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Day: September 30, 2018

Man charge over village murder
Featured, United Kingdom

Man charge over village murder

    A man has been charged with murder after two women died in a stabbing in a quiet village. Jack Ralph has also been charged with attempted murder after a man was taken to hospital with serious injuries during the incident in Hadlow, near Tonbridge, on Saturday, Kent Police said. Police were called by paramedics to a house in Carpenters Lane just after 7.40am. Three people were found with injuries consistent with a stabbing, police said. Two women, aged in their 50s and 70s, died at the scene. The man, also in his 70s, is in a stable condition in hospital, according to a force spokeswoman. The 28-year-old, who lives on the street, remains in custody and will face two counts of murder and one of attempted murder when he appears via video link at Medway Magistrates’ Co...
FBI contacts second Kavanaugh accuser
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FBI contacts second Kavanaugh accuser

    The FBI has begun contacting people as part of an additional background investigation of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, including a second woman who alleges that the Supreme Court nominee sexually assaulted her, according to people familiar with the unfolding investigation. The FBI also is following up on allegations by Christine Blasey Ford, a California psychologist, who testified to the Senate this week that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s when they were in high school in suburban Washington, D.C. Ford recounted in detail how Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge allegedly attacked her in a bedroom during a small gathering at a house when the teen boys were both drunk. Ford said the alleged attack had caused her lasting trauma, and she was visibly an...
Boris Johnson blasts May’s deranged Brexit plan
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Boris Johnson blasts May’s deranged Brexit plan

    Boris Johnson has launched a blistering attack on Theresa May's Brexit plan on the eve of the Tory conference, calling the proposal deranged and preposterous. But in a blow to the former foreign secretary's leadership ambitions, a Sky Data poll has revealed voters are more likely to support the party under the current prime minister. In his latest outburst, Mr Johnson questioned whether Mrs May believes in Brexit as he rejected her Chequers strategy for leaving the European Union. Unlike the Prime Minister, I campaigned for Brexit, he told the Sunday Times. Unlike the Prime Minister, I fought for this, I believe in it, I think it's the right thing for our country and I think that what is happening now is, alas, not what people were promised in 2016. Mr Johnson ...