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Trump (AP file photo) A judge in Georgia has dismissed the last pending criminal case against president Donald Trump, ending efforts to charge him for trying to overturn the 2020 election. With this, all three criminal cases filed against him before his re-election have now been taken down. Charges against his co-accused, including Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows, were also dropped. The Georgia case was considered a major legal threat because a state conviction cannot be undone by a presidential pardon. But on Wednesday, Pete Skandalakis, who leads the state’s nonpartisan prosecutor council, asked the court to close the case. He said the earlier charges brought by Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis did not hold, arguing that challenging election results is not a crime.Georgia prosecutor kills 2020 election interference case against Trump and alliesSkandalakis also said the federal investigation led by special counsel Jack Smith was the proper venue to review Trump’s actions. He..

Michael Burry’s Scion Asset Management recently placed $1.1 billion in bets against Nvidia and Palantir, managing roughly $1.38 billion total Michael Burry, the real-life investor immortalised by Christian Bale in The Big Short (2015), built his reputation on one of the most daring financial calls in modern history. Long before the 2008 financial crisis hit, Burry identified the fragility of the US mortgage-backed securities market and positioned his hedge fund, Scion Capital, to profit from its collapse. When the crash came, he and his investors made hundreds of millions of dollars. Originally trained as a medical doctor, Burry’s passion for markets began while studying at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. His transition from medicine to money management was grounded in deep, data-driven value investing and rigorous fundamental analysis. By the time he launched Scion Capital in 2000, his contrarian instincts had already set him apart. Even during the dot-com crash, his fund po..

AdvertisementEducation in Hong KongHong KongEducationUS church launches search for new HKIS school head amid legal row with operatorCo-founder Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod accuses school management of creating ‘risk of leadership interruption’
3-MIN READ3-MIN ListenWilliam YiuPublished: 9:10pm, 1 Apr 2026A US church that co-founded a prestigious Hong Kong international school has said it will take the lead in searching for a new head as the operator had failed to nominate candidates since 2022, accusing it of creating the “risk of leadership interruption” in the latest salvo in a war of words.
The move by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) was revealed in a letter to parents on Sunday from Hong Kong International School (HKIS) management, which called the search part of church actions “designed to create distraction and uncertainty around the school”.
LCMS, which co-founded the school in 1966, confirmed with the South China Morning Post that it was now conducting its own searc..