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A federal appeals court panel on Thursday rejected longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon’s bid to stay out of prison while he fights his conviction for defying a subpoena from the House select committee that investigated the U.S. Capitol attack.
Bannon is supposed to report to prison by July 1 to begin serving his four-month sentence for contempt of Congress.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, earlier this month granted prosecutors’ request to send Bannon to prison after another three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld his conviction last month.
In its ruling last month, the D.C. Circuit panel said that Bannon didn’t dispute that he deliberately refused to comply with the House select committee’s subpoena, “in that he knew what the subpoena required and intentionally did not respond; his nonresponse, in other words, was no accident.”
The D.C. Circuit panel also rejected Bannon’s claims that the subpoena was invalid.
Bannon’s lawyers had asked the appeals court to allow him to remain free while he continues to fight the conviction all the way up to the Supreme Court, if necessary.
Bannon, a White House chief strategist in the Trump administration, was convicted nearly two years ago of two counts of contempt of Congress: one for refusing to sit for a deposition with the Jan. 6 House Committee and the other for refusing to provide documents related to his involvement in efforts by Trump, a Republican, to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss to President Biden, a Democrat.
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Biden campaign targets Latino voters for Copa América, Trump team says effort is “a waste of time and money”
One of the highest viewership men’s soccer tournaments in the world, Copa América, kicked off Thursday and the Biden campaign is seizing on the opportunity to engage and mobilize Latino voters across the U.S.
The Biden-Harris reelection team will host watch parties for the soccer matches with campaign surrogates, distribute Biden soccer jerseys, and place ads across the country for the roughly month-long duration of the tournament.
Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Biden-Harris 2024 campaign manager, said in a statement that the campaign is looking to “harness the energy of Copa to mobilize and reach the Latino voters who will decide this election in their communities, on the airwaves, and at Copa matches.”
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In line with Thursday’s inaugural match in Atlanta between Lionel Messi’s Argentina and Canada, the Biden campaign unveiled its 30-second spot “Goaalll!” that will run on television, radio and digital platforms across English and Spanish markets. The ad references the 2021 Copa América tournament — which was delayed a year from the summer of 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic — in an effort to contrast Mr. Biden’s record with former President Donald Trump’s administration.
“Four years ago, we were shut down,” the ad narrator says over images of empty seats. “Stadiums were empty, Trump failed us, but then Joe Biden took over. He reopened the country and got us back on track.”
A red soccer card is placed over Trump’s face, as the narrator says that “Trump talks and talks and Biden gets s— done.”
In response to the ad push, Jaime Florez, Spanish spokesperson for the Trump campaign, told CBS News in a statement Thursday that “it does not matter how much money the Biden campaign will spend trying to get the attention of Hispanic voters, they will not succeed. Hispanics are very concerned with inflation, the prices of everything rising all the time, the insecurity of our neighborhoods, with the crisis at the border, it’s a waste of time and money.”
In June, Trump’s team rolled out its “Latino Americans for Trump” campaign as part of its mobilization efforts to reach the over 36.2 million eligible Latino voters across the U.S. The campaign is intended to show Latino voters “that the American dream is alive and reachable, and how the great achievements they enjoyed during the past years of Republican leadership will be coming back soon” according to Florez.
In 2020, Mr. Biden won Arizona by fewer than 11,000 votes, as was the case in Georgia. Mr. Biden clinched Nevada by less than 33,000 votes.
In 2024, one in four Arizona voters will be Latinos, according to numbers from the Pew Research Center, while in Nevada they will make up one out of every five. These are states where this year’s general election winner will be decided on the margins, and Latinos will play a critical role in determining the outcome.
More than 10 Copa América matches are scheduled in battleground states like Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina. They’re key locations that the Biden campaign says it will capitalize on.
A Michigan company is recalling about 567,000 portable battery chargers sold at Costco nationwide after 120 reports of the product overheating while charging, with the devices linked to two residential fires.
The recall involves myCharge POWER HUB All-In-One 10,000mAh portable chargers with model numbers AO10FK-A, AO10FK-B, and AO10FK-C. The chargers were sold at Costco stores and online from January 2022 through November 2023 for about $40, myCharge disclosed Thursday in a notice posted by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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Birmingham, Mich.-based myCharge said it had received five reports of the made-in-China charges overheating, including the two home fires. Costco also received 115 returns of the chargers, with customers mentioning melting, expanding, smoking, fire, burning, exploding or sparking. There have been no reports of injuries requiring medical attention.
Owners of the recalled chargers should stop using them and contact myCharge for a replacement.
The company can be reached at (888) 251-2026 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET Monday through Friday; by email at compliance@mycharge.com; or on myCharge’s website.
