Zion Williamson is being sued by a woman describing herself as a former dating partner and who alleges the New Orleans Pelicans star committed repeated sexual violence against her. The civil lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Thursday night, identifies the plaintiff as “Jane Doe.” She claims she began dating Williamson in 2018, when he played at Duke, and alleges that he engaged in abusive behavior toward her in California, Louisiana and Texas from 2020 until their relationship ended in 2023. Williamson’s New Orleans-based attorney, Michael Balascio, called the claims in the lawsuit “categorically false and reckless,”...
Czech Justice Minister Resigns Over A Donated Bitcoin Scandal
Czech Republic Justice Minister Pavel Blažek resigned from his post over a bitcoin-related scandal on Friday. Blažek was under fire from the opposition after his ministry accepted a donation of bitcoins and sold them for about 1 billion Czech koruna (more than $45 million) earlier this year. Blažek said that he wasn’t aware of any wrongdoing, but didn’t want the four-party coalition government led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala to be harmed by the scandal. Fiala said that he appreciated his resignation and believed that Blažek acted with goodwill. Blažek was a close ally of Fiala in the government, and...
Federal Officials To Vet Social Media Accounts Of Visa Applicants Heading To Harvard
Federal officials are set to start reviewing the social media accounts of visa applicants who plan to attend, work at or visit Harvard University for any signs of antisemitism, marking the latest development in a clash between the Trump administration and the Ivy League school. A cable sent Friday signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and obtained by The Associated Press accused the university of failing to keep violence and antisemitism off campus. It said the vetting measure will help consular officers identify applicants with a history of those offenses “and to duly consider their visa eligibility under U.S. immigration law.”...
Guatemala Court Convicts 3 Ex-Paramilitaries Of War Crimes For Rape And Gives Them 40-Year Sentences
More than four decades after Guatemalan soldiers and paramilitaries raped Indigenous women during their efforts to crush an insurgency in the country’s 36-year civil war, a court on Friday convicted three men of crimes against humanity in the case and sentenced them to 40 years in prison. Thirty-six women from the Maya Achi Indigenous group came forward in 2011 to seek justice for the abuses they suffered between 1981 and 1985. They came from Rabinal, a small town about 55 miles (88 kms) north of the capital. Six of them testified against the three men convicted Friday. As the all female...
Olympic Boxing Champ Imane Khelif Must Undergo Genetic Sex Screening To Fight For New Governing Body
Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif must undergo genetic sex screening to participate in upcoming events with the sport’s new governing body. World Boxing announced mandatory sex testing for all athletes Friday. The governing body specifically mentioned Khelif when announcing the policy, saying the Algerian gold medal winner must be screened before she will be approved to fight at any upcoming events, including the Eindhoven Box Cup next month in the Netherlands. “The introduction of mandatory testing will be part of a new policy on ‘Sex, Age and Weight’ to ensure the safety of all participants and deliver a competitive level playing field...
South Carolina Inmate Chooses To Die By Lethal Injection Amid Concerns About Firing Squad
South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection after his lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the last person in the state who was killed by a firing squad. Stanko, who set to die June 13, had a choice among firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. His lawyers said in previous court filings he didn’t want to suffer what he thought was cooking from thousands of volts of electricity. Firing Squad Questions They said he was leaning toward the firing squad before questions surfaced about...
A Palestinian Describes 15 Minutes Of Terror Trying To Get Food In The New Gaza Distribution System
Shehada Hijazi woke at dawn. It was his best chance, he thought, to get his hands on a package of food at a new distribution site run by a U.S.- and Israeli-backed foundation in the Gaza Strip. Thousands of others, equally desperate to feed their hungry families, had the same idea. By the time Hijazi walked the 7 kilometers (4 miles) to the southern tip of the territory, a militarized zone that has been evacuated of its residents, it was chaos. People pushed and shoved for hours as they restlessly waited outside the site, surrounded by a barbed-wire fence, earth berms...
Financial Times Endorses Tinubu’s Bold Economic Reform Agenda:
By Chief Okoi Obono-Obla The Financial Times, a highly respected British daily newspaper known for its focus on business and economic affairs, has published a seminal editorial praising the ambitious and audacious economic reform agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Titled Nigeria’s Shocking Therapy, the editorial acknowledges the bold reforms implemented by Tinubu since assuming office. It urges him to remain steadfast despite criticisms that these measures have caused hardship in Nigeria, especially with his reelection bid approaching in two years. The newspaper, which influences and helps shape the economic and policy directions of Western governments, encourages Tinubu to extend...
Atiku Counters Tinubu Administration’s Achievement, Reveals Opposition Coalition Will Challenge His Excesses And Return Government Back To The People
As against the 40 major milestones of president Bola Tinubu published by the presidency on Thursday, the former vice president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar argued that the ruling government has failed the people. Abubakar submitted in a statement on X that the present administration is the worst as it deepened poverty across the country, deprived citizens of basic amenities, it rack up debt at the federal level. The former V.P emphasized that: “Tinubu’s Government Has Failed The People — Opposition Coalition Will Not Be Silent and further revealed that opposing political parties will form a coalition against the ruling party...
