
President-elect Donald Trump’s net worth climbed to $6.1 billion in 2024 despite his facing various legal challenges, according to Forbes. Trump’s net worth was around $2.5 billion early in 2024, according to Forbes. Trump’s majority stake in Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group, largely contributed to his growth in net worth this year. The president-elect’s net worth as of Dec. 23 made him the 530th wealthiest person in the world, and he is now back on Forbes list of America’s richest people, according to Forbes. Trump’s net worth hit over $8.1 billion in May, an all time high, Forbes reported . (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Trump owes over $1.5 billion in liabilities, as well as owing the more than $480 million, plus interest, from his New York civil fraud trial, according to Forbes. Trump said in November that he would not sell his Truth Social shares. During his first presidential term, Trump made more money as the sitting president than any previous president, Forbes reported . Trump is set to make an annual salary of $400,000 as president, according to Fortune. During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump vowed to donate his salary if he was elected, and he donated at least $1.4 million of the $1.6 million he earned as president to various federal agencies, according to Forbes. Whether or not Trump plans to donate his presidential salary during his second term remains to be seen, according to Yahoo Finance. (RELATED: Biden Admin Invoked ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ To Cut Alaska Drilling, But Some Tribal Leaders Are Ready For Trump) Trump has faced various legal challenges over the past year, including being convicted in May for falsifying business records. New York Judge Juan Merchan ruled on Dec. 16 that Trump’s felony conviction in his non-disclosure agreement case should not be thrown out despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on his presidential immunity. New York Judge Arthur Engoron ruled in February that Trump must pay over $350 million in damages as part of his civil fraud trial, a figure that was revised to $454 million , after ruling he was liable for fraud in September 2023. Trump submitted a $175 million bond in April as part of his appeal against his civil fraud judgment. The president-elect announced plans on Dec. 16 to sue the Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer over her survey finding Vice President Kamala Harris leading in Iowa ahead of the November presidential election. Earlier in December, ABC News and one of its leading hosts, George Stephanopoulos, agreed to pay $15 million to settle Trump’s defamation lawsuit against them. All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org .Hyderabad City Police Set up Drone Wing for Air SurveillanceY2K is so back
UniAbuja Council Approves Promotion Of 154 Staff, Elevates 33 Professional RankWASHINGTON , Dec. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA has selected Nova Space Solutions, LLC of Anchorage, Alaska , to provide operations, services, maintenance, and infrastructure support for NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi , and NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans . The Combined Operations, Services, Maintenance, and Infrastructure Contract is a cost-plus-incentive-fee, firm-fixed-price, and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that has a value of approximately $822.7 million . The performance period begins July 1, 2025 , and extends eight years and three months, with a 15-month base period, followed by a one-year option period and three two-year option periods. Under the contract, Nova Space Solutions will be responsible for contract management, logistics, safety, health and environmental compliance, engineering and manufacturing support services, site services, facility operations and maintenance services, and environmental services and program management. NASA's Stennis Space Center is the nation's largest propulsion test site, with infrastructure to support projects ranging from component and subscale testing to large engine hot fires. Researchers from NASA, other government agencies, and private industry use NASA Stennis test facilities for technology and propulsion research and developmental projects. NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, managed by the agency's Marshall Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama , is the nation's premier site for manufacturing and assembly of large-scale space structures and systems. For information about NASA and other agency programs, visit: https://www.nasa.gov View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nasa-awards-operations-services-maintenance-and-infrastructure-contract-302325313.html SOURCE NASANorth Yorkshire village temperature 'lowest in England for 14 years' as yellow weather warning issuedDow ends at fresh record as oil prices pull back on ceasefire hopes
In keeping with a long-standing Thanksgiving tradition, President Joe Biden recently pardoned a pair of turkeys . During a ceremony at the White House, the birds — named Peach and Blossom — were spared from the dinner table and given a new lease on life. While it was an act of pure political pageantry, it highlights the president’s expansive pardon powers — which could be used liberally during his final two months in office. Historically, presidents have issued numerous pardons during their lame duck periods, including quite a few that have raised eyebrows. Here is what to know about presidential pardons. Presidential pardon power Article II of the Constitution enables the president to grant clemency for any federal crime, according to a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report. This authority is rooted in an old English law that permits monarchs to bestow mercy on criminals. “The president’s power to pardon is astronomical,” Taylor Stoermer, a historian at Johns Hopkins University, told McClatchy News. “The Constitution doesn’t even require an explanation. The only real limits are that it doesn’t apply to state crimes or impeachment cases.” “So the president can grant full pardons, commute