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The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s indictment for withholding classified documents agreed Monday to remove from the indictment a passage about an episode in which the former president brandished classified documents at a Bedminster, New Jersey, club.U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that she would strike out the passage because Trump had not been charged with a crime for the conduct described in the passage and would have been inconclusive if jurors later saw it at trial. Can create unfair bias.Cannon’s ruling is noteworthy because it could indicate how she will rule on future motions by Trump to suppress evidence…

Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who has served nearly 50 years in prison for the killing of two FBI agents, was due to have his first parole hearing since 2009 on Monday, his lawyer said.Peltier, 79, has maintained that he did not kill the FBI special agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Advocates, including figures such as the late Nelson Mandela and a former prosecutor and judge involved in his case, have long said he should be freed because of what they call legal irregularities in his trial.But in letter send…

Giving birth in a water bath does not increase the risk of complications for the baby or its mother, a study has found.Researchers at the University of Cardiff assessed 73,229 records from low-risk pregnancies where a water pool was used during labour across 26 NHS organisations in England and Wales between 2015 and 2022.The analysis looked at the rate of severe tears experienced by the women who gave birth, alongside the number of babies who needed antibiotics or help with their breathing on the neonatal ward and the number of babies who had died during birth.The risks to the babies…

Nearly 55lb (25kg) of what appears to be cocaine recently washed up on the shores of Alabama, local police said.The police department in the community of Dauphin Island made the discovery, saying the recovered amount was worth about $450,000. Officers then contacted the Mobile county sheriff’s office, which also has jurisdiction in the area and is investigating the situation.Images released by police show 25 packages of what they said appeared to be cocaine, with a picture of a percentage sign on the front.The apparent cocaine washed up just one day after scuba divers trying to remove trash found the same…

The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution calling on Hamas to agree to Joe Biden’s three-phase hostage ceasefire proposal, the first time the body has approved a comprehensive peace deal to end the war in Gaza.Hamas issued a statement saying it welcomed the resolution, but it was unclear whether it meant Gaza’s leaders accepted the ceasefire plan.The Israeli government’s position is also ambiguous. It has formally accepted the peace plan, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to distance himself from the plan and his coalition has shifted to the right since the proposal was tabled.Fourteen Security Council members voted…

Rebecca Grossman, the California socialite who was found guilty of murder earlier this year for fatally striking two children with her car, was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.A Los Angeles county judge on Monday ruled that Grossman should serve two 15-years-to-life sentences concurrently. She will also serve three years for fleeing the scene concurrently with her other sentences.She had faced 34 years in prison for her role in the 2020 deaths of Mark Iskander, 11, and Jacob Iskander, eight.In February, a jury found Grossman guilty of second-degree murder, gross vehicular manslaughter, and one felony count of hit-and-run…

Katie Boulter has endured a controversial start to her Rothesay Open title defense in Nottingham after a marathon run with British teammate Harriet Dart.The British number one fought back from a set down to win 6-7, 6-4, 7-5 in their first-round match, which saw her opponent fight off a controversial series of The referee then asked the match referee for help.A furious Dart was locked in an ongoing battle with referee Kelly Rask over a series of calls that went against her, one of which was overturned and another replayed.Bolt won her first WTA 500 championship in San Diego this…

Two years into his second term and with three more still to run, Emmanuel Macron’s ratings are not what anyone would call great: 65% disapproval, 34% approval. Since losing his absolute majority in the assemblée nationale in 2022, he has struggled.Parliament has been increasingly paralysed, with the government relying on ad hoc deals with increasingly reluctant opposition parties or despised constitutional tools to pass unpopular legislation.All the while, the 88 deputies of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) – the largest opposition party in parliament – have had what amounts to a free ride, voting against pretty much all…

AAs boos echoed through an increasingly emptier Wembley Stadium on Friday and the pitch was dotted with paper airplanes, thoughts drifted back to a similar scene eight years ago, another friendly in the lead-up to the European Championships. The opponent was Portugal and there were boos even though Chris Smalling headed in the winner from Raheem Sterling’s cross with four minutes remaining. Just over a month later, England were knocked out by Iceland in their first game since the EU referendum, struggling to make a fresh start under Sam Allardyce while Portugal were European champions.Indeed, in that friendly match, Portugal…

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