Alex Murdaugh appears in state court for financial crimes sentencing on Nov. 28, 2023. (Law&Crime Network) A judge has added another decadeslong prison sentence for disgraced attorney and twice-convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel ordered Murdaugh to serve 40 years in prison for stealing nearly $11 million from clients and his law […]
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(Headline USA) President Joe Biden’s campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez admitted this week that Biden has no intention of shutting down the southern border, despite his recent claim that he would like to. Biden claimed in January that he would “shut down the border right now and fix it quickly” if Congress passed a bipartisan Senate […]
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Connor N. Smith mug shot (Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office), left, and during season 3 of MTV’s Are You the One? (MTV/YouTube screenshot) A 32-year-old former MTV reality television star accused of soliciting sex from an underage girl in Illinois was arrested in Florida last week, bringing an end to a manhunt that lasted more than […]
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(Headline USA) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said this week that she would continue to try to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., from leadership, arguing Johnson “is a Democrat.” Greene introduced a motion last month to hold a House vote on whether to vacate Johnson from the speakership over his support for a $1.2 billion […]
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Brittany Napier appearing in court (WOWK screenshot). Inset: Za’khi Williams (Digital Memorial). A 32-year-old babysitter in West Virginia will spend multiple years behind bars after she admitted to killing a 2-year-old boy in her care when covered his playpen with a mattress to prevent him from climbing out, which ended up suffocating the child. Kanawha […]
Continue Reading(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A new livestock-borne virus that has contributed to the surging prices of chicken and eggs, forcing Chick-fil-A to backtrack on its longstanding policy against the use of antibiotics, may now be threatening cows and even humans, raising anxieties about potential food shortages, another pandemic or both. The so-called super bird flu […]
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Left to right: Donald Trump speaks to the media for campaign event Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, in Greenville, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt); Aileen M. Cannon speaks remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight nomination hearing to be U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on July 29, 2020 (U.S. Senate via AP); Peter […]
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John O’Keefe and Karen Read. (Images via BPD portrait and WBZ-TV screengrab, respectively.) A judge last week said the prosecutor in the Karen Read case used “poor judgment” in issuing a public statement defending his case but declined the defense request to remove the district attorney’s office from the trial. Read is accused of killing […]
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(Mike Gleason, Money Metals News Service) Another week, another record high for gold. On Wednesday, the monetary metal surged above $2,300 per ounce. It took a bit of a breather Thursday ahead of today’s key employment report but it rallied again on Friday. Turning to silver, it made a significant breakout of its own this […]
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Alvin Bragg (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II), Donald Trump (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Monday asked a New York City judge to expand and enforce a previously issued gag order in former President Donald Trump’s upcoming hush money trial. In an 8-page motion, the district attorney’s office once again implored New York Supreme […]
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