A man suspected of being the “Pillowcase Rapist” who sexually assaulted dozens of women in South Florida in the 1980s was convicted on Wednesday in one of the attacks, prosecutors said.
The man, Robert Eugene Koehler, 63, of Palm Bay, Fla., was found guilty of one count each of sexual battery, kidnapping and burglary in connection with a 1983 cold case in which a 25-year-old woman was stabbed and raped in her home in Miami-Dade County.
A report by the US Office of Inspector General found the country’s medical research agency did not correctly review whether the tests in Wuhan involved pathogens with pandemic potential.
GOP strategists: Biden and Pence classified document revelations a "gift for Trump" https://t.co/VPCDKuFFa5
— Axios (@axios) January 26, 2023
A 36-year-old Florida woman used a romance scam to defraud a Holocaust survivor of his $2.8 million life savings, federal prosecutors say. https://t.co/gVz8fyAKPY
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 26, 2023
The class-action lawsuit alleges that the labeling on Fireball Cinnamon bottles looks misleadingly similar to the labeling on Fireball Cinnamon Whisky bottles.
• FBI search of Biden’s Delaware home resulted from high-stakes discussions between the DOJ and Biden attorneys
• Opinion: We’re seeing the first major blow to Biden’s ‘regular Joe’ image
The San Mateo County district attorney told reporters that investigators “do have a feeling on the motive.”
“If it doesn’t the Russians will continue to escalate there [sic] destabilization campaign, which could lead to a full scale take over of the eastern region most critically Donetsk,” Hunter Biden wrote. “The strategic value is to create a land bridge for RU[ssia] to Crimea.”
A 29-year-old woman was arrested last week after spending four days fraudulently enrolled in a New Jersey high school as a student, district officials say. https://t.co/gwYBiHlUaR
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 26, 2023
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s announcement Wednesday that he would send M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine came after weeks of tense back-channel negotiations with the chancellor of Germany and other European leaders, who insisted that the only way to unlock a flow of heavy European arms was for the United States to send tanks of its own.
His decision, however reluctant, now paves the way for German-made Leopard 2 tanks to be delivered to Ukraine in two or three months, provided by several European nations. While it is unclear whether it will make a decisive difference in the spring offensive that President Volodymyr Zelensky is now planning to take back territory seized by Russia, it is the latest in a series of gradual escalations that has inched the United States and its NATO allies closer to direct conflict with Russia.
McCarthy floated potentially removing Santos from his committees, pending investigation, in a closed-door GOP conference meeting, per a member and aide in the room.@Axios https://t.co/cB1mgzd81x
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) January 25, 2023
IAN BIRRELL: Delighted Ukrainians shared selfies on social media today in which they showed off their leopard-print clothes.
Facebook-parent Meta said on Wednesday that it has decided to restore former President Donald Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram in the coming weeks, just over two years after suspending him in the wake of the January 6 Capitol attack.
“Let me be very clear and respectful to you. You ask me a question. When I answer it, it’s the answer to your question. You don’t get to determine whether I answer a question or not, OK? In all respect. Thank you.”
A friend of Vladimir Putin’s daughter managed to import bottles of the world’s most expensive wines into Russia last year despite Western sanctions, according to public filings.
Pharmaceutical billionaire Alexey Repik’s company Ryatiko brought in ten bottles of Henri Jayer wine, which fetched £184,000 a bottle at a Christie’s auction in 2020.
Some Iowa Republicans say entitlement programs are sapping the state’s budget, despite nearly $2 billion surplus.
Olympic chiefs have been accused of endorsing the war of Ukraine after confirming Russian athletes can compete at Paris 2024 as ‘neutrals’.
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— A&W Restaurants (@awrestaurants) January 24, 2023
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a longtime crypto critic, warned recent turbulence in the digital asset space will only continue unless a host of regulators strengthen protections for investors.
The Kremlin expressed alarm today that the ‘Doomsday Clock’ had edged closer to midnight , even though the scientists who moved the symbolic dial cited Moscow’s own ‘thinly veiled threats’.
GOP Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said Tuesday that “there are not enough votes in the Senate for an assault weapons ban.”
Jacksonville Beach Police Department Chief Gene Paul Smith, joined by State Attorney Melissa Nelson, announced the arrest of 61-year-old Henry Tenon.
This is the second set of historic remains to be found in the area in two months, officials said.
A former Fox News employee who previously came forward with sickening accusations of sexual servitude against Roger Ailes is suing the network, its parent company, and a former producer who worked in the Trump White House.
Laura Luhn, who in 2021 told The Daily Beast that Fox’s lawyers were trying to intimidate her, filed her lawsuit Wednesday in New York state court, detailing the decades of sexual abuse and assault she says she suffered under the late Fox executive.
“Ailes’s abuse of Luhn was among the worst he inflicted on his many victims,” the complaint says. “At their very first encounter, Ailes set the stage by blackmailing Luhn and taking videos of her performing coerced sex acts. He physically forced Luhn to perform oral sex on him regularly. And he constantly reminded Luhn that he ‘owned’ her, that she was his ‘sex slave,’ and that she was forbidden from telling anyone about the abuse or he would make her pay dearly.”
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Diplomatic efforts to prevent Iran developing a nuclear weapon should restart, said International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi, who warned that Tehran has amassed enough material for “several nuclear weapons.”
“We have discovered more than a thousand burial sites before in Luxor, but this is the first time we find one from the 13th Dynasty,” said antiquities official Dr. Fathy Yaseen.
Breaking: The U.S. announced that it will send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, part of a deal in which Germany and other European nations will also send their own tanks https://t.co/e4EG2AutCF
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 25, 2023
Civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump is expected to announce that he intends to sue Florida Gov. DeSantis over his administration's decision to block a new AP course on African American studies from being taught in high schools. https://t.co/1CV3MB0H83
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 25, 2023
Scoop: The Biden admin asked Israel for its old Hawk anti-aircraft missiles in order to transfer them to Ukraine, three Israeli and U.S. officials told Axios.
— Axios (@axios) January 25, 2023
How is real life like the plot of the movie Terminator 2? Let me count the ways.
A scarily powerful artificial intelligence based on a neural network? Check.
Humanity as close as it’s ever been to an apocalypse? Check.
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Many Americans will be getting a smaller tax refund this year, without the padding of a few crucial pandemic-era tax breaks, the IRS warns.https://t.co/VXKIe4GwKK
— Axios (@axios) January 25, 2023
New satellite images show the massive iceberg that broke away from the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Sunday night. It has an area of 600 square miles (1,550 km²) – almost the size of Greater London.
A Seoul-based news outlet says residents of the North Korea capital have been ordered to stay at home due to an outbreak of “respiratory illness.”
Russia has called the plan for Western countries to provide tanks to Ukraine "disastrous" and warned it could cause a dangerous escalation between nuclear-armed powers. https://t.co/mMnVB2BdDU
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 25, 2023
Ukraine will receive tanks from Western countries that it says it needs to fight an anticipated Russian spring offensive.
The move comes after a dispute between Kyiv’s allies. https://t.co/mMnVB2BdDU
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 25, 2023
GOP opposition to kicking Dems off committees growshttps://t.co/xUThToDJcn
— Axios (@axios) January 25, 2023
The U.S. is poised to send dozens of M-1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine in a major shift.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is angling to be former President Trump's running mate in 2024, according to two people who have spoken to her about her ambitions. https://t.co/juyHs9xebP
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 25, 2023
Twitter and YouTube were ordered by the Indian government to block all links to the film within India, a senior adviser in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, said Tuesday.