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Cinema OnlineStrength in silence as Ady An faces single motherhood after husband's prison sentence
Celebrity friends praise the actress' strength amid husband's high-profile legal battle
- The Guardian
Joe Biden issues ‘full and unconditional’ pardon to son Hunter
Decision marks reversal after US president said he would not use executive authority, but now says Hunter Biden was only prosecuted for political reasons
- The Independent
Teen mom faces murder charge after ‘slicing newborns throat and cutting out his heart with a pocket knife’
Leticia Rodriguez, 17, was allegedly caught digging a hole in the backyard with the intention of burying her baby
- The Independent
A woman was found murdered and left nude along the riverbed in 1988. Police just named her killer
Tracy Whitney was 18 years old when she was killed in August 1988
- The Telegraph
Children carry out surge of contract killings as Swedish gangs exploit loophole in the law
Fernando, a hitman for a Swedish narcotics gang, checks his phone as it pings with his latest orders: collect the guns, go to the target’s front door and fire until he runs out of bullets.
- The Independent
How TikTok led cops to alleged killers of 16-year-old boy who was found dead hanging out of a moving vehicle
Police harnessed the power of social media to help find Key’mydre Anderson’s alleged killers. Last week, Johnathan Pyle’s capital murder trial began, James Liddell writes
- People
Killed for His Kindness: Inside the Case of 17-Year-Old Who Was Slain After Offering Teens a Ride in the Cold
Jack Snyder, 17, was fatally shot during a carjacking in February 2023
- People
Sean 'Diddy' Combs Accused of Dangling Woman Over 17th-Floor Balcony at Cassie’s Apartment
Fashion designer Bryana "Bana" Bongolan is seeking $10 million in damages from the disgraced music mogul for the emotional distress she claims she suffered at his hand
- AFP News
Malaysia's jailed ex-PM Najib to argue appeal for house arrest
Malaysia's jailed ex-leader Najib Razak will begin his defence this week against graft charges tied to more than $500 million in alleged bribes, and argue to serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest.At the High Court on Monday, the 71-year-old will start his defence against four counts of abuse of power linked to 2.27 billion ringgit ($510 million) in alleged bribes and 21 counts of money laundering.
- Associated Press
Impeachment complaint filed against Philippine Vice President Duterte after she threatened president
An impeachment complaint was filed Monday against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, who is facing a legal storm over a death threat she made against the president and her alleged role in extra-judicial killings of drug suspects, corruption and failure to stand up to Chinese aggression in the disputed South China Sea. The impeachment bid filed by several prominent civil society activists in the House of Representatives accuses Duterte of violating the country’s Constitution, betrayal of public trust and other “high crimes,” including the death threats she made against the president, his wife and the speaker of the House of Representatives. “We're hoping that with this complaint, we can end the nightmare that our vice president has brought to the people,” said Rep. Percival Cendana, who gave the required endorsement of the complaint.
- The Independent
Driver, 24, arrested weeks after mom of four was shot dead during road rage confrontation, cops say
Julie Marie Butcher, a mother of four, was shot in the head while driving on November 8
- The Independent
Trump slams Hunter Biden’s presidential pardon as an ‘an abuse and miscarriage of Justice’
In a short post to his social media platform less than an hour after the official announcement, the president mused over pardons for those convicted in the violent insurrection on January 6 2021
- CNN
Stowaway who flew from New York to Paris causes disturbance on return flight, remains in France
A woman who flew as a stowaway on a Delta Air Lines flight from New York to Paris earlier this week remains in France after causing a disturbance on a flight scheduled to take her back to the United States Saturday, according to two law enforcement sources.
- The Guardian
Runaway Tesla crashes into three cars and drives off rooftop at Sydney shopping centre car park
NSW police say investigation into Saturday incident at Homebush DFO ongoing
- The Independent
A quadriplegic woman was raped during a home invasion in 2000. 24 years on, DNA leads cops to a suspect
Michael Lamonte Evans, 50, was charged with forcible rape over the December 2000 attack on the unnamed woman, who has since died
- The Telegraph
What did Hunter Biden do?
Over and over, Joe Biden said he would not use his powers as president to pardon his son Hunter on charges he bought a gun while using drugs and avoided tax.
- Associated Press
Australian police arrest 13 people and seize a record 2.3 tons of cocaine from a fishing boat
Australian police seized a record 2.3 tons of cocaine and arrested 13 people in raids after the suspects' boat broke down off the coast of Queensland, authorities said Monday. The drugs had a sale value of 760 million Australian dollars ($494 million) and equaled as many as 11.7 million street deals if they had reached the country of 28 million people, federal police said in a statement. The arrests on Saturday and Sunday followed a monthlong investigation after a tipoff that the Comancheros motorcycle gang was planning a multi-ton smuggling operation, Australian Federal Police Commander Stephen Jay said.
- Associated Press
A white Kansas detective accused of preying on Black women for decades faces trial
A white Kansas police detective accused of sexually assaulting Black women and girls and terrorizing those who tried to fight back is about to go on federal trial, part of a tangle of cases tied to decades of alleged abuse. Prosecutors say female residents of poor neighborhoods in Kansas City, Kansas, feared that if they crossed paths with Roger Golubski, he'd demand sexual favors and threaten to harm or jail their relatives. Golubski, now 71, is accused of sexually assaulting one woman starting when she was barely a teenager and another after her sons were arrested.
- People
Dentist Accused of Killing Wife by Poisoning Her Shakes Charged with Attempting to Get Fellow Inmate to Kill a Detective: Police
Police claim James Toliver Craig tried to get the inmate to kill the detective once in May and June 2023 and again in October 2024
- The Telegraph
Trump asks if Biden will now pardon the ‘January 6 hostages’
Donald Trump has said Joe Biden should now pardon those imprisoned for the Jan 6 Capital riots after he released his son from likely jail time.