Stephen Lucas, right, speaks at a press conference in Chicago, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Lucas, along with two others, claim they were sexually abused as children while incarcerated at Illinois juvenile detention centers, stepped forward Tuesday as part of a lawsuit recounting decades of disturbing allegations of systemic child abuse. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)
An Oklahoma State Highway Patrol trooper searches storm damage Tuesday, May 7, 2024 in Barnsdall, Okla. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP)
Oklahoma State Highway Patrol troopers search storm damage Tuesday, May 7, 2024 in Barnsdall, Okla. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP)
An Oklahoma State Highway Patrol trooper searches storm damage Tuesday, May 7, 2024 in Barnsdall, Okla. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP)
Witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial is set to move forward again and all eyes are on who will be called next. Monday's testimony saw two witnesses tied to the Trump Organization elaborate on a key part of the charges in the case: Michael Cohen's reimbursement for hush money payments. Trump was also fined for again violating his gag order. Prosecutors say Trump and his associates schemed to influence the 2016 presidential election by buying and burying negative stories about Trump. He has pleaded not guilty. Tuesday’s witness testimony is set to dig further into the events and people involved.
Chinese state media are reporting a knife attack with possible deaths at a hospital in the country’s southwest. The official Xinhua News Agency said there were more than 10 casualties in what it called a “vicious assault” on Tuesday in Yunnan province. An online post from Guizhou province television citing unnamed authorities said that two had died and 23 people were injured. A suspect has been arrested, the Guizhou TV post said. The attack took place at Zhenxiong County People’s Hospital in Zhaotong city.
Polish prosecutors have ended an investigation into skeletons found at a site where German dictator Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders spent time during World War II because the advanced decay made it impossible to determine the cause of death. The remains were found Feb. 24 at Wolf’s Lair, which was Hitler’s chief headquarters from 1941-44 when the area was part of Germany. The compound of about 200 Nazi bunkers and military barracks hidden in deep woods was the site of the failed assassination attempt on Hitler by Col. Claus Stauffenberg in 1944. The site is now a tourist attraction. The bones were likely from at least three men and a child, but their identities were unknown.
A woman accused of serving her ex-husband’s family poisonous mushrooms with lunch has pleaded not guilty in an Australian court to three charges of murder and five charges of attempted murder. Erin Patterson, 49, appeared briefly in Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court by video link from a Melbourne prison where she has been held since her arrest in November last year. She pleaded not guilty to all charges and will appear in the Victoria state Supreme Court in Melbourne for the first time later this month. Proceedings have been fast-tracked after Patterson dispensed with a committal hearing. She also stands accused for the attempted murder of her ex-husband and another one of his family members.
In this courtroom sketch, Erin Patterson appears in Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court, Victoria, Nov. 3, 2023. Patterson, accused of serving her ex-husband's parents and an aunt poisonous mushrooms with lunch, has pleaded not guilty in an Australian court, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, on three counts of murder and five of attempted murder. (Anita Lester/AAP Image via AP)
Donald Trump returns to his hush money trial facing a threat of jail time for additional gag order violations as prosecutors gear up to summon big-name witnesses in the final weeks of the case. Those witnesses include Stormy Daniels, the porn actor who has said she had a sexual encounter with Trump, and Michael Cohen, the former Trump lawyer and personal fixer who prosecutors say paid her to keep silent in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign. They are among those who have yet to take the stand but are expected to in the coming weeks. Testimony resumes Tuesday.
