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Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The White House on Friday sought $152 million US to return the former Alcatraz prison island …
Read More »Family devastated after drunk driver who killed 4 members in Quebec granted prison leave
David Fletcher says he would love to see his father, sister, niece and nephew again. But he can’t. They were all killed by a drunk driver in Beauport, Que., on Sept. 2, 2021. Fletcher, who lives in Nova Scotia, said he and his mother are still grieving the loss, but …
Read More »Ghislaine Maxwell takes the Fifth in U.S. House committee appearance from prison
Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, declined to answer questions from U.S. House lawmakers in a deposition Monday, but indicated that if President Donald Trump ended her prison sentence, she was willing to testify that neither he nor former president Bill Clinton had done anything wrong in their …
Read More »Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison over Hong Kong national security case
Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in one of the most prominent cases prosecuted under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city’s dissent. Judge Esther Toh said 18 years of …
Read More »After fleeing to U.K. twice, Calgary woman gets 4-year prison sentence for $2-million fraud
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A judge gave a four year, two-month sentence Friday to a Calgary woman who twice fled …
Read More »60 Minutes prison segment postponed by CBS briefly viewed in Canada on Global TV
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A portion of a postponed 60 Minutes segment critical of the Trump administration’s deportation policies was …
Read More »Liverpool driver sentenced to over 21 years in prison for injuring 130 at Premier League parade
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A British man who injured more than 130 people by plowing his car into a crowd …
Read More »ICC sentences Sudanese militia leader to 20 years in prison for Darfur atrocities
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) sentenced a leader of the feared Sudanese Janjaweed militia to 20 years imprisonment Tuesday for war crimes and crimes against …
Read More »Bolsonaro detained by police ahead of prison sentence
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was taken into federal police custody on Saturday before a planned supporters’ vigil near his home, ending months of house arrest as …
Read More »Long-serving inmate with history of prison hostage-takings sentenced in Nova Scotia
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A 43-year-old convicted murderer incarcerated since a teen has been handed an additional 12 months behind bars for confining two correctional guards, with a Nova Scotia judge …
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