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Karen Read Mistrial Adds Fuel to the Fire in Boston’s True-Crime Thriller

On a snowy early morning in January 2022, Boston police officer John O’Keefe was found on a colleague's front lawn, unconscious, with signs of...

01.07.2024 10

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Judge Blocks Sandy Hook Parents From Alex Jones Payout

A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday blocked efforts by the parents of a Sandy Hook victim to start collecting the $50 million they won in a lawsuit...

28.06.2024 20

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Ex-Trump Spiritual Adviser Asked Accuser for Price to Keep Quiet

More than two decades after Cindy Clemishire alleges she was sexually assaulted by Robert Morris, starting when she was just 12 years old, the Gateway...

27.06.2024 10

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No Donald, Barron Trump’s Peloton at Mar-a-Lago Is Not Off Limits to the Fed

In the latest push to toss out evidence in Donald Trump’s classified documents case, the former president’s lawyers complained Tuesday that the...

26.06.2024 6

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Karen Read Was ‘Seething’ After Killing Cop Boyfriend, Prosecutor Says

Karen Read allegedly had nine drinks in three hours during a January 2022 blizzard bar crawl before prosecutors say she rammed her cop boyfriend with...

25.06.2024 6

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Hunter Biden’s D.C. Law License Suspended After Gun Conviction

Hunter Biden has been suspended from practicing law in Washington, D.C., after his federal conviction for lying on a gun application five years ago...

25.06.2024 20

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Actor Tamayo Perry Had Eerie Warning About ‘Sharky’ Spot Before Fatal Attack

Tamayo Perry always had a cautious fascination with sharks. A professional surfer and lifeguard who grew up on the beaches of Oahu, Hawaii—and whose...

25.06.2024 7

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Justin Timberlake’s Lawyer Has Repped Hamptons Royalty

Justin Timberlake has been battling a sea of negative headlines after he was arrested last week for allegedly drug driving in the Hamptons amid his...

24.06.2024 9

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How Buster Murdaugh’s Lawsuit May Be the Key to Solving a Murder Mystery

The alleged involvement of Alex Murdaugh’s only surviving son in the 2015 roadside murder of his former classmate has always been a lingering...

23.06.2024 20

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Hipster Coffee Shop Owner Destroyed Evidence in Sex Assault Case, Judge Says

The owner of a Brooklyn coffee and barber shop, who was accused of sexually assaulting one of his former employees, came under fire this week after a...

22.06.2024 6

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Clemencies, Concerts and Oprah’s Cash: Is Wes Moore the Next Obama?

Less than an hour into Maggie Rogers’ sold-out show Sunday in Maryland, the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter brought out a surprising special...

18.06.2024 20

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Bob Menendez’s Lawyer Can’t Get Over the Claim He Rang a Little Bell to Summon His Wife

Sen. Bob Menendez’s defense lawyers grilled a key prosecution witness on Wednesday, repeatedly asking about a backyard meeting over an alleged bribe...

12.06.2024 5

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White House Refuses to Rule Out Biden Commuting Hunter’s Sentence

The White House is not ruling out the possibility of President Joe Biden considering commuting his son’s federal gun conviction. “I haven’t...

12.06.2024 3

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Joe and Hunter Biden Share Emotional Embrace After Conviction

President Joe Biden had an emotional reunion with his son on Tuesday, just hours after Hunter was found guilty of federal gun charges in a landmark...

12.06.2024 10

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Hunter Biden Juror Reveals How Divided the Jury Was

The 12 jurors who convicted Hunter Biden of lying about his drug addiction on a 2018 gun application were divided on Monday afternoon as they began...

11.06.2024 10

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MAGA Nation Finds Reason to Be Furious Over Hunter Biden Conviction

Hunter Biden is now officially the first son of a sitting president to be convicted of a crime. And while the landmark verdict during an election year...

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Jury Convicts Hunter Biden After Just Three Hours

Hunter Biden was found guilty on Tuesday of lying about his drug addiction on a gun application form five years ago. First lady Jill Biden was not...

11.06.2024 9

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Hunter Biden Trial: Will the 25-Person ‘Elephant in the Room’ Sway Jurors?

Hunter Biden has spent the last week in a Delaware federal courtroom listening closely as prosecutors reveal salacious details of his long struggle...

11.06.2024 5

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Hunter Biden Defense Rests Its Case, Says He Will Not Testify in Gun Trial

Hunter Biden, who is accused of illegally obtaining a gun five years ago while abusing drugs, will not testify in his Delaware federal trial. Defense...

10.06.2024 7

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Cocaine Found in Hunter Biden’s Leather Gun Pouch, Chemist Testifies

A forensic chemist on Friday testified that white powder found in a brown leather pouch that contained Hunter Biden’s allegedly illegally obtained...

07.06.2024 10

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Hunter’s Women: The Three Exes Tangled Up in Biden’s Trial

One is a church-going non-profit executive. One is a dancer at a strip club. One was a school counselor married to Hunter Biden’s brother, Beau. But...

07.06.2024 6

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Hallie Biden Testifies: I Had to Google Crack When I Started Dating Hunter

The widow of Beau Biden took the stand in her brother-in-law Hunter Biden’s federal trial on Wednesday, detailing her whirlwind romance with Hunter...

06.06.2024 10

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Grisly New Details Revealed on Accused Serial Killer’s 2 More Victims

Rex Heuermann, the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer, has been charged in the deaths of two more women—including one whose murder was not...

