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• Biden and Xi seek to manage tensions in phone call as US officials head to China

  02-04-2024 23:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Presidents clashed over Taiwan and US trade restrictions on technology in first direct interaction since NovemberJoe Biden and Xi Jinping have clashed in a telephone call about Taiwan and US trade restrictions on technology, but sought to manage their tensions as two top US officials prepare to visit Beijing.The nearly two-hour telephone conversation on Tuesday was the two leaders’ first direct interaction since a summit in November in California that saw a marked thaw in tone, if not the
  
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• Iowa woman found guilty of voter fraud in support of Republican husband

  02-04-2024 23:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Kim Taylor of Woodbury county given eight-month custodial sentence for helping Jeremy Taylor fraudulently win electionAn Iowa woman found guilty on 52 counts of voter fraud, carried out in support of her Republican husband, was given an eight-month custodial sentence.Kim Taylor, of Woodbury county, will serve four months in prison and four in home confinement, KTIV, a Sioux City TV station, reported. Subject to two years’ supervised release, Taylor will also pay $5,200. Continue reading...
  
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• Bernie Sanders to Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘Stop murdering innocent people’

  02-04-2024 23:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Vermont senator makes remarks after Israeli strike kills seven aid workers, amid war that has killed more than 32,000 PalestiniansThe Vermont senator and former US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has a message for the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu: “Stop murdering innocent people.”Sanders delivered his blunt message in an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday, a day after seven aid workers were killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza. Continue reading...
  
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• Charities halt Gaza aid after drone attack that killed seven workers

  02-04-2024 23:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Humanitarian groups say they cannot operate safely after Israeli targeting of food charity convoy prompts international outcry Gaza aid convoy strike: what happened and who were the victims?The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza seems likely to worsen after charities announced they are suspending operations in the territory in the aftermath of an Israeli drone attack which repeatedly targeted a clearly identified convoy of international aid workers, killing seven.The strikes on a team from World C
  
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• Men linked to stabbing of Iranian journalist in London ‘have fled UK’

  02-04-2024 23:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Met says suspects travelled directly to Heathrow and left within hours of attack on Pouria ZeraatiThree men linked to the stabbing of an Iranian journalist outside his south London home are believed to have fled the country within hours of the attack, Scotland Yard has said.Pouria Zeraati, 36, sustained an injury to his leg after being attacked in Wimbledon on Friday afternoon. He has since been discharged from hospital. Continue reading...
  
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• China will have 300 million pensioners. Can it afford them?

  02-04-2024 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The country is running out of time to build enough of a fund to care for its growing number of elderly.
  
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• ‘Average is awesome’: California pleased with result of critical snowpack survey

  02-04-2024 22:48 via theguardian.com
  
  After years of swinging extremes, state snowpack is at rare average of 110%, setting up good water savings account for year aheadOn Tuesday morning California officials trekked into the mountains to share some exciting and unusual news: the state’s snowpack measurement is just about average. Across the state, the snowpack came in at roughly 110% – a measurement that is exceedingly rare in a changing climate.The fourth survey of the year, conducted at the beginning of April, is consid
  
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• Sunak calls for action as British aid workers killed in Israeli airstrike are named

  02-04-2024 22:35 via theguardian.com
  
  PM demands ‘transparent investigation’ from Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as names emerge of three Britons killed in GazaRishi Sunak has called for an urgent investigation into the deaths of three British aid workers who were killed by an Israeli airstrike that hit an aid convoy in Gaza, as reports of the victims’ names emerged on Tuesday evening.The Guardian understands two of the three were 33-year-old James Henderson, a former Royal Marine from Cornwall, and John Cha
  
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• Joe Flaherty, Freaks and Geeks actor and SCTV star, dies at 82

  02-04-2024 22:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Original cast member of Canadian sketch show also known for roles in Back to the Future II, Happy Gilmore and Family GuyJoe Flaherty, the actor, writer and sketch comedian known for his roles on Freaks and Geeks, Back to the Future II, Happy Gilmore and the landmark Canadian series SCTV, has died of an undisclosed brief illness, his daughter, Gudrun Flaherty, told the Canadian Press. He was 82.“After a brief illness, he left us yesterday, and since then, I’ve been struggling to come
  
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• Trump spotlights 'Biden's Border Bloodbath' during stop in crucial battleground state he lost in 2020

