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Hundreds of climate activists on Saturday blocked one of the main roads into the international criminal court, The Hague, in a show of protests over fossil fuel linked tax breaks before being hauled away.Activists reportedly blocked the road for an hour before authorities began detaining them and removing them by bus. The move comes after six Extinction Rebellion activists were detained this week on suspicion of “sedition” over calls to stage the protest. BIDEN ADMIN ISSUES 20-YEAR MINING BAN AS IT TURNS TO FOREIGN SUPPLY CHAIN AMID GREEN ENERGY PUSHProsecutors faced condemnation for the actions taken against demonstrators despite their right to…

Exclusive: Hailey Wadsworth says her sibling Ashley would still be alive if her family had known that her boyfriend had convictions against women for assault and harassmentThe sister of a Canadian ­teenager murdered in Britain is calling for a change in UK law to make it easier to check whether someone has a criminal past. Hailey Wadsworth says her sibling Ashley would still be alive if her family had known the web boyfriend who lured her to his Essex home had convictions against women for assault and harassment. But she says it is harder to find out information like that…

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/MEGA While Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. have been together for more than 20 years, it all nearly fell apart over movie spoilers. “We’re about 20 minutes into [The Sixth Sense] and I said something, just like it popped up [in my head], like, ‘Is that [this actor]?” the Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum, 45, said during a Friday, January 27, appearance on The Graham Norton Show. “And my husband didn’t see a movie with me for 15 years.” Gellar — who has been married to the She’s All That star, 46, for…

Smerconish: Paul Pelosi’s presence of mind The release of the 9-1-1 call and body cam video of the attack on 82-year-old Paul Pelosi both shuts down all the conspiracy theories, says CNN’s Michael Smerconish, and brings admiration for Pelosi’s presence of mind. Source: CNN

The Grizzlies took the court in Minnesota just hours after the video of Memphis police’s fatal beating of Tyre Nichols was released. Five Memphis police officers have been fired and charged with murder in the death of Nichols, a 29-year-old father. The bodycam footage shows a senseless beating following a traffic stop. Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins made comments about the tragedy before and after the game. “Our team understands the city’s hurting. The Nichols and Wells families are hurting right now,” Jenkins told Bally Sports before the game in Minnesota Friday night. “The senseless loss of life for Tyre Nichols…

The record number of deaths from drug overdoses and fentanyl imported from China have become ground zero in the race to decide who will be the next governor of Kentucky, one of the states hardest hit by the crisis.Incumbent Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, one of only three Democrats in the country to lead a red state, is facing off with a number of Republican challengers, each of whom has placed the drug epidemic front and center in their campaigns to unseat him.”We can do better,” former U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft told Fox News Digital in an interview earlier this month…

WALTERBORO, S.C. – Disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh suggested in an interview with investigators hours after his wife and son were murdered that a caretaker might be to blame.David Owen, an agent with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, asked Murdaugh if there was anyone he suspected of the crime. “This is such a stupid thing, I’m embarrassed to say it,” Murdaugh answered before naming C.B. Rowe, a man he’d hired about eight weeks earlier.Video of the 34-minute interview was played Thursday at Murdaugh’s trial in Colleton County on charges he gunned down his 22-year-old son Paul and his wife, Maggie,…

Banks and asset managers will face scrutiny from Congress on their “ESG agenda”, according to a senior Republican lawmaker, pointing to tensions ahead between the new House majority and America’s financial sector.The comments by Andy Barr, the chair of the House financial services subcommittee responsible for financial institutions and monetary policy, fire a new salvo at Wall Street banks and asset managers for their social and climate goals.“We think that banks should be non-political. Banks should not be a political party,” the Kentucky lawmaker said in an interview at his office on Capitol Hill. “Banks should serve creditworthy borrowers and…

A four-star Air Force General on Friday predicted in a memo to his officers that the U.S. will be at war with China by 2025 and advised his commanders to prepare, a report by NBC News said.Gen. Mike Minihan, head of Air Mobility Command, in a memo to all air wing commanders and other Air Force operational commanders said, “I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me [we] will fight in 2025.”Minihan said he believes war with China is imminent in the next two years due to the upcoming 2024 elections in the U.S. and Taiwan, which he claimed…

Luke Woods punched pregnant girlfriend Lauren Jackson in the face following an argument in December last year, just six years after killing pensioner Len Saunders in a vicious and unprovoked attack in 2017A killer who describes himself as an “animal” violently attacked his pregnant girlfriend in a park before abandoning her. Luke Woods punched Lauren Jackson in the face following an argument despite her being 30 weeks pregnant near to Fosters Park in St Helens, Merseyside, in December last year. Woods, 22, was previously locked up after killing pensioner Len Saunders in a vicious and unprovoked attack in 2017, causing…