Despite assurances from election officials that no fraud was involved, some Americans continue to believe that voter fraud had an impact on the 2020 election.
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) Evidence of the crisis in Ecuador is everywhere: shuttered restaurants, soaring oxygen tank prices and countless “for sale” and “for rent” signs hanging from buildings. The South American country’s beleaguered economy and the coronavirus pandemic are pushing millions to despair.
“There used to be a restaurant in my retail space, but the country’s crisis caused the tenants to leave, and right now, few people have money to eat out every day,” said Fausto Viteri, who is trying to lease or sell his commercial property in a once-vibrant neighborhood in Ecuador’s capital city of Quito. “Very few of those who come by dare to enter the businesses that have survived around here.”
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Voting machine company Dominion files $1.3B defamation lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani
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Dominion Voting Systems has filed a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against lawyer Rudy Giuliani over his statements about the company’s voting machines.
Giuliani is the second lawyer to be sued by Dominion, report the Washington Post, the National Law Journal and the New York Times. The first, Sidney Powell, is also facing a $1.3 billion defamation suit.
Both lawyers had claimed that Dominion voting machines switched votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden.
False claims about stolen votes “foreseeably went viral and deceived millions of people into believing that Dominion had stolen their votes and fixed the election,” says the new suit, filed Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C.
An adviser to the EU’s top court said it should overturn a ruling that found Venezuela lacked standing to bring a complaint over sanctions imposed by the union.
A biker wearing a protective face mask rides past a mural depicting the eyes of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela, last summer. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
LUXEMBOURG (CN) Venezuela can contest economic sanctions before the European Union’s highest court, a magistrate for the court said Wednesday.
In a nonbinding opinion for the European Court of Justice, Advocate General Gerard Hogan wrote that the European General Court, the EU’s lower court, erred when it rejected a complaint from the South American country over sanctions issued in 2017.