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Israel is expanding curbs on media freedom, with the Al Jazeera Media Network a main target.
Israel is intensifying its crackdown on media coverage of its war on Gaza and other assaults.
The Al Jazeera Media Network has again been targeted, this time in the occupied West Bank, with its offices closed down by armed and masked soldiers and its operations suspended for 45 days.
A controversial media law, passed in April, means action can be taken against foreign journalists for allegedly harming Israel’s security.
And it is not just the foreign media that is complaining.
Even Israeli media is under scrutiny and its coverage of the war has to go through military censors.
So, how far will Israel go in restricting media freedom?
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Fiona O’Brien – UK director of the Reporters Without Borders international campaign to protect freedom of information and independent journalism
Special counsel Jack Smith‘s recent filing in the federal election interference case against Donald Trump could help Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis prosecute the Georgia case against Trump, according to a political analyst.
The former president and Republican nominee had faced the possibility of multiple trials while campaigning to win back the White House after being indicted in four criminal cases last year.
But a string of court decisions mean that both the federal and Georgia cases accusing him of seeking to overturn the 2020 election result will not take place before November’s election. Trump, whose sentencing in his hush money case has also been delayed until after the election, has denied wrongdoing in all of the cases and decried them as being politically motivated.
The federal case brought by Smith was delayed by the Supreme Court‘s ruling in July that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution for official acts carried out in office. Meanwhile, efforts to force Willis off the Georgia case have left it with no chance of going to trial before the end of the year.
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A filing submitted by Smith, which was unsealed this week, aims to persuade U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan that the offenses charged in the federal indictment were taken in Trump’s private capacity and can therefore remain part of the case.
Smith’s filing provides “a clear road map that validates the bulk of the case that’s been alleged here” in Fulton County, Georgia, Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University, said on the Politically Georgia podcast on Thursday.
“If Jack Smith’s argument is taken by and large and accepted by Judge Chutkan and the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and perhaps even the Supreme Court, if they take this up again, that provides Judge [Scott] McAfee and the Georgia courts with a very clear blueprint for for what’s permissible and what’s not, because a lot of the evidence is, in fact, the same.”
Kreis said there are “certain pieces of evidence” in the filing “that are really enlightening that perhaps the district attorney here in Fulton County did not have possession of or was unaware of. So there might be dynamics here at play where it strengthens their hand.”
Kreis has been contacted for further comment via social media. Willis’ office has been contacted via email.
In Georgia, Trump and 18 other associates were indicted in August 2023 on charges that they participated on a wide-ranging illegal scheme to overturn his 2020 election loss there. They all initially pleaded not guilty, but four of the people charged alongside Trump pleaded guilty to lesser charges after reaching deals with prosecutors.
Earlier this year, defense attorneys pushed to have Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade disqualified from the case, arguing that their relationship created a conflict of interest.
McAfee, who is overseeing the Georgia case, ruled in March that there was no conflict of interest that merited Willis’ removal from the case as long as Wade stepped aside. Trump appealed the decision, and the Georgia Court of Appeals plans to hear arguments in December.
Kreis noted that whether, and when, the cases go to trial depends on the outcome of November’s election.
“If Donald Trump is elected in November, he will certainly ensure that the Department of Justice dismisses this case,” he said, referring to the federal case.
“The federal case entirely hinges on the election, that however does not remove the possibility of the Georgia case because a president of the United States can’t pardon for state crimes, and so that that will remain hanging over Donald Trump.”
If Trump wins a second term, he said, he would likely not face trial in Georgia until after he leaves office.
“I think the consensus is by most scholars out there of the Constitution that you can’t try sitting president under state law, and so that’ll have to wait until Donald Trump would leave office right in 2029,” he said. “But that does not mean that other people, right, all these other co defendants can’t be tried in that interim period.”
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Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the union stronghold of Flint, Michigan, on Friday as she battles with Donald Trump for working-class voters who could tip the scales in this year’s election.
Her appearance in the battleground state comes the day after U.S. dockworkers suspended their strike in hopes of reaching a new contract, sparing the country a damaging episode of labor unrest that could have rattled the economy.
Meanwhile, Trump is heading to Georgia to appear with Gov. Brian Kemp, the latest sign that he’s patched up his rocky relationship with the top Republican in a key battleground state.
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President Biden says the election will be free and fair, but he is not sure it will be peaceful
President Joe Biden said Friday that he was confident the upcoming election would be free and fair – but he’s not sure it will be peaceful.
Biden made a surprise appearance in the White House press briefing room to discuss the strong jobs report that he called “incredible news,” and he took some questions. He was asked about how he was feeling about the upcoming election.
