Prosecutors say Bryan Kohberger’s defense team will argue at his murder trial that someone else could have planted a knife sheath with Kohberger’s DNA at the home where four University of Idaho students were killed in 2022. Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson made the claim in a motion filed in …
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March, 2025
February, 2025
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9 February
The New Yorker magazine’s first hundred years
The New Yorker, the beloved weekly magazine, is celebrating its one-hundredth birthday. I have been a staff writer at the magazine since 2008, and Bruce Diones has been at The New Yorker since, well, not quite since the beginning. “1978,” he said. “I was in the cradle. They left me …
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January, 2025
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31 January
Man on FBI’s most wanted list arrested in Mexico for 2012 murder of his new bride in Chicago suburb
CHICAGO (CBS) — One of the FBI’s 10 most wanted fugitives, a man accused of stabbing his wife to death just hours after their wedding in Chicago in 2012, has been captured in Mexico. The FBI said 42-year-old Arnoldo Jimenez was arrested in Monterrey, Mexico, on Thursday, and is awaiting …
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November, 2024
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28 November
Jon Batiste to sing national anthem at Super Bowl, Ledisi, Trombone Shorty and Lauren Daigle to also perform
The Super Bowl pregame will have some Louisiana flavor: Multi-talented performer Jon Batiste will hit the stage to sing the national anthem, while Trombone Shorty and Lauren Daigle are slated to perform “America the Beautiful.” The performances will take place Feb. 9 at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans before the NFL’s championship matchup and halftime …
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25 November
Menendez brothers resentencing hearing pushed back as aunts speak in court: “I want them home”
Erik and Lyle Menendez made their first court appearance in years Monday after their attorneys requested that a judge review potential new evidence and consider resentencing in the brothers’ first-degree murder convictions for the 1989 killings of their parents. The focus of the status hearing was the Menendez brothers’ habeas corpus …
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October, 2024
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12 October
Her little sister needed a kidney. The donation let them both live their dreams
As children, sisters Amaris and Dominique Elston were inseparable. Their parents remember the two of them sharing everything and always having each others’ backs, no matter the situation. That bond didn’t change as they grew older, and when an 18-year-old Dominique was diagnosed with focal segmentalglomerulosclerosis, a chronic kidney disease …
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September, 2024
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22 September
How Mad Magazine’s humor created a revolution
Nestled the rolling hills of rural Massachusetts. swathed by manicured grounds, sits the Norman Rockwell Museum. And there, side-by-side with the wholesome works of America’s most beloved illustrator, is the world’s dumbest cover boy: Alfred E. Neuman. “It’s sacrilegious! It’s an outrage!” laughed political cartoonist Steve Brodner. “But I do …
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August, 2024
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14 August
How much will an electric vehicle really cost you? Here’s what to know.
With electric vehicle prices tumbling in recent months, consumers are facing new considerations about whether EVs could provide overall savings when compared with gas-powered cars. The answer, experts say, may not always be clear cut. “What I like to say is that comparing gas to EV is like comparing oranges to …
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July, 2024
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22 July
Meet some of the world’s cleanest pigs, raised to grow kidneys and hearts for humans
Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud here. The first gene-edited pig organs ever transplanted into people came from animals born on this special research farm in the Blue Ridge …
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June, 2024
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15 June
Sean “Diddy” Combs returns key to New York City following mayor’s request
NEW YORK — Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has honored a request from New York City Mayor Eric Adams to return the key to city which he was given last year. Combs was given the key in a Times Square ceremony in September 2023, coinciding with the release of the …
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