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  • Director Roman Polanski is sued over more allegations of sexual assault of a minor

    03/18/2024 11:10:47 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 2 replies
    Associated Press ^ | March 13, 2024 | Andrew Dalton
    A woman has sued director Roman Polanski, alleging he raped her in his home when she was a minor in 1973. The woman aired the allegations, which the 90-year-old Polanski has denied, in a news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred, on Tuesday. The account is similar to the still-unresolved Los Angeles criminal sexual assault case that prompted Polanski in 1978 to flee to Europe, where he has remained since. The woman who filed the civil lawsuit said she went to dinner with Polanski, who knew she was under 18, in 1973, months after she had met him at a...
  • Connecticut elections chief calls for reforms after ballot stuffing scandal

    03/18/2024 10:40:46 PM PDT · by CFW · 10 replies
    The Center Square ^ | 3/18/24 | Christian Wade |
    (The Center Square) — Connecticut's top election official is calling for reforms in the wake of a ballot stuffing scandal in Bridgeport's mayoral race, where some people were allegedly paid cash to fill out mail ballots. Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas said her office had referred allegations about election "malfeasance" in the February redo of the mayoral race to the State Elections Enforcement Commission to investigate, including reports from voters who received absentee ballots despite not requesting them. “When alerted, the Secretary of the State’s Office is required to send allegations of election malfeasance to SEEC for their review and...
  • Election Integrity Attorney Arrested After Revealing Sensitive Emails by Dominion Voting Systems

    03/18/2024 10:34:32 PM PDT · by CFW · 10 replies
    Politics Brief ^ | 3/19/24 | staff
    Stefanie Lambert, an election integrity attorney who has pressed for transparency in regards to Dominion Voting Systems, was suddenly arrested in Washington D.C. on Monday night. Lambert was reportedly arrested by U.S. Marshals for disclosing allegedly confidential emails from Dominion Voting Systems in a Michigan court case. The Associated Press reported on Lambert’s arrest: An attorney facing criminal charges for illegally accessing Michigan voting machines after the 2020 election was arrested Monday after a hearing in a separate case in federal court in Washington, D.C. Stefanie Lambert was arrested by U.S. Marshals after a hearing over possible sanctions against her...
  • Are More Migrants Being Arrested for Murder?

    03/18/2024 10:24:00 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 4 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Mar 18, 2024 | Nick Mordowanec
    Rates of homicides committed by illegal migrants in the United States have increased overall during the Biden administration, though rates at this point in the fiscal year are about average compared with past years dating to 2021. The hot-button issue of illegal immigration is encompassing the nation and has galvanized Republicans who have consistently kept the topic front and center leading up to November elections. President Joe Biden has allowed an influx of illegal migrants on his watch, most recently drawing condemnation for the February killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley allegedly committed by illegal migrant Jose Ibarra.
  • Illegal Immigrant Can Carry Guns: Federal Judge

    03/18/2024 10:18:27 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 9 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 03/18/2024 | Zachary Steiber
    An illegal immigrant was wrongly banned from possessing guns, according to a recent ruling.A federal law, Section 922 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, bars illegal immigrants from carrying guns or ammunition. Prosecutors charged Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, the illegal alien, in 2020 after he was found in Chicago carrying a semi-automatic pistol despite “knowing he was an alien illegally and unlawfully in the United States.”U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman rejected two motions to dismiss, but the third motion, based on a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, triggered the dismissal of the case on March 8.“The noncitizen possession statute, 18...
  • Sheriff: Cocaine and Meth Use Surges Along With Synthetic Fentanyl, Aided by Border Crisis

    03/18/2024 10:17:08 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 1 replies
    Fox2Detroit ^ | March 18, 2024 | Dave Kinchen and David Komer
    Police tracking drugs in our area are sounding the alarm with cocaine and meth making a comeback. Metro Detroit law enforcement is warning of an uptick in meth and cocaine use across the area. "The danger of this is significant to everybody," said Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard. "Basically the cost of cocaine, the cost of meth, all of that has gone down to about a third of what it was two years ago." Bouchard says it is a supply and demand issue, combined with the already troubling amounts of fentanyl coming into the states. He says it is a...
  • People Aren't Signing Up for Those New IRS Jobs

    03/18/2024 10:15:11 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 12 replies
    Hotair ^ | 03/18/2024 | Jazz Shaw
    Back when the Biden administration passed the hilariously named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a significant debate broke out over a provision that would funnel massive amounts of money to the Internal Revenue Service. The funds would supposedly go to hire an army of new agents who would diligently work to ensure that everyone was "paying their fair share" of taxes and that government revenue was predicted to increase. Conservatives pushed back hard against the plan, but most of the IRS funding survived. Yet the anticipated benefits have still yet to show up. The reason for this, according to a new...
  • New York City Mayor Eric Adams Facing Decades-Old Allegations of Sexual Assault

