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A Florida man convicted earlier this month of brutally murdering two boys is slated to receive the death penalty after a jury unanimously recommended the punishment Friday following a five-day sentencing trial.Mark Wilson was found guilty of first-degree murder earlier this month for killing 14-year-old Tatyen and 12-year-old Robert Baker in August 2020, according to local ABC affiliate First Coast News.Wilson, who was living with his wife, the boys’ aunt, in a shed on the family’s Melrose property at the time, beat the boys in the head with a hammer before slitting their throats.Their mother, Sarah Baker, was sleeping in…

Everyone seems to be in favor of the new 12-team College Football Playoff that will arrive either next year or the season after.  It will be more inclusive and extend the playing field beyond the usual suspects. It could conceivably balance out the top-heavy sport, since more programs will be on the biggest stage. It’s a win for college football, and I’m fully on board with tripling the number of playoff participants.  One thing it won’t do is give us a regular season game like Saturday’s showdown between Georgia and Tennessee, or the Thanksgiving Day Weekend blood feud that is…

London CNN  —  The UK government is facing calls to investigate after an unconfirmed media report claimed former British Prime Minister Liz Truss’ phone was hacked while she was foreign secretary. The UK’s Mail on Sunday newspaper reported that private messages between Truss and international foreign ministers, including messages about the war in Ukraine, as well as messages with former finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng fell “into foreign hands.” The paper claimed that the hack was discovered during the Conservative Party leadership campaign over the summer, which ultimately saw Truss named prime minister. The paper also claimed that “agents suspected of…

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Sunday that the “most haunting” aspect of the recent home invasion and attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband is its similarities to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.During an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show,” Jean-Pierre told anchor Jonathan Capehart that the “horrific” attack Friday morning in the couple’s San Francisco home is further evidence that Republicans must do more to condemn political violence.”It is horrific, and just very sad what we’re seeing,” she said. “And it goes to what we’re seeing currently. We have to condemn political violence. It is something that should…

More than 60 people are reportedly dead, and many others are injured after a bridge collapsed in India on Sunday.The bridge, located in the western Indian state of Gujarat, had been constructed in the 19th century. It was closed to for renovations for months up until its reopening last week, according to Reuters. The bridge extends more than 750 feet across body of water.Local officials say they brought pumps to lower the water level under the bridge to facilitate the recovery of bodies.The cause of the suspension bridge collapse remains unclear, but local media has speculated it may have been…

CNN  —  South Korean authorities were on Sunday investigating the crowd surge that killed at least 153 partygoers in Seoul, as the rattled nation attempts to come to terms with one of its worst-ever disasters. The country has begun a week-long period of mourning while officials attempt to understand how the devastating crush took place. At least 26 foreign nationals, including two US citizens, are among the dead. More than a dozen embassies around the globe have confirmed victims from their country. What caused Saturday’s surge is unclear, but witnesses say partygoers were packed tightly into narrow streets in the…

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly are among the key signatories to an open letter decrying Iran’s record on women’s rights. The letter, published in Sunday’s New York Times, condemns Iran’s violent crackdown on recent protests and calls for the country to be removed from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.Former prime minister Kim Campbell and human rights activist and author Nazanin Afshin-Jam are the other Canadians on a list of “key signatures” to the letter.Iran began a four-year term on the UN’s status-of-women commission earlier this year.The letter says Iran should…

Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, tweeted out a since-deleted, unfounded and anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theory Sunday morning about the attack on the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from a website that has a history of publishing false information.Musk responded to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she tweeted out an L.A. Times story about how the suspect in the attack on Paul Pelosi, David DePape, spread far-right conspiracy theories. Clinton tweeted the link to that story along with the message: “The Republican Party and its mouthpieces now regularly spread hate and deranged conspiracy theories. It is shocking,…

NEW DELHI — At least 60 people died and many are feared injured after a cable bridge collapsed into a river in the western Indian state of Gujarat on Sunday evening, local media reported.Officials told local media over a hundred people were plunged into the Machchu river when the bridge in the state’s Morbi district collapsed. It was not immediately clear how many people were on the bridge, but officials fear the death toll could rise.State minister Brijesh Merja told television channels that 60 people have died so far and that 17 people were admitted to hospitals.Days ago, the 19th-century,…

A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. The Federal Reserve is most likely going to raise interest rates by three quarters of a percentage point again on Wednesday, its fourth straight supersized hike. And it’s still possible another rate increase of that magnitude could come in December. But the big question for many investors – and American consumers – is whether the Fed will send the economy into a recession with these massive rate increases. There are hopes that any downturn would be mild, but…