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Kenya Cult Leader Handed 200 Year Prison Sentence for Mass Murder

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.

Why a Merciless Supreme Court Rebuke on Election Eve Matters

The justices took just hours to reject Trump’s bid to meddle in the election.

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A polling place in California on Tuesday.

American Is Convicted of Murder in Case That Gripped Italy

A TV program helped to identify the victims, a Russian woman and her young daughter, who were found dead in a Rome park.

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Investigators in Villa Pamphili park in Rome, where the bodies of Anastasia Trofimova and her daughter Andromeda were found, in 2025.

Appeals Court Allows Mamdani to Move Forward with Pied-à-Terre Tax

The court reversed a judge’s 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 Lawsuit Says the McRib Is Lacking Something You Might Expect It to Have

A judge in Chicago ruled that the class-action lawsuit could proceed.

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The McDonald’s 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.

Prosecutors Seek to Drop Charges Against Russian Scientist Accused of Smuggling Frog Embryos

Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard, has argued that she was vindictively prosecuted after her arrest in 2025.

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Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist at Harvard, seen after she was released from U.S. federal custody in Boston in 2025.

Justice Kagan Sounds an Alarm About the Court

Of all the Democratic appointees, if not all nine justices, Justice Kagan has a reputation as the most restrained and institutionalist. Until now.

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Supreme Court Rejects Trump Administration Request to Intervene in California Ballot Case

The court’s 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 administration’s 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.

Judge Tosses Trump’s $10 Billion Suit Against The Wall Street Journal

The defamation suit focused on an article about a birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein. It was the president’s second attempt to claim the publication had acted with actual malice.

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The Wall Street Journal’s offices in Manhattan. Judge Darrin P. Gayles of Federal District Court dismissed President Trump’s lawsuit with prejudice, meaning the claim cannot be refiled again.

Judge Appoints Special Master to Determine if Trump Officials Lied in Golf Course Suit

Judge Ana C. Reyes said an outside investigator would help determine whether parks officials or Justice Department lawyers withheld plans for Washington’s 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.

Court Rejects Erin Patterson’s Appeal in Mushroom Murders Case

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.

Judge Limits Candace Owens’s Liability in Macron Defamation Case

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife, Brigitte, sued Candace Owens in 2025 over claims she made about Ms. Macron’s gender. A judge said the court had jurisdiction over her companies but not her.

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Candace Owens in Detroit in 2024.

Brazil Supreme Court Orders Flávio Bolsonaro to Hand Over Passports in Money Laundering Inquiry

Brazil’s Supreme Court told the police to seize passport of Mr. Bolsonaro, who lost the presidential election, over his links to an investigation.

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Flavio Bolsonaro speaking in Brasília last night after losing the presidential election.

Australian Murderer Has No Right to Vegemite, Court Says

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 “culture as an Australian.”

Chris Brown Gets Suspended Prison Sentence Over Nightclub Assault

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 Fight Over Felon Voting Prompts a Free Speech Debate

A Minnesota group worried that its opposition could expose it to prosecution under the state’s 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.

Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Over Cambridge Analytica Privacy Violations

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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Meta’s annual Meta Connect event at the company’s Menlo Park, Calif., campus.
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