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Suit against Roman Polanski over alleged rape of minor in 1973 settledCBSNewsUpdated October 23, 2024 at 5:35 AMFrench-Polish director Roman Polanski, who fled the United States decades ago after admitting to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old, will no longer face trial over an alleged assault of another minor after reaching a settlement, his lawyer said Tuesday. The latest case against the director of “The Pianist,” which concerned an alleged sexual attack in 1973, had been due in civil court in Los Angeles next August, but has now been withdrawn, Polanski's US attorney told Agence France-Presse.The case was “settled in…

“More than anything else. It was such a profoundly stupid thing for the president to say. Here‘s why: It played directly into the central point that Donald Trump and folks around him have made, which is that the country has this overweening Justice Department top-down from the president going after its rivals. Now, that’s not true,” Williams said.

“Merely articulating it even as an accident, he gave fire to that nonsense,” he added, before arguing that criticism of it was somewhat unfair compared to what Trump has said about his political opponents.

Biden said at an event in New Hampshire on Tuesday, “I know this sounds bizarre. It sounds like if I said this five years ago, you’d lock me up. We got to lock him up.” However, the president quickly added, “politically lock him up. Lock him out. That’s what we have to do.”

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State Rep. Jake Johnson of the North Carolina General Assembly told Fox News Digital the current regulations by the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will hamper rebuilding efforts after Helene ravaged parts of the state’s northwest.

He said the general assembly already targeted rules on debris removal via burning but said policies like those dictating how close to a river developments can be built up could also impede rebuilding after the storm.

“Where a lot of the rebuilding is going to have to be done — and a lot of the cleanup, obviously, is near the river — one thing we need to look at is, you know, at least temporarily suspending some of the [regulations], how close you can work to a river and making sure that, you know, they’re not cracking down on that,” Johnson said.

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