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Trump refuses to answer abortion questions in new interview
NEW YORK (TNS) — Former President Donald Trump refused to answer key questions about abortion in a major new interview published Tuesday, including whether pregnant women should be monitored during pregnancies, if the abortion pill should be banned and how he will vote on Florida’s crucial abortion-rights referendum. Seeking to walk a political tightrope, Trump told Time Magazine’s Eric Cortellessa that he wouldn’t intervene even if hardline anti-abortion state officials prosecute women for ending their own pregnancies. “The states are going to make that decision,” Trump said. “The states are going to have to be comfortable or uncomfortable, not me.”
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Former LA Mayor joins cryptocurrency company Coinbase
LOS ANGELES (TNS)— Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa doesn’t own any cryptocurrency — at least, not yet. But he’s about to become a player in the industry’s push for friendlier cryptocurrency rules. The trading platform Coinbase announced Tuesday that Villaraigosa, a Democrat who was mayor of Los Angeles from 2005 to 2013, is taking a paid position with its global advisory council. In an interview with The Times, Villaraigosa said that he won’t be lobbying on behalf of Coinbase but that he is advising the company on securing a “robust, fair regulatory framework” for American customers.
Feds score clean sweep in verdicts of Aryan Brotherhood prison gang
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (TNS) — A jury in Sacramento convicted three Aryan Brotherhood prison gang members Tuesday on all counts in a weeks-long trial charging them with racketeering, conspiracy to commit murder and drug running inside California prisons. The jury, which has been deliberating since last week in a trial that began in late February, convicted Ronald Yandell, Danny Troxell and William Sylvester on each count in a case that relied heavily on testimony from other inmates, guards and video of bloody prison yard attacks.
Prosecutors want alibi limited in Idaho student murder case
BOISE, Idaho (TNS) — Prosecutors are urging the judge in the Moscow college student murder case to reject defendant Bryan Kohberger’s alibi submitted earlier this month and limit how his defense can present the evidence at trial. Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson argued in a written response that the defense has failed to meet the state’s legal threshold to argue that Kohberger was elsewhere than the crime scene at the time of the November 2022 quadruple homicide. The document was filed Friday, but not posted to an Idaho courts website until late Monday.
Mother of babies found in freezer will not face criminal charges: DA
BOSTON (TNS) — The mother of the four babies found frozen solid in a South Boston apartment freezer will not face criminal charges, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office said Tuesday. Alexis Aldamir, 69 — who now lives in a residential health care facility — would be “unlikely” to stand trial, the DA’s office announced, calling the case one of the most “perplexing” the prosecutor’s office had ever encountered. “To further assess Aldamir’s cognitive ability, investigators reviewed publicly available probate court records and spoke with a lawyer for Aldamir. The information obtained suggests that Aldamir would be unlikely to stand trial,” the DA’s office wrote.
