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Harvey Weinstein is considering pleading guilty to a third-degree rape charge to avoid facing trial for a third time, the former Hollywood mogul’s lawyer told a judge in a downtown Manhattan courtroom Thursday.The charge is related to an allegation made by Jessica Mann, a former aspiring actress, that Weinstein raped her at a New York hotel in March 2013. Weinstein has vehemently denied that claim and all allegations of nonconsensual sex.But amid defense lawyer Arthur Aidala’s talk of a possible plea deal, Weinstein continued to insist he was not a criminal. “I know I was unfaithful and acted wrongly, but I never assaulted anyone,” Weinstein told Judge Curtis Farber.Weinstein was found guilty of third-degree rape of Mann in early 2020, but that conviction was overturned in 2024 by a New York state appeals court. He was tried again last year, but the jury failed to reach a verdict on the charge related to Mann.The same jury found Weinstein guilty of first-degree criminal sexual act based on an allegation made by Miriam Haley, a former “Project Runway” production assistant who claims he forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006.Crime and CourtsApr 20, 2025Meet the forensic psychologist set to testify at both Weinstein and Combs trialsCrime and CourtsJun 12, 2025Judge declares mistrial on remaining Harvey Weinstein rape countCrime and CourtsApr 15, 2025Actor who played NYC prosecutor among prospective jurors excused from Weinstein retrialThe jury acquitted Weinstein on a second count of first-degree criminal sexual act stemming from a similar allegation brought by Kaja Sokola, a Polish former runway model.Weinstein appeared somber in court Thursday as Farber rejected his motion to dismiss his conviction related to Haley’s allegation. The former film titan’s attorneys had argued that the jury at his retrial was beset by infighting, bullying and other improper behavior.The former producer told the court he was disappointed in Farber’s decision to hold off on an open hearing to look into his team’s allegations of juror misconduct.“The weight of justice grows heavier after 19 months at Rikers,” Weinstein told the judge, referring to the New York prison island where he is incarcerated. “It is soul-crushing. It is a death sentence. My mental state is collapsing and the isolation is unbearable.”In response, Farber told Weinstein he believed the second trial was fair — and whatever happened in the jury room was part of the normal course of deliberations.Nicole Blumberg, one of the prosecutors, asked Farber to sentence Weinstein on the Haley conviction, saying in part: “Mimi Haley deserves closure and not have to keep her life on hold while a retrial occurs.”Farber essentially rebuffed that request, saying he planned to wait until after the Mann charges are adjudicated. He tentatively scheduled a third trial to begin March 3.
Bank of South Carolina Corp. (BKSC) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $2 million.
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Russia has exchanged jailed French researcher Laurent Vinatier for a Russian basketball player who was being held in France, state media reported on Thursday, citing Russia’s FSB security service. Vinatier, 49, had been jailed in June 2024 and was serving a three-year sentence for failing to register as a “foreign agent” — a label used [...]The post Russia releases French researcher in prisoner exchange appeared first on Digital Journal.
Russia’s latest strikes on Ukraine’s energy facilities have left hundreds of thousands without power and heating during a cold winter, as Kyiv and Washington continue to negotiate a framework for peace.
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The United States could oversee Venezuela and control its oil revenue for years, President Donald Trump said in a newly published interview published. Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate is scheduled to hold a vote Thursday that could rebuke Trump, though he is likely to veto the measure if it passes.
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The European film investment group announced a series of executive appointments on Thursday.
1. Dozens of people gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in the South African capital Thursday to protest the U.S. intervention in Venezuela and the capture of former president Nicolas Maduro.
Ebuka Okorie scored 31 points and hit the winning 3-pointer with three seconds left to lead Stanford past Virginia Tech 69-68 on Wednesday night.Okorie scored 11...
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Undersecretary of War for Personnel Anthony Tata told Army and Marine leaders they must provide data on ability and performance in ground combat roles. The memo also asks for studies and data that are not readily available to the public on "the integration of women in combat."
