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Conservative hardliner and powerful Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good shockingly lost his seat in Congress following a recount of his contentious primary against Trump-backed John McGuire.The Virginia lawmaker’s burn-it-all-down tactics in the House has made enemies out of colleagues including former President Donald Trump and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy – who he ousted last year. The initial race on June 18 had been so close that it took weeks for the results to come out and Good funded the recount himself. But ultimately it did not make up for the nearly 400-vote gap of 62,000 votes cast and the Associated Press…
Devastated grandmother Gisele Pelicot finally reached her breaking point and walked out of the Avignon courthouse in the middle of proceedings for the first time yesterday.Gisele, 72, has been forced to relive a decade of abuse at the hands of her ex-husband Dominique Pelicot and scores of other alleged rapists during the trial that began in early September. Dominique has already admitted to drugging his ex-wife, allowing scores of men to rape her as she slept and filming the abuse for his own enjoyment. Since the start of the proceedings, Gisele has been seen as a symbol of strength who hasn’t wavered once…
By Perkin Amalaraj Published: 08:59 EDT, 10 October 2024 | Updated: 12:22 EDT, 10 October 2024 New Zealand’s navy has insisted that a female captain’s gender was not to blame for the sinking of a naval ship. HMNZS Manawanui caught fire and later capsized after it ran aground one nautical mile from the Samoan island of Upolu on Saturday night while surveying a reef. It was the first time New Zealand lost a military vessel since World War II. All 75 people onboard the specialist diving and ocean imaging ship, including seven scientists and four foreign military personnel, were evacuated and rescued early on…
A Middle Eastern millionaire says he couldn’t wait to leave ‘miserable’ London – branding the capital ‘Europe’s slum’ and saying British steak even in luxury restaurants tasted like cardboard.Entrepreneur Ali Hasani embarked on a lavish trip to the Big Smoke this summer, dining in some of the city’s most expensive restaurants and splashing out on designer items.However, the 22-year-old left the capital feeling disillusioned and says Brits simply ‘don’t know good food or how to cook’ – even comparing one swanky restaurant’s steak dish to cardboard.The self-proclaimed millionaire said Londoners were ‘miserable’ and wasn’t surprised as he found the city…
By Perkin Amalaraj Published: 10:25 EDT, 10 October 2024 | Updated: 12:34 EDT, 10 October 2024 This is the horrifying CCTV footage watched by a husband as he saw his wife plunge to her death in an out-of-control lift.The clip, recorded on security cameras at a smart apartment block in Sao Paulo, Brazil, shows victim Adriana Maria de Jesus, 45, on her way to work with a family who lived there.It later emerged that her husband Gildelio Alves do Santos, the building’s concierge, had watched her last moments on his security monitor.The footage, which emerged in local media on October…
By Olivia Christie Published: 08:00 EDT, 10 October 2024 | Updated: 12:43 EDT, 10 October 2024 This is the horrifying moment a mother and her five-year-old son were swallowed up by a large crater in the road when it suddenly collapsed. The 43-year-old woman was dropping her child off at a kindergarten in Bucharest, Romania, when the cobblestones gave way underneath them yesterday morning. The young boy, who had just got out of the car, immediately fell into the huge pit with his mother jumping in to save him. The driver of a bin lorry, that was parked alongside the car, rescued the…
Israel’s defence minister said Iran would pay for its October 1 missile attacksThe attacks saw nearly 200 missiles being fired at Israeli targetsThankfully, no one was killed by Iran’s attackBy Perkin Amalaraj Published: 03:42 EDT, 10 October 2024 | Updated: 14:59 EDT, 10 October 2024 Israel has promised Iran will be ‘surprised’ by a ‘deadly’ response to its missile attack carried out earlier this month. The Middle East has been on edge awaiting Israel’s response to a missile attack last week that Tehran carried out in retaliation for Israel’s military escalation in Lebanon. The Iranian attack ultimately killed no one in…
A radical feminist opera which includes explicit lesbian sex scenes, real blood and injuries, and naked roller-skating nuns, has left 18 audience members needing medical treatment in Germany.Sancta Susanna by composer Paul Hindemith caused a scandal back in 1921, with outraged critics labelling the one-act opera, which tells the story of a suppressed nun discovering her sexuality, too blasphemous to be shown.Its premiere at the Stuttgart Opera was cancelled, but more than 100 years later, it has now been staged in the city for the first time – with the shock factor amped up to dizzying new heights in what its…
Parents defended a Colorado teacher who drew cartoon penises on her student’s papers and yearbooks – apparently as a joke.Rebecca Roetto, an employee at Fairview High School since 2003, works as a physical education instructor – teaching Wellness in Action, Yoga and Bowling as well as running the Adelante! program, which provides support to first-generation Hispanic students.Students, parents and fellow teachers attended a board meeting in Boulder Tuesday evening to slam the possible dismissal of the veteran teacher over ‘sexual harassment’ allegations, The Denver Post reported.’Was what happened a mistake? Yes,’ Randi Hart, a substitute teacher who previously worked alongside Roetto, told The…
A woman who murdered her parents then lived alongside their bodies for four years as she stole almost £150,000 of money in their names is facing life in prison today.Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with sleeping pills before beating her 71-year-old mother Lois McCullough and stabbing her to death at their house in Pump Hill, Chelmsford.She would tell doctors and relatives that her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips – all while their bodies rotted away in the home she continued to live in as she cashed in their pension cheques and racked…