Trump pleads not guilty a fourth time

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August 04, 2023 View online 1/ Trump pleads not guilty to new charges in Mar-a-Lago documents case Less than 24 hours after his arraignment in a Washington DC courtroom, former president Donald Trump officially entered another plea of "not guilty" to the 40-count superseding indictment in a separate case against him in Florida. Mr Trump did not appear in court to enter a plea, but his attorney, Christopher Kise, filed a waiver of appearance in which the former president entered a plea to the new charges that a south Florida grand jury approved against him last Thursday. In that superseding indictment, prosecutors alleged that Mr Trump and co-defendant Walt Nauta conspired with another Mar-a-Lago worker, Carlos De Oliveira, to attempt to have surveillance footage from the club deleted so it could not be provided to the grand jury investigating the presence of classified documents at his property.   Mr Trump was also newly charged with specifically possessing the classified document which he is alleged to have shown to a group of people at his Bedminster, New Jersey club. 2/ DeSantis blasted for AP psychology restrictions under 'Don't Say Gay' law Thousands of state high school students enrolled in the course could be 'effectively banned' from taking it 3/ Chaos unfolds among crowd gathered in NYC park for influencer's event Thousands of people gathered at Union Square for a reported console giveaway 4/ Parkland father leads lawmakers through high school mass shooting scene Max Schachter's 14-year-old son Alex was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 5/ Gilgo Beach victim Jane Doe 7 identified 26 years after remains discovered Police refused to say whether disappearance and murder is linked to serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann THE BIG QUESTION What happened to O'Shae Sibley? O'Shae Sibley had been out celebrating a friend's birthday when the group stopped at a Mobil gas station in Coney Island in Brooklyn on 29 July.   On a steamy Saturday night, the 28-year-old professional dancer took off his shirt and was "voguing" — a dance form popularised by the LGBT+ community — to Beyoncé's Renaissance album with a friend on the station forecourt.   Just after 11pm, a separate group of young men allegedly began hurling homophobic insults saying that they didn't like "gay dancing" in their neighbourhood, according to eyewitnesses. Sibley confronted the men, surveillance footage recovered from the gas station shows. After briefly separating, the clash turned violent, and Sibley was stabbed in the heart during a scuffle. 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