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[ November 28, 2022 ] A cannibalistic double-murderer from Florida could end up walking the streets again — without ever going to trial.Former Florida State University fraternity member Austin Harrouff, 25, was deemed not guilty by reason of insanity Monday after randomly hacking John Stevens and his wife Michelle Mischon to death with a machete in 2016.Deputies said they found Harrouff kneeling over Stevens and gnawing on his face, noting that he spit out pieces of flesh before being taken into custody.After six years of delays, friends and relatives of the slain couple expected the case to go to NEWSLINK7.COM
[ November 28, 2022 ] The coronavirus pandemic has become a plague of the elderly, with nearly 9 out of 10 deaths in people 65 or older – President Biden may have declared the coronavirus pandemic “over,” but from John Felton’s view as the Yellowstone County health officer in Billings, Mont., it’s not over, just different.Now, more than ever, it is a plague of the elderly.In October, Felton’s team logged six deaths due to the virus, many of them among vaccinated people. Their ages: 80s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 90s. They included Betty Witzel, 88, described by her family as a tomboy who carried snakes in her NEWSLINK7.COM
[ November 28, 2022 ] Former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway appeared Monday before investigators of the House select committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Conway spoke to the committee on the record, two sources familiar with her appearance said. The panel did not publicly issue her a subpoena, and aides refused to comment on whether she was issued one privately. The committee declined to comment on her appearance Monday. Conway was seen entering a conference room in the O’Neill House Office Building with attorney Emmet Flood, who was a lawyer in former President Donald NEWSLINK7.COM
[ November 28, 2022 ] Former President Donald Trump again rejected the result of Arizona’s gubernatorial election Monday, calling for Republican Kari Lake to be declared the winner due to a supposed “criminal voting operation.”Massive numbers of ‘BROKEN’ voting machines in Republican Districts on Election Day. Mechanics sent in to ‘FIX’ them made them worse,” Trump, 76, said in a Truth Social post without offering evidence. “Kari had to be taken to a Democrat area, which was working perfectly, to vote. Her opponent ran the Election.”Trump added it was “SO OBVIOUS” that Lake, 53, should NEWSLINK7.COM
[ November 28, 2022 ] Judge Juan Merchan reprimanded lawyers for the Trump Corporation for filing motions and new exhibits late Sunday night that they want to introduce Monday morning when they question Mazar’s accountant Donald Bender, telling them he will no longer accept any motions from the attorneys. Defense attorneys had submitted 18 exhibits to the prosecution around midnight.“It’s inconsiderate at a minimum,” the judge said. At worst, it’s “good old-fashion sandbagging.”At times, the judge raised his voice and told defense attorney Susan Necheles to be seated.“It’s almost as though NEWSLINK7.COM
[ November 28, 2022 ] Buffalo Tops supermarket shooter Payton Gendron pleaded guilty to state charges stemming from the Tops supermarket shooting in a predominantly Black neighborhood of East Buffalo. Gendron pleaded guilty to 15 charges in all, including domestic terrorism motivated by hate, murder, and attempted murder. He still faces more than two dozen federal charges, some of which carry the possibility of the death penalty. His sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 15, 2023, at 9:30 a.m.Domestic terrorism motivated by hate carries a mandatory life sentence. Gendron fatally shot 10 NEWSLINK7.COM
[ November 28, 2022 ] Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi filed for bankruptcy Monday, making it the latest major digital assets company to fail since FTX, with which BlockFi is financially intertwined. BlockFi was founded in 2017 by Zac Prince and Flori Marquez. The company lends money to customers using their cryptocurrency assets as collateral.BlockFi halted withdrawals and limited activity on its platform earlier this month after saying it was affected by the downfall of FTX, which filed on Nov. 11 in the largest crypto bankruptcy to date. BlockFi has said it had “significant exposure” to FTX and its sister NEWSLINK7.COM
[ November 28, 2022 ] A former FBI investigator said he believes that the Idaho quadruple murders were a targeted attack and that someone in the slain college students’ ‘orbit’ caused it to happen. Bill Daly explained his chilling theory to Fox News on Sunday as police revealed there had been an increase in reports of ‘unusual circumstances’ and requests for welfare checks since the horror stabbings.’There are a couple of things that are starting to suggest that there was someone in these people’s orbit that caused this incident to come about by this murderer,’ Daly said. University of Idaho students NEWSLINK7.COM
