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Menendez Brothers’ Hopes for Quick Release From Prison Dealt Another Blow

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is waiting to decide whether to grant clemency to the Menendez brothers until the incoming Los Angeles County district attorney has finished reviewing the case. Nathan Hochman’s landslide victory earlier this month cast doubt on whether Lyle and Erik Menendez could soon be released after serving more than 30 years in prison for brutally murdering their parents, Kitty and José, at the family’s Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. The brothers, now 56 and 53, had petitioned
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Marius Borg Høiby Scandal: Son of Norwegian Princess Mette-Marit Arrested on Suspicion of Rape

The son of the Norway’s crown princess Mette-Marit was arrested on suspicion of raping a woman who was “unconscious or for other reasons unable to resist the act,” according to a preliminary charge. Oslo police did not say when the incident involving Marius Borg Høiby, 27, occurred. A lawyer for the alleged victim told the newspaper Aftenposten that it happened earlier this year. Hege Salomon added that it was police who pursued the case and not her client, who she said is “having a hard time.”
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Homeless encampment erupts in flames under 170 Freeway in Los Angeles

The northbound 170 Freeway was closed during in Los Angeles’ Sun Valley area after a fire broke out at a homeless encampment located under an overpass early Tuesday. The fire was reported shortly after 1:30 a.m. under the Sheldon Street overpass. Video showed firefighters dousing chairs, tables and other items that were burning near an […]
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‘Morning Joe’ Dismisses Online Anger Over Trump Meeting

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough downplayed a furious online response to the revelation that he met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday’s Morning Joe. Scarborough and his wife, co-host Mika Brzezinski—who have fiercely criticized Trump since his first term—told viewers a day earlier that they’d met with the president-elect last week, explaining they agreed to “restart communications” with the Republican. Trump separately said the meeting with two of his leading critics had been “extremely cordial.
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Bob Woodward Says Trump ‘Giving the Finger to the American People’ With Cabinet Picks Like Gabbard

Veteran reporter Bob Woodward likened President-elect Donald Trump’s nominations of relative neophytes to top national security and defense posts to him flipping off Americans. “Why wouldn’t Trump want somebody who at least has some experience?” the author and former longtime Washington Post journalist asked Monday, during an appearance on MSNBC’s Inside With Jen Psaki. “He’s trying to recreate the imperial presidency. He’s trying to say ‘I can do whatever I want, it’s up to me alone.’”
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Joe Exotic Begs Trump’s AG Nominee Matt Gaetz for a Pardon

In April 2022, back when the world finally seemed to be on the brink of emerging from the COVID pandemic only to face a new geopolitical crisis with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a brief but consequential meeting took place at a political event in Florida. Pensacola-based attorney Autumn Beck Blackledge approached then-Rep. Matt Gaetz with a “very, very important question” from one of her clients, Tiger King star Joe Exotic, who in 2019 was convicted of 17 counts of animal abuse and attempted mu
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