“I’m confident it will be free and fair. I don’t know whether it will be peaceful,” he said. “The things that Trump has said – and the the things that he said last time, when he didn’t like the outcome of the election were very dangerous.”
Trump still falsely claims the 2020 election was stolen.
Biden was also asked, as he left the room, whether he was going to reconsider running for president.
“I’m back in” he joked, and the reporters all laughed.
Election experts say North Carolina officials are in early phases of assessing how hurricane damage will affect voting
Election experts during a virtual panel held by the National Task Force on Election Crises on Friday acknowledged that western North Carolina officials are still in the early phases of assessing how hurricane damage will affect voting.
The process has been delayed with bridges and roads compromised and emergency crews still actively working to rescue stranded residents and provide people with basic supplies, said Robert Orr, a retired North Carolina Supreme Court Justice who co-leads the North Carolina Network for Fair, Safe and Secure Elections.
Paying for last-minute election changes could pose a challenge, Orr said. Most North Carolina election funding happens locally, and most county election budgets are already diminished because they had to reprint ballots to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name, he said.
Most North Carolina residents are still focused on basic survival and recovery over voting, said Anne Tindall, special counsel of the nonprofit Protect Democracy.
4 voters charged with intentionally voting twice in Michigan primary election
Four people intentionally voted twice in Michigan’s summer primary election, the state attorney general said Friday as she announced felony charges against the suburban Detroit residents as well as public employees accused of enabling it to happen.
Attorney General Dana Nessel announced charges against the St. Clair Shores residents as well as three assistant clerks who are accused of enabling it to happen. Nessel called it “shocking and simply unheard of.” Nessel said four people who had already cast absentee ballots for the Aug. 6 primary showed up to vote in St. Clair Shores on the day of the election.
It’s possible to cancel an absentee ballot but not on Election Day.
The extra votes did not affect race results, she said.
President Biden will campaign next week in Pennsylvania for Democratic Sen. Bob Casey
Casey and Biden are allies and friends. Biden hasn’t done much campaigning since he left the 2024 race over the summer and Vice President Kamala Harris replaced him at the top of the ticket.
The president will also travel to Wisconsin where he’ll talk about efforts by his administration to replace lead pipes. That’s something Biden has continued to do — talk publicly about his administration’s successes and his record in office. He has told his team to “run through the tape.”
Elon Musk will join Trump at Pennsylvania rally
Elon Musk will join Donald Trump at his rally Saturday in Butler, the Pennsylvania city where the Republican presidential nominee survived an assassination attempt earlier this year.
“I will be there to support!” Musk wrote on his social platform X on Thursday in a retweet of Trump’s own promotion of the rally. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO will be among special guests in attendance, Trump’s campaign confirmed Friday.
The event will mark the first time the billionaire businessman appears publicly at a campaign event for the former president since endorsing him. Musk has supercharged his support for Trump in recent months and has become personally more invested in politics — even agreeing to lead a government efficiency commission if Trump wins reelection.
Saturday’s rally will take place at the same property where a gunman’s bullets grazed Trump’s right ear and killed his supporter, Corey Comperatore. The shooting left multiple others injured.
Harris will travel to North Carolina on Saturday as the state recovers from Helene
The Democratic presidential nominee has already been to Georgia, where she helped distribute meals and spoke with families in Augusta. More than 200 people died in the powerful storm that spread out across the Southeast, causing devastation. President Joe Biden, too, has traveled to areas hard-hit by the storm.
From Georgia, Harris said she and Biden have been paying attention “from the beginning to what we need to do to make sure the federal resources hit the ground as quickly as possible, and that includes what was necessary to make sure that we provided direct federal assistance. And that work has been happening.”
Their travel comes as Republican Donald Trump is falsely claiming the federal government wasn’t doing enough to help affected people in Republican areas. Biden was angered by the suggestion, calling it a lie. He said partisan politics should not be part of this conversation.
Obama will campaign for Harris in key swing states
Former President Barack Obama is planning to hit key swing states to boost Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for the White House, starting on Thursday in Pittsburgh.
The Harris campaign says Obama will travel around the country over the final 27 days ahead of the election. It noted that the former president and Harris have a friendship that goes back 20 years, from when they first met while he was running for Senate.
Harris was also an early supporter of Obama’s 2008 presidential bid and knocked on doors for him in Iowa ahead of its caucus that led off voting in the Democratic primary.
In his speech at the Democratic convention in August, Obama said Harris “wasn’t born into privilege. She had to work for what she’s got.”
“And she actually cares about what other people are going through,” the former president added then.
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