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OAKLAND, United States — Jury selection kicked off on Wednesday in a California courtroom where Instagram and Facebook owner Meta will defend itself against allegations of harming children in a new trial which experts describe as social media's big tobacco moment.
After person is spotted disposing of suspicious device, police with K-9 unit halt major roadway for two hours
United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has warned that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could investigate US military actions in Latin America, including strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean decried by rights groups as extrajudicial killings.
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A section of the Amazon rainforest stands next to soy fields in Belterra, Para state, Brazil, on Nov. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro has taken the rare step of convening a 'special' grand jury in Washington, according to the Washington Post.
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Three of the five players acquitted of sexual assault in the high-profile 2018 Canada world junior case have had their international play suspensions get extended for at least another year, with only one set for immediate reinstatement.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard a petition challenging a Likud party court decision that overturned a vote allowing serving MKs, ministers, and deputy ministers to compete for regional slots on the party's Knesset slate.
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Conservative journalist Tucker Carlson has accused the US political establishment of turning Americans against each other, telling RT that key decisions are made by unelected officials and the system no longer represents ordinary voters.
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A law quietly passed this summer aimed to end a complicated, decade-plus legal fight over who owns an estimated $1 billion in Pennsylvania natural gas.
An Israeli lawyer was arrested on Tuesday at Ben-Gurion Airport on suspicion of smuggling drugs into Israel, according to a police statement issued Wednesday.
A British serial sex attacker will spend the rest of his life in jail, a judge said on Wednesday, after he was convicted of two murders and rape following an escalating spree of sexual offenses that police and prosecutors failed to stop.
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey discusses upcoming NCAA College Football season during the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Media Days in Tampa, Fla., Monday, July, 20, 2026. (Hunter Dawkins/The Gazebo Gazette via AP)
Reiner, 32, charged with first-degree murder in deaths of Hollywood towering figures Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner
The Coober Pedy police station was allegedly vandalised last week. (Supplied: Police Association of South Australia)
The Tasmanian government has accepted in full or in principle 19 of the 20 recommendations. (Supplied: Magistrates Court of Tasmania)
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MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte’s lead defense counsel Sheila Sison on Wednesday slammed a social media post by House private prosecutor Amando Virgil Ligutan as “in bad taste,” as it appeared to take a swipe at the defense amid the ongoing impeachment trial.
People arrive for immigration court hearings in New York, Monday, July 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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The offices of the Marion County Record weekly newspaper are seen in Marion, Kan., on Aug. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)
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LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on murder charges in the killings of his parents, actor Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, and adds the allegation that he was lying in wait before attacking them.
On June 24 last year, as Sydney basked in its warmest weather of the month, lobbyist Jeremy Greenwood spent the morning being grilled during a secret preliminary examination at the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Actor Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, arrive for an event on Dec. 17, 2013, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
The download screen for the Truth Social app is displayed on a laptop computer, March 20, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Actor Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, arrive for an event on Dec. 17, 2013, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. on Wednesday ordered a probe into a shooting incident that resulted in the deaths of two people, a police officer and a civilian and injury of another police officer in Maragondon, Cavite.
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Kennedy Center had sued Chuck Redd for canceling Christmas Eve concert after Trump renamed institution
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Audit (COA) has the authority to inspect the vaults containing classified records and supporting documents related to confidential and intelligence operations when circumstances so demand, Senator-Judge Panfilo "Ping" Lacson said Wednesday.
Subscribers to Trump API can receive posts from selected accounts, including Donald Trump's, within "milliseconds". (Reuters: Jonathan Ernst)
Concern is growing for the safety of Israelis Mali and Liel Yahalomi, who have been missing in Vienna since Friday and failed to board their scheduled return flight from Prague on Tuesday night, as Austrian police continue investigating their disappearance on Wednesday.
State Attorney Amit Aisman, Israel’s chief prosecutor, may handle the investigation into leaked footage from the Sde Teiman detention facility and the alleged cover-up, the High Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday.
A municipal judge’s appointment in a small Mississippi Delta town has drawn social media backlash, from internet trolls and a few Mississippi politicians, because she is Muslim.
People walk outside of a Federal Courthouse Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Rumors of plea deal in federal case have been circulating since June for suspect accused of killing Brian Thompson
The United States’ rare decision to join Japan in supporting the yen marked more than an attempt to arrest the decline of one of the world’s most heavily traded currencies.
The Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit brought by American relatives and survivors of Palestinian terrorism was denied by a US federal judge on Monday, according to court documents and parties involved in the case who spoke with The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
Tyler Robinson, accused of fatally shooting of Charlie Kirk, appears during a hearing in 4th District Court in Provo, Utah, on June 12, 2026. (Francisco Kjolseth /The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, Pool, File)
LAST week, news reports emerged that two longtime independent directors on the board of the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), Eddie Gobing and Ma. Vivian Yuchengco, had filed a petition before the Court of Appeals, asking the tribunal to strike down a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule that limits the tenu…
ONE of the misconceptions repeatedly advanced by defenders of Vice President Sara Duterte is that the impeachment trial remains entirely the prosecution’s burden, that unless the prosecutors prove every allegation beyond all doubt, she has no obligation to explain anything. That is a misunderstanding not only of imp…
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CAMP VICENTE LIM, Calamba City — Two people died, including a police officer, while another law enforcer was wounded after being shot by a fellow officer in a shooting incident allegedly sparked by a heated argument at a parking area of a resort in Barangay San Miguel A in Maragondon, Cavite, in the early hours of W…
