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A rape suspect needed within the US has didn't attend his extradition listening to after an "altercation", a court docket has heard.Nicholas Rossi was attributable to seem within the dock at Edinburgh Sheriff Court as a part of a long-running battle to extradite him over alleged intercourse offences, launched by authorities within the state of Utah. His absence in court docket was defined by his solicitor, Stuart Murray, who informed Sheriff Norman McFayden that there "appeared to be some difficulty downstairs".Advocate Depute, Paul Harvey, stated there had been an "altercation", whereas Mr Murray stated the defendant denied refusing to return to court docket. Image: File pic Rossi, who's accused of faking his personal d...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. has transferred a Guantanamo detainee again to his residence nation of Algeria, saying his continued detention was now not essential, the Department of Defense introduced Thursday. Said bin Brahim bin Umran Bakush was captured in Pakistan in 2002 throughout an aggressive marketing cam...

The manufacturing firm for the Western film “Rust” mentioned it can return to work Thursday in Montana — 18 months after star actor Alec Baldwin was accused of firing a loaded prop gun that killed a cinematographer on the set. An legal professional for Rust Move Productions mentioned filming is restarting ...

SpaceX has launched its Starship rocket system, the most important and strongest ever made, for the primary time in a landmark take a look at.Three days after an inaugural flight was scrapped as a result of a last-minute glitch, it blasted off from Boca Chica in southern Texas as 1000's of spectators watched on close by. Starship is made up of two phases - a Super Heavy booster that generates the wanted energy to succeed in orbit, and the spacecraft tipped to sooner or later take people again to the moon and finally Mars.Combined, the craft and booster - which has 33 rocket engines - have a record-setting top of 120m.Thursday's take-off, the primary orbital take a look at of Starship, got here two months after Super Heavy loved a profitable stationary launch take a look at, p...

Mental well being specialists are warning that the extended isolation of pandemic lockdowns has prompted many Americans to undertake a coping technique incessantly utilized by drug and alcohol abusers. It’s referred to as “learned helplessness,” a time period coined within the Nineteen Sixties to explain a...

A "role model" cheerleader born with just one lung has had a part of her spleen eliminated after being shot in one other obvious case of someone being shot for being within the fallacious place within the US.Payton Washington, 18, was shot within the leg and again in a grocery store automotive park in Texas on Monday whereas her teammate Heather Roth was additionally damage in the identical incident, the crew's proprietor Lynne Shearer stated. The highschool college students had been on their approach residence from apply, Ms Shearer, who owns Woodlands Elite Cheer, instructed TV station KXAN of close by Austin.Ms Roth by chance tried to get into the fallacious automotive, Ms Shearer stated. That's when, she added, a "guy got out and they saw that he had a gun."And in order t...

NEW YORK — A federal decide weighing whether or not House Republicans can query a former prosecutor concerning the Manhattan legal case in opposition to former President Donald Trump peppered attorneys on each side with questions Wednesday, asking them to parse thorny problems with sovereignty, separation of powers and Congressional oversight arising from the historic indictment. ...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy unveiled the House GOP’s 320-page proposal on Wednesday to boost the federal debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion in change for slashing federal spending, a gap bid for debt talks with the White House which have but to materialize. The proposal would increase the cap on how a lot the ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A ban on dozens of semi-automatic rifles cleared the Washington state Legislature on Wednesday and the governor is predicted to signal it into regulation. The high-powered firearms - as soon as banned nationwide - are actually the weapon of selection amongst younger males answerable for...

The concept that oldsters who don’t help their youngster’s gender transition have to be pushed apart is gaining steam in blue-state legislatures, beginning with Washington. A invoice on the desk of Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee would permit youth shelters and host houses to hide from mother and father the whe...