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CHICAGO — For the first time after two decades of swirling allegations, R. Kelly’s former goddaughter has taken the stand as a prosecution witness in a case against the disgraced singer. Dressed in a white blazer with her hair in long braids, the woman, now 37 and testifying at Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago under the pseudonym “Jane,” told the jury she had sexual contact with Kelly for the ...
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R. Kelly’s former goddaughter breaks down at his federal trial, telling jury he filmed them having sex while she was a minor
The woman had been testifying for more than four hours Thursday about her clandestine sexual relationship with R&B superstar R. Kelly as an impressionable young teenager when she was asked about one of the central mysteries in the case. Why, after two decades of silence, did she finally decide to come forward and speak out? There was a lengthy, silent pause in the Chicago federal courtroom. ...
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'I think he'll get indicted': Legal insiders warn that Trump could soon face criminal charges he can't talk his way out of
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Cambodian refugee who came to US as 1-year-old is deported after no pardon from California Gov. Newsom
A 48-year-old reformed inmate who served 25 years in prison was deported by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Cambodia on Tuesday. Phoeun You, a former child refugee from Cambodia, was sent back to a country he is barely familiar with after failing to get a pardon from California Governor Gavin Newsom. Such a pardon would have allowed him to stay in the U.S., where his family has stayed for decades since fleeing the Khmer Rouge when he was a 1-year-old child.
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Husband runs over wife and drags her down hill as she tries to escape him, GA cops say
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Officer watched sexual acts in exchange for giving inmates food, sheriff's office says
A St. Landry Parish correctional officer is facing charges after the sheriff's office said he gave inmates food in exchange for watching sexual acts.
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A 'flash mob' of looters ransacked California 7-Eleven in a 'street takeover,' police say. Now cops want to stop the crime tactic from becoming a new trend.
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What Weisselberg’s guilty plea means for Trump
The Thursday guilty plea of former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg is the latest and largest development in New York officials’ multiyear investigation into the company headed by the former president. Weisselberg pleaded guilty to 15 counts related to tax fraud and will serve five months in prison followed by five years of…
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South African woman's life sentence in Thailand for crime she says she didn't commit is reduced
The life sentence of a South African woman who was convicted of drug trafficking in Thailand last year has been reduced to 33 years. Ashley Oosthuizen, 23, was arrested for drug dealing on Oct. 8, 2020, after she accepted a package that contained ecstasy from a delivery man at the restaurant Hot in the Biscuit, where she worked as a manager. Thai authorities reportedly knew the contents of the package before Oosthuizen signed for it.
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Newly unsealed documents from the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago put Trump in even worse legal peril, experts say
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College student is slain in a national park by a woman pretending to be a stranded motorist, police say
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Billionaire Xiao Jianhua jailed for 13 years in China
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Missing mom’s car found a week after she vanished. Now a man is arrested, SC cops say
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Chicago Cop Charged After Viral Video Showed Him Kneeling on Teen
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YouTuber busts men filming women illegally in S. Korea
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger says some of the documents recovered in the raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago may be 'so classified' they can't be revealed
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