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May 29 (UPI) -- The prosecution rested its case Thursday in the Karen Read murder retrial. She's accused in the death of her boyfriend and Boston police officer John O'Keefe. The first trial ended with a hung jury. Prosecutors played her own words in court that questioned whether she may have "clipped" O'Keefe in the knee with her SUV. He was killed when struck by the SUV during a snowstorm Jan. 29, 2022. She's charged with hitting O'Keefe with the vehicle after a night of drinking.
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May 29 (UPI) -- Pediatrician Annie Andrews on Thursday declared she is running for U.S. Senate, challenging incumbent South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. In a colorful X post, Andrews said, "I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I'm a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t.
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May 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Treasury Department Thursday sanctioned a Philippines-based computer infrastructure company and its administrator for allegedly providing services for sites involved in cryptocurrency scams.
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upi.com | Doug Cunningham
May 29 (UPI) -- A South African mother who sold her 6-year-old daughter was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday. Racquel "Kelly" Smith was sentenced to life in prison for trafficking her daughter, Joshlin, and 10 years in prison for kidnapping her. Smith's boyfriend Jacquen Appollis, and their friend Steveno van Rhyn were also handed the same sentences.
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upi.com | Doug Cunningham
May 29 (UPI) -- The Department of Labor reported Thursday that seasonally adjusted initial unemployment claims were up 14,000 for the week ending May 24. "In the week ending May 24, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 240,000, an increase of 14,000 from the previous week's revised level," the Labor Department said in a statement.
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May 29 (UPI) -- Smokey Robinson and his wife, Frances Robinson, filed a defamation suit against a group of women who have accused him of sexual assault.
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May 28 (UPI) -- A University of Chicago Medicine Medical group cybersecurity breach in July may have exposed personal information of 38,000 patients. The exposed data includes names, Social Security numbers, addresses, dates of birth, medical information and financial account information. Third-party debt collection vendor Nationwide Recovery Systems notified UChicago Medicine on April 8 that the data breach occurred in July 2024.
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upi.com | Doug Cunningham
May 28 (UPI) -- China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A LongMarch 3B rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The Long March 3B Y110 rocket lifted off toward the near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa and is expected to take a year to reach the asteroid. Asteroid samples are scheduled to return to Earth by 2027 as the mission heads for a rendezvous with the 311P/Pantstarrs comet around 2035.
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upi.com | Doug Cunningham
May 28 (UPI) -- Ford is recalling more than a million vehicles for rearview camera issues that could increase the risk of crashes. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the cameras could present a frozen or missing rearview camera image. It potentially affects 1,075,299 Ford vehicles. "A software error may cause the rearview camera image to delay, freeze, or not display when the vehicle is in reverse," the NHTSA said in a statement.
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May 28 (UPI) -- A French pedophile surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of patients was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison. During a 90-day trial Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, was charged with 111 rapes and 189 sexual assaults from 1989 to 2014 that allegedly occurred at a dozen hospitals. "Twenty years is little compared to the number of victims in this trial," said victim attorney Francesa Satta in a statement.
