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‘12 Angry Men’

THE 1957 film “12 Angry Men” struck a chord in me when I first watched it in high school. It focuses on a jury of 12 men deliberating on the fate of a teenager charged with fatally stabbing his abusive father. Eleven of them were initially set to hand down a “guilty” verdict to the 18-year-old “slum kid” who murdere…

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In very young children, can ‘repeated touching’ constitute consummated rape even without full penetration?

My daughter is only 8 years old. She told me that a neighbor pinned her down and kept “trying” to insert his penis, but she said it “wouldn’t go in” because it was painful, and she was crying. The medico-legal said there was no clear sign of deep penetration. The investigator mentioned a Supreme Court ruling where r…

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Inside the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal that Trump withdrew from

President Donald Trump on Friday defended the continued lack of a war-ending deal with Iran by once again trashing the prior nuclear agreement brokered by Barack Obama, his predecessor and longtime political foe."They've dealt with very weak and ineffective leadership on behalf of the United States" and others "that…

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General among three Lebanese soldiers killed by Israeli strike in south Lebanon | The National

Three Lebanese soldiers, including two officers, were killed on Saturday in an Israeli strike on their military vehicle on the Khardali-Nabatieh road in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese army said, in one of the deadliest single attacks on the country's armed forces since the war began.

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