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Michael P. Desronvil, the holdout juror who sparked a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case, has revealed personal misgivings about his fellow jurors and the certainty of his own belief on the accused as guided solely by the evidence presented to the court. The 48-year-old of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, spoke with Fugitive TV’s Ray Marcel in the days after the trial ended on September 4, LifeNews reports. After 36 hours of deliberations that spanned a week, jurors in Plymouth state court said on three separate occasions they were deadlocked and did not reach a unanimous verdict, as Breitbart News reported. Judge William…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries again declined to say how he will respond to two rebel Democrats who have twice bucked party leaders to advance the Republican floor agenda.“As I repeatedly made clear, I’ll have more to say — we’ll have more to say — about the situation when we have more to say about the situation,” Jeffries said at a Thursday news conference with the No. 2 and 3 leaders, Katherine Clark of Massachusetts and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar of California.Clark suggested Wednesday that one of the rebels, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, should lose her Appropriations Committee…

Powerful states can use their influence to avoid accountability at the tribunal, while weaker countries remain more vulnerable to prosecution, Hikmahanto Juwana argues The international community cannot expect “real justice” from the International Criminal Court (ICC), University of Indonesia international law professor Hikmahanto Juwana has told RT.Juwana argued that the tribunal has undermined its claim to universal justice by disproportionately targeting weaker countries while powerful states evade accountability.His comments came as former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made his first in-person court appearance since his arrest in March 2025 on an ICC warrant. He faces crimes against humanity charges over alleged…

President Trump abruptly withdrew his nominee for ICE Director on Thursday. In June, President Trump announced he nominated Lance Schroyer to be the next ICE Director. Lance Schroyer is a former Oklahoma State Trooper and US Marine. He also previously served on Markwayne Mullin’s security detail. Schroyer was set to replace Acting ICE Director Dave Venturella. It has been 11 years since the Department of Homeland Security has had a Senate-confirmed ICE Director and another nominee got derailed this week. Trump’s full statement: I am very pleased to announce that I have nominated Lance Schroyer to be our next ICE…

A 60-year-old rabbi was violently assaulted and insulted by a group of three young men reportedly of Arab origin Wednesday while he waited at a bus stop near the Jewish quarter in the Italian city of Milan. Italian outlets detailed that the assault occurred on Wednesday evening at a bus stop in Milan’s Bande Nere. Public broadcaster Rai explained the rabbi was recognized by the assailants via his clothing. The group kicked and punched the man and took away his hat before stomping and spitting on it. The rabbi was able to take a photo and a video of the three assailants…

On Tuesday, Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones (D) announced the creation of the FAIR Unit, which will exist to “investigate and bring civil enforcement actions” against gun makers and dealers. The FAIR Unit — an acronym for the Firearms Accountability & Industry Responsibility Unit — is the result of the Virginia Firearm Industry Standards of Responsible Conduct, which was passed and instituted once Democrats added the governorship to their legislative control earlier this year. Inside Nova reported that Virginia Firearm Industry Standards of Responsible Conduct calls for gun makers “to establish… ‘reasonable controls’ over the manufacture, sale, distribution, use, and marketing of…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will headline a fundraiser next week for Rep. Mike Collins, the state’s GOP Senate nominee, according to an invite obtained by POLITICO.The Sept. 24 event will be held in Atlanta, and it comes as public polling shows Collins trailing Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff. Republicans have pushed to bring in more financial resources to close the gap in the top battleground.Ossoff has repeatedly led Collins in candidate-level fundraising, but the Republican party committees and President Donald Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC combined hold a huge fundraising edge over the affiliated…

Washington has accused the Palestinian leadership of undermining peace while continuing to shield Israel from penalties The US has denied Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a visa to attend the UN General Assembly in New York for a second year in a row.The ban comes as Washington continues to hold direct talks with Hamas and imposes no comparable restrictions on Israeli leaders.The US State Department said the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) had failed to reform and were taking steps that “undermine the prospects for peace.” Washington specifically objected to Palestinian efforts to pursue Israel at international courts,…

Former Secretary of State John Kerry (L) met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in 2014./This image is a work of a United States Department of State employee, taken or made as part of that person’s official duties. For the second year, the United States has denied Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas an entry visa ahead of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York next week. The denial extends to dozens of other PA officials as well. On Wednesday, the State Department explained the decision, noting, “The State Department has reported to Congress that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and…

Sam Altman’s OpenAI said Wednesday that it has found six new instances of “unexpected or concerning model behavior” over the past six months, separate from its “unprecedented” hacking incident over the summer. CNBC reports that two of the six cases stood out as the most serious. In one, an unreleased research model and a training run of GPT-5.6 Sol inserted instructions to future versions of itself into chat window summaries, which OpenAI said appeared intended “to conceal mistakes or misaligned behavior from the user.” In the other, an internal-only model used a leaked API key “without authorization” and then fabricated…