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Time of India
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Will Diddy get pardoned by Trump? Suge Knight suggests the music mogul owes government a lot of favours
Suge Knight , the former CEO of Death Row Records and one of Diddy's party members, as mentioned by Cassie Ventura , suggested that Diddy might get a pardon as he owes government favours. P. Diddy will be 'alright' In an interview with NewNation's CUOMO, Knight said, 'I still feel that Puffy's gonna be all right and have a fair shot at it, because Puffy didn't — he's not a dummy.' Additionally, the 60-year-old said that someone might influence the jurors of the ongoing trial, because all you need is one juror to talk with. 'So, at the end of the day, it's going to be a real exciting situation, but I think he's going to be alright,' the former record executive added. "Trump's going to pardon him" Suge said that the hip-hop music mogul has 'influence' and it does not seem like the prosecution is that bad against him. Furthermore, he said that the government owes him a lot of favours. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Book Your Daily Profit By 11 AM With This Superclass By Mr. Bala TradeWise Learn More Undo 'I think he got some favours with the government. I think they're going to show him a little leeway. It might not seem like it when it's all said and done, but I don't think he had nothing to worry about,' Suge said before adding, 'I don't think he's worried, because he's going to be federal. And if he gets convicted, Trump's going to pardon him,' according to Y! Entertainment. Cuomo asked him whether President Donald J. Trump would pardon the disgraced musician even if he were convicted of sex trafficking. 'S‑‑‑, he pardoned Michael Harris,' referring to a music executive who was sentenced in 1987 for crack dealing, kidnapping, and attempted murder. He received clemency in 2021 with the help of Trump and even promoted Trump for the presidency in 2024. 'They don't care about that. It's all about, you know, what's in it for the long run,' Knight added. Check out our list of the latest Hindi , English , Tamil , Telugu , Malayalam , and Kannada movies . Don't miss our picks for the best Hindi movies , best Tamil movies, and best Telugu films .
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Mega Millions raises ticket prices, touting better winning odds
(NewsNation) — Mega Millions is rolling out a new look, promising to increase the odds of winning and offer bigger jackpots — at a higher price. Starting Tuesday, players will pay more to play, with ticket prices for the popular lottery game increasing from $2 to $5. The first drawing of the revamped Mega Millions is Tuesday at 11 p.m. ET. This marks the second price hike in Mega Millions' 23-year history. The last increase was in 2017, when ticket prices increased from $1 to $2. Under the new rules, the average win is expected to be more than $800 million — significantly higher than the previous $450 million average. Even if players don't win the grand prize, nonjackpot prizes range from $10 to $10 million. Can a Mega Millions jackpot winner remain anonymous? Not in these states The idea behind increased ticket prices is that the more money spent on tickets, the bigger the payout. 'You're going to see jackpots at a billion again more often because of the higher ticket costs,' said David Glantz, who owns Buckeye Bros. Smokeshop in Springfield, Mass. A spokesperson for Mega Millions told NewNation the change was made based on player feedback and the desire to differentiate the game from Powerball. Each time there's no jackpot winner, the prize will continue to grow. Lottery officials are banking on bigger jackpots to drive higher sales. Tax calculator: How much do I owe in taxes? However, not all players are thrilled with the change. 'Instead of buying two tickets or even three tickets, now you can only buy one, and the chances of winning are so slim,' said Justin Arnold, of North Providence, Rhode Island. 'I'm probably going to stop playing myself now, and I've been playing for a while.' If $5 is too steep a price, players can still play Powerball for $2 or try their state lottery for about $1. While the odds of winning the lottery are still slim — you're more likely to be struck by lightning — the odds are slightly better with the new format. Players now have a one in 23 chance of winning something, up from one in 24. The odds of winning the grand prize have improved to one in 290 million from one in 303 million. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Forbes
03-04-2025
- Politics
- Forbes
Political Headwinds And The Rule Of Law
Opportunities for lawyers to educate the public on democracy and the rule of law are multifold. 2025 Marks A Turning Point For The United States of America. President Trump continues to move with breathtaking speed to alter the federal government and, perhaps, the societal landscape. The initiatives pressed by his administration through executive orders have affected many facets of American society including immigrants, the military, the federal workforce, trade and manufacturing, state and local governments, health, and higher education. The President's sweeping orders confirm the truism that political shifts test the elasticity and resilience of American democracy. Political change in America generally coincides with historical eras of the nation. Eras such as the Post- Revolutionary War's 'New Nation,' the Civil War, Reconstruction and Industrialization, the Great Depression, and World War II, have documented political shifts that impacted America's struggle to provide 'liberty and justice for all.' Today, the Trump administration's efforts to transform the federal government have become defining features of the current Post-Pandemic era. Successful adaptation to political changes in America lies in the symbiotic relationship between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. Ideally, these branches serve as mutual checks on their respective exercises of power, which constitutes the most critical feature of American democracy. Functionality of these three branches and the commensurate endurance of individual liberty center squarely on society's universal respect for the rule of law. Rule of law connotes a concept in which the citizenry accepts and obeys laws and legal rules and respects the authority of the judicial system that adjudicates these rules. Elements of this concept include: a. sovereignty, which signifies that the law alone must supersede all other modes of ruling power; b. equality, denoting that all who are bound by the law must enjoy, on an equal basis, the law's protection and recourse; and c. fidelity, requiring all members of a community to obey the law and take responsibility for holding each other, especially governmental officials, accountable under the law. Fealty for the