[ November 28, 2022 ] Argentina’s soccer superstar Lionel Messi is not in negotiations to join Inter Miami next season; his representative tells CNN. On Sunday, Britain’s Sunday Times reported that the 35-year-old Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) forward was close to agreeing on a deal with the MLS side and would sign after the conclusion of the FIFA World Cup.“It’s false; it’s fake news. There is no negotiation for Lionel to join Inter Miami next season,” Messi’s representative, Marcelo Méndez, said in a statement to CNN. The Argentina captain, who is currently representing his country in Qatar NEWSLINK7.COM
[ November 28, 2022 ] Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, has started to erupt, prompting volcanic ash and debris to fall nearby, authorities said Monday. The eruption began late Sunday night in the summit caldera of the volcano on the Big Island, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Early Monday, it said lava flows were contained within the summit area and weren’t threatening nearby communities. The agency warned residents at risk from Mauna Loa lava flows should review their eruption preparations. Scientists had been on alert because of a recent spike in earthquakes at the summit of NEWSLINK7.COM
[ November 28, 2022 ] A huge drugs ‘super-cartel’ that controlled a third of Europe’s cocaine trade has been busted by police officers, with 49 people arrested in various countries including France and Dubai.The huge international operation seized 30 tons of cocaine, as well as the gang’s supercars, luxury villas, and piles of cash in the ‘historic’ raids. Spanish police said the leader of the organization is a ‘British national’ who fled his former base on the Costa del Sol for Dubai, where the Kinahan Organized Crime Group is based, after a kidnap attempt. He was later arrested in Dubai Another British NEWSLINK7.COM
[ November 28, 2022 ] “Gaslighting” — mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful — is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. Lookups for the word on Merriam-webster.com increased 1,740% in 2022 over the year before. But something else happened. There wasn’t a single event that drove significant spikes in curiosity, as it usually goes with the chosen word of the year. The gaslighting was pervasive.”It’s a word that has risen so quickly in the English language, and especially in the last four years, that it actually came as a surprise to me and to many of us,” said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s NEWSLINK7.COM
[ November 28, 2022 ] Two people were extricated from a small plane early Monday in Maryland, several hours after they crashed into power lines, causing widespread outages in the surrounding county. Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein said the plane was secured to the tower at 12:16 a.m. and the first occupant was removed from the plane at 12:25 a.m. The second occupant was out at 12:36 a.m.Goldstein did not say which of the men, identified by Maryland State Police as pilot Patrick Merkle, 65, of Washington, D.C., and passenger Jan Williams, 66, of Louisiana, were rescued first from the plane NEWSLINK7.COM
[ November 27, 2022 ] The finance world has been rocked by the sudden and unexpected death of a young crypto founder at the age of just 30. Tiantian Kullander, the co-founder of Hong Kong-based digital asset company Amber Group, died in his sleep on November 23, with the news confirmed on the company’s website “with the deepest sadness and a heavy heart.”Kullander, known affectionately as “TT,” launched Amber in 2017 with a group of financial insiders, including former Goldman Sachs Group and Morgan Stanley workers. Before that, he worked as a trader at both finance giants, and in 2019 NEWSLINK7.COM
[ November 27, 2022 ] Lionel Messi is on the brink of joining MLS side Inter Miami ahead of next season- The MLS side believes the Argentina legend will formalize a switch from Paris-Saint Germain on a free transfer to become the highest-paid player in the history of the sport in the US. Messi, 35, is currently understood to be on a salary of around £1.2m-a-week and would take a pay cut at the Florida franchise, which is co-owned by David Beckham. Messi has a home in Miami and is known to regularly holiday there. The club is already thought to be identifying players who will fit with the forward’s style of play NEWSLINK7.COM

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