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Jurors have found Umar Zameer not guilty of all criminal charges, including first-degree murder, in the death of Toronto police officer Det.-Const. Jeffrey Northrup nearly three years ago. Zameer and his family members burst into tears when the verdict was read out on the fourth day of jury deliberations. Zameer had pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder after he ran over Northrup with his car in an underground parking garage beneath Toronto City Hall on July 2, 2021. Both Northrup and his partner were in plain clothes, investigating a stabbing that night. The verdict means the Crown did not prove...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The wrong-way driver who killed an off-duty Las Vegas officer had been deported from the U.S. twice before the crash, according to federal officials. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed that Fernando Jimenez-Jimenez, 31, was a Mexican citizen. An ICE spokesperson said Jimenez entered the United States twice in 2019 “and was returned to Mexico on an order of expedited removal.” The spokesperson also said Jimenez applied for admission to the U.S. on Jan. 24, 2020 in Brownsville, Texas but never appeared for his immigration hearing nearly two years later on Dec. 2, 2021. An...

DARIEN — An Australian race car driver is suing a Darien Chevrolet dealership after two employees reportedly totaled his car while taking it on an unauthorized drive. In a lawsuit filed in Stamford Superior Court June 17, race car driver Kenny Habul claimed two employees of H & L Chevrolet in Darien took Habul’s Chevrolet Camaro off the premises and crashed the vehicle on Interstate 95. Habul, a Greenwich resident, is a competitive race car driver and the president and CEO of a solar development company called SunEnergy1. The car, a 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Hendrick Edition with a 1LE...

The Egyptian government has yet again rented out the pyramids to the highest bidder—this time to American YouTuber MrBeast. “We got all three of the pyramids of Egypt for 100 hours. I’m gonna do a video where they let me explore anywhere I want in the Pyramids,” MrBeast revealed during the “Beyond the Records” podcast with Noah Lyles. MrBeast is known for organizing and filming extreme challenges and prize giveaways. “I’d never been inside of [the pyramids]. I want to just find secrets and go through all the rooms and tombs and that kind of stuff,” he continued. “I’m so...

A Nasa spacecraft is attempting to make history with the closest ever approach to the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe is plunging into our star's outer atmosphere, enduring brutal temperatures and extreme radiation. It's out of communication for several days during this burning hot fly-by and scientists will be waiting for a signal, expected on 27 December, to see if it has survived. The hope is the probe could help us to better understand how the Sun works. Dr Nicola Fox, head of science at Nasa, told BBC News: "For centuries, people have studied the Sun, but you don't experience...

Police have arrested a person of interest after a woman was set on fire and burned to death on a subway train in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday in a horrifying and disturbing crime. As per Fox sources, the suspect has been identified as 33-year-old Sebastin Zapeta. Sources told Fox News Digital that Zapeta entered the U.S. from Guatemala approximately a year ago, but whether he did so legally or illegally was unclear. NYPD officials said the man entered from Guatemala in 2018, and said "that's all we have on him right now." SNIP Horrifying video posted online appears to...

The subway burning victim’s name was Amelia Carter, a 29-year-old woman. In recent days, social media platforms have been abuzz with discussions surrounding the tragic incident of a woman set ablaze in a New York City subway. Amidst the outcry, the name "Amelia Carter" has surfaced, with many asserting that she is the 29-year-old victim of this heinous act. This information has been widely disseminated online, despite the New York Police Department (NYPD) refraining from making any formal announcements regarding the victim's identity... According to some social media accounts, Amelia Carter, a dedicated nurse originally from Orlando, Florida, had been...

Recently crocodiles have been in the news in Costa Rica. There has been an increase in crocodile sightings and within the last year or so folks are starting to wonder if there’s a problem with the country’s crocodile population. I’ll be forthright with my feelings on the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus). For me, they are the perfect blend of awesome and slightly terrifying. Personally, an increase in crocodile sightings would directly increase the happiness level of my life. I already have an informal scale between my wife and I for how awesome my day was based on the number of...

SNIP Johnathan Stanley Garcia-Vasquez was captured Friday outside his home in West New York, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement said Monday in a press release. “The United States is not a safe haven for international fugitives seeking to exploit our immigration laws to evade justice in their home countries,” Newark ICE agent John Tsoukaris said in a statement. Garcia-Vasquez was captured by Border Patrol agents on June 9, 2016, outside Hidalgo, Texas, according to the feds. He was held until Jan. 27, 2017, when he was released from immigration court on bond. When a Salvadoran judge issued an arrest warrant for...

