A man who plotted to assassinate Donald Trump at one of his Florida golf courses during the 2024 election campaign was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, according to the New York Times. Ryan W. Routh, 59, an itinerant building contractor from North Carolina, received the maximum penalty for attempting to assassinate a presidential candidate.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon of the Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Florida, announced the sentence as Routh sat quietly. A 12-member jury had convicted Routh last September after a trial in which he represented himself. The jury also found him guilty of assaulting a federal officer for pointing his semiautomatic rifle at a Secret Service agent, and of several firearm violations, according to the New York Times. The New York Times also reported that Routh tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen after the.
In other news, Melinda French Gates expressed her feelings about her ex-husband, Bill Gates, being named in new files relating to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. She told an NPR podcast that it dredged up "painful times in my marriage," according to BBC World. "I am so happy to be away from all the muck," she said. The couple divorced in 2021. Records released by the US justice department include an allegation by Epstein that Bill Gates caught a sexually transmitted infection from a woman.
Additionally, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Jeffrey Epstein allegedly asked an exotic dancer to "engage in various sex acts" at Epstein's Florida home, according to a legal letter reported by BBC World. The letter, released as part of the latest tranche of Epstein files, stated that the woman's lawyers said she had been offered $10,000 to dance and that after she performed, Epstein and Mountbatten-Windsor had asked for a threesome. Lawyers said the woman had not been paid the promised amount and would keep the alleged 2006 encounter in which she was "treated like a prostitute" confidential in exchange for a payment of $250,000. BBC News has contacted Mountbatten-Windsor for comment.
Meanwhile, The Washington Post announced on Wednesday that it was beginning a widespread round of layoffs expected to decimate the organization's sports, local news, and international coverage, according to the New York Times. The company is laying off about 30 percent of all its employees, including more than 300 of the roughly 800 journalists on staff. Matt Murray, executive editor of The Washington Post, told employees that the revamped paper would focus more on national news and politics, as well as business and health.
Furthermore, a federal prosecutor in Minneapolis was fired from the U.S. attorneys office on Wednesday after she expressed exasperation with the crippling case load arising from the Trump administrations aggressive immigration crackdown, according to the New York Times. Julie T. Le, the prosecutor, reportedly told a judge during a hearing on Tuesday in Federal District Court in St. Paul that she and her colleagues were overwhelmed by the number of cases they had been forced to handle because of the White Houses widespread immigration sweeps in Minnesota. She sardonically told the judge that she would welcome being held in contempt of court because it would allow her to get a.
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