China is testing Donald Trump’s support for America’s top ally in Asia by imposing export controls on Japan months after the U.S. leader boasted he’d settled the rare earth issue “for the world.”
France on Wednesday officialised a ban on food imports containing traces of five pesticides currently banned in the EU, a move aimed at easing farmers...
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The United Kingdom’s regulatory authority for the communication industry in the country said it has made “urgent contact” with Elon Musk’s social media company over Grok creating images “undressing” real people.
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The information he sold to the Soviets is blamed for the deaths of multiple American spies and their sources during the Cold War.
The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation.President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an ex...
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U.S. forces have boarded a Venezuela-linked sanctioned oil tanker in the North Atlantic. The U.S. had been pursuing the tanker since last month after it tried to evade a U.S. blockade on sanctioned oil vessels around Venezuela. It had been...
The U.S. had been pursuing the tanker since last month after it tried to evade a U.S. blockade around Venezuela.
Iran’s army chief has threatened preemptive military action over the “rhetoric” targeting the Islamic Republic.
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — The runner-up in Central African Republic ‘s presidential election rejected the provisional results on Wednesday and alleged widespread fraud, while the Russia-allied country’s leader said he had invited President Vladimir Putin to visit. Anicet Georges Dologuélé claimed that Sunday’s election data had been manipulated by the National Elections Authority. [...]
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The Cuban government has revealed the identities of 32 military personnel killed during the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
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Michael Barrett says ex-cabinet minister shouldn't collect paycheque while advising foreign government
The Palestinian ambassador to the UK raised his nation’s flag over the new Palestinian embassy in London on Monday following the UK’s recognition of Palestinian statehood. During the ceremony in Hammersmith, Ambassador Husam Zomlot presented the official signage for the diplomatic office, finalizing a political shift in the UK that began last year alongside with [...]The post Palestine inaugurates first embassy in London following UK statehood recognition appeared first on JURIST - News.
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The U.S. striking Venezuela and capturing its leader has practical implications for China, Russia, Iran and Cuba, and it also sends messages to each nation.
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The children of slain Minnesota state lawmaker Melissa Hortman are urging President Donald Trump to remove a post on Truth Social that promotes a conspiracy theory alleging the state’s governor, Tim Walz, was involved in Hortman’s death.Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed in June at their home in what authorities described at the time as “politically motivated” shootings. State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were also shot and wounded in their home the same day. Vance Boelter of Minnesota is accused of the shootings. The manhunt to arrest Boelter was the largest in Minnesota history. He was indicted on federal murder charges in July and pleaded not guilty in August.Trump shared the video — which seems to have been made by another social media user, which shared yet another video — on Saturday. It made unsubstantiated claims tying Walz and alleged fraud in Minnesota’s state programs to the murders. There has been no evidence to suggest such a link is real. On Saturday, Walz — who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2024 — called Trump’s post “dangerous, depraved behavior from the sitting president of the United States,” saying he would “get more innocent people killed.”Crime and CourtsJul 15, 2025Federal grand jury indicts man accused of killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa HortmanShootingsJun 15, 2025Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman remembered as a friend, leader and mom by Amy Klobuchar“America is better than this,” Walz said.On Sunday, the Hortmans’ children, Colin and Sophie, each released a statement condemning the video.“I am asking President Trump to remove the video that he shared and apologize to me and my family for posting this misinformation and for using my mother’s own words to dishonor her memory,” Colin Hortman wrote.Sophie Hortman echoed the sentiment, calling the video “a painful, false twisting of my mother’s final vote.”“We must create a society in which we do not harbor hatred and violence toward our political opponents, and this video promotes a false narrative which fuels the flames of political division,” Sophie Hortman wrote.“The video being shared by the president is another hurdle our family must overcome in grieving the loss of my parents, Mark and Melissa, and their beloved [dog] Gilbert,” she added. “I ask President Trump to please consider the pain and sadness we have faced, and to honor the spirit of the holidays we have just spent without our parents by taking down the post on Truth Social.”The Hoffman family said in a statement that it “stands with Sophie and Colin Hortman.”“We ask President Trump to take down the post spreading conspiracy claims about their parents’ deaths,” the family said in a statement. “Those claims reflect the same hateful falsehoods that motivated violence and cause more harm.”“This moment calls for responsibility and compassion. Removing the post would be a necessary step toward decency,” the family said.The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the Hortman children’s statements or inquiries about why Trump shared the video.Trump shared the video as his administration has seized on viral allegations of fraud in some Minnesota state programs in recent weeks.The Justice Department has investigated fraud in Minnesota for a few years. One investigation involved the nonprofit Feeding Our Future and netted, since 2022, criminal charges for more than 70 people so far— some of whom are members of the state’s Somali community.MinnesotaJan 3Minnesota department finds child care centers targeted in viral video operating normallyDonald TrumpDec 31, 2025Trump targets Rep. Ilhan Omar in post attacking Somali immigrants over Minnesota fraud claimsTrump administrationDec 30, 2025Trump admin halting federal child care payments to Minnesota after viral fraud claimsCheyenne Darcy Amaya, Gemma DiCasimirro, Phil Helsel and Julia Ainsley contributed.
