October 3, 2023
Jimmy Kimmel had a few things to get off his chest on Monday, his first night back on the air after the five-month writers strike. And much of it was about Donald Trump. “I am backed up like you wouldn’t believe,” he declared, and he wasn’t kidding: that kicked off about eight straight minutes of
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A Ukrainian captain of a cruise liner was sentenced to five years in prison in Hungary on Tuesday for his role in a 2019 accident when his boat hit and sank a smaller boat on the River Danube, killing 25 South Korean tourists and two crew. The Mermaid sightseeing boat carrying a tour group sank
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More than 11,000 Venezuelan troops raided and regained control of a notorious prison from a powerful gang that had set up its own zoo, pool and casino for the inmates to enjoy. Tocorón prison had served as the headquarters of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang for years. Inside, inmates and some of their relatives
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Canadian rapper Tory Lanez was moved into a state prison in Kern County, California, on Tuesday night as part of his 10-year prison sentence for shooting Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion. Officials moved Lanez from a Los Angeles jail to the North Kern State Prison in Delano, California, about 140 miles north of L.A., according
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Israel on Tuesday sentenced an army commander in the occupied West Bank to 10 days in military prison after an investigation into his shooting last week of a Palestinian motorist who was found to be innocent. The Israeli military said that security forces stationed at the Israeli settlement of Rimonim, east of Jerusalem, had received
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An English coach at the center of a notorious child sex abuse scandal in professional soccer has died in prison, the British government’s justice department said Monday. Barry Bennell, who had worked as a scout for Manchester City and a coach at Crewe Alexandra, was serving a 34-year jail term for multiple convictions of offenses
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Brazil’s Supreme Court handed a 17-year prison sentence Thursday to a supporter of former President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed top government offices on Jan. 8 in an alleged bid to forcefully restore the right-wing leader to office. Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, 51, is the first of several participants in the uprising to be prosecuted. In
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The convicted murderer who busted out of a Pennsylvania prison last month allegedly broke into a house Monday night and was shot at seven times by the homeowner after stealing a rifle, according to a report. State police warned that Danelo Cavalcante may now be armed after he reportedly ran off with a .22-caliber rifle
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A Dutch court on Monday sentenced former Pakistan international cricketer Khalid Latif to 12 years in prison for urging the murder of anti-Islam, far-right MP Geert Wilders. Latif, 37, had offered 21,000 euros ($22,500) for the head of Wilders in an online video after the firebrand lawmaker sought to arrange a competition for cartoons of
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The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has urged the authorities in the country to stop detaining children in Luxembourg Prison – an adult prison – under dangerous circumstances. The Council of Europe’s Anti-Torture Committee (CPT) has urged Luxembourg authorities to put an end to the detention of children in the
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