3 h. ago Supreme court allows Texas to use new congressional map favoring Republicans in 2026 elections – US politics live

Ruling will impact elections as soon as the March primariesUS supreme court approves redrawn Texas congressional mapsAmong the beneficiaries of Donald Trump’s pardons and commutations, there is a group that legal experts and political scientists see as some of the clearest evidence of how such actions undermine the rule of law: those who were released from prison and again arrested for different alleged crimes.During his first term, Trump issued 237 acts of clemency – including to someone who was a predatory lender and drug smuggler and to another who ran a Ponzi scheme. Since taking office again, Trump has issued more than 1,600, most for people involved in the January 6 attack on Congress. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago TikTok prankster with 31,000 followers launches 'wild animal' attack on man in shop

Gavin Davies, 38, who has 31,000 followers on TikTok, had been drinking after being released from prison and getting engaged

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12 h. ago TikTok prankster unlaunched ferocious attack on man in shop like 'wild animal'

Gavin Davies, 38, who has 31,000 followers on TikTok, had been drinking after being released from prison and getting engaged before carrying out the unprovoked assault

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12 h. ago TikTok prankster launched ferocious attack on man in shop like 'wild animal'

Gavin Davies, 38, who has 31,000 followers on TikTok, had been drinking after being released from prison and getting engaged before carrying out the unprovoked assault

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13 h. ago From Otis Redding to Booker T, Steve Cropper was a strong yet subtle force that shaped so many soul classics

The guitarist for Booker T & the MGs defined the sound of original R&B, co-creating soul anthems and proving himself one of the most influential musicians of the 60sSteve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84Steve Cropper stood at the side of musical legends and toiled in the shadows of the studio, never a star. But his work with his fellow musicians and singers at Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, established him as one of the most creative and influential musicians of the 1960s.Actually, pretty much every rock icon of that fabled decade looked up to Cropper, who has died aged 84. The Beatles seriously considered recording at Stax, and the Stones covered songs he played on and emulated his crisp rhythm and lead guitar playing. As a jobbing musician in 1964, Jimi Hendrix drove from Nashville to Memphis to meet Cropper (they chatted about guitars and jammed), while Janis Joplin insisted her new band play Stax’s Christmas party so as to rub sh...

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20 h. ago Twisted serial killer Joanna Dennehy's chilling 12 word explanation for horrifying murders

The Cambridgeshire killer wanted to murder nine men because she found it “fun” - but vowed to never hurt a woman and especially not a fellow mother.

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20 h. ago Twisted 11 word explanation serial killer Joanna Dennehy gave for murders

Joanna Dennehy, the Cambridgeshire 'ditch killer' who murdered three men across a 10-day spree in March 2013, was handed a whole life order for her horrific crimes

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26 h. ago DNA evidence links Colorado woman’s murder to one of state’s most ‘prolific serial killers’ 40 years later

Rhonda Marie Fisher’s murder in April 1987 in Denver, Colorado, went unsolved for nearly 40 years

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40 h. ago Serial killer Arnfinn Nesset who murdered 22 patients dies a decades after prison release

Arnfinn Nesset is one of the Norway's most notorious serial killers who was once believed to be responsible for 60 deaths but was only convicted of the murders of 22 patients

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40 h. ago Serial killer Arnfinn Nesset who murdered 22 patients dies decades after prison release

Arnfinn Nesset is one of the Norway's most notorious serial killers who was once believed to be responsible for 60 deaths but was only convicted of the murders of 22 patients

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57 h. ago Hillsborough families decry ‘bitter injustice’ that no officers will face disciplinary proceedings

None of the former officers named by the IOPC will face disciplinary proceedings because they have all retiredTimeline: decades seeking justice and changeThe families of those who died in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster have said it is a “bitter injustice” that no police officer will ever be held accountable for a catalogue of failings set out in the final report of the police watchdog after a 14-year investigation.The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) found that 12 police officers, most of them senior, would have faced disciplinary cases of gross misconduct if they were still serving. Continue reading...

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68 h. ago Serial killer's botched execution as horrified onlookers had to be escorted out

Jimmy Lee Gray murdered his girlfriend and a three-year-old girl before suffering a botched gas chamber execution in Mississippi so brutal it led the state to abolish the method

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68 h. ago Inside twisted mind of the 'Chessboard Killer' who dreamed of murdering 64 people

Russian serial killer bludgeoned his victims to death and impaled their skulls with vodka bottles during a 14-year killing spree

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3 d. ago Legendary BBC Radio 2 presenter with reputation for ruffling feathers dies as tributes flood in

An iconic BBC presenter has died after a career on the airwaves lasting over five decades

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3 d. ago Serial killer so dangerous he had to be tried in iron cage was 'modern day Jack the Ripper'

Andrei Chikatilo is remembered as one of the most prolific serial killers in history

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3 d. ago Soviet serial killer 'Butcher of Rostov' was wheeled into trial in steel cage

Andrei Chikatilo is one of the most prolific serial killers in history, but was also one of the most difficult to catch

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4 d. ago All you need to know as Jack the Ripper unmasked with new DNA breakthrough

Jack the Ripper's true identity may have finally been uncovered after genetic boffins carried out a series of DNA tests that suggest the serial killer may have been one of the prime suspects

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4 d. ago Ivan Milat was convicted of murdering seven people. Could he have killed scores more?

Retired UK detective believes family member was serial killer’s first unacknowledged victim, as NSW inquiry into unsolved murders calls for submissionsHugh Hughes, a retired UK detective with the Metropolitan police, has spent three decades travelling back and forth between his home in Wales and Canberra, trying to solve the murder of Keren Rowland, a cousin of his Australian wife, Andrea.Hughes is convinced that Rowland, who went missing from Canberra on 26 February 1971, was the first victim of the notorious serial killer Ivan Milat. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Serial killer with horror method for killing women with same name still walking free

In 1990s Lisbon, Portugal, police were baffled when three sex workers all called Maria were killed with the same brutal pattern - and the killer was never caught

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4 d. ago 'Ripper' serial killer who disembowelled women with chilling thing in common still walks free

Three women named Maria were murdered in 1990s Lisbon by a serial killer who was never caught. All victims were sex workers in their twenties with brown hair who were strangled, disembowelled and had organs removed.

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