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Coroner Officially Identifies Kobe Bryant and 3 Other Victims of Helicopter Crash Using Fingerprints
Coroner Officially Identifies Kobe Bryant and 3 Other Victims of Crash
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Trump news - live: White House sends threatening letter to Bolton, as key witness unexpectedly appears at impeachment trial
Donald Trump has raged at his ex-national security adviser John Bolton, saying the Ukraine claims made in his forthcoming new memoir are “nonsense” and declaring he would have started “World War Six” if he had not been removed from office last September as the Republican effort to discredit him continues.A new poll by Quinnipiac University has meanwhile found that 75 per cent of Americans want to hear from Mr Bolton at the president’s Senate impeachment trial as GOP majority leader Mitch McConnell is forced to admit he does not currently have the votes to stop Democrats calling new witnesses to speak out.
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Aaron Hernandez’s Fiancée Would ‘Not Have Loved Him Any Differently’ If She'd Known He Was Bisexual
Aaron Hernandez's Fiancée Addresses His Sexuality
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Autistic futures trader who triggered crash spared prison
A U.S. judge Tuesday sentenced a socially awkward math whiz-turned-futures trader who earned tens of millions of dollars over several years and helped trigger a U.S. stock market “flash crash” from his parents’ suburban London home to time served and a year's home confinement, sparing him imprisonment after prosecutors praised his cooperation and said his crimes were entirely unmotivated by greed. Government prosecutors and defense lawyers described the 41-year-old Navinder Singh Sarao as autistic in memos filed before sentencing in Chicago federal court.
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Former actress says Weinstein groped, propositioned her
A costume designer and former actress told jurors in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial on Wednesday that the former producer groped her under her skirt and later propositioned her for sex in exchange for movie contracts. The woman, Dawn Dunning, is not among the women Weinstein is charged with assaulting. Weinstein, 67, has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting Mimi Haleyi and Jessica Mann.
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Scientists drill into ‘doomsday glacier’ the size of Britain to see if it’s going to collapse
Thwaites Glacier is 74,000 square miles, the size of Great Britain, and is thought to be particularly susceptible to climate change.
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Confined at home, Chinese get creative to beat boredom
Chinese around the country confined to their apartments either by choice or by order are making the best of the situation as cities remain in lockdown in a desperate bid to contain a new, dangerous virus. A couple from Shantou, a coastal city in Guangdong province, recreated a childhood game at home for their children. In video posted on Douyin, a popular Chinese social media platform, the mom pretends to be a street vendor selling hoops made of cardboard paper.
