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Two Swedes Killed In Brussels Shooting
Landlord Accused Of Killing Muslim Tenants
Federal Judge Imposes Gag Order On Trump Threats
Sir David Attenborough, 97, has completed Planet Earth III, the third instalment of his landmark BBC nature series. The first episode of the latest eight-part series will air on Sunday, October 22.
Attenborough believes he is the first person to film the green sea turtles of Raine Island when he visited in 1957, and he returns to describe their plight as climate change warms the sands where they lay their eggs. The sex of the developing sea turtles is influenced by the temperature of the sand, and as it warms, more of the turtles hatch as females. Today, 99 percent of the turtles are born female, threatening the future of the species.
The new series also follows other species, aiming to “look at the world through a new lens” that shows how animals adapt to change, and how change can threaten them.
Two Swedes Killed In Brussels Shooting
Federal prosecutors in Belgium have opened a terrorism probe into the shooting deaths of two Swedes on Brussels’ Boulevard d'Ypres on October 16, and authorities suspended the Belgium-Sweden Euro 2024 qualifier football match that was taking place.
The gunman fled after the shooting and police cordoned off nearby roads.
Landlord Accused Of Killing Muslim Tenants
Joseph Czuba, 71, a landlord accused of killing six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume and seriously wounding his mother, 32-year-old Hanaan Shahin, in Plainfield, Illinois, is being held without bail on what authorities say were hate crimes. Czuba allegedly targeted the pair, who were his tenants, because they were Muslims and because of the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.
Czuba spoke only briefly, to confirm that he would need a court-ordered public defender, when he appeared in court. The judge ordered him to be held without bail, and to have no contact with Shahin. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for October 30.
Prosecutors said Czuba attacked the pair with a large, military-style knife, believing that Shahin “was going to call Palestinian friends to come and harm” him.
Federal Judge Imposes Gag Order On Trump Threats
The imposition of a “narrow” gag order on former president Donald Trump, intended to prevent him from continuing to target prosecutors, court staff, and potential witnesses in the 2020 election interference case against him, may lead to a legal fight over what limits can be a placed on the speech of a defendant who also is campaigning for America’s highest public office.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan intends the order to end Trump’s verbal attacks that have called for violence against those seeking to hold him accountable for alleged crimes in four cases.
Trump, in a campaign appearance in Iowa on October 16, vowed to appeal, saying the order is unconstitutional. At the same time, he claimed it would help him in the polls — with some justification, since his legal problems have led to an outpouring of financial support that has pushed his campaign war chest far ahead of that of his challengers in the race.
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