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| Republicans defended Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday after it was reported that he failed to disclose gifts and a real estate transaction from a billionaire GOP donor. “Justice Thomas has been attacked and excoriated since his confirmation hearing, and I suspect this is just a continuation of that,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told HuffPost on Monday. Thomas has come under fire for not reporting over two decades of luxury travel that he and his wife, Ginni Thomas, took with Texas real estate mogul Harlan Crow, including trips on the donor’s yacht and private jet. Thomas has said he and Crow are friends. Last week, ProPublica revealed that Thomas also failed to disclose a 2014 real estate deal to sell properties in Georgia to the billionaire. Thomas’ mother still lives on one of the properties and doesn’t pay rent. Federal law appears to require any real estate deal to be reported on financial disclosure forms. |
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| Ralph Yarl, the Black teen shot in the head by a white Kansas City man for going to the wrong home to pick up his younger siblings, has been crying “buckets of tears” since he was wounded last week, his mother said on Monday. In her first interview since the shooting, Cleo Nagbe told Gayle King on “CBS Mornings” that her 16-year-old son is “doing considerably well” physically, but he is still dealing with emotional trauma. “He’s able to communicate mostly when he feels like it,” Nagbe said. “But mostly he just sits there and stares, and the buckets of tears just roll down his eyes. You can see that he’s just replaying the situation over and over again, and that just doesn’t stop my tears either.” Yarl left his home on Thursday night to pick up his twin younger brothers from their friend’s house, as requested by his mother. While the teen had the correct house number, he turned onto the wrong street and pulled into the driveway of Andrew Lester, an 85-year-old white man. |
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| Dominion Voting Systems abruptly reached a $787.5 million settlement with Fox News on Tuesday in its massive defamation suit against the media giant, the same day the blockbuster trial was expected to begin. Other terms of the settlement were not immediately available, but the decision means the right-wing cable network will avoid a potentially embarrassing trial and protect top brass from publicly testifying. The deal also serves to inoculate the network from legal repercussions linked to the spread of misinformation during and after the 2020 presidential election — at least for now. |
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