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A boy’s body in a suitcase and a mother on the run after calling him a ‘demon’. What happened to Cairo Jordan?
By Rachel Sharp Back in April 2022, the remains of a little boy were found inside a novelty “Welcome to the fabulous Las Vegas” suitcase. For six months, his identity remained a mystery. No one came forward. No one reported him missing. Finally, in October that year, the little boy Kim Kardashian tells Kamala Harris she’s ‘here to help’ as they discuss criminal justice reform at White House
By Andrew Feinberg Reality television star Kim Kardashian told Kamala Harris she was “here to help” as she returned to the White House for the first time since meeting with Donald Trump. Ms Kardashian, a criminal reform advocate, thanked the vice president for her “deep commitment What a Twitter fight between AOC and Jared Moskowitz over Israel reveals about the Democrats
By Eric Garcia On Wednesday evening, Democratic Representatives Jared Moskowitz of Florida and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got into a social media feud. The tiff began when Moskowitz, who is Jewish, quote-tweeted a statement from Senator Bernie Sanders condemning the fact that the Sen USC cancels main commencement ceremony following chaotic pro-Palestine protests
By Mike Bedigan The University of Southern California (USC) has announced it will not hold its main commencement ceremony next month, amid pro-Palestine protests on campus and criticism over a previously canceled student speaker . The institution announced the decision – described b Mystery over 19-year-old’s last moments after his naked body was found on the road following four-day party
By Dan Gooding A newly-graduated teenager who vanished from a four-day party had a fractured skull, broken ribs and his teeth were scattered around him when he was found naked and dead on the side of a rural highway in Oklahoma. Mystery surrounds the final moments of Noah Presgrove Who could buy TikTok?
By Andrea Cavallier President Joe Biden signed a bill into law on Wednesday that would ban TikTok in the United States unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance , sells the popular social media app. Now the question is, who could buy it? Several potential US buyers are already exp Bernie Sanders issues scathing statement directed at Netanyahu over campus protests
By Andrew Feinberg Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is pushing back after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused US college students protesting against the war in Gaza of being antisemitic. On Wednesday, Netanyahu’s office released a video of the US-born Israeli leader att First ship passes through new channel alongside Baltimore bridge wreckage and stranded Dali
By Amelia Neath The first cargo ship has passed through a newly opened deep-water channel in Baltimore after being stranded in the harbour since the catastrophic bridge collapse brought most marine traffic to a standstill within the port. The Balsa 94 was left in limbo in Baltimore Arnold Schwarzenegger dragged into Trump hush money trial as tabloid boss reveals plan to buy damaging stories
By Alex Woodward and Kelly Rissman The tabloid publisher behind a “catch and kill” scheme to bury compromising stories about Donald Trump testified in court that he previously had a similar arrangement with Hollywood actor turned ex-governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger . Dav ‘Terrified’ ex-wife of former police officer had got restraining order against him weeks before he killed her
By Dan Gooding A mother who was shot dead by her former police officer ex-husband as she picked up their child from school was “terrified” of him in the weeks leading up to her death. Amber Rodriguez and Elias Huizar’s lengthy divorce case ended around a year before Monday’s fatal MAGA conspiracy blog files for bankruptcy amid string of defamation lawsuits
By Martha McHardy Popular MAGA conspiracy blog Gateway Pundit is filing for bankruptcy amid a string of defamation lawsuits it is facing. The blog, which was launched in 2004, has been a hotbed of conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, school shootings, and other topics since Police launch violent crackdowns on Gaza protests on campuses across the US: ‘We’re terrified of another Kent State’
By Richard Hall,Amber Jamieson and Mike Bedigan Police in riot gear have violently broken up peaceful Gaza solidarity protests at college campuses across the country, arresting over 500 people in the process. Images of armed police beating students , throwing them to the ground and Daughter of NFL star Will Smith confronts her father’s road rage killer as he’s jailed for 25 years: ‘You ruined my life’
By Graig Graziosi The man who fatally shot retired NFL player Will Smith following a car crash has been sentenced to 25 years in prison . Smith's daughter was in the courtroom for his sentencing and told him that he "ruined my life". Cardell Hayes, 36, was sentenced on Thursday in a Don Jr and Eric Trump ‘in charge of picking Trump administration officials round two’
By Joe Sommerlad Donald Trump ’s adult sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump , are playing a central role in drawing up a list of potential candidates to join a second Trump administration in anticipation of their father’s victory over Joe Biden in November’s presidential election, A Supreme Court justices appear poised to offer Trump some immunity – potentially delaying Jan 6 trial
By Ariana Baio The Supreme Court justices appear poised to offer Donald Trump and future US presidents some form of immunity from criminal prosecution for their actions while in office – while rejecting broad absolute immunity. The nation’s highest court heard oral arguments on Thu Watch as Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer speaks after conviction overturned
By Oliver Browning Watch as Harvey Weinstein ’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala, spoke after his client’s conviction was overturned by the New York Supreme Court. Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for sexual assault and rape was overturned on Thursday 25 April, reopening the landmark case that fuel Trump loses latest bid for new E Jean Carroll defamation trial
By Eric Garcia Donald Trump’s request to have a new trial in his $83m defamation case with writer E Jean Carroll, who accused him of sexual assault, was denied by a federal court. Judge Lews Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected the motion o Dramatic video shows Boeing plane bounce off LAX runway
By Amelia Neath A Boeing 747 Lufthansa Airlines aircraft appeared to endure a bumpy landing as it bounced along the runway at LAX . Video footage of the aircraft coming in to land, posted by Airlines Videos Live on YouTube, shows the Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 plane skidding along the r ‘That’s crap’: Republican Senators on Caitlin Clark’s WNBA salary
By Eric Garcia Republican Senators are split about the fact that WNBA first-round draft pick Caitlin Clark will be paid significantly less than her male counterparts. Ms Clark garnered international attention during her time playing for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes’ women’s bask Lawmaker charged with burglary claims she was checking on elderly relative – by climbing through window dressed in black
By Martha McHardy A Democratic state senator in Minnesota who was charged with first-degree burglary claimed on Tuesday that she was checking on her elderly relative during the alleged break-in – despite being caught climbing through a window dressed all in black. Senator Nicole Mi
