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LONDON (AP) – A British woman who murdered her parents and then lived for four years alongside their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home was sentenced Friday to life imprisonment and told she won’t be eligible for parole for 36 years. Virginia McCullough, who spent her parents’ money and went to great lengths to cover her tracks with family and friends through a web of lies, had pleaded guilty to murdering her parents in June 2019 at a previous hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court in southeast England. Judge Jeremy Johnson said at the sentencing hearing that McCullough’s actions…

A recent Washington Post poll found that 24 percent of black voters in Ohio favor former President Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris, with the same percentage of black voters favoring Senate candidate Bernie Moreno (R) over his incumbent opponent, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D), in the 2024 race for the Senate. While black voters in Ohio favor Harris and Brown over Trump and Moreno, the poll results are devastating for Democrats, given that 24 percent of black voters responded favorably to the Republican candidates — a significantly higher number than in past elections. In 2020, for example, exit polls found that…

(Bloomberg) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was left seething after a meeting last month with Poland’s top diplomat, who made a show of putting the brakes on Ukraine’s ambitions for fast-track accession to the European Union.Most Read from BloombergDuring their exchange in Kyiv, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski also brought up Warsaw’s demands that the victims of World War II-era massacres of ethnic Poles be exhumed from land now belonging to Ukraine — and tied it to EU membership talks, according to participants.The rift coincides with mounting war fatigue among Kyiv’s Western allies, with Russian troops making grinding advances in the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Withdrawing the United States from the IMF and World Bank would be “a step backward,” a top U.S. Treasury official said Friday, defending the organizations before a presidential election that could cast uncertainty about America’s future in them.In advance of the institutions’ annual meetings this month, Jay Shambaugh, the undersecretary for international affairs, alluded to a Project 2025 proposal for the U.S. to pull out of the IMF and World Bank if Donald Trump wins.The proposal is part of a plan created by the Heritage Foundation as a possible handbook for the next Republican administration, though Trump…

Oregon wide receiver Traeshon Holden was ejected in the second quarter of the No. 3 Ducks’ game vs. No. 2 Ohio State for spitting at Ohio State’s Davison Igbinosun.After the two were engaged near the goal line, Holden clearly spit at Igbinosun in front of an official. It was an obvious flag and automatic ejection by rule as Igbinosun wiped slobber from the visor on his facemask.Following the penalty, Holden was distraught as he walked up the tunnel to the locker room. He threw his helmet and NBC’s cameras caught him on his knees in frustration at himself for the…

The Oslo-based committee cited the threat of nukes being used in current conflicts The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded this year’s Peace Prize to a Japanese anti-nuclear-weapons organization, citing the threat of such weapons being used in current conflicts. Japan is the only country in the world that has suffered a nuclear strike.Nihon Hidankyo, the grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, received the Peace Prize “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons,” the Committee said in a statement on Friday. Witness testimony provided by the group has demonstrated that…

A massive explosion which appears the result of sabotage or even a possible bombing rocked the Chechen capital of Grozny on Saturday. Local authorities say a fuel tank exploded at a fuel station, resulting in a large blast and fire which left four bystanders dead, including two children, the Russian region’s emergency authority confirmed. The fuel station is reportedly located near a college.Stillframe of video from Saturday blast.Statements suggest that authorities believe it was either an attack or else severe neglect: “Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya, said on Telegram that he had taken the situation under his personal control. He…

Photo by Michael Pointner on Unsplash This article was written by Swedish independent journalist Peter Imanuelsen, also known as PeterSweden. You can follow him at PeterSweden.org. Massive news coming out of Slovakia, and as usual the mainstream media is barely reporting on this. Remember how people were called ”crazy conspiracy theorists” for questioning if the mRNA injections really were ”safe and effective”? Well, now it turns out that Slovakia has something to say on the matter. Slovakia has appointed Peter Kotlar as government commissioner investigating the covid pandemic, and now this recommendations are in! The report presented by the Slovakian…

SHANGHAI, CHINA – OCTOBER 12: Jannik Sinner of Italy returns a shot in the Men’s Singles semifinals … [+] match against Tomas Machac of the Czech Republic on Day 13 of 2024 Shanghai Rolex Masters at Qi Zhong Tennis Centre on October 12, 2024 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)Getty Images With his semifinal victory in the Shanghai Masters, Jannik Sinner has clinched the ATP Year-End No. 1 ranking. He is the first Italian to do so. On June 10, Sinner became the first man or woman from his country to reach World No. 1 in singles since…

LONDON, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 04: Visitors view the Moonbug Entertainment stand showing Blippi and … [+]Getty Images A levy is a vehicle used by creditors to make a one-time execution against some asset of a debtor, such as upon the debtor’s moneys held in a bank account or a parcel of land. The sheriff will levy on the asset, hold a sheriff’s sale (or give the creditor the money if it is cash), and then turn the proceeds from the judicial sale over to the creditor. Likewise, where the debtor’s wages are involved, a creditor may garnish those wages by…