sentences, or even offer amnesty, on an individual basis or for an entire class of people,” Stoermer said. How often do presidents grant clemency? Most presidents have issued numerous acts of clemency throughout their terms in office, according to historians. For example, Donald Trump, during his first term, granted 143 pardons and 94 commutations, according to the Pew Research Center. During Barack Obama’s eight years in office, he issued 212 pardons and 1,715 commutations. Among the commutations granted by both men were multiple that concerned low-level drug offenses , such as possession of marijuana. However, these acts of clemency have not typically been distributed evenly throughout a president’s tenure. Since 1945, every president — with the exception of Lyndon Johnson — granted clemency at a higher rate during the last four months of their terms, according to CRS. For example, Obama granted an average of 296 acts of clemency per month during his final four months in office, compared with an average of eight per month before that. Similarly, Trump issued an average of 50 per month during the last four months compared with an average of one per month before that. “Trump certainly kept to that pattern, and I would not be surprised if Biden does as well,” Thomas Balcerski, a presidential historian at Eastern Connecticut State University, told McClatchy News. Additionally, these 11th hour acts of mercy tend to be the most controversial ones. “Most save the big, bold pardons for the end of their terms,” Stoermer said. “And because exactly why you’d think: No voters to answer to.” Controversial acts of clemency Throughout history, presidents have issued a fair number of pardons, commutations and acts of amnesty that have received widespread scrutiny. “The most famous, of course, is Gerald Ford’s pardoning of Richard Nixon,” Vernon Burton, an emeritus history professor at Clemson University, told McClatchy News. In September 1974, following the Watergate scandal and Nixon’s resignation, Ford issued a full pardon for any crimes Nixon “committed or may have committed” against the United States. Jimmy Carter also took flak for pardoning “all of the Vietnam War draft dodgers,” Burton said. “That was huge.” This pardon, issued on Carter’s first day in office in 1977, applied to roughly 100,000 military-age men who avoided going to war , according to Politico. “Then there’s George H.W. Bush pardoning key players in Iran-Contra,” Stoermer said. With less than one month until he left office, Bush pardoned six people , including a former secretary of defense, wrapped up in the illegal arms scandal. More recently, Obama reduced the sentence of Oscar Lopez Rivera, a Puerto Rican activist whose political organization was responsible for dozens of robberies and bombings in the U.S. And Trump preemptively pardoned adviser Steven Bannon, who was charged with bilking donors out of money they gave toward the construction of a border wall. “These kinds of moves show how the pardon power can get tangled up in political strategy or personal connections — and that’s what makes it fascinating (or infuriating) to watch,” Stoermer said. Have presidents pardoned family members? Given that Biden’s son Hunter Biden has been convicted of felony offenses , some have wondered whether he will issue a pardon before he leaves office. “Would he pardon Hunter Biden? That’d be quite something,” Balcerski said. “There is some precedent.” On his last day in office, President Bill Clinton issued a pardon for his half-brother Roger Clinton, who had pleaded guilty to a cocaine distribution charge. “That was slightly less impactful because Roger Clinton had already served the time,” Stoermer said. “So that was mostly about clearing his record than dodging accountability.” Biden, though, has said he has no plans to grant clemency to his son. Could Trump break the mold? Trump could break with long-standing tradition of issuing controversial pardons at the end of his term, historians said. The president-elect has vowed to pardon some of the people convicted of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot on his first day in office. “I am inclined to pardon many of them ,” he wrote on social media in March, according to ABC News. Throughout the country, about 1,500 people have been charged in connection with the riot, including about 547 who were charged with “assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees.” “It wouldn’t be surprising to see an unprecedented wave of pardons right out of the gate, particularly for January 6 rioters,” Stoermer said. “That would take the use of the pardon power into completely uncharted territory.” “Of course, there is a precedent: Carter’s first-day pardon of draft evaders of the Vietnam era,” Stoermer said. “That applied to hundreds of thousands of people. But that’s not quite the same as a coup.” ©2024 The Charlotte Observer. Visit charlotteobserver.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.Google’s Genie 2 “world model” reveal leaves more questions than answers - Ars TechnicaThe JPM Healthcare Conference is the largest and most informative health care investment symposium in the industry which connects global industry leaders, emerging fast-growth companies, innovative technology creators and members of the investment community. Pioneering the Economics of Health to examine the interdependencies of the healthcare ecosystem which are often overlooked when only considering a singular silo of it. AI In Biopharma to highlight how AI-driven technologies can revolutionize drug discovery, accelerate development timelines, enhance patient accessibility, foster quicker innovation, and significantly reduce operating costs. Panelists to include David Rhew (Global Chief Medical Officer and VP of Healthcare, Microsoft), Sean Tunis (Principal, Rubix Health), Peter Ehrhardt (Senior Partner, Simon-Kucher), and Poonam Alaigh (Former Acting Under Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs). WARREN, N.J., Dec. