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A suspect was arrested on Monday on murder charges over the shootings of two people who were found dead in a dorm room last week at a University of Colorado campus in Colorado Springs, police said.The Colorado Springs police department said they arrested Nicholas Jordan, 25, without incident on two counts of first-degree murder in a case involving people who knew each other. The victims were identified as Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, and Samuel Knopp, 24, a student at the university about 70 miles south of Denver.After getting an arrest warrant, the police’s motor vehicle theft unit found Jordan in…

The United States has proposed a resolution to the United Nations Security Council calling for a temporary ceasefire and asking Israel not to continue its attack on Rafah in southern Gaza.The draft text marks the first time the United States has explicitly backed a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, although it adds that the temporary ceasefire should begin “as soon as possible”, leaving some wiggle room for the Israeli military.The text provided by the Biden administration is an alternative to a draft resolution in Algeria calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, which is scheduled to be debated…

Joe Biden’s great-great-grandfather was charged with attempted murder after a civil war-era brawl – but pardoned of any wrongdoing by Abraham Lincoln, a newspaper said on Monday, reviving on the US holiday of Presidents’ Day the often contentious issue of presidential powers to grant pardons.Citing documents from the US national archives, the historian David J Gerleman wrote in the Washington Post that Biden’s paternal forebear Moses J Robinette was pardoned by Lincoln after Robinette got into a fight with a fellow Union army civilian employee, John J Alexander, in Virginia. Robinette drew a knife and sliced Alexander.The newspaper reported that…

Mike Trout discussed his future and Anthony Rendon spoke about his priorities, and the two Los Angeles Angels veterans made some interesting comments on Monday ahead of the start of the season next month. Reporting to spring training camp.The Angels signed Rendon to a seven-year, $245 million contract in December 2019 while he was winning the World Series with the Washington Nationals. Rendon won two Silver Slugger Awards in seven seasons with the Nationals, but injuries prevented him from playing more than 58 games in four years with the Angels.Rendon talked Monday about how his passion for the game has…

Donald Trump was already reeling from multiple legal setbacks when a New York judge last week handed the former president a staggering defeat in his civil fraud case, ordering him to pay roughly $450m to the state after finding him liable for conspiracy to manipulate his net worth.The decision by Justice Arthur Engoron capped a bad legal week for Trump, who had watched his lawyers attempt to get access to sealed filings in a classified documents case in Florida and then watched his lawyers lose their attempt to delay his first criminal trial in New York.There may be worse coming.The…

A Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine last year in a secret operation has been found dead in Spain, according to the main military intelligence agency in Kyiv.Reports in Russian and Spanish media on Monday said Maksim Kuzminov was found dead after allegedly moving to the town of Villajoyosa in Alicante on the Mediterranean coast, in an area popular with holidaymakers. His body was discovered last Tuesday, it was said, on the car park ramp underneath an apartment block.The reports claimed he had been murdered by unknown gunmen who fired 12 shots. A burnt-out car was discovered nearby in…

The Rugby Football Union has abandoned a radical proposal to sell Twickenham and buy 50% of Wembley from the FA, and instead focus on a £663m plan to revamp the existing stadium, The Guardian can reveal .Twickenham has been the home of English rugby since 1909, and while the RFU is drawing up plans to transform the stadium as part of its “masterplanning programme”, last year the league’s board approved a proposal to retain the “departure” option, but “delaying formal contact with the FA”.Matches at Twickenham contribute 85% of the RFU’s revenue and in recent years the stadium has been…

Donald Trump has offered a belated acknowledgement of the purportedly sudden death of Alexei Navalny, three days after the Russian opposition leader collapsed in one of Russia’s penal colonies. But Trump failed to join with – or acknowledge – international outrage at Navalny’s political nemesis, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.“The sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our Country,” Trump posted on his Truth Social network. The former US president and presumptive Republican White House nominee added: “It is a slow, steady progression, with CROOKED, Radical Left Politicians, Prosecutors, and…

ARoy Hodgson must have realized he was on borrowed time as he trudged off the pitch after Crystal Palace were demoralized by Chelsea last Monday night. A triumphant return to his hometown club less than 11 months after replacing Patrick Vieira, a manager whose first visit to Selhurst Park in the 1950s as a six-year-old never imagined it would happen. Such a thing.The game leaves the Premier League’s oldest manager – a record he already held before responding to a distress call from Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish last March – as his side battle with injuries. Struggling with poor…

The late-night talkshow host John Oliver has offered to pay Clarence Thomas $1m annually – as well as give him a $2m tour bus – if the Republican judge resigns from the US supreme court.Oliver made the proposal on Sunday’s episode of his HBO show Last Week Tonight, saying the supreme court justice had 30 days to accept or it would expire.The British-born, progressive comedian’s offer came after a steady drumbeat of media investigations in the previous several months established that Thomas failed to disclose that political benefactors bought him lavish vacation travel and real estate for his mother. Thomas…