    03/18/2024 10:10:51 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 9 replies
    Red State ^ | 03/18/2024 | Jeff Charles
    New York City Mayor Eric Adams is facing serious allegations of sexual assault dating back to 1993. The accusations come from a lawsuit filed against the mayor by a former NYPD aide and could cause some significant problems for Adams. At the heart of this legal action is a complaint filed under the Adult Survivors Act, a law that reopened the window for pursuing justice for past sexual assault cases that exceeded the statute of limitations.The plaintiff, once an administrative aide for the police department’s transit division, claims Adams assaulted her in a vacant lot after she sought his advice...
  • Mar-a-Lago Judge’s Stark Ruling: Jury Sees Secret Files or Trump Wins

    03/18/2024 10:09:24 PM PDT · by CFW · 12 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 3/18/24 | Jose Pagliery
    The MAGA-friendly federal judge who keeps siding with Donald Trump in his Mar-a-Lago classified records case has forced prosecutors to make a stark choice: allow jurors to see a huge trove of national secrets or let him go. U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s ultimatum Monday night came as a surprise twist in what could have been a simple order; one merely asking federal prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers for proposed jury instructions at the upcoming trial. But as she has done repeatedly, Cannon used this otherwise innocuous legal step as yet another way to swing the case wildly in favor...
  • California Murder Suspect Stabs Attorney with Pen before Charging Prosecutor

    03/18/2024 10:08:01 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    MSN ^ | 3/18 | Greg Wehner
    An Oakland, California murder suspect faces additional charges after freeing himself from restraints in a courtroom on Monday morning and stabbing his attorney in the face and head with a pen before turning his angst toward the prosecutor. The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that 28-year-old Ramello Randle was attending his homicide trial at the A.F. Bray Courthouse in Martinez, California at about 10:55 a.m. on Monday when he attacked his attorney with a pen. He then went to attack the district attorney, who the sheriff’s office said was able to push him off. The East Bay Times reported...
  • Yazan al-Kafarneh’s Death Is a Stain on Humanity {poor Muslim Arab photoshop skills..}

    03/18/2024 10:02:56 PM PDT · by Cronos · 8 replies
    Jacobin ^ | March 2024 | Sersj assi
    Ten-year-old Palestinian child Yazan al-Kafarneh, who died from severe hunger amid famine due to Israel’s ongoing crippling siege on Gaza. (Rabie Abu Noqaira / Anadolu via Getty Images) Y al-Kafarneh, a ten-year-old Palestinian boy from Gaza, had been dying of hunger for weeks as a result of Israel’s crippling blockade and deliberate starvation of Gaza. Images and videos of Yazan, who had cerebral palsy, showed the motionless boy lying on a hospital bed with a skeletal body, sunken cheeks, bare bones, and hollowed eyes. For days his parents sat helpless by his bed and watched him fade away. His father...
  • Supreme Court chief justice denies ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro's bid to stave off prison sentence

    03/18/2024 9:13:00 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 17 replies
    AP ^ | March 17, 2024 | LINDSAY WHITEHURST
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to halt a prison sentence for former Trump White House official Peter Navarro as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. Navarro is due to report Tuesday to a federal prison for a four-month sentence, after being found guilty of misdemeanor charges for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He had asked to stay free while he appealed his conviction. Navarro has maintained that he couldn’t cooperate with the committee because former President Donald Trump had invoked executive privilege. Lower...
  • The Atlantic Ocean could be SWALLOWED by a terrifying 'Ring of Fire', scientists say as they discover a 'sleeping' subduction zone beneath the Gibraltar Strait

    03/18/2024 8:46:34 PM PDT · by week 71 · 33 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 3/18/24 | Jonathan Chadwick
    Although it may seem like an eternal feature of Earth, the Atlantic Ocean could be swallowed by a vast subduction zone, dubbed the 'Ring of Fire', a new study warns. Scientists in Portugal say this subduction zone is currently located beneath the Gibraltar Strait, the narrow gap of water between Spain and Morocco. But the experts think it could grow and expand westwards into the Atlantic and eventually become responsible for a 'closing' or shrinking of the ocean basin.
  • Bloody brawl at Kanye's Rolling Loud performance as 'trans woman' fights with others in crowd

