内容摘要：Synopsys, which partners with chip companies such as Nvidia, Qualcomm and Intel, provides software and hardware used for designing advanced processors.

Synopsys, which partners with chip companies such as Nvidia, Qualcomm and Intel, provides software and hardware used for designing advanced processors.

In response, Lopez Obrador criticised the judicial system for serving the interests of the political and economic elites.Daniela Arias, a coordinator for the pro-democracy think tank Laboratorio Electoral, remembers Lopez Obrador railing against the judges at his daily news briefings.

“The president's questions in his morning press conferences were: What legitimacy do these [judges] have, versus what the people decided at the polls? Why are they holding up my projects?” Arias said.With less than a month left in his presidency, Lopez Obrador decided to do something about his complaints. He pushed forward with hislong-desired reforms

to the judiciary — including the imposition of mandatory elections.But the changes required a constitutional amendment. Still, Lopez Obrador was head of the Morena party, the most powerful force in contemporary Mexican politics.

Wielding his sway, he was able to secure the backing of both the Senate and the majority of Mexico's states, allowing the reforms to become law.

“That’s when this bidding war began,” Arias said of the elections.Here is what we know.

Who is Larry Hoover and why was his sentence commuted?Hoover, 74, is the cofounder of Gangster Disciples, one of Chicago’s most powerful gangs.

In a two-page order issued on Wednesday, the Trump administration commuted his federal sentence, considering it served “with no further fines, restitution, probation or other conditions” and ordering his immediate release, according to a copy of the document from Hoover’s legal team seen by The Chicago Tribune.Hoover’s lawyers said the order was a vindication of their attempts to have their client’s sentence reduced.