Actor and comedian Russell Brand took the stand in his trial on rape and sexual assault charges in London on Wednesday. Brand, 51, is accused of three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one charge of attempted indecent assault. The allegations, made by six female complainants, span a 10-year period between 1999…
The lake country straddling the Kentucky-Tennessee border has a quiet, majestic beauty. But in September 2022, that vast landscape seemed to have swallowed up Mike Harding, a California transplant who disappeared without a trace. JULIE HARDING (phone call): Hi Captain, this is Julie Harding with the California Highway Patrol … Mike’s wife Julie Harding, a…
The New York City Council voted Thursday to ban horse-drawn carriages by 2028 over safety and animal abuse concerns. Ali Bauman has more. Source link
The New York City Council passed a bill banning horse-drawn carriage rides in the city by 2028. Lawmakers voted Thursday afternoon on Romanch’s Law. The legislation is named after Romanch Mahajan, 18, who died during a carriage accident in June in Central Park. The bill is now headed to Mayor Zohran Mamdani to sign. “With…
The first case of New World screwworm in wildlife in the United States has been found in an elk in Texas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. The elk was discovered on a game ranch in Pecos County and was reported after being harvested by a hunter, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service…
Washington — The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday asked the Justice Department’s internal watchdog to investigate why the FBI lowered its hiring standards for candidates who may have engaged in bestiality, prostitution or employment theft. In a letter to Justice Department Inspector General Don Berthiaume, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said the…
Russia’s government said Wednesday that it was open to “promptly” scheduling a phone call between Presidents Trump and Vladimir Putin to discuss the still-unexplained death of a plague research center employee, but that nothing had been scheduled yet. Mr. Trump told reporters Tuesday night that he expected to speak with Putin “very soon” about the…
To find a little wilderness in West London, take a left at the shopping mall and head under the highway. Near a McDonald’s and within reach of the city’s busy transport network, a family of beavers is reshaping a wetland and helping protect nearby streets and a Tube station from flooding. Five Eurasian beavers were…
Geneva — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on Russia to be more “transparent” about the recent death of a plague research center scientist and any risks associated with the incident, which Russian authorities have offered conflicting information about this week. “I think it’s incumbent upon Russia to obviously share more information with the…
Vietnamese police have arrested 12 men accused of stealing nearly 2,700 cats during night raids into residential neighborhoods, taking the pets to be slaughtered for food, police and state media said on Monday. Fur removal machines, cat traps and measuring scales were among items confiscated during investigations into the alleged cat-stealing ring in Ho Chi…
