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Gareth Pursehouse was given life in prison without possibility of parole following first-degree murder conviction in Amie Harwick's February 2020 death The man convicted of killing Hollywood sex therapist Amie Harwick in February 2020 was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison Wednesday. Gareth Pursehouse, who in September was found guilty of first-degree murder in his ex-girlfriend Harwick’s death, potentially faced the death penalty, but was given a life sentence without the…

A book begun by Dom Phillips, a foreign correspondent and Guardian contributor who was killed in the Amazon in June last year while researching the project, will be published in April 2025.The book, titled How to Save the Amazon: Ask the People Who Know, is being completed by writers and environmentalists. On Wednesday, the authors were awarded a Whiting creative nonfiction grant, marking the first time the $40,000 (£32,000) award has been given to a collaborative project.The judges of the Whiting foundation grant said…

Respawn has released the final installment of Kill Code, a series of animated Apex Legends shorts focusing on Loba and Revenant's respective quests for revenge. Entitled Kill Code: Part 4, the final episode has some truly wild twists and turns, including the death of Torres "Duardo" Silva, the head of the Mercenary Syndicate, CEO of Silva Pharmaceuticals, and Octane's grandfather.In the previous installment (which was a very short mini-episode called A Life For A Life), Loba and Revenant agreed to set…

Warning: The following article contains spoilers for Oppenheimer. There’s a lot to unpack in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The film considers at least three different timelines depicted across three dense hours of theoretical physics lessons, political machinations, interrogations, and at least two crucial romances in the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb. The latter holds a mystery never solved by the filmmaker or its source material — the biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J.…

Credit: Markus Spiske on Unsplash Women environmental defenders were victims of murder, displacement, repression, criminal prosecution, and physical harassment, reports a Nature Sustainability paper based on an analysis of 523 cases from a global database of environmental conflicts. This issue is predominantly concentrated in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, but also occurs in North America and Europe.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain (Editor's note: This article mentions acts of intimate partner violence against First Nations people.) Indigenous women are eight times more likely than non-Indigenous women to be murdered, according to national statistics. Figures compiled by the Australian Institute of Criminology show a…

Just over a month after introducing its first all-electric model in the EQS 680 SUV, Mercedes-Maybach has announced a new “Night Series” aesthetic for those who like black. These designs span across multiple Maybach models in addition to the EQS SUV and offer plenty of distinct and exclusive features inside and out. Hope you like Maybach logo… Following a bit of teasing from the top-tier luxury sub-brand of Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-Maybach publicly debuted its own spin on the EQS 680 SUV in…

AUSTIN, Texas —  A U.S. Army sergeant was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday for fatally shooting an armed man during a Black Lives Matter protest in Texas. The state’s Republican governor has said he wants to pardon the man.Daniel Perry, 36, was convicted of murder in April for killing 28-year-old Garrett Foster during the downtown Austin protest in July 2020. “After three long years we’re finally getting justice for Garrett,” his mother, Sheila Foster, told the court.“Mr. Perry, I pray to God that one day, he…

Anne Perry, a prolific British crime writer with a murderous past that was brought to light in Peter Jackson’s 1994 film “Heavenly Creatures,” has died. She was 84.Perry died in a Los Angeles hospital on Monday, her literary agent, Meg Davis, told the New York Times on Wednesday. “Ms. Perry’s health had declined since she had a heart attack in December,” Davis said. Perry’s 1979 debut novel, “The Cater Street Hangman,” and her 1993 historical mystery, “A Sudden, Fearful Death,” are among the author’s numerous period…

via Marvel Studios One of the most frustrating tropes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has always been the franchise’s unerring reliance on the fake-out death. When you’ve seen so many heroes and/or villains killed off or annihilated only to return sooner rather than later, all it does is lessen the dramatic and emotional stakes whenever a character really does bite the dust. If the superhero series hadn’t cultivated such a reputation for death meaning absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things, then maybe…