06.06.2024 10

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Georgia Court of Appeals Pauses Racketeering Case Against Trump

05.06.2024 10

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Hunter Biden's Ex-Wife Takes the Stand in Federal Gun Trial

Hunter Biden’s ex-wife took the stand on Wednesday in his federal gun trial, where she is expected to testify as a prosecution witness about his...

05.06.2024 9

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‘Central Park Five’ Prosecutor Settles Netflix Defamation Lawsuit

Just days before Linda Fairstein’s defamation lawsuit against Netflix was set to go to trial in Manhattan federal court, the prosecutor of the...

05.06.2024 10

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Hunter Biden’s Wife Goes Off at ‘Nazi Piece of Sh*t’ Outside Courtroom

For the first time in American history, the son of a sitting president is facing criminal charges for allegedly illegally owning a firearm. But the...

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Trump Is a Convicted Criminal—and Bars Are Cashing In

Former President Donald Trump is now officially a convicted criminal. So for bars in Washington D.C. and New York City, it’s time to drink—at a...

31.05.2024 30

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Stormy Daniels Was ‘Emotional’ After Trump Conviction, Lawyer Says

Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the center of Donald Trump’s hush money criminal case, was “pretty emotional” when she learned the former...

31.05.2024 30

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Doomsday Author Chad Daybell Convicted of Triple Murder

After five years and an investigation that spurred a wild true-crime saga, Idaho Doomsday author Chad Daybell had been convicted of killing his first...

30.05.2024 20

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Dog Beds, Gifts, and Brunch: Inside the Ethics Investigation into Murdaugh Court Clerk

A court clerk once accused of tampering with the South Carolina jury that convicted Alex Murdaugh is now facing over six dozen ethics violations after...

30.05.2024 10

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New Harvey Weinstein Accusers May Testify in Retrial, Prosecutors Say

Ahead of Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial this fall, Manhattan prosecutors say they may issue a new indictment against the disgraced movie prosecutor...

29.05.2024 20

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Justice Samuel Alito Throws His Wife Under the Bus for 2nd Flag Incident

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has spoken out at length about two Jan. 6-related flags flown at his Virginia and New Jersey homes—and has...

29.05.2024 10

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Doctor Reveals Shocking Injuries Sustained by Karen Read’s Boyfriend

After he was found unconscious on a snow-covered front lawn in late January 2022, Boston police officer John O’Keefe arrived at a local hospital...

29.05.2024 20

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Identity Thief Claims He’s Behind the Threat to Sell Graceland

An alleged dark web ringleader and identity thief is claiming to be behind the mysterious attempted foreclosure auction of Elvis Presley’s...

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Spa, Sushi, Posh Digs: The Bougiest Way to Climb Everest

It’s that time again: Mount Everest season. For two months starting in March, thousands of ambitious voyagers are set to travel more than 16,000...

26.05.2024 10

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Witness Undercuts Doomsday Dad Chad Daybell’s Story of Wife’s Death

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‘This Means War’: Utah Mom Accused of Poisoning Hubby Speaks Out

The Utah mom accused of poisoning her husband and later writing a children’s book about grief has spoken out for the first time since her 2022...

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Karen Read’s Lawyer Goes Scorched Earth on Key Witness

Karen Read’s defense lawyers went scorched earth on a key prosecution witness on Tuesday, grilling her for hours about the 2022 evening that ended...

22.05.2024 50

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Chad Daybell Introduced Family to Lori Vallow a Day After Wife’s Funeral, Son-In-Law Says

The day after Chad Daybell held a rushed 2019 funeral for his wife of nearly 30 years, the Doomsday author introduced his grieving family to his...

21.05.2024 60

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Doomsday Dad Chad Daybell’s Kids Take Stand in Murder Trial

The night before Tammy Daybell was found dead in her Idaho bedroom in October 2019, the doomsday novelist’s wife told her son that all she wanted...

21.05.2024 50

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This Accused Murderer Has Superfans Bankrolling Her Defense

18.05.2024 20

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Coroner: Boeing Whistleblower’s Death Was a Suicide

18.05.2024 20

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Chad Daybell Smiles as FBI Reveals Lori Daybell’s Name for His Penis

13.05.2024 60

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Farmer Boss on Noem’s Puppy-Killing Excuse: That’s Cow Dung!

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Stormy’s Testimony: Old Spice, Silk Jammies, and No Condom

Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the center of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial, spent five hours on the witness stand on Tuesday, detailing her...

08.05.2024 30

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Weinstein Sent to Rikers After Backlash to ‘Cushy’ Hospital Digs

Notoriously noxious Hollywood has-been Harvey Weinstein was transferred from a hospital prison unit to notoriously noxious Rikers Island—but his...

07.05.2024 10

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This Viral ‘Song of the Summer’ Was a TikTok Joke No One Got

If you’ve scrolled through TikTok in the last week, the voice of Megan Boni singing about a tall, blue-eyed finance bro is likely living rent-free...

07.05.2024 50

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Nathan Wade Speaks Out About Workplace Romance With Fani Willis

Nathan Wade, the former Fulton County special prosecutor in Trump’s election interference case, has spoken out for the first time since his affair...

07.05.2024 10

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Perjury Claim Is New Twist in Karen Read Murder Trial

The case against Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused of drunkenly running over her cop boyfriend and leaving him for dead in a blizzard, took...

06.05.2024 20

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