  02-04-2024 22:20 via foxnews.com
  
  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Donald Trump is turning up the volume as he accuses President Biden of failing to protect Americans from violent crime that the former president says is being committed by illegal immigrants and deadly drugs pouring over the nation's southern border with Mexico.Trump fired numerous salvos at his successor in the White House during a campaign stop Tuesday in this city in western Michigan. The former president's stop comes in the wake of the March 22 murder of Ruby
  
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• Minnie Driver claims 'Hard Rain' producers kept her from wearing wetsuit: 'Wanted to see my nipples'

  02-04-2024 22:04 via foxnews.com
  
  Minnie Driver revealed she wasn't given a wetsuit during the filming of the 1998 movie "Hard Rain" so that her nipples would show.Driver starred in the film alongside actors Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater as a town is battered by torrential storms while a bank heist takes place."Its set during this massive storm," Driver recalled during an episode of SiriusXM’s "I Weigh with Jameela Jamil." "There were huge rain machines. We shot crazy hours. It was tough, like it was a tough movie, b
  
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• Family of disabled DC man Reggie Brown calls for child suspects in deadly beating to be charged as adults

  02-04-2024 22:03 via foxnews.com
  
  The family of a 64-year-old disabled Washington, D.C., man who was beaten to death are calling for the three young girls accused of killing him to be charged as adults, as additional details have come to light about how the attack went down.A 12-year-old girl and two 13-year-old girls are behind bars for the deadly beating of Reggie Brown last fall, the Metropolitan Police Department confirmed."They should be charged as adults because they knew what they were doing," Brown's sister told FOX 5. "
  
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• Hall of Famer Paul Pierce 'didn't expect' Caitlin Clark to dominate 'Black girls' from LSU

  02-04-2024 22:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Caitlin Clark was, once again, the best player on the court Monday night.The NCAA's all-time leading scorer dropped 41 points to send No. 1 Iowa to the Final Four after the Hawkeyes beat No. 3 LSU 94-87.Clark was a first-team All-American for the third year in a row while setting numerous records before she heads to the WNBA later this year.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMIt was her fifth 40-point game of the season and the third time she hit nine three-pointers. However, one b
  
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• Fox News Politics: Trump and Hunter find common ground

  02-04-2024 21:57 via foxnews.com
  
  Welcome to Fox News’ Politics newsletter with the latest political news from Washington D.C. and updates from the 2024 campaign trail. What's happening? -Hillary Clinton tells voters to ‘get over it’-Biden looks to flip Florida blue-Hogan looks to flip Maryland Senate seat redBoth Former President Trump and Hunter Biden have accuse the Justice Department bringing politically biased — in opposite directions. Trump, ahead of campaign stops in the battleground
  
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• Ex-con NYC murder suspect seen smiling with DA Bragg pleads not guilty, held without bail

  02-04-2024 21:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Sheldon Johnson, the ex-con who claimed to be a criminal justice reform activist and palled around with VIPs like Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and podcaster Joe Rogan, pleaded not guilty to murder in a Bronx courtroom Tuesday before the judge ordered him held without bail.The 48-year-old became an outspoken advocate for criminal justice reform after his parole last year and began working with the Queens Defenders, a criminal defense firm in Forest Hills.Now, he's accused of gunning do
  
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• Frankie Muniz ‘hated’ Los Angeles before moving to Arizona: ‘It was a miserable experience’

  02-04-2024 21:46 via foxnews.com
  
  Though it's been nearly two decades since Frankie Muniz stepped away from Hollywood, the former child actor can still remember why his experience working in the entertainment industry was so "miserable."While promoting the current season of Australia's "I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here," the former "Malcom in the Middle" star opened up about his reasons for leaving Los Angeles and how that decision ultimately changed his life for the better."I never felt like I fully fit in the Ho
  
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• John Sinclair, a marijuana activist who was immortalized in a John Lennon song, dies at 82

  02-04-2024 21:35 via foxnews.com
  
  ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — John Sinclair, a poet, music producer and counterculture figure whose lengthy prison sentence after a series of small-time pot busts inspired a John Lennon song and a star-studded 1971 concert to free him, has died. He was 82.Sinclair died Tuesday morning at Detroit Receiving Hospital of congestive heart failure following an illness, his publicist Matt Lee said.BEATLES LEGEND JOHN LENNON ASSASSINATED 43 YEARS AGO: WHAT TO KNOWSinclair drew a 9 1/2-to-10-year prison
  
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• White House pressed on whether Biden believes border crossers could be in US plotting terror attack on America

