Month: November 2019

Washington (AFP) – Texas on Wednesday executed a former leader of a white supremacist gang for the 2002 murder of a woman near El Paso. Justen Hall, 38, was pronounced dead at 6:32 pm (0032 GMT) at Texas’s Huntsville penitentiary. Hall was sentenced to death in 2005 for strangling to death a 29 year-old woman…

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the execution of Justen Hall in the 2002 slaying of Melanie Billhartz (all times local): 6:42 p.m. A white supremacist gang member has been executed for strangling a West Texas woman over fears she would alert police about his drug operation. Justen Hall received a lethal injection Wednesday…

Click:for extended A day after saying he wouldn’t bother reading transcripts released by House Democrats in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., now says he did read the testimony, and his conclusion is that the administration’s Ukraine policy was too “incoherent” for it to have orchestrated the quid pro quo that is at…

As a supporter of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, I hoped that we Afghans—in addition to ridding Afghanistan of the Taliban menace—would utilize this opportunity to revive our economy, build an infrastructure, raise our standards of living, and bring an end to warlordism and the culture of impunity. Despite some important—albeit fragile—achievements, Afghanistan as a…

An Australian woman said she was “publicly slut-shamed” by two Jetstar airline employees while trying to board a flight at the Sydney Airport. While waiting for her flight home to Melbourne, Serah Nathan said she was waiting in the airport lounge sitting on her boyfriend’s lap when she was approached by two female airline employees…

Kristen Stewart opened up about her highly publicised affair with Rupert Sanders in her most candid interview to date. During a chat with Howard Stern, the 29-year-old actress reflected on her relationship with the Snow White and the Huntsman director saying it “wasn’t innocent,” but called the backlash “absurd.” “We lived in a different time then,…

ABC News will not further investigate one of their anchors’ claims that company executives killed her reporting on Jeffrey Epstein and will not comment on the situation on-air. ABC News told journalist Yashar Ali that they would not provide further commentary or reporting on the situation on Wednesday. The refusal to engage further comes just…

John Lamparski/Getty Images, Associated Press Bill Gates addressed his ties to Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday, saying that he “made a mistake in judgement” by associating with the convicted sex offender. It was the first time Gates has spoken publicly on his relationship to Epstein since a New York Times report last month revealed that the…

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