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President Donald Trump on Wednesday commuted the 12-year sentence of a major political donor who was serving time for a number of offenses, including obstructing an investigation into Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee, the White House confirmed with Fox News Digital.Imaad Zuberi, 54, was a major Democrat supporter before he backed Trump following his 2016 election victory, The New York Times reported. Before pivoting to Trump on election night, he served as a bundler for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, including stints on both of their campaign finance committees.Zuberi donated more than $1.1 million to committees associated with Trump and the…

Karen Read’s defense team looked to chip away at a crash expert’s credibility by pointing to eye-watering expenditures and alleged inconsistencies in experiments as the state enters the 11th hour of testimony in their case. Read is accused of killing her then-boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, by striking him with her Lexus SUV outside a house party at 34 Fairview Road and leaving him to die in frigid temperatures shortly after midnight on Jan. 29, 2022. The state’s expected final witness, Dr. Judson Welcher, a crash reconstructionist with Texas-based Aperture LLC, held firm on his findings that Read’s vehicle allegedly struck…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! One may argue that even though Caitlin Clark was off the court on Wednesday, it made a case that she is the Most Valuable Player in the WNBA.That’s because in the Indiana Fever’s first game without Clark since she suffered a quad injury, the Fever suffered their worst loss of the young WNBA season.The Washington Mystics took down the Clark-less Fever, 83-77, on Wednesday night. Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark talks with the referee after the second quarter against the Washington Mystics at Entertainment & Sports Arena.  (Emily Faith Morgan-Imagn Images)The Fever…

Liberal MPs have dismissed questions over an embarrassing leak of an internal chat, after a journalist from The West Australian was inadvertently added to a WhatsApp group. 

South Koreans turn out in record numbers for early voting in presidential election

A United States federal judge has said that an effort by the administration of President Donald Trump to deport pro-Palestine student activist Mahmoud Khalil is likely unconstitutional. District Judge Michael Farbiarz of New Jersey wrote on Wednesday that the government’s claim that Khalil constituted a threat to US national security and foreign policy was not likely to succeed. “Would an ordinary person have a sense that he could be removed from the United States because he ‘compromise[d]’ American ‘foreign policy interests’ — that is, because he compromised US relations with other countries — when the Secretary has not determined that…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Pensions industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Rachel Reeves has confirmed she will create a “backstop” power to force large pension funds to back British assets, as she vowed to unleash more than £50bn of investment in domestic infrastructure, housing and fast-growing businesses.The highly contentious move towards “mandation” — which Aviva chief Dame Amanda Blanc has compared to using “a sledgehammer to crack a nut” — will feature in new pensions legislation later in the year.The chancellor hopes creating pension “megafunds” with more than £25bn in assets, coupled with…

For the past three centuries, whenever the Maharaja of Jaipur is in residence, two pachranga — five-coloured flags — have flown above his City Palace. The palace itself is an exuberant red, pink and cream stone labyrinth of arches, gardens, courtyards and mirrored rooms in north-west India. If you couldn’t see the flags, though, you would be in no doubt that the head of the city’s royal family is in residence today from the swell of activity.As Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh — known as Pacho by family and friends or HH, for “his highness”, by his retinue — walks down one of…

The federal government will begin revoking the visas of some Chinese international students, including those studying in “critical fields,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday — the latest restriction on foreign students.”Under President Trump’s leadership, the U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields,” Rubio wrote in a statement.Rubio also said the government will “revise visa criteria to enhance scrutiny of all future visa applications from the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong.”China is…

A fight between two girls at a Texas high school graduation party left one graduate dead, authorities said. Andrew Farias, 18, was killed during the dispute at a home in the Austin suburb of Uhland, Fox 7 reported. Uhland police officers and Texas Rangers responded to the home May 25 amid reports of a shooting. The homeowner told authorities guests were told to leave around 1 a.m., when a fight broke out between two girls. TEXAS TRACK MEET STABBING SUSPECT TOLD RESPONDING OFFICER HE ‘DID IT’: DOCS Andrew Farias, 18, was killed hours after graduating from a Texas high school.  (Courtesy of the…