  02-04-2024 21:31 via foxnews.com
  
  The White House on Tuesday answered whether President Biden believes that some of those crossing the border illegally could be in the U.S. plotting a terror attack on the homeland.Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked John Kirby, the U.S. National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, if, as the person in charge of "preventing a terrorist attack in the homeland, does President Biden think that some of these border crossers could be in the United States right n
  
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• Gisele Bündchen continues Tom Brady post-divorce conversation with cryptic message about ‘trauma’ and ‘pain’

  02-04-2024 21:31 via foxnews.com
  
  Though she’s been open about her heartbreak over her divorce from Tom Brady, Gisele Bündchen shared a post raising a few eyebrows.The Sports Illustrated model shared a quote from Brazilian writer Wandy Luz, alluding to "pains, traumas, fears" on her Instagram stories Monday.The quote, shared in both Portuguese and English, read, "You look at a person and can’t imagine the story they carry—the pains, traumas, fears, just as we can’t even imagine how strong, capable, a
  
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• Belarus arrests well-known activist on charges punishable by up to 4 years in prison, group says

  02-04-2024 21:31 via foxnews.com
  
  TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus have arrested a well-known activist on charges punishable by up to four years in prison, the country's oldest rights group said Tuesday in what appears to be the latest in the yearslong crackdown on dissent.Dzmitry Kuchuk, whose Green Party was shut down last year, has been charged with "organizing activities that grossly violate public order," according to the Viasna human rights center.INDEPENDENT BELARUSIAN JOURNALIST TRIED IN SO-CALLED 'EX
  
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• Man accused of killing 4, wounding 7 in Illinois rampage denied pretrial release

  02-04-2024 21:30 via foxnews.com
  
  A northern Illinois man charged with killing four people and injuring seven others by stabbing, beating and driving over them has been denied pretrial release.A judge in the city of Rockford ruled Tuesday that Christian Soto must remain in jail pending trial. The judge scheduled an April 15 arraignment for the 22-year-old.The Associated Press left a message Tuesday seeking comment from an attorney listed in court records as representing Soto. A woman who identified herself as Soto’s sister
  
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• Michigan woman convicted of husband's 2002 killing after extradition from Italy

  02-04-2024 21:28 via foxnews.com
  
  A woman extradited from Italy for the 2002 fatal bludgeoning of her husband in Michigan was convicted of second-degree murder.A jury in Eaton County needed only two hours Monday to decide the outcome of the trial against Beverly McCallum, the Lansing State Journal reported.Roberto Caraballo, 37, was suffocated and beaten in the basement of his home in Charlotte, about 105 miles northwest of Detroit.5 WOUNDED AT DETROIT CLUB IN SHOOTING OVER PARKING DISPUTEBurned remains were found in a metal loc
  
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• Woman fatally stabbed in Greek capital after seeking police protection from ex-partner

  02-04-2024 21:25 via foxnews.com
  
  Greek authorities on Tuesday ordered an urgent investigation into a woman's fatal stabbing outside an Athens police precinct where she had just requested protection from an ex-boyfriend.The 28-year-old's death triggered new calls by left-wing opposition parties for femicide — the killing of women or girls with a gender-related motivation — to be recognized as a distinct term in Greece's criminal code.The minister in charge of the police, Michalis Chrisochoidis, promised a "full, in-d
  
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• Joy Behar sounds off on RFK Jr., says he's a 'dangerous' threat to President Biden

  02-04-2024 21:24 via foxnews.com
  
  "The View" co-host Joy Behar sounded off on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday, arguing he is "very dangerous," and a "threat" to President Biden's re-election chances.Behar said RFK Jr. was "very dangerous," and the show played a clip from his interview with CNN's Erin Burnett on Monday. Kennedy argued President Biden was more of a threat to democracy than former President Trump. "First of all, he’s a threat, I think more to Biden, just because of his name. That people out there, they&
  
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• Biden's new green big rig standards could bankrupt small business, 'Shark Tank's' Kevin O'Leary says

  02-04-2024 21:23 via foxnews.com
  
  The Biden administration's stringent emissions standards for big rig trucks are based on technology that doesn't exist in a broad enough capacity and could cripple the small business economy, "Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary told Fox News on Monday."Mr. Wonderful" told "The Story" the emissions mandate's timing is impossible to meet right now."We talk about this quite a bit in the sector of the economy where [there are] 5 to 500 employees, small businesses that use a lot of transportation ser
  
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• Missing Sebastian Rogers: Tennessee police say 'inaccurate' information online has caused 'distraction'

