7 h. ago Court hearing set on Trump's use of National Guard and Marines to help with immigration raids in LA

A federal court hearing is scheduled on whether the Trump administration can use the National Guard and Marines to assist with immigration raids in Los Angeles

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7 h. ago Australia mushroom trial live: evidence concludes in Erin Patterson’s triple murder trial after weeks of testimony from witnesses

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder after a fatal beef wellington lunch in Leongatha in 2023. Follow liveWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastProsecutor Nanette Rogers SC turns to evidence about factory resets performed on the mobile referred to as “Phone B”. The court previously heard four resets – one in February 2023 and three in August 2023 – were performed on the phone that Erin Patterson provided to police during the search on 5 August 2023. Rogers says one of these resets were done when she was left alone to call a lawyer while police searched Patterson’s Leongatha home. Patterson rejects this and says she phoned a lawyer at 2pm. Rogers says Patterson performed the three factory resets after the lunch to “conceal” the contents on Phone B. Patterson rejects this. Rogers then turns to her final points in the cross-ex...

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11 h. ago Polish nursery worker accused of abusing 24 toddlers was 'sleep deprived from smoking cannabis and staying up late with her boyfriend', court hears

Roksana Lecka is accused of 'badly harming' 23 of the infants, all aged 18 months to two years, at a £1,900-a-month Montessori nursery in Twickenham, south-west London .

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11 h. ago Company boss, 72, 'throttled his neighbour and damaged his Jaguar in 'very messy' dispute over shared driveway of his £540,000 home', court hears

Trevor Hollisey, 72, and his wife Jennifer, 79, are said to have got into an altercation with their neighbours over the use of a gate on the shared driveway.

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13 h. ago Families arrested in LA Ice raids held in basements with little food or water, lawyers say

Agents confiscated belongings and rushed deportees to California’s high desert or Texas, saying local facilities had not prepared for influxLA protests – live updatesAs federal agents rushed to arrest immigrants across Los Angeles, they confined detainees – including families with small children – in a stuffy office basement for days without sufficient food and water, according to immigration lawyers.One family with three children were held inside a Los Angeles-area administrative building for 48 hours after being arrested on Thursday immediately after an immigration court hearing, according to lawyers from the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef), which is providing non-profit legal services in the region. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago 'Jealous' man knifed wife more than 25 times as she pushed baby in pram, court told

Kulsuma Akter was knifed more than 25 in a 'ferocious attack' in front of her seven-month-old baby while she was pushing the tot in a pram, a court heard

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19 h. ago Company linked to Tory Peer Baroness Mone should pay back £121m for ‘faulty’ PPE, High Court hears

PPE Medpro is being sued for an alleged breach of contract over the supply of PPE during the Covid pandemic, with the Government claiming the gowns were unusable

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19 h. ago PPE Medpro supplied ‘unsafe’ gowns during Covid crisis, High Court hears

Group backed by Michelle Mone’s husband Doug Barrowman accused of breaching government contract

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20 h. ago The Latest: Federal appeals court to hear arguments in Trump’s bid to erase hush money conviction

President Donald Trump's lawyers will argue Wednesday before an appeals court that his criminal hush money conviction should be erased

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23 h. ago Schoolboy, 14, who pleaded 'I don't want to die' after being fatally stabbed was being chased by two teenagers while on his way to play football, court hears

Ibrahima Seck, 14, was fatally attacked near the Fairway Inn pub, in New Moston, Manchester, at around 5pm on Sunday.

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24 h. ago Boy, 14, stabbed to death on way to play football in park, court hears

Three teenagers are accused of the murder of Ibrahima Seck on Sunday afternoon in Manchester.

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27 h. ago ‘The perfect dish for them’: Erin Patterson explains why she included dried mushrooms in fatal lunch

Triple-murder accused also denies foraging death caps hours before buying food dehydrator as trial continuesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Erin Patterson has denied leading health officials on a “wild goose chase”, and that she foraged death cap mushrooms two hours before buying a food dehydrator, a Victorian court has heard.Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to poisoning four lunch guests with beef wellington served at her house in Leongatha, Victoria, on 29 July 2023. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Trump’s hush money case is back in court. These judges could decide what happens next

Trump’s attorneys will argue to move the case from New York criminal court to federal jurisdiction

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29 h. ago Erin Patterson denies foraging death cap mushrooms hours before buying food dehydrator, murder trial hears

Murder accused also tells Victorian supreme court that she thought beef wellingtons were ‘the perfect dish’ for dried mushroomsWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Erin Patterson has denied leading health officials on a “wild goose chase”, and that she foraged death cap mushrooms two hours before buying a food dehydrator, a Victorian court has heard.Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to poisoning four lunch guests with beef wellington served at her house in Leongatha, Victoria, on 29 July 2023. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Drunk couple decapitate and stab dog to death to 'avenge' dead cat

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT: The couple 'brutally' executed their Argentinian mastiff after drinking heavily, a court in Auxerre, France heard

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37 h. ago Women beaten to death with mallet after taking in homeless man, court told

A woman was found dead in her London flat in February this year - a court heard Victoria Adams was allegedly battered to death with a mallet days after taking in a homeless man

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38 h. ago Woman battered to death with mallet after taking in homeless man, court told

A woman was found dead in her London flat in February this year - a court heard Victoria Adams was allegedly battered to death with a mallet days after taking in a homeless man

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39 h. ago Police found dad gaming after shaking baby so hard she later died, court told

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: Thomas Holford, 24, showed 'little emotion' and appeared to be in a 'good mood' as he played games on his phone when officers arrived, a court heard

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41 h. ago Toddler, two, 'killed by his grandparents' had bleed on the brain caused by 'repeated assaults' and was 'probably going to die', court hears

Dr Jayaratnam Jayamohan said Ethan Ives-Griffiths had been 'desperately ill' when he was rushed to Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, on August 14, 2021.

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41 h. ago Woman who took in homeless man was battered to death by him with a mallet in her £1.3m home days later, court hears

Victoria Adams, 37, was found dead at her flat in Hammersmith, west London , after police were called by concerned neighbours about a man attempting to break into the property.

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