Month: October 2026

French investigative journalism website Mediapart said Thursday it had been able to authenticate antisemitic messages from 2013 attributed to far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s de facto deputy Jordan Bardella. The allegations come just seven months out from the election where voters will choose a replacement for President Emmanuel Macron, with Le Pen leading opinion polls.
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Christa Pike’s attorneys said she is “alive right now” and receiving life-saving medical care, one day after a failed execution attempt in Tennessee.

In a news conference on Thursday, the attorneys detailed what happened during Pike’s execution attempt on Wednesday. Tennessee officials were unable to put Pike to death for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug.

She would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.

“Christa is alive right now. We don’t have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at the moment,” lawyer Randy Spivey said during a news conference. “But we know she is alive right now and receiving life-saving medical care.” #News #ChristaPike

READ MORE: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/what-happens-next-christa-pike-survived-2-lethal-injections-tennessee/507-8db5ba54-99bd-470f-84b2-674c6d32de49

New York’s governor appointed a special prosecutor Thursday to oversee an investigation into a woman’s allegations that she was gang raped at a Cornell University fraternity house, saying she had lost faith in the local district attorney’s ability to handle the case.

Gov. Kathy Hochul said she had signed an executive order appointing the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James as the special prosecutor.

“Newly released information continues to raise serious questions about the investigation conducted by the Cornell Police Department and the decision by the Tompkins County District Attorney not to prosecute an alleged sexual assault on Cornell University’s campus in October 2024,” Hochul said. “This has, in turn, undercut my faith, and the public’s faith, in the District Attorney’s ability to effectively investigate and prosecute the case at this time.”

Hochul said the attorney general would oversee the investigation and, if warranted, present evidence to a grand jury. #News #Cornell #Crime

READ MORE: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/cornell-university-special-prosecutor-new-york-governor/507-c439b633-353b-4870-8653-799ffd21e100