  02-04-2024 21:15 via foxnews.com
  
  Tennessee authorities on Tuesday cautioned the public against sharing "inaccurate" information being shared online related to the search for missing teen Sebastian Rogers, which they say has caused a "distraction" in their investigation.The Sumner County Sheriff's Office issued an Amber Alert for Sebastian, a 15-year-old boy with autism, after he was last seen in the area of Stafford Court in Hendersonville on Feb. 26."We do want to caution … there are some social media elements out there
  
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• 29 migrants rescued from boat off Greek island's coast

  02-04-2024 21:06 via foxnews.com
  
  A group of 29 migrants was rescued Tuesday off a crippled boat in the Mediterranean Sea south of Crete, Greek authorities said, on an increasingly busy migration route from North Africa to Europe.A coast guard statement said the boat was located about 27 miles south of Gavdos, a small island off Crete's southern coast, by a passing merchant ship after passengers made a distress call.8 KILLED AFTER VEHICLE CARRYING SUSPECTED MIGRANTS VEERS INTO ALBANIAN RIVERThe migrants were being ferried to sou
  
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• Share of Americans who say Jews in US face 'a lot' of discrimination spikes since 2021: poll

  02-04-2024 21:05 via foxnews.com
  
  The percentage of Americans saying that Jews are facing "a lot" of discrimination in society has doubled in the last three years, according to a new survey released Tuesday.The survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center in February, found that the number jumped from 20% in 2021 to 40% today. The respondents were from among a nationally representative sample of 12,693 U.S. adults, which included American Jews and Muslims.Most U.S. Jews and Muslims say they have felt discrimination against their
  
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• Firefighters rescue 2 people trapped under Ohio bridge by fast-rising river waters

  02-04-2024 21:04 via foxnews.com
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Firefighters came to the rescue of two people who were trapped under a bridge early Tuesday when the waters of an Ohio river began rising, and forecasters warned more severe weather was headed to the area.OHIO DAD COULD STILL FACE DEATH PENALTY IN MASSACRE OF 3 SONS AFTER JUDGE TOSSES CONFESSIONThe two people were sleeping under the bridge around 8:45 a.m. when the Scioto River started to rise, the Columbus Fire Department reported. While the pair were never directly
  
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• Hawks' Quin Snyder shrugs off heated confrontation with Bogdan Bogdanovic, says two 'are in a great place'

  02-04-2024 20:58 via foxnews.com
  
  The Atlanta Hawks have just seven regular season games remaining on their schedule and appear to be heading for a third consecutive NBA Play-In Tournament berth.The Hawks defeated the Chicago Bulls on Monday to earn their 35th win of the season. But, the tenth-seeded Hawks 113-101 victory was overshadowed by a late-game confrontation between Atlanta's coach and one of its key players.Bogdanovic became noticeably frustrated and spilled a water bottle in the fourth quarter. The 31-year-old guard t
  
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• Wild snake fight over food in Colombian rainforest is believed to be first time captured on video

  02-04-2024 20:56 via foxnews.com
  
  In what is believed to be the first encounter captured on video, two wild snakes in Colombia were caught fighting over a meal recently in their natural habitats.Danish researchers Henrik Bringsøe and Niels Poul Dreyer published a study on March 22 in Herpetozoa, an open-access journal, highlighting the startling phenomenon.The two red-tailed coral snakes were caught on video struggling to take a caecilian (which looks a lot like an earthworm) from the other.RARE TWO-HEADED SNAKE UNDERGOES
  
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• Peruvian archbishop has resigned from position as the Vatican investigates disturbing reports

  02-04-2024 20:54 via foxnews.com
  
  A Peruvian archbishop who sued two journalists over their reports about sexual abuse and financial corruption in his religious movement, Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, has resigned amid a Vatican investigation.Pope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Piura Archbishop José Eguren. At 67, he is several years shy of the normal retirement age for bishops of 75.The Vatican didn’t say why Eguren was retiring early in its brief announcement. But the Vatican last year began an in-
  
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• Michael Moore accuses Biden of being ‘arms dealer’ for Israel’s ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Palestinians

  02-04-2024 20:47 via foxnews.com
  
  Documentary filmmaker and left-wing activist Michael Moore accused President Biden of being the "number one arms dealer" for Israel’s "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians in Gaza and demanded that he cut off the U.S. weapons support for the war.Moore made the claim during the Monday episode of his "Rumble" podcast, noting the predicament of supporting someone who has to beat former President Trump in the upcoming presidential election that also supports the "slaughter" in Gaza.Moore said, "I
  
