Ghislaine Maxwell has formally denied grooming and sexually abusing children with her pedophile ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein. Appearing at a bail hearing Tuesday, the 58 year-old former socialite said: ‘Not guilty your honor’ when asked how she wished to plead to an indictment of offenses against her. Maxwell was heard speaking in a cut-glass English accent […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Hours after the Supreme Court rejected a last-minute legal-challenge on a 5-4 vote, the Justice Department put a 47-year-old man to death for his role in the 1996 murder of a family of three, the first federal execution in more than 17 years. The death row prisoner, Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, a […]
A baby girl born with Covid-19 is believed to have caught the virus in the womb, doctors have claimed. The newborn, from Texas, arrived three weeks prematurely and was taken straight to intensive care after her mother was diagnosed with coronavirus. Medics say she had suffered breathing problems and a high fever, and eventually tested […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Amazon.com Inc told employees at a New York warehouse, where workers have sued and gone on strike over safety concerns, that they won’t be punished for insufficient productivity or extra time washing their hands. In a message Amazon sent recently to employees and posted in bathrooms at the Staten Island facility, […]
Backlog of 1.2 million cases awaits as courts in New Jersey, Maryland and Michigan reopen to non-detained immigrants. Three immigration courts in the United States reopened Monday as the government extended its push to fully restart the clogged system despite rising coronavirus cases in states where many of the small courtrooms are located. In Baltimore, […]
State election officials rejected thousands of ballots because voters failed to follow instructions or filed too late. More than 100,000 mail-in ballots were rejected by California election officials during the March presidential primary, according to data obtained by The Associated Press news agency that highlights a glaring gap in the state’s effort to ensure every […]
Two World Health Organization experts have gone to China for a mission to trace the origin of the pandemic. The United States was grappling with the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world on Monday, as Florida shattered the national record for a state’s largest single-day increase in new confirmed cases. Meanwhile, two World Health Organization […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The first federal execution in 17 years is set to go ahead on Monday (July 13) after a US appeals court overturned a lower court injunction, saying a lawsuit by the victims’ family that had put the execution on hold had no legal standing. Daniel Lewis Lee, convicted of killing three members […]
A disturbing newly released video shows the moment a bystander put a New York City police officer in a chokehold as cops tried to break up a crowd. The two officers were reportedly trying to disperse a group of people gathered on a corner in the Bronx on July 1, but they soon found themselves […]
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos insists schools need to reopen, while reconfirming Trump’s threat to withhold funds. The Trump administration has continued to press on for full school reopenings in the fall (autumn), with Education Secretary Betsy Devos insisting such action is necessary, despite record surges of coronavirus infections in the country. DeVos, in two television […]