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tevogen Bio ("Tevogen" or "Tevogen Bio Holdings Inc.") TVGN , will host panel discussions at the 43rd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, California. Event Details Date: Monday, January 13, 2025 Location: Marines' Memorial Club & Hotel, 609 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 94102 Time (PST): 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM – AI in Biopharma: Next Frontier of Medical Innovation Panelists: Dr. David Rhew – Global Chief Medical Officer and VP of Healthcare, Microsoft MSFT Dr. Sean Tunis – Principal, Rubix Health Mittul Mehta – Chief Information Officer and Head of Tevogen.AI, Tevogen Bio 2:30 pm – 3:15 pm – Afternoon Coffee Break 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM – Pioneering the Economics of Health: Balancing Access and Outcomes Victor Sordillo – MD, Risk Advisory Services, Verita CSG, Inc; Member, Board of Directors, Tevogen Bio Peter Ehrhardt – Senior Partner at Simon-Kucher & Partners Dr. Poonam Alaigh – Former Acting Under Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Former Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Health Dr. Sean Tunis - Principal, Rubix Health; Senior Fellow, Tufts Center for Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health; Venture Mentor, Johns Hopkins Tech Ventures Dr. Ryan Saadi – Founder and CEO, Tevogen Bio 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM – Reception and Cocktails For inquiries regarding additional event details, please contact communications@tevogen.com . About Tevogen Bio Tevogen is a clinical-stage specialty immunotherapy company harnessing one of nature's most powerful immunological weapons, CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes, to develop off-the-shelf, genetically unmodified precision T cell therapies for the treatment of infectious diseases, cancers, and neurological disorders, aiming to address the significant unmet needs of large patient populations. Tevogen Leadership believes that sustainability and commercial success in the current era of healthcare rely on ensuring patient accessibility through advanced science and innovative business models. Tevogen has reported positive safety data from its proof-of-concept clinical trial, and its key intellectual property assets are wholly owned by the company, not subject to any third-party licensing agreements. These assets include three granted patents, nine pending US and twelve ex-US pending patents, two of which are related to artificial intelligence. 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From a General Election which saw the political landscape change in the UK to shocking murder trials, a slump in tourism and a string of well-known high-street companies going bust, it has certainly been an eventful year. April might usually be the time for japes and when we start looking forward to summer, but this year there was a lot of serious news to contend with. Jake Hill, who murdered rugby player Michael Riddiough-Allen by stabbing him outside the Eclipse nightclub in last year, was . His co-accused, Tia Taylor, was sentenced to three years in jail after pleading guilty to manslaughter and perverting the course of justice. Chelsea Powell was convicted of perverting the course of justice and sentenced to 15 months in prison. was warned that the cash-strapped scheme to develop the Pydar area of could become its “own ” following discussions that an extra £10 million should be spent to ensure the Pydar development goes ahead. A Bodmin pub that won a coveted Pub of the Year award was stripped of the accolade after it emerged it had Nazi memorabilia on display. The by Camra Kernow – in part due to its unique decor but landlord Steve Hall came under fire after a complaint about “a swastika armband” even though it had been displayed for decades without any issue. Camra later reinstated the award following a . The Isles of Scilly Steamship Group came under fire because its new passenger ferry was being built in a shipyard in Vietnam and not the UK. The GMB trade union said it was an “absolute scandal” that the £42 million contract wasn’t given to a British firm, sharing the benefits with the local community which “needs the work”. The director of a national charity which campaigns to said Cornwall is "slow walking into a crisis as it is being left behind by a lack of action”. The Action on Empty Homes organisation said the number of empty homes is just the tip of the iceberg if the number of second homes, Airbnbs, holiday homes and other categories are taken into consideration. The charity, which has spent 30 years fighting for homes to be brought back into use, said that the number of empty homes in Cornwall is currently around 20,363, which equates to more than one in 14 properties. Protesters took to the as part of a continuing campaign against the planned release of tonnes of a mineral into the sea by Canadian company Planetary Technologies and South West Water as a way to fight climate change. Opponents of plans by Premier Inn to build a 90-room hotel in believed Cornwall Council's recommendation to approve the scheme was a total whitewash. The massive financial scale of the was revealed by administrators. At the end of January, work stopped on the controversial regeneration housing scheme after all companies involved went bust. Documents available on Companies House show that Sennybridge Ltd, the company through which the funds for the Hayle Harbour North Quay regeneration project flowed, racked up massive debts of more than £135.4m as of January 31, 2024. Truro when disposing of toxic asbestos and putting the health of its staff, contractors and the general public at risk when it and its director Paul Stephens pleaded guilty to offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 in connection to the removal of asbestos from the former Cliffdene Hotel, on Narrowcliff in , ahead of its demolition in the summer of 2020. Former , 33, from was killed in an Israeli drone strike while providing security to a charity feeding starving children in Gaza. Meanwhile, figures showed that thousands of elderly patients in Cornwall waited more than 24 hours in A&E before being admitted to hospital in 2023. FOI requests submitted to hospital trusts by the showed 2,523 over-65s had to wait more than 24 hours in the ’s emergency department prior to admission.
