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Two men charged with blowing up woman’s home, planning to use large python to eat her daughter

amphotora/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Two men have been charged after allegedly bombing a woman’s home and planning to release “a large python into the victim’s home to eat the victim’s daughter,” according to prosecutors.Stephen Glosser, 37, and Caleb Kinsey, 34 -- both from Richmond Hill, Georgia -- are alleged to have used electronic communications to place the unnamed woman under surveillance from Dec. 2022 until Jan. 2023 “with the intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate,” before using an explosive […]

todayMarch 13, 2024

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Mahogany Jackson texted she was kidnapped. Days later eight suspects were charged in her murder

Mahogany Jackson is seen pictured. (Birmingham Police Department)(NEW YORK) -- Alabama mother Mahogany Jackson was found shot in the back of the head on Feb. 26 by the side of a road in a remote area in Birmingham, Alabama, hours after she texted her mother saying that she had been kidnapped and asking for help, according to the Birmingham Police Department (BPD).Now six of the eight suspects charged in connection to the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of the 20-year-old […]

todayMarch 13, 2024

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Ghislaine Maxwell asks court to overturn sex trafficking conviction and sentence

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Cipriani Wall Street on March 15, 2005 in New York City. (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence for recruiting and grooming the underage girls who Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused, arguing she was immunized by an agreement federal prosecutors in Florida arranged with Epstein in 2007."The plea agreement applies to preclude this prosecution," defense attorney Diana […]

todayMarch 13, 2024

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Trump, in hush money trial, won’t use ‘advice of counsel’ defense — but will still argue lawyers were involved

ftwitty/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Attorneys for Donald Trump say they will not invoke a formal "advice of counsel" defense when the former president is put on trial later this month for allegedly falsifying business records in New York, but they signaled in a court filing on Tuesday that Trump will argue he did not intend to break the law "because of his awareness that various lawyers were involved."Trump's defense team faced a deadline this week to notify the court if […]

todayMarch 13, 2024

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Settlement in challenge to Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law clarifies scope of LGBTQ+ restrictions

Stella/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A settlement has been reached in the challenge against Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, HB1557, known by LGBTQ+ advocates as the "Don’t Say Gay" bill. The settlement, announced Monday, clarifies the scope of the legislation, which prohibits any classroom curriculum about sexual orientation or gender identity for students in kindergarten through third grade. It also restricts such lessons for older students."The point of yesterday's settlement was to have clarity when there was confusion, to have safety […]

todayMarch 13, 2024

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Judge approves Trump’s $91.6 million bond in E. Jean Carroll defamation case

In this April 26, 2023, file photo, E. Jean Carroll departs the Southern District of New York Court on Pearl Street after a long day of testimony, in New York. (NY Daily News via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- Judge Lewis Kaplan has approved Donald Trump's $91,630,000 bond in the defamation case brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll, according to an order filed Tuesday afternoon."Enforcement of the Judgment, to the extent that the Judgment awards damages, is STAYED pending the final […]

todayMarch 13, 2024

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Boeing whistleblower found dead in ‘midst of’ retaliation case; attorney says he’s shocked

Netlix(NEW YORK) -- A former Boeing employee who raised numerous concerns about the company's production standards died from a "self-inflicted" gunshot wound Saturday, per a coroner's report. The former employee was actively engaged in a whistleblower complaint against the company prior to his death, the employee's attorney confirmed.John Barnett, 62, was found by police officers on the morning of March 9 in a vehicle parked at a Holiday Inn along Savannah Highway "holding a silver hand gun in his right […]

todayMarch 13, 2024

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NYC officials investigating stun gun arrest of migrant holding baby caught on tape

Tim Drivas Photography/GETTY Images(NEW YORK) -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams says NYPD officers took "appropriate action" during a violent altercation with a migrant in a city-operated shelter in the borough of Queens that was caught on camera.In a video obtained by The New York Times, officers can be seen repeatedly striking and using a stun gun on the man, identified by the NYPD as 47-year-old Yanny Cordero, while he’s holding his 1-year-old child.A police source described the deployment […]

todayMarch 13, 2024

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NTSB to hold investigative hearing on Alaska Airlines door plug incident

Image Source/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a two-day investigative hearing on the Alaska Air door plug incident, the agency announced Tuesday.The hearing will take place on Aug. 6 and 7, with the location and other details to be announced at a later date, the NTSB said.The door plug of Alaska Airlines flight 1282 fell off a few minutes after take off from Portland International Airport on Jan. 5. Passengers captured footage showing a hole […]

todayMarch 13, 2024

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