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Several US appellate judges expressed concerns during a hearing on Wednesday over how the 2020 trial of disgraced former film producer Harvey Weinstein was handled, according to media reports from the courtroom.
The disgraced Hollywood mogul was sentenced to 23 years in jail last year after a jury found him guilty of rape and sexual assault. He currently faces additional charges of sexual misconduct, with a maximum penalty of 140 years behind bars.
“It doesn’t really surprise me,” said Oakland’s Interim Deputy Police Chief Drennon Lindsey.
SAN FRANCISCO — Some car owners in the San Francisco Bay Area have been going to great lengths to avoid vehicle break-ins, even if that means risking it all.
“I’m shocked,” said former San Francisco Police Department Deputy Chief Garret Tom. “There’s so much that can go wrong here.”
We’ve heard of cars being left unlocked, windows rolled down, but now some people are leaving their trunks open too. It’s raising eyebrows as reports of car break-ins are on the rise in San Francisco and Oakland.
A preacher dressed in drag led a sermon for children on Sunday in Chicago.
Aaron Musser, the preacher at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church of Logan Square, said that instead of telling people how they should be joyful, he was showing them what makes him joyful, arguing his attire served as a dress rehearsal for the ultimate joy experienced upon the return of Jesus Christ.
Satan isn’t smiling, he’s ROFL.
Before, Math was racist and now it’s also not inclusive enough of the LGBT community.
Imagine if teachers just taught math, science and history like the good old days pic.twitter.com/T5OLAMC4MM— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 17, 2021
People who wear “anti-5G” pendants to “protect” themselves from radio frequencies emitted by phone masts have been told by the Dutch nuclear authority that their necklaces are dangerously radioactive.
Owners of “quantum pendants” and other “negative ion” jewellery have been advised to store them away, as they have been found to continuously emit ionising radiation.
There have been over 800 homicides at this point in 2021 in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports the city hit the figure of 800 homicides on Tuesday, when 23-year-old Sheridan Freeman was shot dead inside a home in West Pullman.
A giant straw goat that has become an annual highlight in the Swedish city of Gavle has been burned by an arsonist.
A man in his 40s was arrested after the structure was set alight in the early hours of Friday.
The goat has been attacked many times before but survived every festive period since 2016 under 24-hour security.
Spokeswoman Rebecca Steiner said she was devastated by the attack on the seasonal institution.
A University of Minnesota scholar has raised eyebrows with her study into how policing affects ‘birthing people’ in different parts of Minneapolis.
Rachel Hardeman, director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity at the university, published her findings on December 8 in the medical journal JAMA.
Hardeman found that all mothers living in intensely-policed parts of Minneapolis were significantly more likely to give birth prematurely – defined as birth before 37 weeks of gestation.
AKRON, Ohio (WJW) — Akron police have investigated the theft of all kinds of valuables over the years, but for the first time in anyone’s memory, detectives are trying to find out who stole a bridge.
At one time, the pedestrian bridge was along the Little Cuyahoga River in Middlebury Run Park, which sits in the shadow of Goodyear World Headquarters on Akron’s East End.
Before I left Yorkdale Mall, I decided to walk the entire length of the line for #COVID rapid tests. It took three minutes to walk from the back to the front (at a very brisk pace).
Here’s a sped-up video: pic.twitter.com/LGqePiM0mv
— Jennifer Yang (@jyangstar) December 16, 2021
Man seeks help from NASA experts over lost bitcoins
A UK programmer has been desperately trying for eight years to recover his old hard drive containing a password to a digital wallet. He is now in talks with a company that helped NASA recover data from an exploded space shuttle.
James Howells from South Wales mined bitcoins at the time when it cost almost nothing and the cryptocurrency was known only in narrow tech circles. He managed to accumulate some 7,500 bitcoins – now worth more than $350 million.
A special cryptographic private key for getting access to bitcoins was kept on a hard drive, which was accidentally thrown into the Docksway landfill site near Newport, Wales, in 2013. The man thought the device from his old computer contained nothing but rubbish.
Kim Jong-un’s firing squads have publicly executed at least seven North Koreans in the last ten years for watching or sharing K-pop, rights group claims
North Korea has executed at least seven people by firing squad in the last ten years for sharing or watching South Korean K-pop, a rights group has claimed.
Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s dictator, has previously described the genre as a ‘vicious cancer’, with the executions coming as part of a crackdown on the music.
Seoul-based Transitional Justice Working Group conducted interviews with 683 North Korean defectors over six years – since 2015 – to map places where North Koreans were killed and buried in state-sanctioned public executions.
Jack Letts’ message to the Canadian government official was simple: “Please get me out of this place.”
In fact, the alleged former ISIL follower and Canadian citizen said in the recorded phone conversation he’d rather be imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Siberia or a Canadian penitentiary than continue to be held by Kurdish forces in northern Syria.
He is not an alleged ISIS member: I volunteered for a suicide bombing, Jihadi Jack admits
Jack Letts has told how he wanted to be a suicide bomber for Islamic State as he admitted fighting with the terrorists.
“I know I was definitely an enemy of Britain,” he told the BBC in an interview recorded in October and released yesterday. “I did what I did. I made a big mistake and that’s what happened. I thought I was leaving something behind and going to something better.”
Why do they always look like this? pic.twitter.com/lTlm3eagwa
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 15, 2021
