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LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian court on Wednesday sentenced former President Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison after finding him guilty of taking bribes while serving as governor of a southern state. Vizcarra was sentenced to immediate imprisonment and a nine-year ban from public office. He is expected to appeal the decision. “This is not justice, it is revenge,” Vizcarra said on social media. “But they will not break me.” A Peruvian court sentenced former President Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison after finding him guilty of taking bribes while serving as governor of a southern state. AFP via Getty Images…

WARNER, Okla. — A basketball player at a junior college in Oklahoma who was injured during a game has died, school officials said. Connors State College sophomore Ethan Dietz died Tuesday after he was injured during the second half of a game against Grayson College in Denison, Texas, the school said in a statement posted to its Facebook page. A spokesperson for the college, Shannon Rigsby, said initial reports indicate Dietz suffered some kind of head injury, but that she didn’t have any more information. Ethan Dietz, Connors State College basketball player, died after suffering injury in game. Ethan Dietz…

ROME (AP) — Italy’s parliament on Tuesday approved a law that introduces femicide into the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life in prison. The vote coincided with the international day for the elimination of violence against women, a day designated by the UN General Assembly. The law won bipartisan support from the center-right majority and the center-left opposition in the final vote in the Lower Chamber, passing with 237 votes in favor. A woman holds a sign reading “77 femicides since 2025” as demonstrators, including protesters from the “Non Una di Meno” (Not One Less) movement and feminist collectives, take part in…

Susan Monica is currently serving two life sentences in prison. Her crimes are so grotesque and twisted she has become a notorious individual among true crime enthusiasts. Although technically a serial killer is a murderer who kills three or more people, who knows what Monica would have done had she not been caught? Or if there are others she hasn’t admitted to. Susan Monica in Court (NBC) The killer started out as a heroic wartime veteran. After fighting in the Vietnam war, Monica went on to become an engineer. That vocation wouldn’t last and in 1991 she decided to buy…

With Thanksgiving approaching, the film “Pieces of April” is widely available on streaming platforms and makes for a timely, emotionally rich holiday watch. Why “Pieces of April” Is a Great Thanksgiving Movie Thanksgiving is a holiday steeped in tradition: Grandma’s cranberry sauce, mom’s decorations, marathon football—the rituals we expect and that popular culture celebrates. What we talk about less is the unspoken tradition many families carry: the drama, tension, and dysfunction (the political divide!) that so many of us anticipate. For many people, Thanksgiving week kicks off the most psychologically intense stretch of the year. Those in therapy or actively…

The New Yorker has been ripped for peddling a gushing sob story about an illegal migrant and convicted murderer who was recently booted from the United States by the Trump administration. Jamaican Orville Etoria, 62, was one of five illegal migrants shipped off to Africa in September as part of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program. His case was featured in a lengthy feature in the New Yorker this week, months after the Department of Homeland Security ripped a similar story on him in the New York Times as “disgraceful and disgusting.” A teaser for the New Yorker’s story on X…

A British woman who was detained by ICE while holding her newborn baby has been freed — in time for Thanksgiving. Katie Paul, 33, headed over to the States in September 2024, to be with her husband, Stephen, originally from San Diego, and the couple quickly tied the knot the following month. She was planning on returning to the UK while she got her green card sorted, but was told her pregnancy was high-risk, so she decided to sort it out from the US. Katie Paul and her husband Stephen have a six-month-old son. Jules Peters / SWNS On November…

Campbell Soup Company says that its products are made from real meat — not “3-D printed chicken,” as an exec allegedly said in a shocking recording dissing the company’s soup and customers, along with Indian employees. Campbell’s veep Martin Bally was caught describing the soup as “bioengineered meat” and saying, “I don’t wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3-D printer,” according to a suit a former employee filed last week in Michigan. Campbell’s said Tuesday the remarks were untrue. Campbell’s was forced to defend its ingredients after a leaked audio claimed that it uses “3D printed…

BANGKOK — A court in Thailand said Wednesday that it has issued an arrest warrant for a co-owner of the Miss Universe Organization in connection with a fraud case. Jakkaphong “Anne” Jakrajutatip was charged with fraud and then released on bail in 2023. She failed to appear as required in a Bangkok court on Tuesday. Since she did not notify the court about her absence, she was deemed to be a flight risk, according to a statement from the Bangkok South District Court. Jakkaphong “Anne” Jakrajutatip was charged with fraud and then released on bail in 2023. AP The court rescheduled the…

Imagine reading The Boxcar Children, Nancy Drew, or Encyclopedia Brown through a David Lynch lens and you’ll begin to get an idea of what it’s like to turn the pages of Hobotwn Mystery Stories. Set in a secluded Canadian town where a group of teenage sleuths kill time by trying not to be killed as they solve strange and quirky cases, writer Kris Bertin, artist Alexander Forbes, and colorist Jason Fischer-Kouhi bring the Hobotwn Mystery Stories graphic novel series back to comic shops today with The Secret of the Saucer, and as a special treat for Daily Dead readers, we have…