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Judge of the Trump case points out comment on Facebook about possible verdict leak

The judge who presided over the criminal trial against former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) in New York, Juan Merchan, pointed out on Friday a comment posted by a user on the Facebook of the judicial system about a possible leak of the guilty verdict before it was determined by the jury.

Merchan addressed a letter to both the Manhattan Prosecutor’s Office and Trump’s defense calling his “attention” to a comment by a user in a publication on May 29, a day before the verdict, which quotes: “My cousin is a juror and says that Trump will be convicted. Thank you, people, for your hard work!!!”

However, the comment was deleted and when the name of the alleged author is searched by the judge on Facebook, a profile of a person appears who is listed as a ‘shitposter’ (a person who intentionally publishes junk messages on the internet), according to local media.

The judge’s letter is a mere notification and does not indicate that he will take any action for the comment.

A spokesman for Trump’s campaign told Fox News that he is “investigating the matter.”

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On May 30, after a month and a half of trial, a jury found Trump guilty of 34 crimes related to the falsification of his company’s documents to silence the porn actress Stormy Daniels and protect her career in the White House elections in 2016, which she ended up winning. The sentence will be announced on July 11.

The jurors were specifically instructed by the judge to keep secret about their work and not to talk about the case with anyone.

On the other hand, Merchan responded this Friday to a motion by Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, allowing him to attend an interview of his client with a correction official prior to the sentence.

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Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

Guatemalan court decides Wednesday whether to convict journalist José Rubén Zamora

The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.

“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.

The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.

His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”

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Miyazaki’s style goes viral with AI but at what cost?

This week, you may have noticed that everything—from historical photos and classic movie scenes to internet memes and recent political moments—has been reimagined on social media as Studio Ghibli-style portraits. The trend quickly went viral thanks to ChatGPT and the latest update of OpenAI’s chatbot, released on Tuesday, March 25.

The newest addition to GPT-4o has allowed users to replicate the distinctive artistic style of the legendary Japanese filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away). “Today is a great day on the internet,” one user declared while sharing popular memes in Ghibli format.

While the trend has captivated users worldwide, it has also highlighted ethical concerns about AI tools trained on copyrighted creative works—and what this means for the livelihoods of human artists.

Not that this concerns OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which has actively encouraged the “Ghiblification”experiments. Its CEO, Sam Altman, even changed his profile picture on the social media platform X to a Ghibli-style portrait.

Miyazaki, now 84 years old, is known for his hand-drawn animation approach and whimsical storytelling. He has long expressed skepticism about AI’s role in animation. His past remarks on AI-generated animation have resurfaced and gone viral again, particularly when he once said he was “utterly disgusted” by an AI demonstration.

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Nicaragua revokes legal status of 10 more NGOs, bringing total to over 5,600

The Nicaraguan government canceled the legal status of 10 more non-profit organizations on Friday (March 28, 2025), including the Swiss Foundation for Development Cooperation, bringing the total number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) shut down since December 2018 to over 5,600.

According to the Ministry of the Interior, the Swiss Foundation for Development Cooperation, which had been registered since March 9, 2002, was found to be in non-compliance for failing to report its financial status for 2024 and for having an expired board of directors.

Among the 10 NGOs whose legal status was revoked were religious organizations, educational groups, consumer associations, and aquaculture organizations, all dissolved “voluntarily” or closed under similar reasons.

As of today, more than 5,600 NGOs have been dismantled following the popular protests that erupted in April 2018 in Nicaragua. In most cases, the assets of these organizations have been ordered to be transferred to the state.

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