30 m. ago Luigi Mangione live updates: Accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer leaves after brief hearing in front of fans

The 26-year-old returned to Manhattan court today for the first time since December arraignment

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70 m. ago Salman Rushdie trial: Guilty verdict reached in trial of man accused of trying to kill author

The British-American novelist was seriously wounded and blinded in one eye in the August 2022 attack. Hadi Matar pleaded not guilty to the charges

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71 m. ago Who killed Nate in Emmerdale? Killer's identity 'revealed' in cryptic lake scene

Emmerdale appeared to confirm the murder of Nate Robinson on Friday with a telling scene identifying the body in the lake, and it soon became apparent someone knew he was there

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71 m. ago Luigi Mangione is depicted as a SAINT in sick scene as court hearing is besieged by dozens of fans eager to catch glimpse of insurance boss's 'killer'

Luigi Mangione, 26, heads to a pre-trial hearing today in Manhattan as swaths of fans show their support and attempt to catch a glimpse at the alleged CEO killer.

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72 m. ago Man found guilty of attempted murder in Salman Rushdie stabbing trial

Jury convicts Hadi Matar, 27, charged with trying to kill author at literary gathering in New York state in 2022A jury on Friday afternoon convicted the man who was charged with stabbing and trying to kill the author Salman Rushdie as he delivered a lecture at a literary gathering in western New York state in 2022.Jurors in Chautauqua county quickly declared the defendant, Hadi Matar, 27, from New Jersey, guilty. They had received the case after lawyers delivered their closing arguments, wrapping up seven days of testimony that included a vivid account from Rushdie of how he was certain he was going to die after being rushed on stage by a man with a knife. Continue reading...

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81 m. ago Three people killed in Louisville, Kentucky, motor vehicle office shooting

One person was dead at the scene and two others died at the hospital; no reported arrests nor information on the shooterThree people were shot and killed at a motor vehicle office in Louisville, Kentucky, on Friday, police said.Major Donald Boeckman of Louisville metro police department told reporters that officers found one person dead at the scene and another two wounded. The two wounded were taken to hospitals and died there. He said there was no ongoing threat to public. Continue reading...

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95 m. ago Time for England to end Calcutta Cup blues and show France was no fluke | Robert Kitson

Red Rose have lost four in row against Scots, but if they can back up Les Bleus win there will be talk of top-two finishIn recent times the Calcutta Cup has morphed into the “Scottish play” the English would rather not mention by name. One Red Rose win in seven attempts and four consecutive victories for Gregor Townsend’s side has certainly been an uncomfortable sequence for those who, for decades, regarded death and taxes as only marginally more inevitable than Scotland losing down south.So much for the supposed dead weight of history. “What’s done cannot be undone,” murmured Lady Macbeth but she wasn’t privy to the skill and daring of Finn Russell or the killer finishing of Duhan van der Merwe. The last time England lost three or more consecutive home games in this fixture was in the early 1900s before Twickenham became their spiritual home. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Teen killed by speeding driver who had his cousin and a toddler in the car

A teen was killed by a speeding driver who had his cousin and a toddler in the car.

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1 hour ago PC Sharon Beshenivsky's murderer dies behind bars just months after he was finally locked up for police officer's murder

Piran Ditta Khan spent nearly two decades on the run the killing of PC Beshenivsky in Bradford on 18 November 2005.

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2 h. ago 'Trump's lies make him as dangerous as the Nazis, we are living George Orwell's 1984'

In George Orwell's classic, the proles swallowed up all the newspeak ­propaganda from Big Brother, and Brian Reade fears too many people today are falling for the US president's blatant reality twisting

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2 h. ago Rangers discover Fenerbahce Europa League key details as dates and kick

Jose Mourinho and his troops stand between the Ibrox men and a Europa League last eight spot

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2 h. ago Salman Rushdie trial jury deliberations begin in New York stabbing case

Hadi Matar, 27, faces up to 25 years in prison if found guilty of attempting to murder British American novelist in 2022The jury began deliberating on Friday afternoon in the trial of a man charged with stabbing and trying to kill the author Salman Rushdie as he delivered a lecture at a literary gathering in western New York state in 2022.Jurors sitting in Chautauqua county court received the case after lawyers delivered their closing arguments, wrapping up seven days of testimony that included a vivid account from Rushdie of how he was certain he was going to die after being rushed on stage by a man with a knife. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Oleksandr Usyk offers brief response to Daniel Dubois illness and Parker vs Bakole fight

Dubois is unable to defend his heavyweight title against Joseph Parker, leading Martin Bakole to step in

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2 h. ago Shakhtar Donetsk accuse Fifa of failing to support Ukrainian football during war

Chief executive reflects on the three years since invasion‘Fifa forgot about us their door is always closed’Shakhtar Donetsk’s chief executive, Serhii Palkin, has accused Fifa of failing to support Ukrainian football in the three years since Russia undertook its full-scale invasion of the country.Ukraine’s domestic league has managed to play on after an initial six-month pause but resources are scarce and the long-term outlook remains uncertain. Palkin claimed the world governing body had kept its doors “closed to us” and he repeated previous entreaties for the creation of a fund to help maintain a sport that has endured severe physical and financial damage. He also urged Fifa and Uefa to hold firm on their commitment to bar Russian teams from international competitions amid an increasingly precarious geopolitical climate. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Trump says Starmer has done 'nothing' to stop Ukraine war and repeats attack on Zelensky

Russian president expected to make the claims on the third anniversary of his Ukraine war on February 24

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2 h. ago Watch live: Luigi Mangione due back in New York court over UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s death

Watch live arrivals at a New York court as Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson, is due back in court on state murder and terrorism charges on Friday, 21 February.

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2 h. ago Woman facing deportation after stealing $850,000 worth of TrumpCoin from ex

‘We don’t care about her in the end what happens to her. We just want the money’, said the victim’s private investigator

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2 h. ago The 11 missed chances to save woman who died 'bleeding from her eyes' with meningitis less than 24 hours after she was sent home by doctors and told she had the flu

EXCLUSIVE: Sophie Ward, 20, from London died 'bleeding from her eyes' less than 24 hours after doctors mistakenly told her she had the flu, rather than the meningitis that was killing her.

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2 h. ago Jimmy Mizen's drill rapper killer faces parole hearing just weeks after being recalled to prison for boasting about murdering altar boy in music

Jack Fahri, then 19, was sentenced to life after he threw a large glass dish that shattered, severing an artery in Jimmy Mizen's neck, at a bakery in Lee, south-east London in 2008.

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2 h. ago South Carolina man to be killed in US’s first firing squad execution in 15 years

Brad Sigmon, 67, chooses to be shot dead amid concerns that lethal injections have caused ‘excruciating’ painA South Carolina man on death row has chosen to be killed by firing squad, and if his execution goes forward next month, it would be the first time in 15 years that capital punishment in the US is carried out by gunfire.Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to be shot to death on 7 March, part of a spate of rapid killings the state has pursued in the last six months as it revives executions after a 13-year pause. South Carolina now directs those on death row to choose how they will be killed – electric chair, lethal injection or shooting. If they decline to make a selection, the state electrocutes them. Continue reading...

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