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NEW YORK (AP) — In an angry outburst in a New York courtroom, Rudy Giuliani accused a judge Tuesday of making wrong assumptions about him as he tries to comply with an order requiring him to turn over most of his assets to two election poll workers who won a libel case against him. U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman responded by saying he’s not going to let the former New York City mayor and onetime presidential candidate blurt things out anymore in court unless he’s a sworn witness. The interruption to an otherwise routine pretrial hearing in Manhattan came as the judge questioned Giuliani's lawyer about why Giuliani has not yet provided the title to a car he has relinquished in his effort to satisfy a $148 million defamation judgment won by two former Georgia election workers. “Your client was the U.S. attorney for this district,” the judge said, referring to Giuliani's years in the 1980s as the head of the federal prosecutor's office in the Southern District of New York, as he suggested it was hard to believe that Giuliani was incapable of getting a duplicate title to the car. Giuliani learned forward and began speaking into a microphone, telling the judge he had applied for a duplicate copy of the car's title but that it had not yet arrived. “The implication I’ve been not diligent about it is totally incorrect,” Giuliani said in a scolding tone. “The implication you make is against me and every implication against me is wrong.” Giuliani went on: "I’m not impoverished. Everything I have is tied up. I don’t have a car. I don’t have a credit card. I don’t have cash. I can’t get to bank accounts that truly would be mine because they have put ... stop orders on, for example, my Social Security account, which they have no right to do.” Liman responded by warning defense lawyers that the next time Giuliani interrupts a hearing, “he's not going to be permitted to speak and the court will take action.” The judge said Giuliani could either choose to represent himself or let lawyers do so, but “you can't have hybrid representation.” If Giuliani wants to speak in court again, he can be put on the witness stand and be sworn as a witness, Liman added. The exchange came at a hearing in which the judge refused to delay a Jan. 16 trial over the disposition of Giuliani’s Florida residence and World Series rings. Those are two sets of assets that Giuliani is trying to shield from confiscation as part of Liman's order to turn over many prized possessions to the poll workers. Earlier in the proceeding, defense attorney Joseph M. Cammarata asked Liman to delay the trial, which will be heard without a jury, for a month because of Giuliani's “involvement" in inauguration planning for President-elect Donald Trump. “My client regularly consults and deals directly with President-elect Trump on issues that are taking place as the incoming administration is afoot as well as (the) inauguration," Cammarata said. "My client wants to exercise his political right to be there.” The judge turned down the request, saying Giuliani's “social calendar” was not a reason to postpone the trial. Giuliani, who once served as Trump's personal attorney, was found liable last year for defaming two Georgia poll workers by falsely accusing them of tampering with ballots during the 2020 presidential election. The women said they faced death threats after Giuliani falsely claimed they sneaked in ballots in suitcases, counted ballots multiple times and tampered with voting machines.

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A 26-year-old pharmaceutical company employee in Mumbai was allegedly defrauded of Rs 1.78 lakh and coerced into stripping during a video call by cyber fraudsters posing as police officials. The incident, reported between November 19 and 20, involved fraudsters claiming to be Delhi Police officers who falsely accused the victim of being linked to a money laundering case involving businessman and Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal. The scammers, using multiple phone numbers, threatened the woman with arrest and demanded that she book a hotel room for questioning. During the video call, they tricked her into transferring Rs 1.78 lakh under the guise of bank account verification. The ordeal escalated when the perpetrators insisted on a "body verification," coercing the victim into undressing, reported India Today. Releasing the deception, the woman lodged an FIR on November 28. Mumbai Police have registered a case of extortion and harassment under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Information Technology (IT) Act. The case, initially filed at the Dahisar police station, has been transferred to the Andheri Police, who have launched a probe to identify the fraudsters, the report stated. ALSO READ : Baba Siddique Murder: MCOCA Invoked Against All 26 Accused Persons; Key Conspirators Still At Large This is one of the many cases, where cyber fraudsters scammed individuals after a "digital arrest". In a similar case, a 77-year-old woman from south Mumbai was trapped in a "digital arrest" scam by cybercriminals who made her transfer Rs 3.8 crore. Posing as law enforcement officials, they claimed her Aadhaar card was used in a parcel containing MDMA drugs and other illegal items sent to Taiwan. ALSO READ : Dehradun: Hindutva Activist Pressures Woman To File False Complaint Against Muslim Man; Booked The elderly woman reported the crime, leading investigators to freeze six bank accounts where the money was transferred. Police have launched an investigation into the case and advised citizens to stay alert and not fall prey to these scamsters.

