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Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson on Thursday was accused of sexual assault again.A civil lawsuit filed in Harris County, Texas, alleged Watson pressured a massage therapist into performing oral sex in December 2020 during a session at the Houstonian hotel. In this 26th known lawsuit opened up against Watson, the plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe in the court documents, is a licensed massage therapist that was working from home during the pandemic when she was solicited for a massage by Watson through Instagram. She was based in the Houston Area, and though she “found it somewhat peculiar,” she agreed to meet…

The FBI paid Russian national Igor Danchenko more than $200,000 to serve as a confidential human source from 2017 to late 2020.FBI Special Agent Kevin Helson testified on day three of the trial of Igor Danchenko, the Russian national who served as the primary sub-source for ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and his anti-Trump dossier.Special Counsel John Durham charged Danchenko with five counts of making false statements to the FBI. Danchenko has pleaded not guilty to all charges.DURHAM PROBE: FBI OFFERED CHRISTOPHER STEELE $1 MILLION TO CORROBORATE TRUMP ALLEGATIONS IN DOSSIERDurham, in a filing last month, revealed that Danchenko was paid by the…

Amazon broadcaster Al Michaels took time to talk about the Washington Commanders’ team owner Daniel Snyder and the controversy surrounding him during their game against the Chicago Bears on Thursday nightThe legendary announcer talked about the bombshell ESPN report that dropped earlier in the day that said Snyder told a close associate he had enough information to “blow up” several other NFL owners, the league office and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and asserted “they can’t f— with me,” ESPN reported.The 57-year-old team owner reportedly told another confidant “the NFL is a mafia” and “all other owners hate each other.” To…

An FBI agent testified Thursday that Igor Danchenko was a valuable FBI informant and said losing him as a confidential human source harms U.S. national security.FBI Special Agent Kevin Helson testified on day three of the trial of Igor Danchenko, the Russian national who served as the primary sub-source for ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and his anti-Trump dossier.Special Counsel John Durham charged Danchenko with five counts of making false statements to the FBI. Danchenko has pleaded not guilty to all charges.DURHAM PROBE: FBI OFFERED CHRISTOPHER STEELE $1 MILLION TO CORROBORATE TRUMP ALLEGATIONS IN DOSSIERDurham, in a filing last month, revealed that Danchenko…

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A Port Moody, B.C., woman is living a nightmare as she watches a government crackdown in her former hometown in Iran. Video has begun to emerge showing the Iranian government has brought in tanks to crush protests in the Kurdish town of Sanandaj in the country’s west.Mehran, who Global News has agreed not to identify out of concern for her family’s safety, gets up every morning and anxiously watches the latest videos from home on social media.“Honestly every single day I wake up and I say, ‘I hope I don’t hear any bad news,’” she said.“Yes I am scared, every…

Researchers have claimed that the 14% drop in birth rates throughout January 2021 compared to previous years was a direct effect of the coronavirus pandemic Birth rates in Europe saw a 14% drop in 2021, with researchers believing that the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is to blame. The numbers of babies being born in January 2021 was 14% less than the same month in previous years. Conception for January births is typically during the month of March the previous year, which coincides with the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Researchers have said that less conception was…

BEIJING: China’s ultra-strict COVID-19 curbs are taking a toll on businesses and jobseekers as Beijing stresses again and again the need to maintain its zero-tolerance approach to the virus, to save lives, if not livelihoods. Since 2020, China has reported 5,226 COVID-19 fatalities among its population of 1.4 billion. In contrast, more than 1 million people have died of the disease in the United States. Keeping a lid on China’s COVID-19 death toll has come at a cost to its economy. Beijinger Cai Xu, 36, has shut four of his five bars in Beijing and Chengdu in three years. Business…

UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is cutting short a trip to Washington, to fly home and tackle the financial chaos caused from his mini-budget with pressure growing on him and Prime Minister Liz Truss Kwasi Kwarteng is jetting back to the UK, cutting short a trip to Washington, to tackle the financial chaos caused by his mini-budget as pressure grows on him and Prime Minister Liz Truss. The Chancellor has been in the US capital for this week’s global finance minister meetings but has now said he will be flying home to work on the Government’s medium-term financial plan, according to…

Editor’s Note: This story was adapted from the September 14 edition of CNN’s Meanwhile in America, the email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read past editions and subscribe. CNN  —  Such turmoil has raged since Barack Obama left the White House in January 2017 that his presidency feels like it unfolded in a distant age. While history’s judgments take decades, it is already clear that the two terms of the first Black President triggered a backlash that has shaped America ever since. He was, after all, succeeded by Donald Trump, who got his political start by…