Author: Lucas Bennett

Influencer Ashlee Jenae’s cause of death has been revealed – two months after her passing in a luxury hotel in Zanzibar. The New Jersey native, real name Ashly Robinson, was pronounced dead aged 31 on April 9 after being discovered unconscious at the Zuri Zanzibar resort.  Her death came hours after she was heard having a ‘volatile’ fight with her crypto mogul fiance Joe McCann, 45, and six days after the pair got engaged during a safari. According to local outlet, The Citizen Press, authorities concluded their investigation into Jenae’s death and found that she died by suicide as a result of mental distress. Deputy Director…

Pentagon documents appear to confirm that the US experimented with using swarms of disease-infected mosquitoes as biological weapons. The Daily Mail has unearthed a 69-page report which was quietly declassified in 1977 and dumped on the website for the Defense Technical Information Center, the Pentagon’s official library for scientific and technical information. The file detailed a classified US Army program, dubbed Project Bellwether, that conducted real-world experiments to study how well mosquitoes bite people outdoors in hot, desert conditions.Henry Nowak Deserves Legacy Beyond Tragedy, Says PM The goal of the tests, carried out between September and October 1959, was to gather…

Sir Keir Starmer has paid tribute to Henry Nowak saying the 18-year-old “deserves a legacy that goes beyond this awful tragedy”. The prime minister said he was “profoundly humbled” to meet the university student’s family at Downing Street on Thursday afternoon and was determined to do everything “in our power to prevent other families from suffering such a devastating loss”. There has been widespread outrage after bodycam footage showed police officers putting 18-year-old university student Nowak in handcuffs as he lay dying, after his killer Vickrum Digwa claimed he had been the victim of a racial attack. Sir Keir added…

A ‘groggy’ student sobbed as she told a jury that she ‘didn’t see’ a dog walker who she killed on a pedestrian crossing. Megan Jones, 22, crashed into Julia Pritchard as she crossed the road on a ‘well lit’ street using a blue metal walker. The student had just flown back from a holiday to Florida the day before the crash and was driving her father to work, Cardiff Crown Court heard. The court heard Jones was distracted while driving and did not notice Miss Pritchard until she hit her windscreen. CCTV footage showed the victim leaving her home wearing shorts to…

A five-year-old died after hitting her head on a playground in Connecticut.  Olivia Videtto was using a play area at her home in Harwinton, near Hartford, when she fell. Police went to her parents’ home on Laurel Road, where she was when she hit her head around 2pm on Sunday. She was life-flighted to the hospital, where she later died from her injuries, WOWT reported. State Police said ‘nothing criminal has been found’ in the case, but her body has been given to the medical examiner’s office. ‘Connecticut State Police extends its heartfelt condolences to the family and the Harwinton community,’ it said…

In late 2015, the landscape of American labor relations experienced a seismic shift. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a groundbreaking ruling that effectively granted millions of contract, temporary, and franchised workers significantly more organizing power than they had possessed in decades. By fundamentally expanding the definition of a “joint employer,” the U.S. government opened up new avenues for unionization and altered the traditional dynamic between corporations, staffing agencies, and independent contractors. The Core of the Decision: Redefining the “Joint Employer” Prior to this landmark ruling, a company was only considered a “joint employer” if it exercised immediate and…

Three Royal Navy personnel have died in a helicopter crash during a training exercise in Devon. Emergency services were called to Sourton Down, near Okehampton, at about 03:45 BST after a Merlin Mk4 crashed. A Royal Navy spokesperson said the deaths happened during a “helicopter training exercise”, adding “the families of the service personnel have been informed and have requested a period of grace before further details are released”. The Princess of Wales, in her role as Commodore-in-Chief of the Fleet Air Arm, said she and William were “holding their families and friends in our hearts”. Head of the navy,…

Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside Southampton police station after footage of Henry Nowak’s arrest sparked widespread backlash. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the bodycam footage of Nowak, 18, in handcuffs after being brutally knifed by Vickrum Digwa last December made him ‘feel sick’.  It showed the teenager desperately telling officers four times, ‘I’ve been stabbed’, to which one policeman replied: ‘I don’t think you have mate’. Henry would succumb to his stab wounds moments later, and the footage – released last night after Digwa, 23, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years – has since sparked fury. …

The Two Faces of Arcadia: A Spy in City Hall and a Mansion Full of Surrogate Babies On paper, Arcadia is a quiet, leafy suburb east of Los Angeles. In reality, this city of 56,000 has spent the past year at the center of two of the most disturbing scandals in California — a mayor secretly working for a foreign power, and a couple accused of running what neighbors now call a “baby factory.” A spy in the mayor’s chair For three months in early 2026, Eileen Wang ran the city as mayor. Federal prosecutors say that for years before…

A man who worked as a child entertaining clown in the 1990s and early 2000s has been sentenced to prison for sexually abusing a little girl. Bobbie Arthur Owen, 64, performed as Boo Boo the clown from 1994 until 2002 in Springfield and Eugene, Oregon, which are about 100 miles south of Portland.  After working as a child entertainer, he moved to Citrus Heights in Sacramento County. There, he began sexually abusing a girl ‘on a regular basis,’ beginning when she was just 11 years old, according to the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office. That girl, who is now an adult woman,…