Jurors in Los Angeles began deciding the fate of Harvey Weinstein on Friday, weighing rape and sex abuse charges that could see the former Hollywood titan jailed for the rest of his life.. Weinstein, the "Pulp Fiction" producer who is already serving a 23-year sentence in New York for a series of attacks, denies the raft of Los Angeles charges.
Houston police said Friday they arrested and charged with murder a man suspected in the killing of rapper Takeoff, a member of the influential hip hop group Migos, who was fatally shot last month.. Speaking at a press conference, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said Patrick Xavier Clark, 33, was arrested on Thursday evening in connection with the death of Takeoff, who was one of three people shot November 1 at a bowling alley in Houston.
US President Joe Biden met briefly Friday with Britain's Prince William in Boston where the two quickly hit on the most British of conversation topics -- the bad weather.. Prince William chuckled and later could be heard informing the president that "when we got in Wednesday, it was pouring with rain."
A student facing a defamation case for a tweet about Nigeria's first lady had the charges against him dropped Friday, his lawyer said.. But on Friday, his lawyer and the prosecutor said the charges had now been dropped.
President Joe Biden Friday called on US political leaders to denounce anti-Semitism, days after Donald Trump hosted a well-known Holocaust denier and the rapper Kanye West -- whose virulent outbursts culminated this week with praise of Adolf Hitler.. "And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides."
From the impeccable Swiss to the well-watered Welsh.... An elderly mute Swiss man was beside himself when he lost 20,000 Swiss francs (20,300 euros) on the way home from a bank.
The limits of Elon Musk's self-professed "free speech absolutism" were laid bare, critics said, when he banned rapper Kanye West from Twitter over his latest anti-Semitic outburst on Thursday.. But Musk's claim to be a free speech absolutist was always going to struggle to survive the clash with reality -- and particularly the clash with West (officially known as Ye), who has mounted an increasingly vociferous campaign of anti-Semitic outbursts in recent weeks.
After Paul McCartney, the Glastonbury music festival on Friday again rolled back the years by announcing Elton John as its headline act next June to close out his final UK tour.. "This will be the final UK show of Elton's last ever tour, so we will be closing the festival and marking this huge moment in both of our histories with the mother of all send-offs," she said.
Kanye West declared his "love" of Nazis and admiration for Adolf Hitler on Thursday, sparking outrage as another commercial partner announced it was splitting from the troubled superstar.. I love Nazis," West said.
Between the hugs, hand clasps, compliments and musings over love, it's safe to say that Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron cemented le bromance Thursday.. Throughout one especially prolonged hand clasp, Macron gazed right at his host, while Biden looked out sideways, over the arrayed journalists.