One of two former Kentucky attorneys imprisoned after bilking hundreds of clients out of millions from a settlement involving the diet drug fen-phen was granted clemency by President Joe Biden. William Gallion has been serving a 25-year sentence for fraud and was not eligible for release until 2029. On Thursday, Biden granted 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations, including one to Gallion, who will now be released Dec. 22. Unlike a pardon, Gallion will still have the conviction on his record and will be under supervised release and other court conditions, according to the order. Gallion, Shirley Cunningham Jr. and Melbourne...

Associated Press just published this article – without citing the name of the writer.The article states:“High-profile incidents on the train, such as the case of Daniel Penny, a military veteran who choked an agitated New York subway rider and was acquitted of homicide this month, often attract national attention and further unnerve passengers.”Uh, no.It was not Daniel Penny who upset the passengers on the New York City subway.It was Jordan Neely who did that.Here are two different videos that show passengers telling exactly who it was that upset them.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hloyv3g_1wQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5MbDR2pW5UShame on Associated Press for lying about this.And shame on Associated Press...

Alfa Anderson, former co-lead singer with Chic, died at the age of 78, band leader Nile Rodgers confirmed. He provided no details in his social media post, which read: “#restinpoweralfaanderson #chic #loveyou #original #truth #soul #memories #wearefamily #always #music #peace #wedidit #together.” Anderson was heard as backing vocalist on some of Chic’s biggest hits including “Le Freak,” “Good Times” and “My Forbidden Love.” She went on to track lead vocals for “I Want Your Love” and “At Last I Am Free.” She’d joined the band in 1977 and remained until its initial breakup in 1983. Before Chic, Anderson had been...

Eric Trump took some time to share a picture of his dad doing some last-minute Christmas shopping: Gifts for the American people

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) responded to pregnancy rumors, stating that she is “not pregnant” and had just eaten “a lot of food at Thanksgiving.” “Everyone keeps asking me if I’m pregnant,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an Instagram story in response to a question asking if she was pregnant. “Actually, a member, a Republican, came to me on the floor this week and asked me if I was pregnant. I’m not pregnant guys, I had a lot of food at Thanksgiving. Okay? It happens.”

"For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity," Trump posted to Truth Social. President-elect Donald Trump and Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede are at odds over whether the United States can purchase the Danish territory, after Trump proposed the idea on Sunday night. Trump, who during his first term proposed expanding the U.S by purchasing Greenland, expressed renewed interest in the potential sale when announcing Ken Howery as U.S. ambassador to Denmark, which owns the northern territory. "For purposes of National...

If It Burns, It Can Fuel the M1 Abrams - When President Joe Biden announced earlier this year that the United States would provide Ukraine with a number of M1 Abrams main battle tanks (MBTs), some critics suggested the tank was not well-suited to the task – despite the tank literally being designed to confront Soviet armor in Europe. At issue was that the M1 Abrams is powered by a gas-turbine engine, which was designed to burn jet fuel; something it doesn't do especially efficiently. That does make for a speedy tank, but almost every other armored vehicle – including...

WALTON COUNTY, Ga. — A Walton County couple will spend the rest of their lives in prison after they were convicted for adopting two young boys, then sexually abusing them. Deputies arrested William and Zachary Zulock in 2022 at a home in unincorporated Loganville. Last week, a judge sentenced them to 100 years in prison. Neither defendant is eligible for parole, according to the DA’s office. “These two Defendants truly created a house of horrors and put their extremely dark desires above everything and everyone else. However, the depth of the Defendants’ depravity, which is as deep as it gets,...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) commended President Biden Monday for commuting the sentences of 37 federal inmates on death row, arguing that capital punishment is “racist.” *** Pressley, 50, described the 82-year-old commander in chief’s decision to spare dozens of convicted murderers and rapists from death as a “historic and groundbreaking act of compassion that will save lives, address the deep racial disparities in our criminal legal system, and send a powerful message about redemption, decency, and humanity.” “The death penalty is a racist, flawed, and fundamentally unjust punishment that has no place in any society,” the congresswoman argued. “For far...

@JPHilllllll Luigi's lawyer is explicitly calling out Eric Adams being at the perp walk. Incredible stuff.

WASHINGTON — Lawyers and pro-democracy advocates are in the early stages of building a nationwide network of specialists aimed at defending and protecting people who may be targeted for retribution once President-elect Donald Trump takes office, according to multiple people involved in the effort. The sprawling initiative is intended to go far beyond legal assistance for those potentially subjected to criminal or civil investigations in a new Trump administration. Those working to create the infrastructure said that in addition to lawyers, they are recruiting accountants to help people who may find their taxes under audit, employment experts to advise those...