Author: Ayesha Mehta

Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic and Paralympic sprinter, was granted freedom from prison on Friday, almost ten years after shocking the world by shooting and murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Because Pistorius had completed half of his 13-year sentence for shooting Steenkamp, he was eligible for release under South African law, and a parole board granted his plea in November. Pistorius was freed on Friday morning from the Atteridgeville Correctional Centre, which is located west of Pretoria, according to Singabakho Nxumalo, a spokesman for the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) in South Africa. Up until his sentence finishes in 2029, he will be subject to parole restrictions. Following Pistorius' release, Steenkamp's mother stated in a statement on Frid...

On Thursday, a group of House Democrats urged conservative Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court to step out from a dispute questioning former President Donald Trump's eligibility to run in Colorado's Republican primary. On Wednesday, Trump requested that the Supreme Court reverse a decision made by a Colorado court last month that barred him from running for office due to his actions before the January 6 attack on the Capitol building. Following the filing of its appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling, the Republican Party of the state launched the appeal by the former president. Trump may continue to be on the ballot while the U.S. Supreme Court considers his case since the state court postponed its decision to allow for appeals. In a letter dated Thursday, several Ho...

A group of five males emerged from the vehicle, encircling a woman and removing her clothing in the process. She was slain by a knife after being raped by one. Raz Cohen, a victim of Hamas' homicidal rampage in Israel on October 7, alleged that after that, he raped her once more. Cohen had gone to be with his girlfriend of two months, Maya, at the Nova music festival in the southern Israeli desert. He said that she was slain whilst attempting to escape with another buddy. Cohen told CNN that while he was running to cover in a bush, he saw another young woman shot in the head. This is the area where Cohen watched the rape. Reports of sexual assault and rape are being recorded by Israeli police as Hamas militants stormed into Israel from Gaza, targeting the borderside kibbutz villages ...

The founders of South African company Renergen anticipated discovering tiny natural gas deposits that may fuel adjacent mining potential when they purchased the production and development rights for some grassy areas close to Virginia, a town in the Free State region of the nation. According to CEO Stefano Marani, they paid $1 for the rights in 2013 and began analyzing the gas composition coming from two corroded drill pipes that had been put in place years earlier for mineral exploration. What they discovered was very high helium concentrations. Helium is used in many business uses other than just blowing up party balloons. Condensed into a liquid state, it serves as a vital cooling element in the production of microchips and the functioning of life-saving MRI scanning equipment. No...

A statement on the Dallas County Facebook page stated that on Thursday, police were called to Perry High School in Perry, Iowa, about a shooting. The tweet stated that "many law enforcement and medical personnel are on-site for a shooting at Perry High School." "The Dallas County Sheriff's Office has taken steps to secure the site and will provide additional details as they become available." Confirmation of potential injuries was delayed. A press conference by the authorities is scheduled for 10 a.m. CT (11 a.m. ET). Sgt. Alex Dinkla of the Iowa State Patrol told CNN that they were investigating the event but did not have any further details. Numerous cities' police cars are parked in front of the high school, and the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explos...

Wednesday night saw the publication of the first set of documents unsealed in a settled case involving the late businessman and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The docs mostly contained names, but not much new information. The identities of former US presidents, a member of British royalty, and other well-known individuals are among the 40 exhibits, or hundreds of pages, that a federal court in New York City disclosed on Wednesday night. The majority of the exhibits had already been publicized. However, this is probably only the beginning of the public disclosure of records that will eventually disclose the identities of over 150 individuals. According to a court official, the remaining ones are anticipated on a rolling basis. They are a component of the civil defamation comp...

According to Doron Katz Asher, her daughters can "remember every little detail" regarding October 7. How they fled to their sanctuary when they heard sirens and woke up. How the gunfire became closer. How their grandfather hurried out of the bunker when the doors blew open to prevent the Hamas militants from seeing the other people cowering within. How they captured him. How they hoped that by leaving the entrance wide, any assailants would assume the refuge had already been looted and move on. Why was that unsuccessful? Asher told CNN, "An additional terrorist unit entered and took us as well." Before gunmen started the re, Asher, her mother, and her daughters, 2-year-old Aviv, and 5-year-old Raz, were placed onto the back of a tractor along with other captives from the kibbutz. ...