Paul Nthenge Mackenzie told followers to starve themselves in order to meet Jesus, an edict that was violently enforced, a court heard during his trial.
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Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, center, at a court in Mombasa, Kenya, on Friday. He was arrested in 2023 after the Kenyan authorities exhumed the bodies of more than 400 people.
The court reversed a judgeโs order that had said New York erred in its rollout of the tax, granting Mayor Zohran Mamdani a victory over a key piece of his agenda.
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The administration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani appealed a ruling blocking the rollout of a tax on high-end second homes in New York City.
A judge in Chicago ruled that the class-action lawsuit could proceed.
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The McDonaldโs McRib sandwich has developed something of a cult following over the years, stoked by its limited availability. It is served with onions and pickles, but no actual rib meat.
The courtโs ruling came just hours after administration lawyers asked the justices to immediately order California to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots.
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Voters dropping their ballots off in San Francisco last month. The Trump administrationโs legal challenge to 20,000 California ballots is part of a broader effort to argue that the elections could be marred by illegal votes by noncitizens.
The defamation suit focused on an article about a birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein. It was the presidentโs second attempt to claim the publication had acted with actual malice.
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The Wall Street Journalโs offices in Manhattan. Judge Darrin P. Gayles of Federal District Court dismissed President Trumpโs lawsuit with prejudice, meaning the claim cannot be refiled again.
Judge Ana C. Reyes said an outside investigator would help determine whether parks officials or Justice Department lawyers withheld plans for Washingtonโs East Potomac Park.
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A federal judge on Friday called for an investigation into whether the Trump administration concealed its plans to renovate a public golf course at East Potomac Park.
Judges took away the possibility of parole for an Australian woman, Erin Patterson, and rejected a bid to overturn her conviction over a deadly beef Wellington lunch.
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Erin Patterson leaving the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, in 2025.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife, Brigitte, sued Candace Owens in 2025 over claims she made about Ms. Macronโs gender. A judge said the court had jurisdiction over her companies but not her.
A judge said that denying him the staple in prison restricted his cultural rights but ruled that keeping drug dogs focused and cells free of illicit home brew was more important.
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Andre McKechnie filed suit last year, arguing that the Vegemite ban in prisons in Victoria denied him his โculture as an Australian.โ
The singer, 37, had pleaded guilty after hitting a music producer repeatedly in the head with a bottle in London in 2023. He is unlikely to serve any prison time.
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Chris Brown walked past fans and journalists as he arrived at the court in London on Monday.
A Minnesota group worried that its opposition could expose it to prosecution under the stateโs deceptive-practices law. Its lawsuit could have wide implications for limiting speech around elections.
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Andrew Cilek leads Minnesota Voters Alliance, which won an appellate ruling in a First Amendment lawsuit against a state law on deceptive practices.
The penalty, one of the largest levied against a tech giant, stemmed from a lawsuit by New Mexico claiming the social media company had misled users about their data privacy.
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Metaโs annual Meta Connect event at the companyโs Menlo Park, Calif., campus.
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