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After losing a loved one to a preventable medical condition, Amy Vilela didn’t know what to do with the anger she felt about America’s broken health care system. Cori Bush was drawn into the streets when the police shooting of an unarmed black man brought protests and tanks into her neighborhood. Paula Jean Swearengin was fed up with watching her friends and family suffer and die from the environmental effects of the coal industry. Two people are dead following a collision near Limoges.Shortly before 3 p.m.
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And I was curious for you, if as an African American woman, there was any little extra fraught-ness. NPR's Michel Martin discusses the new Netflix documentary Knock Down the House with the director, Rachel Lears, and one of the Democratic primary candidates profiled in the film, Cori Bush. Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that his hush money trial is rigged. CNN's Julia Benbrook looks at whether Americans agree with their former President. MCSO was alerted last week by an MGM school resource officer to an attempted sale of fentanyl to a student via social media.
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Vilela, who ran in the Democratic primary in Nevada, seems the most personally invested, having been driven into politics by an agonizing family tragedy that she speaks about with raw, heart-heavy candor. Both Bush (from Missouri) and Swearengin (West Virginia) largely appear fed up with the establishment Democrats representing their districts. “We’re coming out of the belly of the beast kicking and screaming,” Swearengin says. For Mr. Pigott, 64, who has written a book about the history of the city’s courthouses, the real significance is what it says about the status of a few blocks of Manhattan as a nexus. He pointed out that Mr. Trump’s civil fraud case and defamation case also both played out this year in courthouses within spitting distance of the criminal trial. In a newsletter from the town historian’s office this winter, Ward wrote that Shutt participated in the “great reforms of the day” and at one time lived in an experimental Massachusetts community where author Nathaniel Hawthorne was an original shareholder.
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While capturing Ocasio-Cortez’s triumph, “Knock Down the House” doesn’t shy away from capturing the deflation of defeat, another way the film departs from some other political documentaries and pop culture depictions of politics that paint a rosier picture. And who could, instead, speak furiously about how those powerful industries had hurt them and their families. If anything unsettled Ocasio-Cortez, it was exposing her relationship with her boyfriend, Riley Roberts, which the couple has otherwise tried to keep under wraps.
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But that strategy, which led to a tense exchange in the Lower Manhattan courtroom, did not seem to pay off. Mr. Pecker repeatedly rejected characterizations and questions posed by the lawyer, Emil Bove, and resisted the suggestion that he had not been forthright in earlier testimony. “This one-block radius has been the epicenter of criminal justice in New York since the 1830s,” said Mr. Pigott. In these buildings, a jury convicted Anna Sorokin for grand larceny in 2019 for posing as a German heiress to swindle wealthy New Yorkers — a case that almost by definition blurred fact and fiction.
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Crowley appears positively asleep at the wheel, waking up only when The New York Times excoriates him, to awkwardly bop at a Queens Pride parade, and talk almost exclusively about Trump. I remember that night for its pulsing energy, the hysterical sense that people, stunningly, had actually accomplished something in our broken political system. The result was so clearly and swiftly delivered that it felt like a drug.
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Both of them live in New York City, so she was able to film Ocasio-Cortez earlier in the campaign cycle and more frequently. Faced with a limited budget, Lears was unable to start traveling with and filming the other candidates until early 2018, so for them, she didn’t have the same footage of the early days of their campaigns, she said. The documentary uses the successful campaign of Ocasio-Cortez ― the only one of the four subjects to win her primary ― as its backbone, while interspersing scenes from the other women’s campaigns. Vilela made health care, including “Medicare for All,” a signature issue in her campaign because of her daughter Shalynne, who died in 2015 after doctors refused to perform potentially lifesaving tests because she didn’t have proof she had health insurance. It wants to promote the hard work, courage and progressive policies of these women, who have all experienced financial hardship. Still, the film lets its subjects do the talking instead of cluttering things with statistics.
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The company was later used to pay Stormy Daniels the hush money. Mr. Trump will use the midweek break to campaign in Wisconsin and Michigan, two battleground states in this year’s election. His testimony also teed up the story of Stormy Daniels, a porn star who claims to have had sex with Mr. Trump in 2006 and received a hush-money payment in the days before the 2016 election, a deal at the center of the case. The property owner wants to demolish the structure to build a two-story office building, Newsday has reported. The town planning board in September granted the application, according to the town resolution authorizing the demolition. For example, according to Vilela, during debates and meetings she had with Horsford, he tried to diminish Shalynne’s death as the catalyst for her campaign’s focus on health care.
The first step was to put tarps all over the roof to ensure no more water or moisture entered the house. When the two took possession of the home, it had been empty for four years, the couple said. A family built it in the 1960s, and then it was passed down to two siblings, a son and a daughter. The son, an architect, lived in the home for many years, and then, when he passed away, the house went to his sister, who then sold it to Phipps and Volkov. One of the most significant issues the couple encountered immediately was that the roof needed to be replaced. Other issues included completely overgrown landscaping, mold throughout, and high levels of moisture from all the water that had come into the house over the years.
Peter Ward, a historian with the historical society, said he plans to work with consultant Crew Froebel, who said he would donate his time, to create a digital replica of the house that will be available on the historical society website. The approval modified covenants and restrictions attached to the property that required the owner to keep the historic structure, town officials said. Now, the property owner can file for and obtain a demolition permit for the structure, subject to the construction of a building incorporating elements from the original such as the turret and semicircular windows. In the video, filmed by CNN but widely circulated on social media, chaos unfolds on the Atlanta campus as officers move in on the impromptu tent city erected by demonstrators early that morning. Lears was there to document a happier election night for Ocasio-Cortez, and the documentary's final moments track the Congresswoman's giddy arrival in Washington D.C. But, to her, "Knock Down the House'' isn't about winning. The candidates are backed by the political action committees Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats, groups that were Lears' gateway to the four candidates.
The first criminal trial of former President Donald J. Trump is underway. One of the defendant’s lawyers, Emil Bove, pushed Mr. Pecker about the real purpose of the deal with Ms. McDougal, whether her top priority was money and whether the agreement had other benefits for her. Mr. Pecker conceded that dozens of articles were published under her name.
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