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For agreeing not to sue any �*potential defendent�* connected to the disgraced sex offenderjeffrey epstein. heres our legal correspondent dominic casciani. a woman making the gravest of allegations. the unprecedented defendant, a prince of the realm. and now, a day of critical court hearings for both virginia giuffre and the duke of york. she says she was sexually exploited by the man on the right, jeffrey epstein. ms giuffre, then known as roberts, said epstein coerced the then teenager int...

Then known as roberts, says epstein and his girlfriend coerced the then—teenager into abuse by prince andrew in london, new york and the caribbean. today, the release of a 12—year—old settlement in which ms giuffre, seen here at court in new york, accepted $500,000 to end her original case against epstein. that confidential deal has been made public because of its potential importance to prince andrews defence. in the settlement, virginia giuffre agreed to release, acquit, satisfy and fore...

They shouldnt stand up and vote in their own name ts. but conduct the vote in secret. a lot of americans believed that had it been a secret ballot the conviction of trump wouldnt have just been assured. it might have been unanimous. raskin proposed that senators should sit alphabetically. rather than by party. to break senators apart from partisan bonds. at least a little bit. in the physical sense. so they could more easily vote their conscience. to convict or acquit. we learn that hes come to ...

The ongoing threat from trump and from the authoritarian anti-democratic forces that he has unleashed in this country that are more dangerous now than theyve ever been. in jamie raskins new book out today we learned among other things that he had initially proposed a motion that senators should vote on trumps impeachment by secret ballot. they shouldnt stand up and vote in their own name ts. but conduct the vote in secret. a lot of americans believed that had it been a secret ballot the convicti...

Mitch mcconnell voted to acquit donald trump, but then went on the senate floor and called him responsible for the attack on this capitol. that has led to a months-long barrage of attacks launched by donald trump against mitch mcconnell in a number of republicans flatly concerned about what this could mean for the efforts to take back the senate majority, keeping their party on the same page. now talking with senator mcconnell through all these dynamics, its clear he believes he and trump are ac...

Myself. my question to you, why now? this is the man who blocked the formation of an independent partisan commission. this is a american voted to acquit the former president for what happened on january 6th. so what does it signal to you that hes now decided to take a stand on all of this? >> well, mcconnells always been fair on his language. he did vote to acquit. he doesnt want to talk about the killed january 6th commission and told them it was a threat politically to them, that the results o...

Well, the then president learned a, quote, pretty big lesson from the impeachment. that was her defense of voting to acquit. all right. and here we are and this is not a drill. donald trump did a learn a lesson, senator collins, but it was the exact opposite of what senator collins claimed. democrats learned that the entire elected republican party actually said this kind of stuff was okay, asking foreign governments to interfere in the u.s. elections okay, that includes the self-proclaimed hawk...

A Mumbai sessions court acquitted both the accused of rape charges levelled against them and ordered their immediate release on Thursday.

Hung Ka-wing, 22, was acquitted after providing proof that the air pistols and walkie-talkie were used in the production of a 30-minute science fiction film.

0 preserve his communications related to the january 6th attack on the capital, including his communications with former president trump, and others at the trump white house. they are asking him to come in for a transcribed interview, asking him to commit a transcri interviewed. they are not subpoenaing him, nor are they raising that prospect, of course, that kind of prospect looms in an investigation in which lots of other people have been subpoenaed. in this letter to the cable news host, they...