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A Republican attempt to suggest that former special prosecutor Jack Smith had colluded with Georgia officials unravelled during a US Senate hearing after the senator leading the questioning confused two basketball teams and the locations of their games. Eric Schmitt, a Missouri Republican, questioned Smith over whether he had attended an NBA game between the Atlanta Hawks and Golden State Warriors in Atlanta on February 3, 2024. The date was significant because it came shortly after Fani Willis, then Fulton County’s district attorney, acknowledged an intimate relationship with Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor who had worked on her case against…

Candice Jang was seen walking through her Dublin, California, neighbourhood with her three young children after her parents appeared in court accused of murdering her estranged husband, New York Times executive Jonathan McKinsey. Jang, 46, did not comment when approached on Wednesday, as she returned from a nearby mobile phone shop with the children and a female friend. The friend asked for privacy because the family was together. The sighting came about an hour after Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, made their first court appearance over McKinsey’s fatal shooting at a local park on Saturday afternoon. The couple…

A second judge has blocked Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee for new H-1B worker visas, creating another legal obstacle to the charge. The ruling concerns the fee imposed on new H-1B visas, which are used by foreign workers.

Tennessee can proceed with the execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike after the US Supreme Court lifted a last-minute stay. The decision came on Wednesday, about an hour after the stay had halted the lethal injection. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. Pike’s lawyers had sought to have her death sentence changed to life imprisonment, arguing that jurors had not been told about her history of sexual abuse or mental health conditions. Justice Sotomayor said lifting the stay “interferes with the Sixth Circuit’s routine administrative handling of a capital case and unnecessarily prevents the court from…

New York lawmakers are renewing calls to close a legal loophole on voluntary intoxication after a former Cornell University student alleged she was sexually assaulted by seven men at a fraternity house in Ithaca. The case has been reopened by the Tompkins County district attorney, who says evidence will be presented to a grand jury. It has also prompted Governor Kathy Hochul to call for an independent investigation into Cornell’s handling of the allegations. New York’s voluntary intoxication law under scrutiny Under New York law, prosecutors face particular difficulties when an alleged victim voluntarily consumes alcohol or drugs before becoming…

A food delivery driver waiting for a dinner order in Canning Vale was allegedly threatened before their BMW was stolen, triggering a pursuit that ended in a crash and an arrest in bushland. The incident began while the driver was waiting to collect the order. The vehicle was allegedly taken after the driver was threatened. The BMW was then pursued before crashing. The alleged offender was arrested in nearby bushland, bringing the incident to an end.

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Donald Trump has threatened that he “may blow up” Iran and warned that “time is coming”, while repeating his claim that the United States has “virtually total control” over the Strait of Hormuz. Trump made the remarks during an event marking Hispanic Heritage Month. The comments were presented as a warning over Iran, though no further details of the threatened action were provided. He also reiterated the claim about US control of the Strait of Hormuz, a strategically important waterway linking the Gulf with the wider region.

US regulators have brought two cases against private fund advisers accused of misleading investors over access to pre-IPO shares in companies including OpenAI, SpaceX, xAI and Kraken. The Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that millions of dollars raised from individual investors, including Navy veterans, were misdirected or misappropriated. The companies named in the cases, and their executives, are not accused of wrongdoing. In one case, the SEC sued Owen Meyer, 35, and his firm Meyer Global Management in federal court in Manhattan. It alleges that Meyer raised at least $18.5 million from almost 100 investors and misappropriated at least $1.27…

The Scrubs revival season two begins on ABC, bringing Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke back to Sacred Heart Hospital for the show’s 11th season overall. The new episodes premiere on Wednesday night, September 30, following the revival’s return to television in February 2026. Braff, Faison and Chalke have reprised their roles as doctors J.D., Turk and Elliot. In the revived series, their characters are experienced physicians helping to guide a new generation at the hospital. Scrubs cast members ranked by estimated net worth The medical comedy originally ran for nine seasons between 2001 and 2010, first on NBC…