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Israel's indicted Netanyahu faces party leadership challenge
Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Gideon Saar urged supporters to vote in the Likud party’s leadership election Thursday, with the embattled Israeli Prime Minister fighting for his political future. Likud’s roughly 116,000 eligible voters have until 11 pm (2100 GMT) to choose between Netanyahu and Saar, in a primary hit by low turnout due in part to bad weather. A defeat for Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving premier, would be a shock, but even a relatively close victory could weaken his influence over the conservative party he has dominated for 20 years.
Ex-cop indicted for murder in Atatiana Jefferson's death
The Texas ex-police officer who fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson in her own home has been indicted on a murder charge
Giuliani associate got $1 million from indicted Ukrainian
A business associate of Rudy Giuliani received a $ 1 million payment in September from an indicted Ukrainian oligarch who is a fugitive from justice in the U.S., federal prosecutors revealed Tuesday. The disclosure came during a court hearing in New York for Lev Parnas, who is awaiting trial on charges that he made illegal campaign contributions to U.S. politicians, including some made to try to influence policy on Ukraine. At the hearing, a judge rejected the government’s arguments that Parnas' bail should be revoked because he failed to disclose the payment from Dmytro Firtash and other assets to the court when he was asked about his finances.
Top anti-impeachment Republican was in contact with indicted Ukraine suspect, Giuliani phone logs reveal
During Congressional hearings in Donald Trump's impeachment investigation, Devin Nunes chastised Democrats and promoted a conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that backed interference campaigns in US elections in 2016.But phone logs obtained by Congress show that the Republican Congressman spoke regularly with Mr Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani, who is alleged to have coordinated a campaign within the Trump administration to pressure Ukraine to find supposedly damaging information on the president's political rivals ahead of 2020 elections.