Author: James Martin
Donald Trump has been indicted in New York, over a hush money payment made to the adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election, the New York Times reported on Thursday.The paper cited four people with knowledge of the matter.No former US president has ever been criminally indicted. The news is set to shake the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, in which Trump leads most polls.Trump also faces legal jeopardy over his election subversion and incitement of the January 6 attack on Congress; his attempts to overturn the 2020 result in Georgia; his retention of classified…
A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indicted former president Donald Trump over hush money paid to pornstar Stormy Daniels.It comes after it emerged New York prosecutors were looking to charge the former president over a $150,000 payment made to a former Playboy model.Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s team has questioned grand jury witnesses about cash given to Karen McDougal, who was Playboy magazine ‘Playmate of the Year’ in 1998.McDougal claims she had a ten-month affair with Trump which began in 2006. Trump’s office released a statement on Thursday branding the development a ‘hoax’.Evidence about payments to McDougal could either be…
RTX 40-series graphics card prices may soon come down to Earth… if ever so slightly. VideoCardz sources claim NVIDIA will price the standard GeForce RTX 4070 at $599. That’s decidedly more affordable than the $799 RTX 4070 Ti, but just as much as the RTX 3070 Ti from 2021. The days of paying $500 or less for an x070 GPU are over, apparently. You may get more for your money than any 3070 card, at least. The GeForce RTX 4070 will reportedly have the same 5,888 CUDA core count as the regular 3070 and a narrower 192-bit memory bus, but…
The government has disposed of more than 3bn items of personal protective equipment (PPE) it bought during the pandemic, figures have revealed.An estimated 3.14bn items have been shed through a mixture of recycling, energy from waste processes – including some incineration – donations and sales.Data from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in England showed that up to 28 February, 269,500 pallets of PPE had been removed from its stock.The document revealed that while 19,600 pallets were recycled (1.47bn items), 131,900 pallets were sent to make energy from waste (1.4bn).An additional 6,100 pallets of PPE were donated to…
Paramount+ is ordering a new Star Trek series set in one of the franchise’s most iconic locations. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will follow a new class of recruits at the San Francisco training facility as they grapple with friends, rivalries, first loves and “a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself.” Production is scheduled to begin in 2024. With Picard and Discovery winding down, the network is apparently looking to a teen / young adult coming-of-age story to invite a new generation of viewers to the franchise. The series “will introduce us to a young group…
Oh bollards! Mercedes driver left red-faced after attempt to beat traffic jam leaves him stranded on crossing islandVideo shows Mercedes trying to turn out of a traffic jam but ending up strandedThe driver gets stuck on a bollard and is left red-faced as his wheels spin By Arthur Parashar Published: 14:59 EDT, 30 March 2023 | Updated: 15:59 EDT, 30 March 2023 This is the moment a Mercedes driver was left red-faced after his attempt to beat a traffic jam culminated in him getting trapped on top of a bollard.Comical dashcam footage captured the moment that the driver of the white…
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureSign up for the Moving the Goalposts!A) It’s really good.B) It’s free.C) It’s free.D) This is a World Cup year, and the WCL is as good as ever and the 2022-23 WSL is turning into one of the great title races. Half time: Chelsea 0-0 Lyon (agg: 1-0)And after all that, it’s still 0-0. Both teams had terrific chances, but Signe Bruun wafted over and Sam Kerr was denied by the face of Christiane Endler. It’s been a high-quality game that has seesawed one way and then the other.…
Three months after he left Brazil to avoid passing the presidential sash to his leftist rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former president Jair Bolsonaro has flown back to the South American country hoping to prove his political career is far from over.The far-right radical flew to the US on the eve of Lula’s 1 January inauguration and watched the historic transition of power from a rented villa near Disney World in Florida. It was from Florida, too, that Bolsonaro watched the 8 January assault on Brazil’s democratic institutions perpetrated by hardcore supporters seemingly bent on overthrowing Lula’s new…
Amazon-owned Audible has started , potentially indicating a sea change within the industry. The company says it is “conducting limited testing” on a select user base with the advertisements and that this step is currently reserved for non-paying members, giving them “ad-supported access to a limited set” of titles. For now at least, paying subscribers seem immune to the change. The ads pop up while listening to traditional audiobooks, podcasts and Audible original content. The company says the providers were informed of the change and given the chance to opt out of ads. Audible notes that a maximum of eight…
It can be difficult to know which flowers are best to plant in spring. Some plants will last merely a few weeks to a month while others will continue to flower into autumn.Some flowering plants also aren’t fully hardy which means they could be at risk of being damaged by any late frosts that occur in late spring.With this in mind, Brand PR Manager at Embryo, Jo Threlfall shared some tips on what to plant this spring from the Garden Ninja, Lee Burkhill exclusively with Express.co.uk.The gardening expert has shared which plants and flowers are the “best” to plant in…