MELBOURNE, Australia — A man from Memphis, Tennessee, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife during their honeymoon in Fiji in 2022, a court official said Friday. Bradley Robert Dawson, 40, will have to serve at least 18 years in prison before he can be considered for release, a Fiji High Court registry official in Lautoka said. …
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DENVER — Prosecutors on Friday are set to present evidence that a Colorado dentist charged with killing his wife also tried to get a fellow inmate to kill a detective investigating him. James Craig is accused of poisoning his wife’s protein shakes nearly two years ago, allegedly ordering a rush shipment of potassium cyanide that he said he needed for a patient …
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration must temporarily allow the disbursement of foreign aid, a judge ruled Thursday, dealing the latest blow to the administration’s sweeping efforts to halt international aid. The court order came in response to a lawsuit filed by nonprofit groups that work on international aid projects, as well as other organizations. They had asked that the judge block …
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul rejected a request to extradite a doctor who was charged with prescribing abortion pills online to a Louisiana resident last month. “I will not be signing an extradition order that came from the governor of Louisiana, not now, not ever,” Hochul said at a news conference Thursday after her office received the order for the …
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PUNTA ARENAS, Chile — A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral. Last Saturday, Adrián Simancas was kayaking with his father, Dell, in Bahía El Águila near the San Isidro Lighthouse in the Strait of Magellan when a humpback whale surfaced, engulfing Adrián and his yellow kayak …
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s plane to Munich turned around Thursday night after it “experienced a mechanical issue,” according to the State Department. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said in a statement that the problem was a cracked windshield and that Rubio “intends to continue his travel to Germany and the Middle East on a separate air craft.” Rubio’s plane, …
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PANAMA CITY — The United States deported 119 people of different nationalities to Panama as part of an agreement between the Trump administration and the Central American nation, Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino said Thursday. The first flight from the U.S., carrying people from Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Vietnam, arrived on Wednesday, and two more will land soon, Mulino …
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An 18-year-old Indiana student has been accused of plotting a mass shooting at school on Valentine’s Day, a plan he allegedly wrote was inspired by the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people. Jamie Shockley has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, intimidation: threat to commit terrorism, and conspiracy intimidation, according to Morgan County court documents. …
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Apple and Google have made TikTok available on their U.S. app stores again, the companies said Thursday evening. TikTok, which is owned by Chinese technology company ByteDance, disappeared from both stores in the U.S. on Jan. 18, hours before a ban on the social media app was set to go into effect. It had remained unavailable to download on both …
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration began a mass firing of federal workers on Thursday. Office of Personnel Management officials met with agency leaders and advised them to dismiss probationary employees, according to a person familiar with the matter. Hundreds of thousands of people could potentially be affected, according to data from the Office of Personnel Management, although the exact …
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