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• Mexico president mourns the loss of 2 local candidates killed only days after starting their campaigns

  02-04-2024 20:43 via foxnews.com
  
  Mexico's president said Tuesday that he was hurt by the killing of a mayoral candidate just hours after she requested protection and started campaigning. A city council candidate who was wounded in the same attack on Monday also died, authorities said.President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the killing of his own party's candidates "hurts a lot," but he did not announce any increase in security for politicians.Candidate Bertha Gaytán was gunned down on a street in a town
  
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• Americans stranded by Norwegian Cruise save elderly passenger, family says: Ship 'left her to die'

  02-04-2024 20:38 via foxnews.com
  
  Norwegian Cruise Line forced an 80-year-old woman, who suffered a stroke and possible heart attack, to "medically disembark" on an African island and "left her to die," her family said.That was on Wednesday, March 27, and the cruise line never called Julie Lenkoff's emergency contacts and had one conversation with the family between Wednesday and Monday without providing any answers, her family said. Coincidentally, two days later, on March 29, six Americans and two Australian passengers we
  
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• Premier League: Foden inspires Man City to 4-1 win after Arsenal go top

  02-04-2024 20:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Follow reaction as Premier League title rivals Arsenal and Manchester City both record wins.
  
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• Former Ofsted chief says Ruth Perry inspection was error-free

  02-04-2024 20:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Amanda Spielman says agency did not get it wrong in school downgrade that contributed to headteacher’s deathOfsted’s former chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, has refused to concede that her organisation made errors in its handling of the inspection that contributed to the death of the headteacher Ruth Perry.Perry killed herself last year after Caversham primary school, which she had led for more than a decade, was downgraded from Ofsted’s highest grade of outstanding, to inadeq
  
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• Middle East crisis: Israel criticised for strike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza – as it happened

  02-04-2024 20:28 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed. For the latest on the Israel-Gaza war, read our latest report:Charities halt Gaza aid after drone attack that killed seven workersWe’ve launched this video report on the Gaza strike, including footage of people being transported on stretchers as ambulances flash nearby.Australia’s prime minister says the death of an Australian aid worker in Gaza is “completely unacceptable” and “beyond any reasonable circumstances”, saying the gov
  
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• Arizona parents of rich-kid gang member charged with murder allegedly tried to cover his tracks: report

  02-04-2024 20:26 via foxnews.com
  
  The millionaire parents of one teen gang member accused of murdering his 16-year-old peer on Halloween weekend last year in Queen Creek, Arizona, allegedly helped cover the suspects' tracks following Preston Lord's beating death, according to a report.Police call the teenage gang the "Gilbert Goons" in thousands of pages of recently released documents obtained by FOX 10 Phoenix. Treston Billey, 18, Jacob Meisner, 17, Taylor Sherman, 19, Talan Renner, 17, Dominic Turner, 20, William Owen Hines, 1
  
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• Candidate for mayor of Mexican city of Celaya killed on first day of campaign

  02-04-2024 20:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Bertha Gisela Gaytán is one of at least 22 mayoral candidates murdered in Mexico since September 2023A candidate running to be mayor in one of Mexico’s most violent cities has been killed on the first day of her campaign, adding to the death toll in what experts say could be the country’s bloodiest elections in history.Bertha Gisela Gaytán was shot in a town just outside of the city of Celaya, where she was running for Morena, Mexico’s governing party. A video on
  
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• Peru president Dina Boluarte under pressure amid ‘Rolexgate’ scandal

  02-04-2024 20:12 via theguardian.com
  
  President under investigation over allegedly owning jewellery worth $500,000 despite earning a monthly salary of $3,320Peru’s first female president, Dina Boluarte, is embroiled in a scandal over her alleged possession of a collection of Rolex watches and luxury jewellery that has put her at the centre of a corruption investigation.The unpopular leader shook up her cabinet on Monday, swearing in six new ministers, after a rash of resignations following reports that she owned jewellery wort
  
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• Blinken appoints new chief diversity and inclusion officer to build 'workforce that reflects America'

  02-04-2024 20:00 via foxnews.com
  
  The State Department has tapped a new chief diversity and inclusion officer, just months after it defended a memo from Secretary of State Antony Blinken that urged staffers to steer clear of gendered language such as "mother" and "manpower."Blinken announced Tuesday that Zakiya Carr Johnson, who previously worked at the State Department from 2010 to 2017, had been tapped to lead the State Department's Office of Diversity and Inclusion in an effort to "advance our deep commitment to diversity, eq
  