A Paris court has found 10 people guilty of cyberbullying France’s first lady Brigitte Macron by spreading false online claims about her gender and sexuality.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Brooklyn jail holding Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is a facility so troubled, some judges have refused to send people there even as it has housed such famous inmates as music stars R. Kelly and Sean...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Brooklyn jail holding Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is a facility so troubled, some judges have refused to send people there even as it has housed such famous inmates as music stars R. Kelly and Sean “Diddy” Combs. Opened in the early 1990s, the Metropolitan Detention Center, or MDC Brooklyn, currently [...]The post After capture and removal, Venezuela’s Maduro is being held at notorious Brooklyn jail appeared first on CityNews Winnipeg.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the long-awaited trial of a New Jersey man accused of killing four relatives in a murder and arson plot after his younger brother uncovered a web of financial deceit.Paul Caneiro, 59, will stand trial in a Monmouth County courtroom on more than a dozen counts of murder, aggravated arson, theft and other crimes linked to the killing of his younger brother Keith Caneiro and his family on Nov. 20, 2018. If he is convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life without the possibility of parole on just the murder charge. The trial is expected to last several weeks.Caneiro is accused of torching his brother’s home and his own to create an “illusion” that the entire Caneiro family was being targeted, former Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni has said.“This is one of the most brutal cases that I’ve seen in my experience here,” he said at a news conference at the time.In a statement, Caneiro’s defense team said their client maintains his innocence and has waited more than seven years to “to have a full and fair trial where the evidence will be heard and evaluated in a court of law. Despite this lengthy process, Mr. Caneiro remains patient and resolute as well as deeply grateful for the unwavering support of his close family and friends who continue to stand by him.”Back-to-back blazesThe first element of the “illusion” described by Gramiccioni was a predawn house fire at Paul Caneiro’s home in Ocean Township, a wealthy coastal enclave south of New York City. Responding to a report of smoke at the home at 5:01 a.m., emergency personnel found parts of the house in flames. They discovered a red gas can in the driveway, according to an affidavit in support of an arrest warrant, and a charred glove on the ground.Paul Caneiro, his wife and two adult daughters escaped the blaze and parked nearby in a Porsche SUV, according to the affidavit. His wife told authorities that she didn’t know of anyone who would want to harm her family.A little over seven hours later, authorities responded to a report of another fire, this time at the nearby home of Caneiro’s brother and business partner, Keith, 50. Officers found his body in the front yard. He’d been shot once in the back and four times in the head, according to another affidavit.The affidavit paints a horrific picture of what firefighters found in Keith’s home. On the kitchen floor, 11-year-old Jesse was found dead from multiple stab wounds. Keith’s 8-year-old daughter, Sophia, was on the landing of a staircase. She’d also been fatally stabbed. Autopsies cited smoke inhalation as a contributing factor in their deaths.Keith’s wife, Jennifer, 45, was on another set of stairs. She’d been shot once in the head and stabbed in the torso. Paul was arrested three days later on charges of aggravated arson in connection with the blaze at his own home. He was charged with the killings shortly afterward and later indicted in connection with those crimes and others, including the theft of $75,000 from his brother and sister-in-law, a copy of the indictment shows.At a news conference, Gramiccioni said investigators had uncovered a likely motive for the killings: money.Financial and family turmoilA barrage of lawsuits filed against Paul in the years after his arrest offered a window into the financial and familial turmoil that preceded Nov. 20. The brothers had long been involved in two companies together — a pest control business that they took over in 2011 and