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Month: December 2024

Pennsylvania jail confiscated inmates’ toilet paper and soap, cut power and heat, a lawsuit alleges

Associated Press A Pennsylvania jail is facing accusations it retaliated against inmates suspected of smoking synthetic marijuana by withholding necessities like toilet paper, soap and warm clothing. The suit also alleges the jail cut power and heat to the inmates. Inmates at Dauphin County Prison accuse top jail officials in a federal lawsuit of waging

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Lawsuit accuses State Department of creating loopholes for Israel on military aid and human rights

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has carved out loopholes for Israel that give the close American ally a pass on U.S. law that restricts aid to foreign militaries over human rights abuses, a lawsuit from a group of Palestinians in Gaza and American relatives asserts Tuesday. Former State Department officials and crafters

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The killing of a Russian general is one of several that Moscow blames on Ukraine

Associated Press Ukraine’s Security Service has claimed responsibility for killing Lt. General Igor Kirillov, head of the military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, in a bombing in Moscow. Kirillov, 54, was killed Tuesday alongside his assistant, Ilya Polikarov. An official with the SBU said the agency was behind the attack. The official, who spoke on condition

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Judge allows testing of tissue samples from George Floyd as officer who killed him seeks new trial

Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has granted permission to lawyers for Derek Chauvin to have samples from George Floyd examined as part of the former Minneapolis police officer’s efforts to challenge his conviction on a federal civil rights charge stemming from Floyd’s death in 2020. The U.S. district judge agreed Monday to let

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Acusaron a Dominique Pelicot de organizar la violación masiva de su esposa. Los mensajes muestran cómo operaba

Por Saskya Vandoorne, Niamh Kennedy, Caroline Baum, Kara Fox, Carlotta Dotto, Eleanor Stubbs, Yukari Schrickel y Byron Manley, CNN Advertencia: Este informe contiene detalles de agresiones sexuales. Se recomienda la discreción del espectador. Dominique Pelicot le dijo a la policía que buscaba hombres para violar a su esposa, Gisèle. Solo necesitaba abrir su computadora portátil

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‘Bluey: The Movie’ is coming

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — The news many fans of a certain blue dog have been waiting for has arrived. A movie based on the popular children’s animated series “Bluey” is headed to theaters. An announcement was made Tuesday on social media with BBC Studios, Disney, Disney+ and ABC tagged. The series creator,

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Netanyahu says Israeli troops will occupy a buffer zone inside Syria for the foreseeable future

Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israeli forces will stay in a buffer zone on the Syrian border, seized after the ouster of Syria’s President Bashar Assad, until another arrangement is in place “that ensures Israel’s security.” Netanyahu made the comments from the summit of Mount Hermon — the

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Son-in-law of top foe of Venezuela’s president sentenced to 30 months on money laundering charge

Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The son-in-law of a prominent Venezuelan opposition leader has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for his role in a vast bribery conspiracy to siphon $1.2 billion from the state-owned oil company, some of which allegedly landed into accounts controlled by President Nicolás Maduro’s stepsons. Fernando

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Indiana lleva a cabo la primera ejecución en 15 años contra un acusado de cuádruple asesinato a pesar de su esquizofrenia

Por Dakin Andone, John Fritze y Hanna Park, CNN Joseph Corcoran, quien fue condenado por un cuádruple homicidio ocurrido en 1997, fue ejecutado en Indiana en la madrugada de este miércoles, anunciaron funcionarios de la prisión estatal, marcando la primera ejecución de Indiana en 15 años. Fue declarado muerto a las 12:44 a.m., según el

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