#EAS #WEA for Greeley, #NE; #Howard, #NE; #Merrick, #NE; #Nance, #NE: National Weather Service: SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING in effect for this area until 5:45 PM CDT for DESTRUCTIVE baseball size hail. Take shelter in a sturdy building, away from windows. People and animals outdoors will be severely injured. Source: NWS Hastings NE

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#EAS #WEA for Howard, #NE; #Merrick, #NE; #Nance, #NE; #Polk, #NE: National Weather Service: #TORNADO WARNING in this area until 6:15 PM CDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS Hastings NE

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#EAS #WEA for Hall, #NE; #Howard, #NE; #Merrick, #NE: National Weather Service: #TORNADO WARNING in this area until 5:15 PM CDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS Hastings NE

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Zatímco ministr zahraničí Petr Macinka otvírá dveře nové vládě k Donaldu Trumpovi, prezident Petr Pavel Američany naštva

Tón: : mírně negativní
#česko #gdelt #pavel #usa #merrick

https://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/politika/vlada/Petr-Pavel-nastval-USA-Ty-maji-podrobne-informace-787581

#Jack #Smith, the former justice department special counsel who led the aborted federal prosecution of Donald Trump,
told a congressional committee that he never spoke to #Joe #Biden about his cases,
according to the transcript of a depositionreleased on Wednesday.

In his behind-closed-doors testimony to the House judiciary committee earlier this month,
Smith defended the charges he brought against Trump for allegedly possessing #classified #documents
and attempting to #overturn the 2020 #election,
while warning of the consequences of allowing election #meddling to go unpunished.

“Theoretically, what happens if there is election interference and the people who are responsible for that are not held accountable?”
Democratic congresswoman Pramila Jayapal asked.

🔥“It becomes the new norm,
and that becomes how we … conduct elections,”
Smith replied, according to the transcript.

“And so the toll on our democracy,
if you had to describe that, what would that be?”
the congresswoman asked.
💥“Catastrophic,” Smith said.

Trump and his Republican allies have alleged that the former special counsel was a key figure in a justice department that Biden had “weaponized” against his predecessor.
The Republican-controlled House judiciary committee earlier this year heard testimony from one of Smith’s top deputies,
and months later subpoenaed the former special counsel for private testimony.
Smith had offered to voluntarily testify in public, as special counsels typically do.

In questioning from Democratic congressman Dan Goldman,
👉Smith said he operated without interference from #Merrick #Garland, the attorney general who appointed him, or any other top justice department officials.

“Did President Biden ever give you any instructions about what you should or should not do related to these investigations?”
Goldman asked.
💥“No,” Smith replied,
later specifying he had not spoken to Biden about his cases in any way.

Smith was appointed in November 2022, and quickly brought the two federal cases against Trump, who also faced state-level charges of election interference in Georgia, and falsifying business records in New York.

While he would later be convicted of #34 #felonies in the Manhattan case,
neither of Trump’s federal indictments went to trial before he returned to office following the 2024 election,
after which Smith, in line with justice department policy, dropped the charges.

The election-interference case was slowed by pretrial motions, including a supreme court ruling that gave presidents #immunity for official acts and forced Smith to make changes to his case.

The classified-documents case was hampered by rulings from Florida judge #Aileen #Cannon, who at one point dismissed Smith’s indictment.

Smith authored a report into his prosecutions, and the portion covering the election interference case was released prior to Biden leaving office.

🆘However, Cannon has barred the chapter discussing the classified-documents charges from being made public, though Democrats on the judiciary committee have asked her to reverse her decision.

At the outset of the hearing, an attorney for Smith, Peter Koski,
told the committee the former special counsel had received an email from the justice department advising him to avoid talking about his evidence in the case because of Cannon’s ruling.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/jack-smith-house-testimony?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Trumpova administrativa má pozitivní očekávání ve vztahu k budoucí vládě Andreje Babiše a dobře se dívá nejen na ANO a M

Tón: : mírně pozitivní
#česko #gdelt #trump #merrick #usa

https://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/politika/vlada/-Turkova-kauza-v-USA-nezajima-Lipavsky-mimo-Zvrat-ve-vztazich-s-Amerikou-782070

Video ~ Court Orders Arrest Of Opposition Leader After USA Seizes Venezuela President’s Aircraft ~ OsazuwaAkonedo

Court Orders Arrest Of Opposition Leader After USA Seizes Venezuela President's Aircraft ~ OsazuwaAkonedo #Antony Blinken #Canada #Corina #Dassault #Dominican #Edmundo #Falcon #Florida #Fort #Garland #Gonzalez #Lauderdale #Machado #Maduro #Maria #Merrick #Nicolas #republic #Saab #Tarek #USA #Venezuela #Issues Published: September 3rd, 2024 Reshared:…

https://osazuwaakonedo.news/video-court-orders-arrest-of-opposition-leader-after-usa-seizes-venezuela-presidents-aircraft-osazuwaakonedo/09/10/2025/

The easy-to-reach viewpoint of a spectacular vista at Monument Valley Arizona, where you can see the West Mittens, East Mittens, and Merrick Butte rock formations rising from the desert floor. A vast cloudy sky and a winding dirt road add depth and contrast to the scene.

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The Justice Department,
together with the Attorneys General of Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York,
🔥filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today
⭐️ to block #UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (UnitedHealth)’s proposed
👉 $3.3 billion acquisition of
rival home health and hospice services provider #Amedisys Inc. (Amedisys).

The complaint filed in the District of Maryland alleges that the transaction would
❌ eliminate competition between UnitedHealth and Amedisys (Defendants).

Since UnitedHealth’s prior acquisition of Amedisys’s home health and hospice rival #LHC Group Inc. (LHC) in 2023, Defendants have been two of the largest home health and hospice providers in the United States.

🆘 Eliminating the competition between UnitedHealth and Amedisys would harm patients who receive home health and hospice services, insurers who contract for home health services, and nurses who provide home health and hospice services.

“We are challenging this merger because home health and hospice patients and their families experiencing some of the most difficult moments of their lives deserve affordable, high quality care options,”
said Attorney General #Merrick B. #Garland.

“The Justice Department will not hesitate to check unlawful consolidation and monopolization in the healthcare market that threatens to harm vulnerable patients, their families, and health care workers.”

“Millions of patients depend on United and Amedisys to receive home health and hospice care in the comfort of their homes,”
said Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer. “

❇️ The Department’s lawsuit demonstrates our commitment to ensuring that consolidation does not threaten quality, affordability, or wages in these vital healthcare markets.

I commend the staff of the Antitrust Division for their extraordinary work on this matter.”
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-block-unitedhealth-groups-acquisition-home-health-and-hospice