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The judge overseeing the Jian Ghomeshi trial once threw out a similar — and even stronger — case after lawyers used some of the same tactics employed by Ghomeshi’s defence team. Like the Ghomeshi trial, the 2008 case involved a man accused of multiple sexual assaults. Like the Ghomeshi trial, defence lawyers attacked the complainants…
Disgraced former CBC broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi was found not guilty on Thursday morning in his first of two trials for sexual assault. The verdict, delivered from the bench by Justice William B. Horkins of the Ontario Court of Justice, cleared Mr. Ghomeshi of four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by…
Two injured women are seen inside Brussels Airport after deadly explosions on March 22. (Ketevan Kardava/Georgian Public Broadcaster via AP) Ketevan Kardava was at the airport in Brussels on Tuesday, headed to Switzerland for an assignment. So she was there when the first explosion occurred, a blast that sent debris flying, she told Time magazine. The airport filled with…
Dan Baum, writing in support of drug legalization at Harper’s, has unleashed a frank 1994 quote from former Nixon policy advisor John Ehrlichman, and as inadvertently salient an argument for legalizing drugs as any I’ve ever seen: At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask…
BRUSSELS (AP) — Explosions, at least one likely caused by a suicide bomber, rocked the Brussels airport and subway system Tuesday, prompting a lockdown of the Belgian capital and heightened security across Europe. At least 28 people were reported dead. A spokesman for the Brussels Metro said 15 people were killed and 55 injured in…
Donatella Lorch, Special for USA TODAY 6:22 p.m. EDT March 20, 2016 cxenseparse_start A foreigner places an olive branch at the scene after a suicide attack explosion in Istanbul on Istiklal Street on March 20, 2016. The attack occurred March 19, 2016. Five people died, including the suicide bomber.(Photo: Tolga Bozoglu, European Pressphoto Agency) ANKARA,…
Hide captionPassengers are evacuated from Zaventem Bruxelles International Airport after a terrorist bombing earlier today in Brussels, Belgium. END CLASS=”IMAGECAPTION” END CLASS=”HSLIDE” END CLASS=”AUX” END CLASS=”HSLIDEWRAP” Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images END CLASS=”PHOTOCREDIT” Hide captionIn this image provided by Daniela Schwarzer, smoke is seen at the Brussels Airport after explosions were heard Tuesday. At least 15 people…
paging_filter A Florida jury awarded Hulk Hogan $25.1 million in punitive damages — $15 million against Gawker Media, $10 million against Gawker CEO Nick Denton and $100,000 against former Gawker editor in chief A.J. Daulerio. Combined with the $115 million in compensatory damages that the jury awarded Hogan on Friday, that’s a total of $140.1…
From a March 19, 2016 New York Times article: One of the terrorists pulled out a laptop, propping it open against the wall, said the 40-year-old woman. When the laptop powered on, she saw a line of gibberish across the screen: “It was bizarre — he was looking at a bunch of lines, like lines…
6.3K Shares Share Tweet Share Share Email By: Claire Bernish Via theantimedia.org United States — Anonymous just pulled a fast one on Donald Trump, his campaign staff, the Secret Service, and the FBI — in one brilliant and telling fell swoop. To support the White…