rule of law ensures solid membership in a truly functional democracy. Those who respect the rule of law commensurately recognize that the lack of rights for some potentially imperils the established rights of others. The rule of law has been the historical bedrock of American democracy. The signers of the Declaration of Independence viewed it as a fundamental precept of liberty. Laws were not to be arbitrary. Instead, they were to be objectively devised and applicable to everyone, thereby ensuring universal fairness, accountability, and societal stability. As former Chief Justice Michael A. Wolff of the Missouri Supreme Court stated, 'We are a nation first and foremost of laws. Our identity as Americans has been forged by the rule of law and our common experience that faithfulness to the law guarantees liberty, equality of opportunity, and the functioning of civil society, even in the face of those who through ambition for power or wealth will seek to impose their will on the less powerful.' While every citizen should respect the rule of law, lawyers have a particularly exalted responsibility in this regard. A lawyer's fidelity to the rule of law has been historically rooted in the legal profession. Law schools, state bar associations that license attorneys, and judicial authorities continually reinforce its salience and inculcate in legal practitioners an ethical obligation to uphold the law as 'officers of the court.' Retired US. Judge J. Michael Luttig, an esteemed conservative jurist who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for 15 years, recently trumpeted this credo, observing that 'lawyers are both uniquely responsible and obligated to stand up for the U.S. Constitution, democracy, and the rule of law.' Despite its status as a critical construct of democracy, respect for the rule of law has seemingly diminished. Judge Luttig asserted as much in his address to the National Conference of Bar Presidents, citing such evidence as election denialism and the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In the last several months, others have echoed Judge Luttig's admonition, emphasizing that the tenuous nature of the rule of law should 'concern all of us.' If, as Judge Luttig stated, there has been a diminution of respect for the rule of law, the critical question is why? The answer lies in the public's failure to understand the rule of law and its critical intersection with democracy. Perhaps the seeming lessening of respect for the rule of law relates to a deemphasis of instruction in government and civics. In recent years secondary education has placed greater emphasis on STEM-related subjects. In some instances, this curricular redirection has been at the expense of such subjects as history, government, and ethics. A reduction of instruction in civics during the secondary years of education contributes to a troubling misunderstanding of democracy and how government should function. A study reported by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last year documented that many respondents in the country lacked a basic understanding of civics. While two-thirds of Americans in the survey stated that they studied civics in high school, only 25% were confident in their ability to explain how our system of government works. Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter provided a poignant warning about the public's lack of knowledge of democracy and its underpinnings. In an interview before his official retirement in 2009, Justice Souter stated that 'America's pervasive civil ignorance' looms as the greatest threat to modern democracy. If the rule of law is indeed in danger due to the public's lack of education, then more continual education becomes the panacea. While secondary and higher educational institutions should address this need, the legal profession and legal education must assume the lion's share of the educational burden. Judge Luttig, quoted above, advances this point, stating that 'every institution of the legal profession, particularly law schools, Bar Association, other legal societies, must provide better guidance on how to sustain the rule of law and continually educate lawyers and the general public on its sales in a modern democracy.' From entry into law school, admission to the bar, and throughout the course of practice, lawyers learn the salience of the rule of law and their obligation to advance it. Legal education has perennially emphasized the rule of law as a foundational pillar of the legal profession. The Association of American Law Schools (AALS), which is a learned society of more than 175 law schools nationwide, has as one of its core values for membership dedication to instilling in law students the obligation to respect the rule of law. Moreover, numerous bar organizations, including state and national bar associations, offer programming that remind lawyers of their ethical duty to uphold the rule of law. Despite the entrenched ethical norms of the legal profession, educational institutions at every level should devise strategies designed to improve the public's understanding of government and its critical intersection with the rule of law. This assignment begins with secondary and higher educational institutions taking greater strides to enrich offerings civics instruction. Secondary educational institutions, in particular, could work with the Center for Civic Education, the mission of which includes promotion of 'an enlightened and responsible citizenry committed to democratic principles and actively engaged in the practice of democracy.' A lion's share of the responsibility to inform the public of the workings of government and the justice system rests with lawyers. Given their ethical obligations to uphold and advance the rule of law, lawyers are uniquely situated to explain the key features of a functional democracy, an essential tenet of which is respect for the rule of law. Opportunities for lawyers to educate the public on democracy and the rule of law are multifold. For example, many schools and institutions welcome lawyers to serve as guest lecturers in government and civics courses. Lawyers could also partner with organizations such as the American Bar Association, state bar associations, and the AALS, all of which work to enhance awareness of the rule of law as an indispensable element of democratic governance. The headwinds of political change in the United States have prompted a deliberative focus on the possible fragility of democratic governance. If American democracy is to thrive, all citizens must recommit to the rule of law as an essential construct of a functional government. Educational institutions and members of the legal profession will hopefully become the vanguards of this recommitment. If successful, perhaps America will realize the founders' societal goal to 'establish unity, tranquility, and justice, and promote the general welfare of all.'
