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Lawyers have completed their closing arguments in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial. In the prosecution’s final rebuttal on Monday afternoon, Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey winnowed the jury’s charge down to a single notion, referring to the four women who came forward as accusers: “If you believe those witnesses, then that’s it; the defendant is guilty,”
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On the same day that New York state announced its highest single-day case total of the coronavirus pandemic, the Mayor’s office and the organizers behind the annual Times Square New Year’s Eve extravaganza confirmed that the Times Square ball drop will go ahead as planned on Dec. 31.  The event, which draws one million in-person
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On Friday, the prosecution rested in its sex-trafficking and conspiracy case against Ghislaine Maxwell, who stands accused of helping the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein procure underage girls to abuse.  They called 24 witnesses, including former private pilots and household employees of Epstein’s, a psychologist to speak as an expert witness on childhood
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Covid is making people depressed, lonely, drug-addicted, and suicidal. According to a new ABC-Washington Post poll, covid has had a dramatic impact on the way you and I lead our lives.  Says the Post, “Roughly 9 in 10 say they are staying home ‘as much as possible’ and are practicing social distancing to lessen the
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Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd, has now pleaded guilty to federal civil rights violations, The New York Times reports. Back in May, Chauvin, along with three other ex-Minneapolis cops, were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to violating Floyd’s right to be free from unreasonable seizure and their
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Six women filed lawsuits Tuesday alleging Tesla allowed “nightmarish conditions of rampant sexual harassment” at its electric car manufacturing and service facilities in California. The allegations followed a day after Tesla CEO Elon Musk was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tweeted that it was time to “change the
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On June 29, 2014, at 8:02 p.m. ET, a user named NooYawkCity made the first of what would come to be many posts to a popular martial-arts forum on reddit.com. It was titled “58 year old white belt”: I’ve been training about a year, and only recently gotten solidly hooked. From once every few weeks,
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