5 h. ago Olympian turned drug kingpin Ryan Wedding pleads not guilty to two indictments in first court appearance in California

Wedding, 44, was arrested in Mexico City last week and was flown to Southern California after a yearlong effort by authorities in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Colombia and the Dominican Republic.

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64 h. ago Olympian turned 'drug kingpin' busted by police over cartel murders in dramatic airport scene

Ryan Wedding was detained immediately after touching down on US soil, and is now set to appear in court charged with murder and drug charges related to a secret drug gang

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3 d. ago First images released of Olympian drug kingpin Ryan Wedding on US soil as wild details emerge of how he was caught by the FBI in Mexico City

Wedding, who represented Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics, was among the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives. He spent more than a decade on the run before handing himself into the authorities.

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3 d. ago Teen named part of murder gang days before 18th birthday after court lifts ban

The youngest member of the gang who murdered Jordan Hogg can now be named after a judge lifted a reporting restriction. Kaiden McIver, 17, stood watch outside armed with a machete during the fatal attack

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3 d. ago Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned alleged cocaine kingpin in US custody

Ryan Wedding turned himself in at US consulate in Mexico City and is due to appear in court in California on MondayRyan Wedding, the Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned alleged drug kingpin, has been arrested after turning himself in at the US embassy in Mexico, law enforcement officials announced on Friday.Wedding, 44, had been sought by the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for his role in overseeing what the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, called the “one of the most prolific and violent drug-trafficking organizations” in the world. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned alleged cocaine kingpin in custody

Ryan Wedding allegedly ran a drug-trafficking organisation that moved 60 tons of cocaine a year into Los AngelesRyan Wedding, the Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned alleged drug kingpin, has been arrested, US law enforcement officials announced on Friday.Wedding, 44, has been sought by the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for his role in overseeing what the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, called the “one of the most prolific and violent drug-trafficking organizations” in the world. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Olympian drug kingpin Ryan Wedding is CAUGHT after years on FBI Most Wanted list

Accused cocaine trafficker and former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding has been arrested and is now in custody, two law enforcement officials say.

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3 d. ago Olympian turned 'killer drug kingpin El Jefe' on Most Wanted list arrested by FBI

Ryan Wedding, 44, competed for Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin before being accused of building an international criminal organisation that allegedly trafficked cocaine worth billions

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3 d. ago Drugs kingpin 'sent texts to fitness instructor threatening to 'take the eyes out of your head' days before he was murdered by his ex

Danny Cahalane, 38, was doused in acid at his home in Plymouth, Devon, last year and died in hospital 10 days later, a court heard.

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3 d. ago ‘I can understand being brought to your knees’: Amanda Seyfried on obsession, devotion and the joy of socks

The Testament of Ann Lee is a bonkers musical fantasia about an obscure religious sect. Its star and writer-director Mona Fastvold talk fear, bonding – and not needing an OscarNot many actors take an interest in the audience’s aftercare. When it comes to The Testament of Ann Lee, however, Amanda Seyfried is hands-on. “Did you watch it with someone you could talk to?” she asks, tilting her head sympathetically, then dipping her full-beam headlight eyes and giving a worried look when I admit that I saw it alone. “It’s nice to process it with somebody else.”Her concern is understandable. Whatever feelings the film provokes, indifference will not be among them. Heady and rapturous, this is an all-round odd duck of a movie, the sort of go-for-broke phantasmagoria – an 18th-century musical biopic complete with feverish visions and levitating – that was once typical of Lars von Trier or Bruno Dumont. I confess I didn’t know exactly what to make of it, but I knew I had been through a singul...

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4 d. ago WWE superstar's horrifying final message to pal before he killed wife and son and then himself

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT In the days before the gruesome murders were uncovered, Benoit sent increasingly disturbing messages to close friends, but one final message was especially chilling.

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8 d. ago Auchinleck Talbot vs Celtic: Hoops head to Rugby Park as Ayrshire side eye biggest cup upset ever – latest team news

IT would go down as the biggest cup shock EVER. Forget Darvel 1 Aberdeen 0. Forget Berwick Rangers 1 Rangers 0. Even Macclesfield 2 Crystal Palace 1. If Auchinleck Talbot were able to beat Celtic, it would go down as the greatest ever shock in cup history. The West of Scotland Football League side were...

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9 d. ago Downfall of huge drug cartel as coke kingpin is caught trying to flee UK in taxi

A total of 15 people have been sentenced for their involvement in a British drug gang after its leader and his right-hand-man were caught trying to flee in a taxi

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1 week ago My rosacea was so bad, my colleague made this revolting comment about my face and I barely left the house for three years. No treatments worked... until I discovered this non

Walking through the office, I kept my head down to avoid making eye contact with any of my colleagues. I'd already spent 30 minutes in front of the mirror that morning, layering on foundation.

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1 week ago Liam Rosenior’s Viktor Gyokeres gesture raises Chelsea eyebrows following Arsenal victory

Viktor Gyokeres starred in Arsenal's 3-2 Carabao Cup semi-final first leg victory over Chelsea, and a moment with Blues head coach Liam Rosenior has raised some eyebrows

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1 week ago The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths review – a powerful portrait of loss and violence

The death of a friend and the attempted murder of her husband Salman Rushdie loom large in the poet’s moving memoirThe night before her wedding to Salman Rushdie in 2021, the American poet and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths was fretting about her best friend. Kamilah Aisha Moon was due to read a poem at the ceremony, but no one had heard from her. Her phone was going straight to voicemail and staff at her hotel said she hadn’t checked in. “We’ll find her. She wouldn’t miss your wedding,” Griffiths’s sister, Melissa, assured her. But the next afternoon, in the middle of her wedding reception, Griffiths learned that Moon had died alone at home in Atlanta of unknown causes. On hearing the news she collapsed, hit her head on a table and blacked out. Paramedics pried open her eyes to shine a torch on them: “A particle of light that is so distant from the world I once knew.”For Griffiths, 47, the death of her best friend and “chosen sister” was one in a series of upheavals stre...

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1 week ago Police officer says child murderers are no longer 'a rarity' after 16

Wendy Richards's son James Gibbons, 34, was murdered on the day of his twin daughters' second birthday party in Laindon, Essex, after challenging a group of youths harassing a homeless man.

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1 week ago Man United transfer news: £20m made available for deal as update emerges on £150K

Michael Carrick has been appointed Manchester United's interim head coach until the end of the season with eyes turning towards possible transfer business.

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1 week ago Hundreds of gunshot eye injuries found in one Iranian hospital amid brutal crackdown on protests

Doctors in Tehran have described overwhelmed medical staff as thousands of demonstrators have been killed by security forcesAn ophthalmologist in Tehran has documented more than 400 eye injuries from gunshots in a single hospital, as overwhelmed medical staff struggle to cope with the toll of an increasingly violent crackdown on nationwide protests by Iranian authorities.Three doctors, in messages forwarded to the Guardian on Monday, described overwhelmed hospitals and emergency wings overflowing with protesters who have been shot. Medical staff said that the gunshot wounds were mostly concentrated on protesters’ eyes and head – a tactic that rights groups said authorities used against demonstrators in the country’s 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Man City can deliver on exciting Pep Guardiola promise at Newcastle

Manchester City head to Newcastle United in the Carabao Cup with eyes on the first domestic trophy of the season

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