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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrives at the Woodrow Wilson Center's inauguration of the Kissinger Institute on China and the U.S. on July 29, 2008, in Washington, D.C.

Henry Kissinger, America’s most famous war criminal, died onWednesday at age 100. As secretary of state and national security adviser for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, he micromanaged, presided over or provided crucial support to deadly conflicts on three continents.

In his eight years in power, he unnecessarily prolonged the Vietnam War for five years, ordered the carpet-bombing of Cambodia and Laos, provided arms for Pakistan’s brutal war in Bangladesh, gave the green light to Argentina’s “dirty war,”endorsed General Augusto Pinochet’s deadly coup in Chile, enabled a genocide in East Timor and fueled civil wars in southern African countries.

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A New York appeals panel restored the gag order Thursday in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial despite his argument that the restrictions violated his right to free speech.

The trial judge, Arthur Engoron, imposed the gag order Oct. 3 to prevent the former president from commenting on his staff. Engoron has fined Trump a combined $15,000 for commenting on the judge’s clerk, Allison Greenfield, as a partisan with undue influence in the case.

Trump appealed and an appellate judge temporarily lifted the gag order while the case was argued.

Mike Pence reportedly decided to skip the congressional certification process for Joe Biden’s 2020 election win, because to preside over it as required by the constitution would be “too hurtful” to his “friend”, Donald Trump. He was then shamed into standing up to Trump by his son, a US marine.

“Dad, you took the same oath I took,” the then vice-president’s son Michael Pence said, according to ABC News, adding that it was “an oath to support and defend the constitution”.

Ultimately, Pence did supervise certification, even as it was delayed by the deadly January 6 attack on Congress.

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Fulton county prosecutors do not intend to offer plea deals to Donald Trump and at least two high-level co-defendants charged in connection with their efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, according to two people familiar with the matter, preferring instead to force them to trial.

The individuals seen as ineligible include Trump, his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Aside from those three, the Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis has opened plea talks or has left open the possibility of talks with the remaining co-defendants in the hope that they ultimately decide to become cooperating witnesses against the former president, the people said.

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The battle over election maps in states including New York, Wisconsin and Alabama are set to play a pivotal role in the 2024 election.

A redistricting lawsuit in New York could ultimately see the creation of a whole new congressional map, while states such as Alabama and Louisiana have been focal points over battles for establishing additional majority-Black congressional districts.

Meanwhile, Wisconsin could see its entire state Legislature map redrawn, depending on how the state Supreme Court rules in a high-profile redistricting case, which could have ramifications on GOP dominance over the state Capitol.

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