on ecstasy. And all because he had been cancelled. Something he has longed for all his career. Failing to be elected as an MP on seven separate occasions was just proof of the limitations of democracy. Winning the Brexit referendum was almost a …
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[ad_1] A view of the U.S. Capitol. Stock.adobe.com photo by Matthew Carroll. The 2024 campaign for U.S. Senate in Maryland is breaking all kinds of financial records, according to new campaign finance reports filed on Monday. For the past few campaign finance reporting periods. Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks (D) has boasted of setting …
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[ad_1] MOSCOW – “I plan to do interviews, reports and avoid going to jail.” With these words, actress Antonina Favorskaya landed her first job in Russian media in 2022. She soon became a court photographer. Driven by her activism, she took photos of Russian political prisoners in court for the independent SOTAvision news outlet. Two years …
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[ad_1] India will kick off the world’s largest democratic exercise on Friday, with 969 million registered voters casting the ballot to elect 543 members of the Lok Sabha, India’s lower house of parliament over seven phases starting April 19. The world’s most populous country has more than 2,500 political parties, but a mere 10 of …
[ad_1] Donald Trump’s tax plans have already proven a hit with billionaires. What Joe Biden is hoping is that those same plans will be politically toxic in the swing states that will decide the election this fall. That calculation is set to be a central theme of a speech Biden is set to give in …
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[ad_1] Victoria Spartz’s late entry into the 5th Congressional District primary has put her reelection chances at risk as she continues to struggle to fundraise with one month to go until election day. Her most well-funded opponent, Gaylor Electric CEO and Noblesville state Rep. Chuck Goodrich, has raised more than six times what Spartz …
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[ad_1] A former president of the United States went on trial for the first time in American history on Monday. And as any political analyst will tell you, this Manhattan “hush money”/election interference case is the least concerning to voters among Donald Trump’s four indictments. But what’s also true is that Americans have overwhelmingly found …
[ad_1] Sugnu, India – Ratan Kumar Singh, a 58-year-old high school teacher, never imagined he would be happy to see armed fighters, or “revolutionaries” as he called them. But on May 28 last year, Singh welcomed them to his town of Sugnu in Manipur, a state in India’s northeast corner bordering Myanmar. For nearly three …