31 h. ago Alex Murdaugh court clerk who wrote book pleads guilty to leaking sealed crime scene photos

Judge Heath Taylor sentenced Becky Hill to three years of probation

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32 h. ago Alex Murdaugh court clerk sentenced for leaking graphic crime scene photos and lying about it

The judge said the former court clerk was ‘attracted by the siren call of celebrity’ status

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34 h. ago Court clerk who helped with Alex Murdaugh's trial pleads guilty to showing sealed exhibits

Former South Carolina court clerk Becky Hill has pleaded guilty to showing sealed court exhibits to a photographer and lying about it in court

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5 d. ago Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan

Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditionalSexism can be very modern and tech savvy. Misogyny is an ever-evolving idiom, and men and women alike have found particularly of-the-moment ways to operate within the genre. Think of the apps that take images of women and remove their clothes, or the AI bots that men and boys can use to generate pornography or depictions of graphic violence against women and girls for the crime of going to the same school as they do or running for office. Think of the influencers of the so-called “womanosphere” who tell their female audiences that women who seek out friendship or equality with men are morons or cows, all through the gleam of a TikTok filter. Sexism may be the world’s oldest prejudice and its first unjust hierarchy, but it is continually innovating, adapting to new technologies and the most recent rhetorical needs of male supremacy.But some of the forms of misogyny that have b...

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1 week ago Photos from the scene where 2 National Guard members were shot near the White House

Two West Virginia National Guard members have been shot near the White House. The shooting Wednesday unfolded at 17th and H Streets NW, just two blocks from the White House. Emergency crews rushed the two Guard members and a suspect who was also shot to a hospital. Officers from federal and local agencies, including the Secret Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Washington Metropolitan Police, swarmed the cordoned-off scene as helicopters flew overhead and National Guard troops stood watch.

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2 w. ago They wore heels, sequins and little else! The heady nights and glistening bodies of cult queer club PDA

In the pounding heat of a sweaty basement, revellers danced till 6am posing in lavish outfits and flexing their thigh-high boots. Liz Johnson Artur relives how she photographed the anything-goes spirit of this DIY oasisFor more than three decades, Liz Johnson Artur has photographed “the people I’m with” – a characteristically modest expression that belies the radiance, intimacy and unshowy brilliance of her pictures, an extraordinary archive numbering thousands of images that celebrate beauty, resilience, community and resistance. Intimate and alive, her photographs – often shot on the fly, in streets, nightclubs and living rooms – pull you right into the moment, just before it disappears for good.PDA, the photographer’s latest book, celebrates a bygone London underground music scene. PDA was a popular queer club night that ran monthly in a Hackney basement from 2011 to 2021. The abbreviation PDA did not stand for a single phrase, apparently. Rather, the founders playfully suggested...

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2 w. ago Alex Murdaugh's housekeeper reveals explosive theory about what REALLY happened on night of double murder

Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson shares her explosive theories about what really happened that dark summer night - and a bombshell claim about accomplices she believes got away with it.

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3 w. ago ‘He did it’: Alex Murdaugh’s housekeeper reveals the moment she realized he had murdered his wife and son

The South Carolina attorney is currently serving two consecutive life sentences in prison for the 2021 murders

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4 w. ago Car with learner plates crashes through front of Home Bargains

Photos from the scene show the vehicle surrounded by shattered glass, with a learner sticker clearly visible on the back.

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