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COVER-UP QUESTION: Probe of town police in Karen Read case finds no sign of ‘conspiracy to frame’ slain officer’s girlfriend.THE DEPARTED: Inside evolution of Boston murder mystery since July mistrial. Karen Read exits Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Mass., Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Dario Alequin for Fox News Digital)HOUSE OF HORRORS: Bodycam in Connecticut shows suspect after stepson’s fiery escape from years of abuse, authorities say.FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XMURDER HE WROTE: Ex-Duke football murder suspect keeps returning home after arrests thanks to soft-on-crime judges, police rep says.LUCK RUNNING OUT: Rachel Morin’s alleged illegal killer accused of…

Liberal candidate Nathalie Provost says she wants to see Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre call out “shameful” comments by a now-dropped Conservative candidate, Simon Payette, who accused her of playing the “victim game” in her quest for stronger gun regulations. A Conservative spokesperson confirmed to the Canadian Press that the party has now dropped Payette as a candidate — the latest in a slew of candidates shed by the Liberals and Conservatives this week over contentious comments, ahead of Monday’s nomination deadline in the federal election.Provost, who survived being shot in the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre and who was awarded the…

Some businesses operating on the edge of daylight savings states are actually excited to join their neighbours’ time zone.

In a rare and perilous public show of anger against Hamas, hundreds of Palestinians marched through Beit Lahia in northern Gaza this week, demanding that the militant group relinquish control of the territory and end the war with Israel, according to four witnesses.The march on Wednesday appeared to be the latest of a handful of such protests that have broken out in the last two weeks, despite Hamas’s efforts to suppress dissent with threats and shows of force. Witnesses said it was the first of the protests in Beit Lahia that women joined, some bringing their children.Taken together, the demonstrations,…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Bank stocks — Major banks declined on Friday, as President Donald Trump’s new tariff policies increasingly raised fears of a U.S. economic pullback. Shares of JPMorgan , Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo each tumbled more than 7%. about 8%. Goldman Sachs and Citigroup declined by about 7.8% and 7.9%, respectively. Tesla , Palantir Technologies — Top picks among retail investors were not able to buck Friday’s sell-off. Electric vehicle maker Tesla dropped 10.4%, while defense technology stock Palantir tumbled 11.5%. Property stocks — Real estate stocks Prologis and Simon Property Group slipped by about 3.3%…

Have Nottingham Forest worked out a foolproof method of beating the Premier League’s ‘Big Six’?Tuesday’s 1-0 victory against Manchester United took them to 18 points from a possible 30 in their head-to-head encounters with the Premier League’s historical and financial giants so far this season.Of the division’s other 14 clubs, only Brighton and Hove Albion can match Forest’s rate of success against Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur this season, and crucially, those points have put Forest into an extremely strong position in the race for Champions League qualification.But whereas Brighton often go toe-to-toe stylistically with…

Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to withhold millions of dollars in federal education grants because it said they funded programs that involve diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.The high court split 5-4 in granting a request from the Justice Department to pause a federal district court order that required the Department of Education to reinstate the grants that had been awarded to universities and nonprofit organizations in eight states. The court said in an unsigned opinion that its stay will remain in place while legal proceedings move forward.”Respondents have represented in this…

In the cathedral sacristy, Cardinal McCarrick, at the time a monsignor who was Cardinal Cooke’s personal secretary, began measuring him. Mr. Noaker said that the monsignor, “under the guise of measuring his inseam, unzipped his pants, and sexually assaulted him,” adding, “The kid had just turned 16, and kind of pulled back, and McCarrick was a little surprised by that.”“Let’s not tell anyone about this,” the monsignor told the student, Mr. Noaker said.Over the following year, he said, Monsignor McCarrick occasionally saw the youth and praised his looks. Selected again in 1972 to be a Christmas Mass altar server, the…

A Chinese national who admitted to carrying out an unprovoked stabbing attack on a TTC subway car in December 2022 was seeking revenge on Canadians because a Canadian doctor blinded him. The chilling confession was read in a downtown Toronto courthouse Friday out as part of an agreed statement of facts (ASF) at the sentencing hearing for 55-year-old Neng Jia Jin.Jin pleaded guilty in February to the first-degree murder of 31-year-old Vanessa Kurpiewska and the attempted murder 37-year-old Sulakshana Srijeyarayah, two strangers to Jin who were passengers on a subway train approaching High Park station from Runnymede station on Dec.…

Fergus O’Neill has carried on where he left off back home as the Sheffield Shield player of the season made a striking four-wicket County Championship debut for Nottinghamshire.As the 2025 English season kicked off under blue skies on Friday, the Victoria quick O’Neill wasn’t the only Australian newcomer to shine with Caleb Jewell making a sparkling half-century for Derbyshire and Northamptonshire’s Liam Guthrie clean bowling England Test opener Zak Crawley.O’Neill came to Trent Bridge, looking forward to parading his ability on a Test ground after a superb season back home in which he had taken 38 wickets at 21.07 apiece,…