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A teenager has pleaded guilty to all 55 counts in a deadly shooting nearly two years ago at Apalachee High School in Georgia. Sixteen-year-old Colt Gray entered the plea Friday without having reached a deal with prosecutors. He had previously pleaded not guilty to charges in the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting that killed two students and two teachers, and left several others wounded, at the high school about 45 miles northeast of Atlanta.
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Teenager pleads guilty to all 55 counts in 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia that killed four.
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Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown has pleaded guilty to affray over a nightclub altercation in London. The incident, which injured a music producer, took place in February 2023. Brown, 37, changed his plea during a hearing at London's Southwark Crown Court on Friday. Prosecutors dropped more serious charges, including assault and attempting to cause grievous bodily harm, in exchange for the guilty plea. The fight was caught on surveillance camera. Brown had been free on bail, allowing him to tour in Europe and North America. He remains free on bail and will be sentenced on October 26.
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Salman Rushdie has testified for the second time about being stabbed nearly to death four years ago in a western New York amphitheater. The prize-winning author took the witness stand Thursday at Hadi Matar's federal terrorism trial. The 28-year-old Matar already was convicted of a state-level attempted murder charge in the 2022 attack at a cultural institution where Rushdie was poised to speak about threats to writers and artists. Matar has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that include engaging in an act of transnational terrorism. Prosecutors claim Matar was motivated by an Iranian leader’s 1989 call for Rushdie’s death because of his novel “The Satanic Verses.”
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A money manager for D4vd testified that he had heard only the first name of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the 14-year-old girl the singer is charged with killing, before her dismembered body was found in the trunk of a car. The preliminary hearing resumed Wednesday in Los Angeles. A judge will determine if there's enough evidence to go to trial. Prosecutors allege D4vd, an indie-pop singer, killed Rivas Hernandez to prevent her from revealing their relationship. The court heard that D4vd's music career earned him at least $10 million between 2023 and 2025. Prosecutors claim he met Rivas Hernandez when she was 11 and began a relationship with her when she was 13.
Today is Wednesday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2026. There are 162 days left in the year.
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Nicolás Maduro will return to a New York courtroom as his lawyers continue their objections to the U.S. military action that snatched Venezuela’s president from power. Maduro is now being held in a Brooklyn jail while being prosecuted on drug trafficking charges. A pretrial hearing is scheduled Wednesday before Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein. Maduro and his wife have pleaded not guilty to charges that they sided with drug dealers in a multi-decade scheme to ship large quantities of drugs to the United States. Maduro says he was kidnapped by the U.S. government and remains his country's constitutional president. No trial date has been set.
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The Gates Foundation met with Epstein about 30 times despite staff concerns, an external review says
An external review of the Gates Foundation's ties to Jeffrey Epstein has found that staff met more than two dozen times with the disgraced financier. Discussions centered on a public health fund that never materialized and a grant to the International Peace Institute. Those meetings happened even as staff relayed concerns to Gates about the reputational risk of working with Epstein, a convicted sex offender at the time they were introduced. Gates, who chairs the Gates Foundation, has not been accused in connection with Epstein’s crimes and has repeatedly denied any knowledge of Epstein’s abuse of girls.
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The U.S. Center for SafeSport has begun making public announcements of people placed on its disciplinary database. It's a move designed to increase transparency and bring more attention to what the center believes is one of its top tools in the fight against sex abuse. The center is in charge of combating abuse in Olympic sports. It has long published its Centralized Disciplinary Database, but without publicizing who lands on the list. People had to access the database and know who they were looking for to learn about banned and restricted people in their orbit. Now, the center will share weekly updates about people added to the list.
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A judge is set to decide if there's enough evidence to send singer D4vd to trial for the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The hearing starts Tuesday in Los Angeles. Prosecutors say D4vd, whose real name is David Burke, brought the girl to his rented Hollywood Hills home, stabbed her, and dismembered her body. Burke was arrested in April and pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges. His attorney says Burke is not responsible for the death. The hearing will last about four days, and the judge will determine if a trial is warranted.