All of it is being alleged—that’s what an accusation is.
But they’re not accusing her of arranging sex with boys who were allegedly wearing masks, they’re accusing her of arranging sex with boys who were actually wearing them. In the context of the act of which she’s accused, there were no allegations.
“Alleged” isn’t idempotent—every time you add it, it modifies the meaning.
prosecutors accuse her of arranging group sex with middle and high school boys as young as 13 years old while they allegedly wore Scream masks.
Can someone re-train journalists on the use of “allegedly”? The accusation is that she did these things, not that she is alleged to have done them.
Sprinkling the word around with no logical consistency just trains people to ignore it, which defeats the purpose.
They’ll be fine with a crash as long as they’re convinced it’s hurting someone else more.
I’m assuming it was originally for use by the private security personnel, since they knew where it was and apparently expected to be able to access it.
And/or, the institute may have a strict no-guns policy and the safe is for visitors to store their firearms when entering.
Yeah, but you’d think that doing something like this would impact their ability to get future clients.
At one point Monday, the firm’s prior private security firm — whose contract was ended after it coordinated with DOGE — also appeared at the building, at one point “proceed[ing] to walk toward the Institute’s gun safe,” pushing USIP staff to ignite its lockdown policy.
Are all private security firms that corruptible?
I don’t remember the Constitution defining “slamming” as part of the system of checks and balances.
This is how Trump will spin his failed conquest of Greenland: it was really just a ploy to extort eggs from Denmark.
The winner in the general election will almost certainly be a Democrat, but California has an open, top-two primary. If left-leaning voters can unite behind a second Democratic candidate, and Republican voters split their votes between two or more candidates, it’s plausible that the general election could come down to Harris and a second Democrat to her left.
Republicans who have already demonized Harris after the 2024 campaign might then vote for the other Democrat, just on the basis of their negative view of Harris—so Harris being in the race could swing the election further to the left.
She, and because
On Monday, Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia introduced legislation that, if passed, would force Bowser to rename Black Lives Matter Plaza or else lose federal funding for D.C.
Career officials at the CIA have been quietly discussing that risk and how to mitigate it in the recent weeks, current and former intelligence officials previously told CNN. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard earlier this week suggested that those discussions represented a “threat” made by disloyal government employees — rather than a clinical warning of the potential risks posed by President Donald Trump’s aggressive cost-cutting strategy — and that those involved should be penalized.
She wants to penalize people for trying to mitigate the risks caused by needlessly penalizing people?
I wonder how this is affecting life insurance rates for insurance CEOs.
John Glanton and Judge Holden.
Is it normal for a “legislative town hall” to be organized by one party’s central committee?
“You failed to adequately inform your investors about the risk of me.”
Trump is the queen bee, but Putin is the beekeeper.
That’s just what someone who was planning to invade Canada would say.
See autocoup.
Although… I wonder if Trump’s followers could be convinced that Musk is controlling him with one of his NeuraLink chips?
“…and that approval is for sale, if anyone cares to outbid him.”
Take the sentence “Police accused John Doe of inciting a lynch mob to attack the alleged rapist“. The police aren’t alleging that the victim was a rapist, they’re saying the rape allegation was part of the context of their own accusation against John Doe.
If an act is described as an accusation, it’s already implied that everything within the description is an allegation by the accusers. But if something within the description is itself labeled as “alleged”, that nested allegation becomes part of scenario the accusers are reconstructing.