On Wednesday, Madera County, California, US police jailed retired corrections officer Gregory Rodriguez on a US$7.8 million bond for allegedly sexually assaulting 13 prisoners at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla.
Rodriguez faced 96 charges, including rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual battery; he allegedly committed 39 alleged sexual assaults. Combined, they could carry a sentence of more than 300 years' imprisonment.
The District Attorney's Office noted the earliest allegations were from 2014, with a majority from
Representatives from Sudan's warring army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) agreed to a declaration of principles on Thursday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia promising the safety of civilians, aid workers and humanitarian aid.
The declaration said: "We affirm our commitment to ensuring the protection of civilians at all times, including by allowing safe passage for civilians to leave areas of active hostilities on a voluntary basis in the direction of their choice".
The declaration also ordered forces to leave public and private properties, including ho
On Saturday, Swedish singer Loreen, 39, won her second Eurovision Song Contest victory at Liverpool Arena in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Loreen's Tattoo won 583 points combined from the public and juries of specialists.
Finland and Israel finished second and third, respectively, with 526 and 362 points.
Of 37 countries participating, 26 countries, including last year's winner, Ukraine and the Big Five — France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom — participated in the final. Serbia, the UK and Germany finished last, sequentially, with
After under three hours of deliberation, a federal jury in Manhattan, New York City on Tuesday found former US President Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation of plaintiff E. Jean Carroll. The six-man, three-woman jury awarded Carroll US$5 million — roughly, US$2 million sexual abuse and US$3 million for defamation.
The jury did not find Trump liable for rape.
Trump said on his Truth Social app: "THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE." He said he intended to appeal on Fox News Digital.
Visiting his properties in Scotland and Ireland, Tru
A study in the United States by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) concluded COVID-19 vaccines offer varying degrees of protection in the six months after patients receive them. The study was published in the journal Scientific Reports on Tuesday.
498 volunteers, ages 18 to 88 participated in the BOOST study (Building Optimal antibOdies STudy). Researchers measured levels of COVID-19 neutralizing antibodies to the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
One month after receiving their vaccinations the v
Saturday, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby crowned King Charles III as sovereign of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms; Charles' wife, Camilla, was crowned Queen Consort in the Westminster Abbey, London ceremony.
Charles became king on September 8, when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died, so the coronation was symbolic, though the government planned it for months.
The BBC estimated the ceremony, which Welby presided over, lasted two hours, shorter than Elizabeth II's 70 years ago, with 2300 people attending, including
Yesterday, Russia said Ukraine launched a nighttime drone attack to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin at Moscow's Kremlin. Authorities reported no casualties.
"Last night, the Kiev regime attempted a drone strike against the residence of the President of the Russian Federation at the Kremlin. Two unmanned aerial vehicles targeted the Kremlin. Timely action by the military and special services involving radar systems enabled them to disable the devices. They crashed in the Kremlin grounds, scattering fragments without causing any cas
On Saturday (Friday UTC), Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles announced on Twitter a team led by the Australia-based Silentworld Foundation had located the South China Sea wreck of the Montevideo Maru. The ship was a Japanese merchant marine vessel carrying prisoners of war (POWs) when the United States Navy torpedoed it in 1942, during World War II, killing 1,080.
The ship's wreckage was found northwest of Luzon, Philippines, over down, deeper than the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
Accompanied by deep-sea specialists from Dutch comp
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen released a statement on April 11, in which she said China created instability in the region with its three-day military drills in the Taiwan Strait.
The Associated Press reported that the drills were in response to Tsai's recent visit to the United States, during which she met with speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy was the highest ranking US politician to have met with a Taiwanese president on US soil.
In her statement, Tsai said "As the president, I represent our country in
On Saturday, authorities in Sloviansk, Ukraine said at least 11 people were dead and 21 injured after seven Russian S-300 missiles hit the city on Friday, ahead of Orthodox Easter this weekend.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the partially occupied region of Donetsk, claimed S-300 missiles, which were designed as surface-to-air missiles, were responsible for the strike.
The attack hit a residential area in the city, according to Ukrainian sources. One victim was reportedly a two-year-old boy pulled from the wreckage who died en route to hospital
The office of the attorney general of the US state of Maryland released a report Wednesday alleging clergy members and others in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore sexually abused more than 600 children from the 1940s through 2002.
The document, the result of an investigation begun in 2018, listed 156 abusers, naming all but ten, redacted upon the orders of a circuit court in Baltimore. The report stated: "Over 600 children are known to have been abused by the 156 people included in this Report, but the number is likely far higher." I
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China on Friday sanctioned two US organizations, four of their employees, two Taiwanese organizations, their directors, and Taiwan's representative to the US.
The sanctions came after Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and US lawmakers, among them US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy, met at the Reagan Library in California on Wednesday.
The Ministry forbade Chinese entities from contact with the US organizations, saying: "The Hudson Institute and the Reagan Library have provided a platform and f
