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Jury deliberations resumed Wednesday at Harvey Weinstein's rape trial with jurors focusing on the testimony of a former TV and film production assistant who accused the disgraced movie mogul of sexually abusing her in his Manhattan apartment. A note from the jury said it wants to re-examine Miriam Haleyi’s account alleging Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006 after he got her a job working on “Project Runway,” a fashion show he produced. Haleyi, now 42, said she and Weinstein had sex at a hotel two weeks later even though she didn’t want to be intimate. Weinstein’s lawyers have suggested that episode is evidence he didn’t coerce her during the first encounter, either. The panel of seven men and five women, now in their second day of deliberations at the New York City trial, also asked to see any emails from Weinstein related to Haleyi that are in evidence. Along with the alleged assault on Haleyi, the 67-year-old Weinstein is charged with raping a woman in a Manh...

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife were held hostage in their own home and robbed of diamonds, cash, furs, and jewelry. Zuckerberg suffered bruises after being pistol-whipped and slapped in his mansion. The entire pseudo incident took place in a new Hiphop song by Boston rapper MC Spice The Legend , frustrated with Facebook's intentional removal of "posts made to educate and enlighten Black people. Say something that uplift the Black community, and they will put you in 'facebook jail' from 24 hours to 30 days"  says the veteran rapper about what he calls Facebook's white-washing of Black media. MC Spice The Legend is not alone. Millions of Black facebook users have voiced their concerns with facebook's removal of posts that say 'white people' or 'the white man is the devil'. Stacey Grant of Norfolk, Virginia expressed her anger in a telephone interview, "they [facebook] will let the shithead president say whatever he wants. And any w...

Shaun King’s $34M Black Lives Matter Fundraising Audit Shows $631K For White Supremacy, $20M For Immigration Well-known Black Lives Matter activist  Shaun King  is under fire and he’s fighting back. The fire is coming from other Black justice activists who are questioning his fundraising tactics and alleged misuse of funds. And King is not having it. “If you have posted publicly that I have ever spent or stolen a single penny I’ve raised for families in this movement, I am opening a legal case against you,” King threatened on Twitter. “This is a complete fabrication.” Recently, other activists have questions about a $100,000 reward he and civil rights attorney Lee Merritt offered for successful tips which led to an arrest in connection to young Black child’s murder, reports  The Washington Post . “The most recent scrutiny started around King when he named a white man as a key suspect in the December killing of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes in Houston, Texas, c...

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/video-captures-93-year-old-las-vegas-man-shooting-worker-over-apartment-dispute-76189253760 Robert Thomas was upset about water damage and flooding in his apartment, which allegedly led to him shoot a maintenance worker. A 93-year-old  man shot at an employee at his Las Vegas  apartment complex, in a chilling attack caught on surveillance cameras, authorities said Monday. The gunfire erupted Thursday morning at the Vista Del Valle complex,  police said,  just blocks away from the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, where the World Series of Poker's final table is played every summer. In surveillance video released by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, suspect Robert Thomas can be seen approaching a male and female worker inside the management office. Thomas then pulls a gun out of his jacket and fires one round toward the back of the room, missing another employee and striking a computer, police said. After allowing the femal...

The U.S. media's peculiar (albeit predictable) response to President Donald Trump's successful assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani continued on Monday during their coverage of the terrorist's funeral in Tehran. NPR had reporters on the ground  covering  the "historic day" and  attempting to dispel  claims that the grief on display in the streets of the Iranian capital was in any way "coerced" by the authoritarian regime. Michael Barbaro of the  New York Times   highlighted  the "amazing images and audio" from the NPR team. Several hours earlier, Barbaro posted a bizarre  podcast interview  with  Times  reporter Helene Cooper in which Cooper lamented that the U.S. military was "tragically … very good" at killing people. ABC News's Martha Raddatz donned a (mandatory) headscarf and  walked among  the "massive and emotional" crowds of mourners. She declared that the Iranian people were "united ag...

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the entire island of Puerto Rico on Monday morning, the strongest in a flurry of quakes to strike the U.S. territory in recent days. The relatively shallow, 6-mile-deep quake struck at 6:32 a.m. just south of the island, where it was felt most strongly, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, or USGS. Several smaller temblors followed, including a 4.9 magnitude quake that frightened residents all over again just before 11 a.m., according to the USGS. There was no tsunami threat, and no deaths or injuries had been reported, according to officials. People were forced outside their homes, afraid to go back inside,  as preparations and celebrations for Three Kings Day should have been underway . And thousands of residents lost power after the quake affected some electrical substations in the area. "My entire family woke up screaming," Dr. Sindia Alvarado, who lives in the southern coastal town of Peñuelas, east of Guayanilla, told T...