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• Chris Hansen: 'Diddy' allegations show he was 'drunk with power' like Epstein

  02-04-2024 19:59 via foxnews.com
  
  "Takedown" host Chris Hansen argued Sean "Diddy" Combs' connections to the rich and powerful were unlikely to protect him from federal charges as allegations against the hip hop mogul continue to pile up.Combs' mansions were raided last week after a series of damning civil lawsuits accused him of trafficking sex, guns and drugs and other bad behavior. He settled the first lawsuit, from R&B singer Cassie, his ex-girlfriend whose real name is Casandra Ventura, a day after she filed it.Hansen a
  
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• Joe Flaherty, ‘SCTV’ and ‘Freaks and Geeks’ star, dead at 82

  02-04-2024 19:33 via foxnews.com
  
  Joe Flaherty, an original cast member on the Canadian sketch comedy series "SCTV," died on Monday. He was 82.Flaherty died following a "brief illness," his daughter, Gudrun, confirmed to the Associated Press.The two-time Emmy award-winning writer also found fame playing Harold Weir on the NBC series "Freaks and Geeks."BARBARA RUSH, GOLDEN GLOBE-WINNING STAR OF ‘IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE’ AND ‘PEYTON PLACE,’ DEAD AT 97Adam Sandler said he "worshipped Joe growing up." Flaher
  
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• Three killed after helicopter crashes in Swiss Alps

  02-04-2024 19:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Three others injured after aircraft slid down slope during drop-off near summit of Petit Combin mountainThree people have been killed and three others injured after a helicopter crashed while dropping off skiers on the Petit Combin mountain in the Swiss Alps.The B3-type helicopter crashed at a landing site during a heliski drop-off on Tuesday, the Wallis regional police force said in a statement. Continue reading...
  
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• JK Rowling will not be arrested under new Scottish hate law, say police

  02-04-2024 19:21 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘No further action’ over posts by author and gender-critical activist despite complaintsComments by JK Rowling challenging police to arrest her for online misgendering do not amount to a crime, Police Scotland said.As the Scottish government’s contentious hate crime law came into force on Monday, the author and gender-critical activist posted a thread on X saying the legislation was “wide open to abuse” after listing sex offenders who had described themselves as tra
  
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• Iran decides on response to Israeli strike that killed top commanders

  02-04-2024 19:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Supreme national security council met to decide on action after strike on Damascus consulate that killed IRGC commandersMiddle East crisis – live updatesIran’s supreme national security council has decided on a “required” response to the Israeli strike on Damascus on Monday night that killed three top commanders in Iran’s al-Quds force and four other officers, state TV has reported.No further details were provided about the meeting of the key decision-making body, b
  
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• Man pleads guilty to theft of £4.8m gold toilet from Blenheim Palace

  02-04-2024 19:11 via theguardian.com
  
  James Sheen stole 18-carat, fully-functioning lavatory while it was part of 2019 exhibitionA man has pleaded guilty to the theft of a £4.8m gold toilet from the Oxfordshire country house where Winston Churchill was born.Blenheim Palace’s 18-carat lavatory was stolen in September 2019 while it was featuring in an art exhibition. James Sheen, 39, from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, pleaded guilty to burglary, converting or transferring criminal property and conspiracy to do the same
  
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• Fury in model village as broadband firm installs ‘eyesore’ telegraph poles

  02-04-2024 18:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Trust in charge of Bournville, designed by the Cadbury family, considers legal action over new infrastructureBuilt as a model village on the outskirts of Birmingham for the Cadbury factory workers, Bournville has for over a century been subject to strict planning laws to preserve its picturesque charm.But in recent months, more than 100 large telegraph poles have suddenly appeared on its streets which residents describe as eyesores that are ruining the charm of the area designed by the Cadbury f
  
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• ‘Wonderful experience’: Researcher’s close encounter with Svalbard polar bears

  02-04-2024 18:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Meteorologist says bears were not aggressive but they fired signal gun to scare them awayKatarzyna Kudłacz was preparing a breakfast of scrambled eggs at a research station on Svalbard when she looked up to see she had three unexpected guests.Shocked and in awe, the meteorologist immediately alerted her colleagues to the female polar bear and her two cubs peering into the Polish research station in Hornsund, in the south of the Norwegian archipelago, their noses pressed up against the windo
  
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