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Trump, Biden head for election battle after guilty verdict

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Under New York state law, falsifying business records in the first degree is a Class E felony with a maximum sentence of four years in prison.

Former President Donald Trump lost in the courtroom Thursday, but Trump and his rival, President Joe Biden, are looking ahead to the November election.

A juryĀ convictedĀ Trump of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to an adult actress before the 2016 election. That conviction makes Trump the first former president to be convicted of a crime and could shape the presidential election.

After the guilty verdict,Ā Trump said he was focused on the election.

“The real verdict is going to be Nov. 5, by the people,” Trump said after leaving the Manhattan courtroom.

The White House didn’t comment on the verdict, but Biden’s campaign said the real battle was in November.

“There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box,” a campaign spokesperson wrote in a statement. “Convicted felon or not, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president.”

Thursday’s verdict ended Trump’s criminal trial, but the legal process will continue. Judge Juan Merchan scheduled a sentencing hearing for July 11.

Before the hearing, defense attorneys and prosecutors will submit sentencing recommendations to the judge.

Under New York state law, falsifying business records in the first degree is a Class E felony with a maximum sentence of four years in prison.

Trump, 77, is a first-time offender, but that doesn’t preclude a jail or prison sentence.

The conviction won’t affect Trump’s ability to campaign for president.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who campaigned for his position on targeting Trump, declined to provide details when asked what sentence prosecutors would recommend. He said Thursday those details would come in future court filings.

Trump is expected to appeal the verdict and could ask that any sentence be postponed during the appeal process.

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Hamas, Palestinians paraded dead babies coffins through streets before handover to Israel

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Hamas paraded the caskets of Israeli hostages, including what they claimed were the bodies of a mother and two young children, through the streets of Gaza before handing them over to the Red Cross. Videos show crowds cheering as armed terrorists carried the coffins as part of a prisoner exchange with Israel.

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  • Videos from Khan Younis, Gaza, show Hamas and other terrorists parading four caskets, including those of two young children, before handing them to the Red Cross.
  • Crowds cheered as the terrorists, armed and unmasked, carried the coffins, with celebratory music playing in the background.
  • The deceased were identified as members of the Bibas family, including the youngest hostages from the October 7 attack.

 

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During a ceremony in Khan Younis, Gaza, HamasĀ paraded the caskets of Israeli hostages through the streets, including what they claimed were the bodies of a mother and her two small children. The display occurred before the remains were handed over to the Red Cross as part of a prisoner exchange agreement with Israel. Crowds of Gazans were seen cheering and celebrating as the coffins were carried by armed terrorists.

Videos from the event show masked militants loading a casket into a Red Cross aid truck, while another militant, adorned with symbols of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, filmed the procession. Another video shows adults and children waving and celebrating as Hamas fighters, armed and in trucks, paraded through the streets. Reuters footage also captured members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) helping carry a casket, highlighting the involvement of multiple terrorist factions in the display.

Hamas presented the bodies as those of the Bibas family, who were captured during the October 7 attack. The children, aged four years and less than one year, were among the youngest hostages taken during the brutal assault that triggered the ongoing 15-month conflict. The fourth body was identified as 83-year-old Oded Lifshitz, according to Jewish News Syndicate. Hamas has repeatedly blamed the deaths on Israeli airstrikes, though no evidence was provided to support the claim.

Israel and Hamas are currently observing a temporary ceasefire agreement, facilitating the exchange of civilian hostages for Palestinian prisoners. Despite the ceasefire, Hamas has continued to celebrate the October 7 attacks, which resulted in the largest mass killing of Jewish people since the Holocaust. During the ceremony, a stage displayed a poster depicting Israel as a ā€œNazi Army,ā€ underscoring Hamasā€™s longstanding agenda of hostility towards the Jewish state.

The shocking parade of caskets, accompanied by celebratory music and cheering crowds, has drawn international condemnation and further underscored the brutal nature of Hamasā€™s actions. As the exchange process continues, the emotional toll on the families of the victims remains immeasurable.

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RFK Jr: Thereā€™s no medical justification for vaccinating one-day-old babies for Hepatitis B

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ā€˜Hepatitis B is sexually transmitted from having sex with multiple partners in gay sex, or from sex workers, or intravenous drug use,ā€™ explained the new HHS head. ā€˜Why would you give that to a baby?ā€™

In a widely-viewed videoĀ sharedĀ onĀ social media, the new U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., asserted that the majority of vaccines ā€” including those he sees as unjustifiably being mandated for infants ā€” have been developed primarily to create profits for Big Pharma.Ā Ā Ā Ā 

ā€œMost of the vaccines after 1989 were added not for public health reasons but for pharmaceutical profit reasons,ā€ said Kennedy.Ā Ā Ā Ā 

ā€œWhy are we vaccinating one-day-old babies for Hepatitis B?ā€ he asked.Ā 

ā€œHepatitis B is sexually transmitted from having sex with multiple partners in gay sex, or from sex workers, or intravenous drug use,ā€ he said, reemphasizing, ā€œWhy would you give that to a baby?ā€Ā 

According to Kennedy, Pharmaceutical giant Merck was directed by both the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) to develop the Hepatitis B vaccine for ā€œthose vulnerable populations.ā€Ā Ā Ā Ā 

He explained that when those populations showed little interest in the vaccine, ā€œMerck went back to the agencies and said ā€˜You told us to develop this vaccine, but nobodyā€™s buying it.ā€Ā Ā 

ā€œThe CDC said, ā€˜Donā€™t worryā€™ā€ recounted Kennedy, ā€œweā€™ll just recommend it for children and weā€™ll force everybody to buy it.ā€Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā 

ā€œSo, thatā€™s how it got on the [childhood vaccine] schedule,ā€ he said, declaring, ā€œThereā€™s no medical justification.ā€Ā Ā Ā 

Thereā€™s no downstream liability, thereā€™s no front-end safety testing ā€“ that saves them a quarter billion dollars ā€“ and thereā€™s no marketing and advertising costs, because the federal government is ordering 78 million school kids to take that vaccine every year.Ā Ā 

What better product could you have? And so there was a gold rush to add all these new vaccines to the schedule that we donā€™t need. Most of these vaccines are unnecessary. Many of them are for diseases that are not even casually contagious.Ā Ā 

It was a gold rush, because if you get onto that schedule, itā€™s a billion dollars a year for your company.Ā Ā 

And in many cases, NIH is earning the royalties.Ā 

According to Kennedy, more obscene than the huge profits being horded by Big Pharma are the vast number of negative side-effects from all those untested vaccines.Ā 

ā€œNeurological diseasesā€ have ā€œexploded,ā€ he said.Ā 

ā€œADHD, sleep disorders, language delays, ASD, autism, Touretteā€™s syndrome, ticks, narcolepsy. These are all things that I never heard of,ā€ said Kennedy. ā€œAutism went from one in 10,000 in my generation according to CDC data to one in every 34 kids today.ā€Ā 

Kennedy isĀ known for vehemently opposing vaccines without proper knowledge for those taking them, a stance he adoptedĀ after the mothers of vaccine-injured children implored him to look into the research linking thimerosal to neurological injuries, including autism. He went on to found Childrenā€™s Health Defense, an organization with the statedĀ missionĀ of ā€œending childhood health epidemics by eliminating toxic exposure,ā€ largely through vaccines.Ā 

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