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The ruling does not affect a $1.25 billion judgment against Jones in Connecticut, but is a legal victory for him after he and his company, Free Speech Systems, were found liable for damages for claiming the mass shooting didn't happen.
PBS NewsHour4 sources
Jurors on Thursday heard Duane (Keffe D) Davis tell detectives in an audio recording of a 2008 police interview that his nephew Orlando (Baby Lane) Anderson fired the shots that killed rapper Tupac Shakur. Davis is accused of orchestrating the 1996 killing of the 25-year-old hip-hop superstar.
CBC News4 sources
Officials say another three people were injured, and an 18-year-old male suspect shot and arrested.
BBC News3 sources
One suspect is in custody, but police have not disclosed a possible motive.
BBC News2 sources
Reports of sexual assault in the U.S. military dropped for the third year in a row in 2025, and the Pentagon received a slightly lower number of sexual harassment complaints last year compared to 2024, the department said in a new report that was made public on Friday. The Pentagon received a total of 7,998…
The Hill
Zymire Hughes, the alleged masked suspect who allegedly terrorized Philadelphia joggers, may be in Los Angeles, with U.S. Marshals and police actively searching.
Fox News
Two days’ notice is all director Margaret Brown had to figure out how to give her true-crime docuseries “The Yogurt Shop Murders” an ending. The original four-part series, chronicling the brutal 1991 murders of four young women in Austin, Texas, denied audiences what the victims’ families had similarly been robbed of for 35 years: closure. […]
Variety
The RCMP announced they have arrested a minor in Montreal in connection with an alleged attack he had planned targeting a school in the city.
CBC News
Dash camera video captured a 12-mile Wisconsin police chase before the suspect bailed from a moving car and disappeared into a dense cornfield.
Fox News
The RCMP said the youth was arrested Friday morning. Charges have not been laid yet and the investigation is ongoing, police said in a news release.
Global News
Jeffries was declared "mentally incompetent" by a court last year and said to be suffering with dementia and late onset of Alzheimer's disease.
BBC News2 sources
Daine Hammann, 69, was last seen at approximately 11:15 a.m. on Aug. 20, when she headed out for a walk near Squamish Valley Road, north of the airport.
Global News
39-year-old collapsed during event in June American won world title in 2011 Former 1500m world champion Jenny Simpson says she will not return to running after she collapsed during a track event in June . Simpson, a three-time Olympian and one of the most accomplished American female runners in history, was pacing a mile group at an event in North Carolina when she went into cardiac arrest. She was given CPR before she was rushed to hospital, where she was placed on life support due to issues…
The Guardian
A teenage boy and a 58-year-old man were shot dead Friday by Israeli settlers and soldiers, respectively, in separate shootings in the occupied West Bank.
France 24
Closing arguments could come on Monday as prosecutors seek murder conviction over deaths of three young children Lindsay Clancy ’s defense in her murder trial rested on Friday after calling witnesses to testify about the ailing mother’s mental state and attempts to seek help before she killed her young children. The defense wrapped more quickly than some expected given that the prosecution rested their case on Monday.
The Guardian
Prosecutors then began calling rebuttal witnesses in the trial, which is likely entering its final days. Closing arguments are expected next week.
Global News
Michael Jeffries, the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch who was charged with running an international sex trafficking scheme over several years while he ran the company, is mentally competent for trial, a federal judge ruled.
NBC News
The defense rested Friday in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial without Clancy taking the stand. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson breaks down why.
CBS News
Turkey said Friday it is seeking an international arrest warrant from Interpol for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of a domestic criminal case over Israel's interception and detention of dozens of activists attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip in May. In response, Netanyahu's office called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan an "anti-Semitic dictator" and vowed to "act forcefully against Turkey's attempts to destabilise the region".
France 24
The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned 15 people involved in a network allegedly shipping cocaine from Ecuador through Mexico to the U.S. The operation uses Ecuador-based fishing vessels to transfer cocaine to power boats heading north
ABC News2 sources
Police arrested a burglary suspect who pulled into an Arco gas station during a chase, drove wrong-way on the 405 and crashed into a CHP cruiser.
Los Angeles Times
The Pima County Sheriff's Department released surveillance video showing suspects linked to the fatal shooting of Tucson police recruit Carlos Ramirez.
Fox News
Many males are returned even if they have been trafficked but Home Office must now consider new legal guidance UK politics live – latest updates The Home Office could be blocked from deporting many young male trafficking victims to Albania after a major court ruling. Thousands of Albanian males have been identified as potential trafficking victims in the UK in recent years. Many are sent back to their country even if they are potential or confirmed victims of trafficking, as the Home Office…
The Guardian
A woman accused of launching a plot to set off an explosive at the New York State Capitol building in Albany is being charged with providing material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization
ABC News
Angel Reese had a stunning perfect shooting night after struggling recently to make even the shortest of shots, and the Atlanta Dream set a franchise record for points in a game in a 124-88 victory over the Los Angels Sparks on Thursday night
ABC News
Jurors heard Duane "Keffe D" Davis tell detectives his nephew Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson fired the shots that killed Tupac Shakur.
CBS News
For StoryCorps, a mother remembers her daughter who was killed in a mass shooting by speaking with her daughter's best friend.
NPR
Jahml McDonald, a convicted murderer out on bond, allegedly ran a drug operation near schools where fentanyl pills were disguised as ecstasy.
Fox News
Police have identified the suspect wanted for terrorizing people near Philadelphia City Hall last week while wearing a "Chucky-style" mask.
CBS News
Body camera video captured Oklahoma Secretary of State Benjamin Lepak's encounter with police outside a McDonald's before his public intoxication arrest.
Fox News
Aisha Wahab defeated Melissa Hernandez in the California special election to replace Eric Swalwell, marking another progressive win in the Democratic war.
Fox News
Lytonja Barfield allegedly used the Caddo Parish School Board's emergency system in Louisiana to send false active shooter alerts to five schools, authorities say.
Fox News
Woman behind allegation of sexual assault linked to Sydney Swans reportedly says she wants ‘justice’ The woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted in a Melbourne hotel told the Herald Sun “all I care about is justice”. I don’t want money. All I care about is justice. I’m going to stand up for what is right. And I’m never going to let this happen to anyone else. Justice will be served.
The Guardian
Surveillance video allegedly shows Zymire Hughes, 22, wearing a creepy Halloween mask and chasing women in Philadelphia before a combat-trained woman fought back.
Fox News
Everything from iPhones and solar panels to fuel and anesthetics are also brought into the tiny coastal territory illegally. Israel restricts quantities of some goods and bans others outright.
PBS NewsHour
Ireland's DPP reviews murder charges against a Jordanian asylum seeker who allegedly killed Jamey Carney before fleeing to Istanbul and then Jordan.
Fox News
British social media celebrity and rapper Yung Filly will be retried on three charges that allege he raped a fan in Australia following a music performance two years ago
ABC News
Patrick Clancy testified about his children as Lindsay Clancy's defense argues postpartum psychosis.
Fox News
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Joel Anderson, a host of the podcast Slow Burn , about the Tupac Shakur murder trial and the cultural moment around his murder.
NPR
Joseph Naugle, a 22-year-old employee of Thunder Valley Casino in Lincoln, has been arrested and booked by the Placer County Sheriff's Department in the non-fatal stabbing of five people at the Northern California resort on Wednesday night.
Los Angeles Times
