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September 2022

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Top exec at vegan food company Beyond Meat charged with biting man on the nose during fight

A top executive at plant-based food company Beyond Meat has been charged with felony battery after a fight outside a college football game in which he was accused of biting a man’s nose.

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‘You can’t have your cake and eat it’ – Judge challenges Donald Trump’s lawyers to say whether files ‘declassified’

The US judge named to review documents seized by the FBI last month at Donald Trump’s Florida home pressed Mr Trump’s lawyers yesterday to say whether they plan to assert that the records had been declassified by the former president, as he has claimed.

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Judge vacates 2000 murder conviction of ‘Serial’ podcast subject Adnan Syed

A Baltimore judge has ordered the release of Adnan Syed after overturning Mr Syed’s conviction for the 1999 murder of high school student Hae Min Lee – a case that was chronicled in the hit true-crime podcast series Serial .

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Timeline of Serial podcast ‘star’ Adnan Syed, from two decades in jail to being cleared of murder of Hae Min Lee

More than two decades on from his arrest for the murder of his former girlfriend, Adnan Syed is set to finally walk free from prison.

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‘Serial’ case: Adnan Syed released as conviction overturned for 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee

A judge on Monday ordered the release of Adnan Syed after overturning Syed’s conviction for the 1999 murder of high school student Hae Min Lee — a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast Serial, a true-crime series that transfixed listeners and revolutionised the genre.

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US President Joe Biden declares the Covid pandemic ‘is over’

President Joe Biden declared the Covid-19 pandemic “over” and slammed his predecessor’s handling of highly classified documents in a wide-ranging interview with CBS News’ 60 Minutes programme which aired on Sunday.

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Bishop arrested mid-sermon after altercation with two women in church

A New York bishop who was robbed at gunpoint mid-sermon this past summer was arrested for a separate incident post-sermon after he grabbed a woman he believed was a threat to his seated-nearby family.

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Canada’s latest contender jumps on the populist train and claims ‘Justin-flation’ is ruining lives

Canada’s new populist Tory party leader claimed Justin Trudeau’s government “ruins the lives of its citizens” as he began his campaign to boot the long-serving prime minister out of office.

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Donald Trump warns of ‘problems like we’ve never seen before’ if he’s indicted

Former US president Donald Trump warned that if he were indicted on a charge of mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House, there would be “problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before”.

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Florida governor flies two planeloads of migrants to affluent Martha’s Vineyard in ‘political stunt’

The Republican governor of Florida sent two planeloads of undocumented immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, the affluent Massachusetts island that is home to Barack Obama and a host of public figures.

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Don’t look up – Nasa to crash Dart space craft into asteroid Dimorphos to prove it can knock rock off its course

Nasa is preparing to crash a space craft into an asteroid, in the first mission to prove that a dangerous rock could be deflected if it were on a collision course with Earth.

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Joe Biden enjoys big popularity boost but worries over economy persist

President Joe Biden’s popularity improved substantially from his lowest point this summer, but concerns about his handling of the economy persist, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Centre for Public Affairs Research.

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Republicans ‘using migrants as pawns’ by transporting them across US to Martha’s Vineyard and Washington, DC

Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, sent two planeloads of illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, the affluent Massachusetts island that is home to Barack Obama and a host of other public figures.

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Request for witness protection orders made in Salman Rushdie attacker case

A protection order has been requested for witnesses in the upcoming trial against the man who attacked Sir Salman Rushdie.

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Trafficking victim (17) who stabbed rapist to death must pay family €150,000

A teenage human trafficking victim who was initially charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed an accused rapist to death was sentenced in an Iowa court to five years of closely supervised probation and ordered to pay $150,000 (€150,000) to the man’s family.

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R. Kelly found guilty on multiple counts in child sex abuse trial

R&B singer R. Kelly was found guilty on Wednesday on charges of luring underage girls to have sex with him but not guilty of obstructing a 2008 state case that ended with his acquittal.

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Nasa reschedules Artemis Moon mission launch

Nasa has rescheduled its planned launch of the Artemis I mission giant Moon rocket for 27 September.

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Man found dead in prison cell had sued jail for playing ‘Baby Shark’ on repeat for hours

A man found dead in his prison cell had been part of a lawsuit against the jail that had allegedly forced prisoners to repeatedly listen to the children’s song ‘Baby Shark’ for hours.

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US President Joe Biden aims to end cancer ‘as we know it’ with ‘moonshot’ goal of halving deaths in 25 years

President Joe Biden on Monday urged Americans to come together for a new “national purpose" — his administration's effort to end cancer "as we know it."

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Trump lawyers oppose request to resume the examination of ‘top secret’ files

Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys yesterday opposed a US Justice Department request to immediately resume examining the contents of classified documents seized by the FBI from his Florida estate last month in an ongoing criminal investigation.

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Jeff Bezos’ uncrewed rocket explodes in fireball during flight

A Blue Origin rocket launch was aborted on Monday morning when the rocket booster exploded just more than a minute into the flight.

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‘We will never forget and never give up’ – Joe Biden marks 21 years since al-Qa’ida attacks on America

President Joe Biden marked the 21st anniversary of the September 11 attacks, taking part in a sombre wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon held under a steady rain and paying tribute to “extraordinary Americans” who gave their lives on one of the nation’s darkest days.

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‘It would be a win for Joe Biden to ask Donald Trump to go too’ – US president’s dilemma ahead of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral

US President Joe Biden faces a dilemma over whether to invite Donald Trump to join him in attending Queen Elizabeth’s funeral next Monday.

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Widow of 9/11 pilot recalls watching hijacked jet being flown into World Trade Center

The widow of a pilot whose hijacked jet was flown into the World Trade Center on 9/11, has recalled watching the plane strike and thinking “we are a nation at war”.

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How Jordan Peterson is thriving in the age of division

You expect a Jordan Peterson audience to be mostly men. After all, the provocative Canadian academic – in Dublin this weekend for his show at the 3Arena tonight – has been called “the custodian of the patriarchy”, who speaks of a “crisis in masculinity”.

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FBI should search every Trump property, says his former top aide Cohen

Donald Trump’s former ‘fixer’ has said the FBI should search the former president’s other addresses for top-secret documents.

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Say a little snare – Aretha Franklin was tracked by FBI due to her connections to Communist Party

Aretha Franklin was tracked and monitored by the FBI for years, with the agency labelling some of her shows “communist infiltration events,” newly-unsealed documents show.

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‘It’s hyperbole and a settling of scores’ – judge throws out Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Hilary Clinton

A US judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against his 2016 rival Hillary Clinton, saying the former Republican president’s allegations that Democrats tried to rig that election by linking his campaign to Russia was an attempt to “flaunt” political grievances.

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Justice Department asks court to allow it continue probe of documents seized by FBI in Donald Trump home raid

The US Justice Department yesterday asked a federal judge to let it continue reviewing records seized by the FBI from former president Donald Trump’s Florida home while it investigates whether classified documents were illegally removed from the White House.

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Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to duping ‘We Build the Wall’ scheme donors

Former US president Donald Trump’s long-time ally Steve Bannon yesterday pleaded not guilty to charges alleging he duped donors who gave money to build a wall on the US southern border — a state-level reboot of a federal case that ended with a presidential pardon last year.