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A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump's request to freeze a court ruling that allows his New York hush money criminal sentencing to go forward on Nov. 26.

The ruling at issue came from federal trial Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who said he wouldn't remove the case from the hands of New York trial Judge Juan Merchan and block Trump's upcoming sentencing.

In its short Thursday order, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit seconded Hellerstein's ruling. It said it was denying Trump's "emergency" request in light of the sentencing delay he has already gotten. Trump was initially scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 18, but on Sept. 6 Merchan granted the Republican presidential nominee's request to push the date back past the election.

Officials in Springfield, Ohio closed City Hall Thursday after a bomb threat citing right-wing misinformation was issued to multiple facilities, the city said in a news release.

Donald Trump mentioned Springfield, Ohio during the presidential debate when promoting a false rumor that migrants there are eating people's pets. Local officials have previously confirmed the accounts are not true.

The bomb threat addressed multiple agencies and media outlets in an email that went out shortly before 8:30 a.m. Thursday. The email, obtained by USA TODAY, repeated the misinformation in part of a long prose disparaging Haitian people and saying a bomb in several buildings would detonate in hours.

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The father of an 11-year-old boy who was killed last year when a minivan driven by an immigrant from Haiti collided with his school bus has asked Donald Trump and JD Vance to stop using his son’s name for “political gain”.

During a city commission meeting on Tuesday in Springfield, Ohio, Nathan Clark, the father of Aiden Clark, addressed the forum alongside his wife, Danielle. Speaking at the meeting, Clark said: “I wish that my son, Aiden Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man. I bet you never thought anyone would say something so blunt, but if that guy killed my 11-year-old son, the incessant group of hate-spewing people would leave us alone,” the Springfield News-Sun reports.

The family of Ethel Rosenberg, who was sent to the electric chair along with her husband, Julius, in 1953 after being convicted of spying for the Soviets at the height of the Red Scare, have called on Joe Biden to formally exonerate her after a newly released document appeared to show that the US government knew she was not a spy.

The couple maintained their innocence until the end and the case of the Rosenbergs has long been seen as a possible miscarriage of justice. Though most historians see Julius Rosenberg as a real Soviet spy, questions about Ethel Rosenberg’s role have lingered and their sons, Robert and Michael Meeropol, have long campaigned in their family’s cause.

Now, according to a National Security Agency document, a top US codebreaker who decrypted secret Soviet communications during the cold war concluded that Ethel Rosenberg knew about husband Julius’s activities in atomic espionage but “did not engage in the work herself”.

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