Telegraph
17-03-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Border migrant arrests plummet 82 per cent under Donald Trump
The number of migrants caught illegally crossing the US southern border has dropped by 82 per cent since Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. In February, 8,347 people were arrested trying to illegally cross the border, according to US border patrol statistics, putting the new administration on track for the lowest year of migrant crossings in decades. The numbers represent a staggering decline in arrests at the Mexico border since December, the final full month of the Biden administration, when the border patrol apprehended 47,330 migrants. That was the lowest daily average for any month during Mr Biden's presidency, but it was still five times as many as February - the first full month since Mr Trump returned to the White House. If the current trend holds for the remainder of the year, migrant arrests in the US could fall to their lowest level since the mid-1960s, according to the New York Times. The number of people trying to reach the United States by crossing the Darien Gap - a treacherous land bridge between South America and Central America that is run by gangs - also dropped to 408 in February. This is down 99 per cent from 37,000 in the same month last year, according to Panama's immigration institute. Hard-line tactics The drop off in migrant crossings suggests that the president's hard-line tactics to curb immigration are paying dividends. Under the Biden administration, the US struggled to get a handle on illegal immigration, with hundreds of thousands of people crossing into the country every month. The number of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border reached a record high in December 2023, when more than 225,000 people were apprehended in a single month. Within hours of returning to the Oval Office in January, Mr Trump declared an emergency at the US-Mexico border as one of the first in a flurry of executive orders designed to cut off immigration. He has since implemented a series of tough measures, including halting asylum claims, deploying thousands of troops to the border and ramping up highly publicised deportation flights, designed to deter migrants from making the journey in the first place. He has also strong-armed Latin American countries into accepting removals and doing more to limit migration at source by threatening economic sanctions. In a further boost, the president struck a deal with Mexico last month for the country to deploy 10,000 of its own troops to patrol its side of the border. The administration has claimed that migrant crossings on some individual days have fallen by as much as 94 per cent. Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, told New Nation on Saturday: 'Just recently, we saw less than 200 encounters in a day. That's remarkable. 'Now our agents can get back to doing their jobs and enforcing the law instead of processing.' Addressing the impact of heightened border security on Mexican cartels, she said that gang members recognise 'we're not letting people just walk across the border any more'. Ms Noem said: 'We are building a wall, we are securing our borders, and we're not going to let this illegal activity continue.' The South Dakota governor, who was confirmed by the Senate in January to lead the department, has pledged to secure the US border and support deportation efforts. Ms Noem, 53, oversees the US agency overseeing border enforcement and migrant deportations, which also leads federal efforts on cybersecurity, terrorism and emergency management.
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Border migrant arrests plummet 82 per cent under Donald Trump
The number of migrants caught illegally crossing the US southern border has dropped by 82 per cent since Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. In February, 8,347 people were arrested trying to illegally cross the border, according to US border patrol statistics, putting the new administration on track for the lowest year of migrant crossings in decades. The numbers represent a staggering decline in arrests at the Mexico border since December, the final full month of the Biden administration, when the border patrol apprehended 47,330 migrants. That was the lowest daily average for any month during Mr Biden's presidency, but it was still five times as many as February - the first full month since Mr Trump returned to the White House. If the current trend holds for the remainder of the year, migrant arrests in the US could fall to their lowest level since the mid-1960s, according to the New York Times. The number of people trying to reach the United States by crossing the Darien Gap - a treacherous land bridge between South America and Central America that is run by gangs - also dropped to 408 in February. This is down 99 per cent from 37,000 in the same month last year, according to Panama's immigration institute. The drop off in migrant crossings suggests that the president's hard-line tactics to curb immigration are paying dividends. Under the Biden administration, the US struggled to get a handle on illegal immigration, with hundreds of thousands of people crossing into the country every month. The number of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border reached a record high in December 2023, when more than 225,000 people were apprehended in a single month. Within hours of returning to the Oval Office in January, Mr Trump declared an emergency at the US-Mexico border as one of the first in a flurry of executive orders designed to cut off immigration. He has since implemented a series of tough measures, including halting asylum claims, deploying thousands of troops to the border and ramping up highly publicised deportation flights, designed to deter migrants from making the journey in the first place. He has also strong-armed Latin American countries into accepting removals and doing more to limit migration at source by threatening economic sanctions. In a further boost, the president struck a deal with Mexico last month for the country to deploy 10,000 of its own troops to patrol its side of the border. The administration has claimed that migrant crossings on some individual days have fallen by as much as 94 per cent. 'Just recently, we saw less than 200 encounters in a day. That's remarkable,' Kristi Noem, secretary of homeland security, told New Nation on Saturday. 'Now our agents can get back to doing their jobs and enforcing the law instead of processing.' Addressing the impact of heightened border security on Mexican cartels, she said that gang members recognise 'we're not letting people just walk across the border any more'. 'We are building a wall, we are securing our borders, and we're not going to let this illegal activity continue,' Ms Noem said. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
