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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is being destroyed on social media for refusing to say that President Donald Trump is innocent following the announcement of his indictment on Thursday.“The weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society. We have for years witnessed an uneven application of the law depending upon political affiliation. Why so zealous in pursuing Trump yet so passive about Hillary or Hunter? The DeSantis administration will bring accountability to the DOJ, excise political bias and end weaponization once and for all,” DeSantis said in a statement following the announcement of Trump’s indictment. The...

The family of Ma'Khia Bryant, whom police fatally shot while responding to a 911 call, remembered the teen as a "beautiful" and "sweet" girl and questioned why a Columbus, Ohio, officer shot her.Don Bryant, a cousin of Ma'Khia's mother, said he was tuned into the Derek Chauvin trial when he learned that Ma'Khia, who was 16, had been killed. He immediately called her mother, Paula Bryant."It was chaotic. Nobody deserves that," he said Wednesday. "Who could expect something like this to happen in their family?"Paula Bryant said: "Ma'Khia was a sweet little girl. She didn't deserve what happened to her."

Probation for pupil sex teacher Alison Smith Smith was placed on the sex offenders register at an earlier court hearing A former Aberdeen school teacher who admitted having sex with a 15-year-old pupil has avoided a jail sentence. Alison Smith, 29, a teacher at the city's Bankhead Academy, confessed the incident to church associates and her parents before going to the police. Smith was placed on probation for 18 months and given 200 hours community service at Aberdeen Sheriff Court. She had been charged in July last year over the allegations of an inappropriate relationship. The incident happened in June...

MELBOURNE, Australia - An Australian "prankster" barmaid who served a patron a shot of disinfectant has appeared in court over what her lawyers said was a "misguided" joke. Melbourne barmaid Emily Craig, 23, served a client a single 30-milliliter shot glass of Pine-O-Cleen disinfectant in March during a 6 a.m. drinking bout at Evolution Nightclub, causing him to become violently ill, the Melbourne Magistrates court was told. "This was a misguided joke at an ungodly hour," Craig's lawyer George Balot told the judge, according to reports Tuesday in local newspapers. -snip- The patron developed ulcers on his skin after drinking...