33 h. ago Moscow court sends US citizen awaiting trial to a psychiatric hospital

Russian state media say a U.S. citizen awaiting trial in Moscow has been forcibly admitted to a psychiatric hospital

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3 d. ago P Diddy hit with five new criminal counts while still in jail awaiting trial

Rapper P Diddy is currently being held in the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn and has been charged with five new criminal counts while waiting for his trial in May

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8 d. ago Sexual assault allegations seem to be a badge of honor in Trump’s America. Was #MeToo an epic failure?

The push to end sexual violence has sparked a revenge campaign setting fire to women’s rights and pushing young men to the right. But organizers can learn from the movement’s lossesDressed in his trademark sunglasses and a skintight black T-shirt, Andrew Tate strode into a Las Vegas arena like a returning king. He was there to watch Power Slap, a UFC offshoot where people slap each other in the face with such force that doctors say it could lead to brain damage and death.Days earlier, Tate and his brother Tristan had been in Romania, their assets seized, awaiting trial on human trafficking charges. But following reported conversations between Romanian officials and the Trump administration, the Romanian government lifted a travel ban on the brothers. Now, as a heavily male crowd watched men slap one another so hard they collapsed, the UFC president, Dana White, warmly embraced the Tates. White, a Meta board member who was once caught on camera slapping his own wife, smiled at the Ta...

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8 d. ago The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – haunting accounts of horrific medical abuse

A book about psychiatrist William Sargant’s unethical treatments at a London hospital in the 1960s is all the more powerful for its vivid patient testimoniesA child of 14 is forced to walk on to a stage and strip to her underwear. Tiny and mute beneath the stacked rows of medical students, she is paraded for their benefit by a consultant psychiatrist some 44 years her senior. It is 1966 – the peak of Swinging 60s’ hedonism, liberalism and youthful counterculture – but in a locked psychiatric ward in London’s Royal Waterloo hospital, unspeakable violations are being inflicted upon patients.The perpetrator-in-chief, William Sargant, is the subject of thriller writer Jon Stock’s first nonfiction book, The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal. One of the most notorious figures in British psychiatry, Sargant initially wished to be a physician. He pivoted to psychiatry after one of his earliest pieces of research met with a humiliating reception at the Royal College of Physicia...

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1 week ago 'Fake Madeleine McCann' denied bail as she awaits trial for 'stalking Maddie's family'

Julia Wandel, also known as Julia Wandelt, is accused of stalking Kate, Gerry, Sean and Amelie McCann between January 3, 2024 and February 15 this year

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1 week ago Accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO asks for laptop in jail

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers want computer for him to review case materials in deadly shooting of Brian ThompsonThe accused killer of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, is asking for a laptop in jail, but just for legal purposes – not for communicating with anyone – as he awaits trial.In a court filing made public late on Monday, Luigi Mangione’s lawyers proposed that he get a laptop configured solely to let him view a vast amount of documents, video and other material in the case surrounding Thompson’s deadly shooting on 4 December. Similar limited-laptop provisions have been made for some other defendants in the federal lockup where Mangione is being held. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Mangione wants a laptop in jail while he awaits trial in killing of UnitedHealcare CEO

Luigi Mangione is asking for a laptop in jail for legal purposes as he awaits trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO

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2 w. ago Diddy warns Kanye West to ‘be careful’ in alleged phone call from jail: ‘They definitely trying to end us’

The embattled rapper, who is currently in jail awaiting trial, encouraged West to ‘get back behind the mic’ and ‘have fun’

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2 w. ago ‘They definitely trying to end us’: Diddy tells Kanye West to ‘be careful’ in alleged phone call from jail

The embattled rapper, who is currently in jail awaiting trial, encouraged West to ‘get back behind the mic’ and ‘have fun’

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3 w. ago Kanye West's chilling threat to Kim Kardashian as he leaks texts over North and Diddy song

Kanye West posted and deleted a fraught and frantic exchange with Kim Kardashian after their daughter North was heard on his latest song with incarcerated rapper Diddy. The disgraced hip hop mogul is currently awaiting trial on sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution charges and facing a wave of lawsuits

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3 w. ago ‘I had no voice’: black mental health patients on surviving a care system they say is racialised

As a report into mental health care in England finds a sharp increase in people sent for urgent care, two people tell their traumatic stories of being hospitalisedAdult mental health crisis referrals in England double in a yearIt has been more than four decades since Devon Marston, a 66-year-old community organiser and musician, was taken to a psychiatric hospital where he was restrained, injected and forced to take medication. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.“Everything was said around me and about me, but no one asked me how I was doing,” he said. “I had no voice, and there was no one to say: ‘Don’t do that to him,’ or: ‘Listen to him, hear what he has to say.’” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago British YouTuber and rapper Yung Filly admits to reckless driving in Australia while awaiting trial

A British YouTuber and rapper known as Yung Filly has admitted in an Australian court to reckless driving while he was awaiting trial on charges of raping a woman three months ago

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3 w. ago NFL superstar Odell Beckham Jr dragged into Diddy claims as shocking lawsuit filed against rapper

NFL superstar, Odell Beckham Jr. has been accused of raping a woman in an amended lawsuit filed against P. Diddy, who is currently in jail awaiting trial for sex trafficking and racketeering charges, which he denies

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4 w. ago Russia expels British diplomat and spouse of another days after Moscow spies convicted in London court

The timing of the expulsions raises suspicions of a tit-for-tat move by the Kremlin

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4 w. ago The disturbing case of a Tantric yoga guru and his followers

Under the guise of spiritual leadership, Gregorian Bivolaru allegedly exploited hundreds of people through an international network of yoga camps and retreats. Now he’s awaiting trial, accused of kidnap, trafficking and rape. Here, one of his victims reveals how she broke freeFrom the outside, Tara Yoga Centre looks like a normal, welcoming yoga studio. A pleasant building in an expensive east London postcode, with another popular branch on an Oxford high street. There are positive, even gushing, Google reviews. The website is professional, with photos of smiling people stretching on matching purple yoga mats. It promises “rapid and integral transformation”, as well as “an invitation to awaken now”.When Miranda, from Oxford – who has asked to go only by her first name – was in her late 20s, she visited India to practise yoga. It was 2015 and yoga was already a booming industry in the UK. She was working as an English teacher at a London school and gravitated to yoga for the same rea...

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