an IT consulting firm that Keith started decades before. According to a lawsuit Jennifer’s family filed in 2021, Paul was seriously injured in a car accident in 2012, which prompted a shift in his personality and demeanor. According to the suit, which accuses Paul of breach of fiduciary duty and makes other allegations, Keith and Jennifer wondered whether he’d developed an addiction to pain medication. (In a filing, Paul neither admitted nor denied the claim.) In the months before Nov. 20, Keith discovered “numerous” instances of Paul stealing from their businesses and from him personally, according to the suit. A review of business records found that he was misappropriating roughly $11,000 per month for personal use and claiming the charges as an insurance reimbursement, according to the suit.Keith began the process of removing Paul as a beneficiary from a family trust, according to the suit, and made it known that he planned to end the business partnership. “Among other things, he was trying to sell the businesses (which Paul objected to) and was looking for job opportunities away from Paul,” the lawsuit says.On Nov. 17, 2018 — three days before the killings — Keith told the children’s grandfather Vlassis Karidis that Paul stole $90,000 that had been set aside for his kids’ college tuition, according to the suit. On the same day, Keith told Karidis that he was cutting off his brother’s $225,000 annual salary, the suit says. In a filing, Paul wrote that he couldn’t comment on the allegations of financial crimes because they were relevant to his criminal case.Allegations of familial maneuvering continued after the killings. The lawsuit alleges that after Paul was arrested on the first arson charge, the third and youngest Caneiro brother, Corey, acted “in concert” with Paul to help install himself as trustee on Keith’s family trust — even though the suit says Keith made it clear that he didn’t want Corey to serve in that role.Shortly afterward, the suit says, “Corey took secretive and unilateral control” of the life insurance proceeds paid out to the trust. Less than a year later, the suit says, Corey used those proceeds to buy a $1.8 million home in one of the state’s wealthiest communities, Fair Haven.A lawyer for Corey, who is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, didn’t respond to a request for comment. Corey denied the allegations in a filing.The lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, is ongoing. Legal challengesAs the criminal case against Paul meandered through a series of pretrial court hearings, his lawyers sought to bar prosecutors from introducing evidence that they believe implicates him in the events of Nov. 20.At a lengthy hearing in 2024, they argued that a powerful and increasingly common tool used to identify DNA in the case hadn’t been properly vetted. And in legal filings last year, they sought to exclude electronic evidence from trial that they said police obtained without the warrant they needed. Monmouth County Judge Marc Lemieux rejected their claims about the DNA tool, STRmix, but agreed with the defense on one point — that authorities improperly seized Paul’s home security system.In a ruling in June, Lemieux wrote that the evidence would be off-limits because authorities didn’t first obtain a warrant before they searched Paul’s garage, where he kept the system.According to the prosecution, evidence obtained from the system helped establish Paul’s movements in the hours before the killings.He told investigators that he believed he’d turned the system off the day before because it caused his Wi-Fi to run slow, according to the affidavit. But when authorities examined the system, they found that it was hard-wired — not connected to a wireless network — and the cameras showed Paul walking into the garage at 1:29 a.m., a couple of hours before Keith’s neighbors described hearing what sounded like a series of gunshots, the affidavit says.One of the cameras showed Paul walking toward the system, according to the affidavit. Then, at 1:30 a.m., the cameras stopped recording. The decision blocking that evidence was appealed to the state’s high court, which overruled the lower courts last month and found that police were justified in seizing the evidence without a warrant.
The following is the transcript of the interview with Sen. Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Jan. 4, 2026.
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