    03/18/2024 8:37:37 PM PDT · by Morgana · 8 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | March 18, 2024 | Mitchell Goodbar
    A bloody brawl between a 'transgender woman' and some men broke out during Kanye West's set at Rolling Loud and the entire fight was caught on film. Video taken by an onlooker caught the moment the brawl erupted, and showed the person adjusting the straps of their top before trading punches with one man. The crowd formed a ring around the two fighters and cheered them on enthusiastically as they punched and pushed one another. At one point, the man threw a strong hook and it connected with the side of the victim's face, knocking their head back and making...
  • The end of the self checkout? Dollar General, Target and Walmart row back on self-service registers - but it’s not because they care about customer service

    03/18/2024 8:17:28 PM PDT · by Morgana · 36 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | March 18, 2024 | Tilly Armstrong
    They were introduced as a way to cut lines, boost efficiency in store and reduce staffing numbers - and boomed in popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic. But is the self checkout falling out of favor with big-name retailers? In recent weeks, Dollar General, Target and Walmart have all announced sweeping changes to automated registers in stores across the US. Experts say the rollback is linked, mostly, to fears around theft - as it is much easier for customers to shoplift items at the self checkout rather than a checkout with a cashier. But retailers say they are also trying to...
  • Chinese Auto Executive: ‘Bloodbath’ Coming for American Auto Industry

    03/18/2024 8:12:42 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 28 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 18 Mar 2024 | John Binder
    He Xiaopeng, the CEO of XPeng Motors, predicts a “bloodbath” against America’s auto industry with the help of cheap China-made electric vehicles (EVs).Over the weekend, former President Donald Trump was campaigning in Andalia, Ohio, when he warned that without fierce new United States tariffs on China-made EVs, the American auto industry will face “a bloodbath for the country” with jobs lost and industry offshored.“We’re going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across the line and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected,” Trump said. “Now if I...
  • Mugshot’s [bar and grill] manager, employees charged with brutally beating waitress

    03/18/2024 8:09:55 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 17 replies
    WREG ^ | 12/04/2023 | Lawrencia Grose
    MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A manager at a Cordova bar and grill, along with three other female employees, were taken into custody for allegedly beating up a waitress on Sunday. According to Memphis Police, officers responded to an assault call at 1740 Germantown Parkway. Police list the address as Mugshot’s Bar and Grill. The victim says it started with her talking to her manager’s ex-boyfriend. She told police that she got into an argument with the manager, Shereva Dortch, and her other coworkers, Arlina Fox, Nyla Fields, and Cailyn Williams. The victim claimed that Dortch and ten other people attacked her...
  • Tennis player COLLAPSES mid-match at the Miami Open as medic rushes on to help before he's taken off court in a wheelchair in terrifying scenes

    03/18/2024 8:05:22 PM PDT · by week 71 · 14 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 3/18/24 | Max Winters
    French tennis player Arthur Cazaux collapsed midway through his match at the Miami Open on Monday in terrifying scenes. The 21-year-old's clash against fellow Frenchman Harold Mayot was in the decisive third set when Cazaux fell to the ground as he prepared to return serve with nobody around him. He was lying on the floor for a number of seconds before the umpire finally got down from his chair and a medic rushed on to help
  • Cuba blames US for stoking protests amid power cuts and food shortages

    03/18/2024 8:04:47 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 21 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 3-18-24 | Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana
    The Cuban government has summoned the US ambassador, Benjamin Ziff, to its foreign ministry, accusing Washington of stoking a protest which saw hundreds of people take to the streets in the island’s second city of Santiago de Cuba. The demonstration late on Sunday was a rare public show of disenchantment against Cuba’s communist government, and was apparently led by parents struggling to feed their children in the face of a worsening food crisis. The protesters reportedly chanted: “Without electricity and food, the people get hot.” Power cuts of up to 18 hours a day have meant that as the island...
  • Maria Shriver and members of the Kennedy family join Biden to sign women's executive order and celebrate St Patrick's Day in snub to RFK Jr.

    03/18/2024 8:00:31 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 24 replies
    U.K. Daily Mail ^ | 3/18/2024 | Emily Goodin
    The Kennedy family showed their Irish green for Joe Biden in back-to-back events at the White House in a snub to their fellow family member Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is making an independent bid for president. Nearly the whole clan joined the president for a St. Patrick's Day celebration on Sunday, splashing a picture with Biden across social media, and Maria Shriver led the charge for the president at an event on women's health on Monday. (snip) And, while she didn't mention Trump by name, it was clear whom she was referring to when she said: 'This is an...