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The disturbing theory is the latest of many in Heard's lawsuit against ex-husband Johnny Depp, further turning the trial into a public spectacle.

German prosecutors on Tuesday sought a five-year prison sentence for a 101-year-old man who is on trial for his alleged role as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp during World War II.

In an ABC News for Hulu docuseries, Kristin Chenoweth seeks answers after nearly going on a camping trip with a group of girls, whose murders remain unsolved.

On Wednesday veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. She was hit by a live bullet while covering Israeli raids in the city of Jenin. In video footage of the incident, Abu Akleh can be seen wearing a blue flak jacket clearly marked with the word “PRESS”.
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In a statement, Al Jazeera Media Network condemned the “blatant murder” that violates “international laws and norms”, and called Abu Akleh’s death a “heinous crime, through which it is intended to prevent the media from fulfilling its message”.

The killing comes just days after the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) and the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians filed a formal complaint with the International Criminal Court alleging “systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists”.

Abu Akleh, 51, was born in Jerusalem. She began working for Al Jazeera in 1997 and regularly reported from across the occupied Palestinian territory.

In this episode we discuss the global reaction to her killing, and ask if there will be any accountability.
Video analysis of Al Jazeera journalist murder contradicts Israeli account


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Police determined that Joseph McKinnon, 60, died of a heart attack while burying his girlfriend, Patricia Dent, 65, who he strangled.

A five-week-old baby and an adult male passenger were killed when the infant's mother crashed during a police pursuit after stealing baby supplies from a Louisiana Walmart.

San Jose Officer Matthew Dominguez, 32, allegedly “touched himself” in front of the woman and her mother inside their home.

A dramatic video captured eleven migrants fleeing a car driven by a human smuggler when it flipped over while on the run on Thursday. The shocking footage shared by Fox News shows several people crawling out the windows of the upside-down vehicle in Sullivan County, Texas.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that that law violated young adults’ 2nd Amendment rights.

Three are dead from a car crash into Allegheny's SEPTA station on the Frankford Market Line Tuesday morning, according to reports.

Customs officers last month seized $70,000 worth of cocaine that was hidden in souvenir thermos cups and sent to three United States cities, authorities announced.

Fresno police are now seeking the man driving the truck, who had tried to check into a hotel while the 29-year-old woman’s remains were still trapped under the vehicle.

Two killers dressed in all black fatally shot the victim identified as 30-year-old Brandon Dixon in broad daylight at a Gulf Station in North Philadelphia.

Former Food Network star Ariel Robinson of Simpsonville, North Carolina was found guilty of homicide by child abuse and sentenced to life in prison on Thursday.

Jurors had been shown body camera video that was taken moments after emergency crews responded to a 911 call for a possible child drowning in a Simpsonville home in 2021.
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When emergency crews got there, they found 3-year-old Victoria Smith unresponsive on her bedroom floor, covered in bruises. Robinson and the child’s other foster parent were present.

The bodycam footage shows Robinson talking to law enforcement and partly blaming the bruises on Smith, and on herself, from performing CPR wrong. She blamed the bruises on Tori’s legs on Tori’s brother.

“He will hit her with a shoe, he’ll find one of Austin’s belts, a hanger. Anything that is around because he is angry” Ariel Robinson is heard saying in the video.

Greenville County’s chief medical examiner though isn’t convinced that’s how the bruises appeared. He told the courtroom, his autopsy report shows those kinds of injuries were too severe to be inflicted in either of the ways Robinson described.
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Three Louisiana State Police troopers have been charged with simple battery, accused of beating a Black motorist after a chase

WINNSBORO, La. (AP) — State prosecutors have charged three Louisiana State Police troopers accused of beating a Black motorist, hoisting him to his feet by his hair braids and bragging in text messages that the “whoopin’” would give him “nightmares for a long time.”
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The misdemeanor simple battery charges in the 2020 arrest of Antonio Harris come amid mounting scrutiny of the state’s premier law enforcement agency over allegations of excessive force — particularly against Black people — and an institutional instinct to cover it up.

