Trial judge warns Trump over intimidation, 7 jurors picked The judge in Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) warned the Republican presidential hopeful against intimidating jurors as seven panelists were chosen with ... 04/16/2024 - 9:52 pm | View Link
He shot and killed a 6-year-old whose mom flipped him off when driving. Now he’s been sentenced to 40 years Aiden later died at an Orange County, California hospital. During Eriz’s trial, it was revealed the bullet pierced Aiden’s liver, lung and heart. Eriz was arrested two weeks later, after the ... 04/12/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Italy opens new slander trial against Amanda Knox. She was exonerated 9 years ago in friend's murder FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Amanda Knox was back on trial for slander Wednesday for wrongly accusing ... She remains in the United States, where she campaigns for social justice and has a variety of media ... 04/10/2024 - 3:06 am | View Link
Mom faces 55 years behind bars for 98-mph crash that killed her 3-year-old girl: ‘Steering a missile down the road’ Maryland mom DanShell Evon, 38, faces up to 55 years behind bars after being found guilty of gross negligent manslaughter in a 98-mph crash that killed her 3-year-old daughter, Dreamie Dior Jackson. 04/8/2024 - 5:10 am | View Link
Family mystified after elderly Florida couple married for 60 years killed in their home We’re very angry,” said Hill, the youngest of the couple’s 11 children. Major and Claudette Melvin were killed on March 22. “We ask those questions, but we are Christian people as well ... 04/3/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Decorated Chinese athlete He Jie had been stripped of his Beijing half-marathon win Friday after an investigation found that the three African runners who competed alongside him had “actively slowed down” to let him cross the finish line first during the race on Sunday, April 14.
He won the 21 km.
ISLAMABAD — An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying on Friday that it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression.
The ban on X has been in place since February, when the party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan announced a nationwide protest against alleged election rigging ahead of the Feb.
BEIJING — San Francisco is the latest U. S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the panda loan in Beijing on Friday, alongside officials from China Wildlife Conservation Association, or CWCA. It will be San Francisco’s first time hosting the beloved animals long-term—the result of a yearlong advocacy campaign, Breed said.
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San Diego previously announced it was receiving two pandas back in February.
China is home to the only natural habitat for pandas and owns most of the black-and-white bears in the world.
Earlier this month, two Indian writers published an ode to their Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Written in lyric form and titled “Forever In Our Hearts,” it recounts his achievements while singing his praises in highly effusive language. “With courage and wisdom/you show citizens the way,” it gushes. “Oh Modi, oh Modi/their hopes never sway/A people’s beacon, in whom they see light/Oh Modi, oh Modi, guiding day and night.”
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Such reverence captures the essence of Modi’s popularity.
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.