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Hate crimes towards Jews rose 36% from 2021 to 2022, accounting for greater than half of all reported religion-based hate crimes, the FBI mentioned this week. ...

Donald Trump has returned to courtroom within the US for the fraud trial that he says is "rigged" and delivered to courtroom by a "radical lunatic" prosecutor.As he arrived on the courtroom in Manhattan for the beginning of the third week of proceedings, Trump, 77, instructed reporters "this is a rigged trial". The case in opposition to him, he stated, was a "witch hunt by a radical lunatic attorney general [Letitia James] of New York State".Ms James, he stated, "shouldn't be allowed to be an attorney general, she's horrible".Referring to the case in opposition to him, he added sarcastically that it was based mostly on "a statute that's never been used before, I'm the first one. Isn't that nice?" Prosecutors allege the tycoon, who leads the race to turn into the Republican ca...

The Supreme Court has agreed to listen to a retaliatory arrest declare introduced by an aged Texas metropolis councilwoman who says she was arrested for misplacing a petition she circulated criticizing town supervisor and pushing for his elimination. ...

North Korea has despatched giant quantities of weapons to Russia to assist Moscow combat its battle in Ukraine, the White House has mentioned.Pyongyang has delivered greater than 1,000 containers of "equipment and munitions" in current weeks, National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby mentioned on Friday. Washington launched photos that it mentioned confirmed containers loaded with arms on a Russian-flagged ship earlier than being moved by prepare to southwestern Russia. Please use Chrome browser for a extra accessible video participant 0:44 The 40-seco...

A Virginia Department of Corrections investigation discovered that escaped prisoner and fugitive, Naseem Roulack obtained away as a result of his guards have been asleep. ...

A lottery buyer who purchased a Powerball ticket in a little bit city in California has turn into the second largest winner ever.The thriller winner with the ticket for a whopping $1.7bn (£1.44bn) prize has but to return ahead for the reason that fortunate numbers had been introduced on Wednesday. It's the speak of the mountain city of Frazier Park, which solely has 2,600 residents.It was dubbed "the most exciting news ever to happen to Frazier Park" by Nidal Khalil, co-owner of the shop the place the successful ticket was bought.Mr Khalil and his household have their very own causes to have fun, as their Midway Market & Liquor retailer has been handed a $1m cheque for promoting the ticket. He added that he hoped the winner was one in every of his common prospects, most o...

MEXICO CITY — A former Mexican protection secretary whose arrest within the United States in 2020 on drug costs strained relations between the 2 nations was celebrated Wednesday with an honorary army ornament. ...

Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed she has been separated from husband Will Smith since 2016.The actress, 52, stated in an interview with Sky News' US accomplice community NBC News that the couple are "figuring out" their marriage. She stated the couple are nonetheless legally married however dwelling individually."[We're] still trying to figure out between the two of us how to be in partnership and how do we present that to people? We hadn't figured that out."Why it fractured? That's plenty of issues. I feel by the point we obtained to 2016, we have been too exhausted with making an attempt. "I think we were both stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be."She informed NBC presenter Hoda Kotb that she thought-about getting a divorce ...

A 33-year-old man harm his leg after leaping down into the North Pool on the 9/11 Memorial in New York City on Monday. The pool sits by the Twin Tow...

A kids's e book was mistakenly placed on a listing of probably "sexually explicit" books to be moved from the youngsters's part of a gaggle of libraries as a result of the writer's final title is Gay, information retailers have mentioned.Read Me A Story, Stella, by award-winning Canadian writer Marie-Louise Gay, is, in actual fact, an image e book telling the story of a brother and sister who learn books collectively and construct a doghouse. But, regardless of its harmless material, it was positioned on the checklist of "sexually explicit" books by Huntsville-Madison County Public Library (HCPL) within the US state of Alabama.The e book would have been faraway from the youngsters's part of the library system, however workers caught the error earlier than it was taken off cab...