Ed Sheeran has apologised to Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim for interrupting him during a live TV interview. The 33-year-old pop star interrupted Amorim's interview with Sky Sports after Ipswich Town's 1-1 draw with United on Sunday (24.11.24). - but Ed has now taken to social media to issue an apology, explaining that he just wanted to greet Sky pundit Jamie Redknapp and that he didn't realise he was even on the air. Ed - who is a minority shareholder of Ipswich - wrote on Instagram: "Apologies if I offended Amorim yesterday, didn’t realise he was actually being interviewed at the time, was popping to say hi and bye to Jamie. Obz feel a bit of a b****** but life goes on. Great game though, congrats to all involved x (sic)" Ed bought his minority stake in the English soccer team earlier this year. The pop star - who is a life-long fan of the team - has sponsored Ipswich since 2021, and he agreed a deal to acquire a 1.4 percent stake in the club. He said in a statement at the time: "I am really excited to have bought a small percentage of my hometown football club. "It’s any football fan’s dream to be an owner of the club they support, and I feel so grateful for this opportunity." Ed also revealed that he was looking forward to seeing his beloved team back in the Premier League league, after they achieved promotion to the top division. He shared: "It’s such a joy to be a fan of Ipswich Town. There are ups and downs but football is all about taking the highs and the lows. "I’m not a voting shareholder or a board member, this is just me putting some money into the club I love and them returning the gesture, so please don’t get onto me with signing suggestions or tactics to play!"
It goes without saying that Diddy is likely in for a long and intense legal battle. The Bad Boy founder is currently behind bars for charges related to alleged sex trafficking and racketeering. If found guilty, he could face a hefty prison sentence, and his trial is scheduled to begin in May 2025. Recently, however, his legal team filed a motion accusing the prosecution of violating his constitutional rights . They allege that prosecutors reviewed confidential legal notes photographed during a raid of his cell in October. His team argues that this allegedly infringes upon his right to a fair trial . Diddy's lawyer Alexandra A.E. Shapiro is asking U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian to dismiss the indictment entirely or disqualify prosecutors involved in reviewing the notes. The motion additionally asks for a Special Master to be appointed to review privileged materials, suppressions of the materials gathered during the aforementioned raid, and a court order preventing surveillance of Diddy's communication with his lawyers. Read More: Diddy Accuses Authorities Of Unfairly Monitoring His Communication In Prison Jul 25, 2023; Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA; Recording artist DJ Khaled and Sean Combs attend the game between Inter Miami CF and Atlanta United at DRV PNK Stadium. Jasen Vinlove / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Prosecutors insist that the raid was conducted due to security concerns and that Diddy was not targeted specifically. This is not the first demand Diddy and his legal team have made as of late, however. Earlier this month, they filed a motion asking that the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn grant him access to a laptop so he can prepare for his upcoming trial. "Mr. Combs has still not been provided with the laptop despite numerous inquiries by defense counsel," their filing reads, according to Meghann Cuniff. "Finally, this morning, the government informed defense counsel that after consultation with MDC counsel, Mr. Combs has two options related to his laptop: (1) he will only be provided with the laptop in the unit's video-teleconference room during select times when legal staff is available and when that room is not otherwise being used during other inmates' legal calls; or (2) he will only be provided with the laptop in the legal visiting room between the hours of 8-3:30pm. But, not both." Read More: Yung Miami Addresses Stefon Diggs Romance Rumors After Diddy Split [Via]Democrats strike deal to get more Biden judges confirmed before Congress adjourns