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Iran has sentenced the activist daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to five years in prison, her lawyer said on Tuesday, January 10. The lawyer did not give detail of the charges against Faezeh Hashemi. But Tehran's public prosecutor indicted Hashemi last year on charges of "propaganda against the system", according to the semi-official ISNA news agency. Iranian state media in September reported she had been arrested for "inciting riots" in Tehran during protests triggered by the death of a young Kurdish woman in police custody.   The protests pose one of the biggest challenges to Iran's clerical rulers since the 1979 revolution. "Following the arrest of Ms. Faezeh Hashemi, she was sentenced to five years in prison but the sentence is not final," defence lawyer Neda Shams wrote on her Twitter account. In 2012, Faezeh Hashemi was sentenced to jail and banned from political activities for “anti state propaga...

"Rhythm of the Night" singer El DeBarge has been arrested after a run-in with cops at a gas station.   TMZ reported that the singer was handcuffed around 3:40 AM on Sunday, January 8, shortly after police officers who saw him stop at a gas station, noticed he had expired tags.   It was gathered that when they approached, they saw an expandable metal baton in plain sight in El's vehicle.   The baton is an illegal weapon, and that prompted cops to further search the vehicle which led to the discovery of pepper spray and suspected narcotics.    The singer who is accused of also not having a valid driver's license, was arrested and booked on several charges including possession of a leaded cane or baton, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia.   The drug discovered in his car is suspected to be heroin. DeBarge has already posted $25K bond and is due back in court in March. ...

A Louisiana mom shot a man dead after he broke into her house while she was home with her two young children on Sunday, Jan. 8, police said.   The suspect, Robert Rheams, allegedly broke into the home on Klein Road in Tangipahoa Parish, armed with a shovel and lug wrench in the early morning hours, the local sheriff’s office said.   Rheams, 51, and the woman got into a physical scuffle after she found him inside her home.   During the struggle, she shot him dead around 5 a.m., according to Chief Jimmy Travis.   The home intruder, who was out on parole after serving two decades in prison for armed robbery, was pronounced dead at the scene.   Investigators said he was also the suspect in a carjacking hours before he broke into the family’s home.   There have been no arrests and Travis said it appears that the woman was "exercising her second amendment rights to protect herself and her children from a violent home invasion."

Several clAccording to a CNN report on Monday night, January 9, fewer than a dozen classified documents were found at Biden’s office. It is unclear what the documents pertain to or why they were taken to Biden’s private office as federal officeholders are required by law to relinquish official documents and classified records when their government service ends. “The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice regarding the discovery of what appear to be Obama-Biden Administration records, including a small number of documents with classified markings,” Richard Sauber, special counsel to President Biden, said in a statement Monday night. assified documents from US President Joe Biden’s time as vice president were discovered last fall in a private office, Biden’s lawyers have acknowledged. Biden’s lawyers say they found the government materials in November while closing out a Washington, DC-based office – the Penn Biden Center for D...

Four American police officers from the Nashville suburb of La Vergne have been fired for allegedly having sex on duty with a female cop, who was also fired.    Patrol officer Maegan Hall of La Vergne Police Department is at the forefront of the investigation after it was revealed in December that she 'engaged in a sexual relationship' with at least four male officers.   Fellow patrol officers Juan Lugo-Perez, Lewis Powell, detective Seneca Shields, and Sgt. Henry Ty McGowan admitted to the accusations, according to the report, with Shields claiming he had oral sex with Hall in the department's gym while on duty.   Patrol officer Patrick Magliocco   Hall, who is married, is also accused of revealing her breast while at a steamy 'family' Memorial Day boat party with patrol officer Patrick Magliocco, who was suspended, and fellow officers David Durham and Eric Staats.   'Magliocco said that Staats, himself, Durham and Hall were in the h...

  A former Zambian national football star, Philemon Mulala, was mauled to death by his three dogs in South Africa.  Mulala, 60, was attacked at his home in Lichtenburg, North West, on Saturday, January 7, 2023   Provincial police spokesperson, Captain Sam Tselanyane, confirmed the incident in a statement on Monday, January 9.   "It is alleged that on the said day during load shedding, the deceased’s wife was busy on the other side of their house when she heard the dogs barking. She didn’t bother to go and check what was wrong as their house is situated on a busy street and the dogs are frequently barking at pedestrians and vehicles passing by. Moreover, after the electricity was restored, she allegedly went inside the house looking for her husband, but could not find him," he stated.  "Upon continuing with the search, the woman saw her husband lying motionless outside in the garden, she then quickly went outside only to find that her husband...

50 Cent has disclosed that his friend and fellow rapper Eminem turned down an offer to perform with him at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar in a collaboration which organizers were willing to pay $9 million for.   Appearing on Big Boy's Neighborhood on Real 92.3, the 47-year-old rapper said that Eminem, 50, declined the offer.   The If I Can't rapper said that officials in Qatar were hoping to hire the pair after their involvement in the lauded Super Bowl halftime show last year in Los Angeles, which also featured Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, and Anderson .Paak.   'Because of the Super Bowl, I got an inquiry about World Cup and they had a budget of $9 million,' said the rap artist, whose real name is Curtis James Jackson III, adding that he 'would've taken' $1 million and the remaining $8 million 'would have been for' Eminem.   The Candy Shop artist said that he tried to negotiate the appearance with E...