The lawyer defending fallen Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein from rape and sexual assault charges called those testifying against his client “women with broken dreams” as he made his final pitch to jurors. A New York state appeals court had thrown out Weinstein’s 2020 convictions after irregularities in the presentation of witnesses at his original trial,…
A jury of seven women and five men has been picked for Harvey Weinstein’s #MeToo rape retrial, a more female panel than the five women and seven men who convicted the onetime Hollywood honcho at his first trial five years ago. Opening statements aren’t expected until Wednesday, as prosecutors and defence lawyers still need time…
The Girl Scouts have been sued by consumers over the alleged presence of “heavy metals” and pesticides in its popular Thin Mints and other cookies. A proposed class action lawsuit was filed on Monday night in federal court in the New York City borough of Brooklyn against the 113-year-old nonprofit and the cookies’ licensed producers,…
Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down health insurance executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street, pleaded not guilty on Monday to New York state murder charges that brand him a terrorist. Mangione, 26, was escorted into Judge Gregory Carro’s 13th-floor courtroom in the New York state criminal courthouse in lower Manhattan with…
The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson is being charged with federal murder and stalking crimes, according to a court document filed on Thursday, alongside state murder and terrorism charges previously announced by New York prosecutors. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are charging Luigi Mangione, 26, with the federal crime of murder…
Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting dead UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street this month, was indicted for murder on Tuesday, New York prosecutors said. Mangione was indicted on 11 counts, including first-degree murder and murder as a crime of terrorism. The indictment accused Mangione of murdering Thompson with the intent…