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Los Angeles (AFP) - Arizona has charged 18 people over a scheme to subvert the 2020 election in favor of Donald Trump, the state's attorney general said Wednesday, with US media identifying the ex-president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani among those indicted. The felony indictments, which allege a conspiracy to award Arizona's slate of electors to the defeated real estate magnate, are the latest effort by a state to hold accountable those who backed Trump's false claim that he won the presidential vote. Arizona's Attorney General Kris Mayes said a grand jury had returned indictments on 11 local Republ...
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Mexico City (AFP) - Mexico is the "champion" of production of synthetic drugs including fentanyl, the head of the country's criminal investigation agency acknowledged Tuesday, at international talks aimed at fighting the problem. The blunt admission came as visiting US officials called for a "more agile" joint approach to combating drug trafficking by powerful Mexican cartels. "Mexico has been the champion of the production of methamphetamine, and now fentanyl," Felipe de Jesus Gallo said. That had been "the source of the greatest wealth and power" for Mexican criminal organizations, he added....
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New York (AFP) - "Knife", a memoir by Salman Rushdie released on Tuesday, recounts the near-fatal stabbing at a public event in 2022 that left him blind in one eye and his journey to healing. The Indian-born author, a British and naturalized American based in New York, has faced death threats since his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses" was declared blasphemous by Iran's supreme leader, making Rushdie a global symbol of free speech. After going unscathed for years, a knife-wielding assailant jumped on stage at an arts gathering in rural New York state and stabbed Rushdie multiple times in the nec...
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New York (AFP) - British-American author Salman Rushdie releases his memoir "Knife" on Tuesday, recounting the harrowing experience of being stabbed at a public event in 2022 and how he overcame the near-fatal ordeal. Rushdie lost sight in one eye after the attack by a knife-wielding assailant, who jumped on stage at an arts gathering in New York state. The Indian-born author, a naturalized American based in New York, has faced death threats since his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses" was declared blasphemous by Iran's supreme leader. In an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" program, clips of whi...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - O.J. Simpson, the American football star whose 1995 acquittal in the so-called "trial of the century" for the murder of his ex-wife and a male friend gripped the world, has died at the age of 76. Once a beloved national figure, his fame turned to infamy after the savage killing of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in a suburb of Los Angeles. The televised police chase to apprehend Simpson, and the extraordinary subsequent trial featuring high-octane lawyers and allegations of racism, were watched by millions on television. His acquittal in October 1995 after nine months ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - It was the car chase that brought a nation screeching to a halt. On June 17, 1994, a white Ford Bronco containing a fugitive O.J. Simpson led a convoy of police cars down southern California's freeways -- and 95 million Americans couldn't take their eyes off it. Coverage of massive sporting events like the NBA finals and US Open was interrupted with footage of the chase, while Domino's Pizza reported record delivery orders from viewers unwilling to miss a single moment. That moment captured by hovering TV helicopters and breathless newsmen, and broadcast around the world, ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Good looks, fame and fortune: O.J. Simpson appeared to have it made after rewriting the record books as an American football star. But it all came crashing down in 1994 when Simpson, who had parlayed his sports fame into a career as an actor and advertising pitchman, was charged with the murder of his ex-wife and a male companion. Simpson was famously acquitted of those charges in 1995, but was sent to prison years later for a bungled armed robbery. The disgraced former National Football League running back -- who has died at the age of 76, his family said Thursday -- will ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A US astrology influencer worried about the recent solar eclipse stabbed her partner to death, then pushed her two children out of her moving car before fatally slamming the vehicle into a tree, a report said Wednesday. Danielle Johnson, who peddled weekly "aura cleanses" on her website and offered online zodiac readings, told followers that Monday's total solar eclipse in North America was "the epitome of spiritual warfare." "Get your protection on and your heart in the right place," she wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, on April 4 under her online pseudo...
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New York (AFP) - US actor Jonathan Majors was sentenced Monday to a year of domestic violence counseling, but avoided jail time after being convicted of assaulting and harassing his then-girlfriend -- a saga that cost him a prime role in Marvel's superhero blockbusters. Marvel dropped the 34-year-old Majors -- whose villainous character Kang the Conqueror was due to be front and center in at least two upcoming films -- after his conviction in December 2023. Majors debuted as Kang in "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" earlier in 2023, and was set to appear in at least two subsequent Avengers f...
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Newberry Springs (United States) (AFP) - "Sheriff's Department! Search Warrant," shout armed officers as they enter a property in the heart of the Californian desert, where they soon find hundreds of illegal cannabis plants. Marijuana was fully legalized in the state in 2016 following a public vote, in a move that proponents said would bring an end to a huge black market and the crime and nuisance associated with it. In reality, the sector has boomed, with illegal growers tempted by the promise of fat profits for operators who don't have to worry about licenses, standards and even paying for t...
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