[ad_1] WASHINGTON — More than two-thirds of the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of a defense policy bill on Thursday that includes a record $886 billion in annual military spending and authorizes policies such as aid for Ukraine and push back against China in the Indo-Pacific. The House backed the National Defense Authorization Act,…
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[ad_1] BOSTON — A former professor at Harvard Medical School and founder of one of the nation’s largest fertility clinics is being accused of secretly impregnating a patient in 1980 after promising the sperm would come from an anonymous donor, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. Sarah Depoian, 73, said she and her husband first…
[ad_1] At least 15 people who registered for Saudi Arabia’s delegation to the COP28 climate conference in Dubai appear to be undeclared employees of the Saudi state oil company, according to research by an environmental nonprofit. Saudi Arabia, the world’s second-biggest oil producer, was one of the main countries opposing an aggressive commitment to phase…
[ad_1] CANBERRA, Australia — An Australian appeals court on Thursday overturned all convictions against a woman 20 years after a jury found her guilty of killing her four children. Kathleen Folbigg already was pardoned at the New South Wales state government’s direction and released from prison in June based on new scientific evidence that her four children…
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — Two men who spent decades in prison for crimes they didn’t commit have been exonerated and freed, the Los Angeles County district attorney announced Wednesday. Giovanni Hernandez and Miguel Solorio had their convictions vacated earlier this year and on Wednesday a judge found them factually innocent, the District Attorney’s Office said…
[ad_1] A Texas man has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill a Boston physician who specializes in treating gender nonconforming youth. Matthew Lindner, 39, had previously pleaded not guilty, but at a federal court hearing Wednesday, he changed his plea to guilty on one count of interstate transmission of threatening communication, according to court records…
[ad_1] A Rochester Institute of Technology student who had been reported missing for over three weeks has been located safe and is back with his family, the Monroe County, New York, sheriff’s office said Wednesday. The sheriff’s office, which had published notices asking for assistance in the case, in a statement Wednesday evening did not…
[ad_1] A Michigan man has been charged with illegally possessing the handgun that a 2-year-old used to fatally shoot himself in a car, as well as with the subsequent burning of the vehicle, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. A grand jury returned an indictment against Avis Damone Coward for counts of being a felon in possession…
[ad_1] The business partner of a Pennsylvania woman whose body was found buried two weeks after she went missing in January was convicted of murder Wednesday, the district attorney said. A jury found Blair Watts guilty of first-degree murder and he was immediately sentenced to a mandatory term of life in prison, the Montgomery County…