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Michele Singer Reiner, who died Sunday in Los Angeles alongside her husband of three decades, Rob Reiner, was an accomplished producer, actor and photographer and collaborated with Reiner on many of his most famous projects. Singer Reiner began her career as a photographer, working on the “MysteryDisc” video games and the thriller “Misery,” which Reiner directed. She also acted, starring in the Nora Ephron holiday movie “Mixed Nuts,” and produced several Reiner films including “Shock and Awe” and “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” which was released this year. Singer Reiner was nominated for an Emmy for the documentary “Albert…
The father and son duo suspected of carrying out a massacre at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach on Sunday were “driven by Islamic state ideology,” police say, as Philippines authorities confirmed the pair recently traveled to a part of that country which has long been a hotbed of extremism. The two men are 50-year-old Sajid Akram, who was killed exchanging gunfire with police; and his 24-year-old son Naveed Akram, who is in custody at the hospital and is expected to face significant charges. Australian counterterrorism official believe the pair underwent military-style training while in the southern Philippines last month, public broadcaster…
Mourners gathered in Sydney on Wednesday as the first funerals began for some of the 15 people killed in Australia’s worst mass shooting in almost three decades. There were emotional scenes outside the Chabad of Bondi in Sydney, where large crowds paid their respects ahead of the service for Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was killed in Sunday’s massacre that targeted Jewish families celebrating the first night of Hanukkah. Family members wept as Schlanger’s coffin, draped in black velour bearing a gold Star of David, was wheeled into the synagogue. Schlanger, 41, organized the “Chanukah by the Sea” event at Bondi…
Investigators say two early clues – a campus custodian’s observations and an anonymous Reddit post – helped narrow their search for Brown University shooting suspect Claudio Valente, according to a newly released affidavit. A university’s custodian told detectives he had noticed a suspicious person with a surgical mask whose clothing matched images police had released several times in the weeks prior to the shooting. The man “walked with a limp,” the affidavit said. Detectives later reviewed university surveillance footage from Dec. 1 and found a figure consistent with the general description of the suspect. Two weeks later, on Tuesday, police…
The Justice Department released thousands of files related to sex offender and accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in a much-anticipated document dump Friday. The documents are the result of Congress forcing the Trump administration’s hand. The administration had initially promised extensive disclosures on Epstein but then, in July, abruptly changed course. Congress ultimately last month passed a bill requiring the administration to release the files, after a bipartisan revolt. The documents are not everything the Justice Department has; it said Friday it will continue rolling them out in the coming weeks. But they give us our biggest glimpse to date of…
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains graphic and disturbing descriptions of sexual violence. The Justice Department’s partial release of its files related to Jeffrey Epstein on Friday marked a moment of triumph for Epstein survivor Maria Farmer and her sister Annie, who have said for years that Maria had filed one of the first complaints against Epstein in the 1990s. An FBI document released Friday included a 1996 description of a criminal complaint against Epstein related to child pornography. While the name of the complainant is redacted in the document, Maria Farmer’s lawyer, Jennifer Freeman, confirmed on CNN that the complaint…
Personnel from the United States boarded and seized a vessel off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday, according to a US official familiar with the matter, as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on Caracas. It was the second known instance of the US interdicting a vessel near Venezuela this month and comes after President Donald Trump announced this week a “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers going in and out of the country. The US seized a large oil tanker called the Skipper, which had been under sanctions for its ties to Iran, on December 10. While Trump’s directive this…
This article was first published in 2020 and has been updated.Lionel Messi received a hero’s welcome when he touched down in India overnight to embark on a special, weekendlong tour of the country.As part of the so-called “GOAT Tour,” the 38-year-old is visiting Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai and New Delhi over the course of three days, accompanied by two old friends in the shape of former Barcelona teammate Luis Suárez and Rodrigo De Paul, who played alongside Messi in Argentina’s World Cup winning side of 2022.The first stop was Kolkata, where Messi — who is fresh from captaining Inter Miami to…