An Indiana man convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl was set to die by lethal injection early Friday in the state’s third execution since resuming capital punishment last year. Roy Lee Ward, 53, was scheduled to be put to death before sunrise at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. He was convicted in the rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne and sentenced to death. The brutal crime, which happened in the family’s home in Dale, rocked the small community of roughly 1,500 people. Attorneys said Ward has exhausted his legal options after many court battles. “He’s very...
A Journal For Jordan
Directed By Denzel Washington And Starring Michael B. Jordan With A Screenplay By Virgil Williams, ’A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN’ is based on the true story of First Sergeant Charles Monroe King (Jordan), a soldier deployed to Iraq who begins to keep a journal of love and advice for his infant son, detailing how he believes a man should act. it’s a movie that looks at tragedy — at sacrifice — through a lens that’s both sentimental and stirring. It tells the story of two people (Army 1st Sgt. Charles Monroe King and journalist Dana Canedy) falling in love: the hope and...
Ukraine’s New Missiles And Drones Cause Gas Shortages In Russia, Zelenskyy Says
Strikes on Russian oil facilities by Ukraine’s newly developed long-range missiles and drones are causing significant gas shortages in Russia, while on the battlefield a recent Ukrainian counter-offensive has derailed Russia’s plans to capture parts of the eastern Donetsk region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says. Ukraine’s new Palianytsia missile has hit dozens of Russian military depots, Zelenskyy said. The Ruta missile drone, meanwhile, recently struck a Russian offshore oil platform more than 250 kilometers (150 miles) away in what Zelenskyy called “a major success” for the new weapon. Also, swarms of Liutyi and Fire Point long-range drones — up to 300 units in one...
Tomb Of Former French Justice Minister Badinter Defaced With Graffiti Before Panthéon Ceremony
The tomb of former French justice minister Robert Badinter, who is set to be inducted into the country’s Panthéon national monument Thursday, was vandalized in a cemetery close to Paris, officials said. Badinter, who died last year at age 95, spearheaded the drive to abolish France’s death penalty, campaigned against antisemitism and Holocaust denial. It was also under Badinter’s watch that France decriminalized homosexuality. Marie-Hélène Amiable, the mayor of Bagneux where Badinter was buried, said she learned Thursday that his tomb had been defaced with graffiti. “The inscriptions discovered by the police denounce his commitments against the death penalty and in...
Poland Charges Former Registry Office Employee With Providing False Identities For Russian Spies
A man formerly employed by Warsaw city council in its registry of births, marriages and deaths was charged with espionage for allegedly providing Russia with false identities its spies could use, Polish authorities said Thursday. The man, identified only as Tomasz L. in line with Polish privacy laws, was indicted on charges of espionage and abuse of power, the Polish Internal Security Agency wrote in a statement on Thursday. Authorities allege the man provided Russia with intelligence between 2017 and 2022, while he was working in the archives of the Warsaw municipality’s civil registry. The man is believed to have...
Putin Says Russian Air Defenses Were Responsible For Azerbaijani Jet’s Crash Last Year, Killing 38
President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia’s air defense were to blame for downing an Azerbaijani jetliner in December that killed 38 people, his first admission of responsibility for the crash in an effort to ease tensions between the neighbors. Putin said the missiles fired by Russian air defenses to target a Ukrainian drone exploded near the Azerbaijani Airlines plane flying from Baku as it was preparing to land in Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, on Dec. 25, 2024. Ukrainian drones have regularly struck deep inside Russia. Speaking at a meeting with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev in...
US Strike In Caribbean May Have Killed Colombian Citizens, President Says
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday there were “signs” that Colombian citizens were killed in the last small boat attacked by the U.S. military off the coast of Venezuela. “A new front in the war has opened: the Caribbean,” Petro wrote on the social platform X. “Signs show that the last bombed boat was Colombian with Colombian citizens aboard.” He did not provide any explanation for what those signs were. “I hope that their families come forward and report it,” he added. Neither Petro’s office nor Colombia’s Defense Ministry responded immediately to requests for additional information. The U.S. government also has not identified who...
WHO Reports Ebola Outbreak In Southern Congo Shows Signs Of Containment With No Newer Cases.
An Ebola outbreak that has plagued southern Congo in recent weeks is starting to be contained, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, with no new cases reported since the U.N. health agency’s last update on Oct. 1. “As of Oct. 5, 2025, 10 days have passed without any newly reported cases, indicating potential control of transmission in the affected areas,” the agency said during a news conference. The agency said a total of 64 cases, including 53 confirmed and 11 probable, have been reported in Congo’s Kasai Province as of Oct. 5. The WHO also reported 43 deaths, including 32 confirmed and 11 probable....
Former Spice Girl And Fashion Entrepreneur Victoria Beckham, Admits Eating Disorder Made Her Good At Lying
“It’s not about him, it’s about me,” declares Victoria Beckham (“him” being her husband Sir David Beckham). And that’s exactly what we get in a new three-part documentary, which drops on Netflix on Thursday. The former Spice Girl and fashion entrepreneur, 51, is determined to tell her own story – two years after former England captain Sir David, 50, released his own, hugely successful TV series. In the episodes, Victoria is strikingly open about her eating disorder, and how it made her “good at lying”. The series also takes us inside Victoria’s pop career, family life, struggles to reinvent herself and...
What To Know About The Capture Of The Last Of 10 Escapees From A New Orleans Jail
All 10 fugitives who made a brazen escape from a New Orleans jail in May are back in custody after the last inmate who was still on the run was captured hiding in the basement crawl space of an Atlanta home. Derrick Groves, 28, was found Wednesday holed up beneath the home by a police dog sent inside after an Atlanta Police Department SWAT team spent hours searching the home and deploying tear gas into it. The other nine inmates had been recaptured within six weeks of the May 16 breakout, most of them in Louisiana. A New Orleans jury convicted Groves last year...