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Citigroup Inc. Purchases 155,982 Shares of Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Co. (NYSE:ZWS)By ROB GILLIES, Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Donald Trump that Americans would also suffer if the president-elect follows through on a plan to impose sweeping tariffs on Canadian products , a Canadian minister who attended their recent dinner said Monday. Trump threatened to impose tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico if they don’t stop what he called the flow of drugs and migrants across their borders with the United States. He said on social media last week that he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico as one of his first executive orders. Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, whose responsibilities include border security, attended a dinner with Trump and Trudeau at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club on Friday. Trudeau requested the meeting in a bid to avoid the tariffs by convincing Trump that the northern border is nothing like the U.S. southern border with Mexico . “The prime minister of course spoke about the importance of protecting the Canadian economy and Canadian workers from tariffs, but we also discussed with our American friends the negative impact that those tariffs could have on their economy, on affordability in the United States as well,” LeBlanc said in Parliament. If Trump makes good on his threat to slap 25% tariffs on everything imported from Mexico and Canada, the price increases that could follow will collide with his campaign promise to give American families a break from inflation. Economists say companies would have little choice but to pass along the added costs, dramatically raising prices for food, clothing, automobiles, alcohol and other goods. The Produce Distributors Association, a Washington trade group, said last week that tariffs will raise prices for fresh fruit and vegetables and hurt U.S. farmers when the countries retaliate. Canada is already examining possible retaliatory tariffs on certain items from the U.S. should Trump follow through on the threat. After his dinner with Trump, Trudeau returned home without assurances the president-elect will back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner. Trump called the talks “productive” but signaled no retreat from a pledge that Canada says unfairly lumps it in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the United States. “The idea that we came back empty handed is completely false,” LeBlanc said. “We had a very productive discussion with Mr. Trump and his future Cabinet secretaries. ... The commitment from Mr. Trump to continue to work with us was far from empty handed.” Joining Trump and Trudeau at dinner were Howard Lutnick, Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department, and Mike Waltz, Trump’s choice to be his national security adviser. Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., Kirsten Hillman, told The Associated Press on Sunday that “the message that our border is so vastly different than the Mexican border was really understood.” Hillman, who sat at an adjacent table to Trudeau and Trump, said Canada is not the problem when it comes to drugs and migrants. On Monday, Mexico’s president rejected those comments. “Mexico must be respected, especially by its trading partners,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said. She said Canada had its own problems with fentanyl consumption and “could only wish they had the cultural riches Mexico has.” Flows of migrants and seizures of drugs at the two countries’ border are vastly different. U.S. customs agents seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the Canadian border during the last fiscal year, compared with 21,100 pounds at the Mexican border. Most of the fentanyl reaching the U.S. — where it causes about 70,000 overdose deaths annually — is made by Mexican drug cartels using precursor chemicals smuggled from Asia. On immigration, the U.S. Border Patrol reported 1.53 million encounters with migrants at the southwest border with Mexico between October 2023 and September 2024. That compares to 23,721 encounters at the Canadian border during that time. Canada is the top export destination for 36 U.S. states. Nearly $3.6 billion Canadian (US$2.7 billion) worth of goods and services cross the border each day. About 60% of U.S. crude oil imports are from Canada, and 85% of U.S. electricity imports as well. Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum and uranium to the U.S. and has 34 critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for and investing for national security.

ITV I'm a Celebrity's Tulisa makes announcement ahead of final as fans share opinionPopular Kilkenny catering and food retail company Mise En Place is celebrating an impressive two decade in business – having survived and thrived through a recession and a global pandemic. Local entrepreneurs Robert Cowley and Nora O’Malley are the hard-working owners of Mise En Place, a brand synonymous with creating magical meals, dessert and sauces from their Drakelands base since 2004. In 2004, the talented chefs set up Mise En Place as a catering business to serve the southeast, having worked in some of the world’s finest five-star hotels and restaurants such as the Monaco’s Hotel du Paris, Four Seasons Hotel London, the Merrion Hotel, and Hayfield Manor. The Covid pandemic saw them reimagine their business by launching a retail arm. It was an instant hit and today their Drakelands shop is a destination onto itself with customers constantly coming and going to stock up on the Mise En Place ready meals, desserts, fresh breads, salads, cakes and sauces. “It could be a very different story if we didn’t pivot during Covid and change our offering. It paid off for us and we have never looked back. We even had to build on a car park to cater for our growing customers”, commented Nora O’Malley. Located just two kilometres from Kilkenny City off the Kilcreene Road, the retail shop at Mise en Place is open from Monday to Friday from 10am to 4pm and a staff of eight assist Robert and Nora in providing a range of all the catering outfit’s most popular dishes, alongside a selection of new offerings, pastries, salads, quiches and sweet treats. “At the start, we wondered how many people would make the journey out to us but thanks to a loyal customer base, combined with ease of parking we always have a steady stream every day. Whilst the shop is busy and the main day-to-day part of the business, we still cater for larger family events and groups. Larger pre-booked quantities of food can be collected from the shop with heating instructions”, said Nora. “Our foods are simple to heat and serve. We wanted to provide everyday dishes – Lasagne, cottage pie, stroganoff, tagine, Rogan Josh, beef Guinness, alongside salads soups, fishcakes, tarts, our own preserves, vinaigrettes and granola. We also stock a range of local Kilkenny products. Everyone has a favourite but one thing is for sure – if we ran out of Thai curry, there would be a riot!” laughed Rob Cowley. Twenty years in, Robert says they still love what they do. “We want to thank all the people who have helped us along the way, from our loyal customers, brilliant staff and of course our families – they put up with us in the crazy busy periods!” said Robert. Quality and convenience is ever-important for today’s busy customers and one of the biggest successes of recent years and has been Mise En Place’s Christmas menu. “We offer everything bar the turkey and ham – starters, prepared vegetables, potatoes, stuffing, gravy and a range of desserts, mince pies and pudding. We will be working right up to Christmas Eve afternoon. Then we can rest up with our own families knowing that our foods are on hundreds of tables around Kilkenny over Christmas”, said Nora. Visit miseenplace.ie or phone 056 7702936