Jacob Brown, Dakota DeMoss and George “Kam” Harper, who are white, were seen on body-camera video piling onto Harris following a high-speed chase that ended next to a cornfield in rural Franklin Parish, kneeing, slapping and punching him even though he had surrendered face down with his arms and legs splayed.

The troopers’ attorneys declined to comment Thursday. State police spokesperson Lt. Melissa Matey said the troopers’ actions “are inexcusable and have no place in professional public safety services.”

State police had arrested the troopers in February 2021 on felony charges of malfeasance in office, but local prosecutors elected not to bring that count last week when filing a bill of information in Franklin Parish. Misdemeanor simple battery in Louisiana carries up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

“Obviously we would have liked stronger charges but we’re still hopeful the Department of Justice will bring a case,” said Harris’ attorney, Michael Sterling.

A federal grand jury in Lafayette has been hearing testimony in the case following a months-long investigation into whether the troopers used excessive force. But it remains unclear whether the U.S. Justice Department intends to move forward with a civil rights case.

A similar uncertainty hangs over the federal investigation into the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, another Black motorist beaten by state police. A federal grand jury also has been hearing testimony in that case, in which troopers stunned, punched and dragged Greene before he died on a rural roadside in Union Parish, outside Monroe. The Associated Press reported this week that the Justice Department is increasingly skeptical it can bring a successful case against the troopers.
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By Brian Vitagliano, CNN

Updated 6:50 PM ET, Fri April 29, 2022

Ghislaine Maxwell is scheduled to be sentenced June 28,
(CNN)A request by Ghislaine Maxwell's attorneys to have her sex trafficking convictions dropped has been denied.
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"The testimony and other trial evidence established the Defendant's role in grooming and recruiting underage girls and using the cover of massage to perpetrate sexual abuse," US District Judge Alison Nathan wrote in her opinion.
Nathan did, however, grant Maxwell's motion regarding some counts being repetitive.
"The Government concedes that Count One is multiplicitous with Count Three, and the Court further concludes that Count Five is multiplicitous with Count Three," Nathan wrote. "Count Five, like Counts One and Three, charged the Defendant's participation in the same decade-long unlawful agreement with the Defendant's continuous coconspirator, Jeffrey Epstein, to groom and sexually abuse underage girls."
Maxwell's sentencing is set for June 28, and the court will enter judgment of conviction on counts three, four and six.


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A Los Angeles mom has admitted to killing three of her seven children on Mother’s Day with the help of her 16-year-old son, authorities said.

Mom of seven Angela Flores, 38, was booked into the LA County jail Sunday night on three counts of murder for allegedly killing two of her boys and a 12-year-old daughter. Her bail was set at $6 million.
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The 16-year-old also was arrested on one count of murder and was being held at the Sylmar Juvenile Hall, CBS News reported, citing police.

Police responded to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon about 7:40 a.m. Sunday at the home on Victory Boulevard and found the three victims, Natalie, 12, Nathan, 8, and Kevin, who was believed to be about 10, according to the outlet.

LAPD said Flores confessed to killing her children with the assistance of the 16-year-old.

The cause of their deaths was not immediately released. Flores’ three other children live out of state with their father and were not harmed.
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Lauren Pazienza, who was out on $500,000 bail her mom posted, remained stone-faced as the judge ordered she should be held in jail pending trial during a hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court.

The stolen devices were all traced back to one location: A Quickly boba tea shop on Larkin Street right in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco.

Quoc Le, 41, was arrested Monday and faces at least a dozen felony and misdemeanor charges of “possession of stolen property.” Le's wife is the owner and franchisee of the Taiwanese-based chain; she has not been charged.
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And on Tuesday, in a stunning revelation, Boudin announced his arrest was part of an operation known as “Operation Auto Pilot” — which uncovered an “massive global operation” of car thefts and illicit electronic sales that reached as far wide as Vietnam and Hong Kong.

“Auto burglaries in San Francisco have, for at least a decade, been one of the leading categories of crime. We know that it’s had a devastating impact, not only on our own residents, but on … the entire tourist industry.”

In 2021, there was a total of 20,663 “theft from vehicle” incidents reported to police — a 39 percent increase from the year before, but lower than the peak of over 31,000 in 2017. Only a fraction of them lead to an arrest, Boudin said.
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