A court in Spain has sentenced Spanish forward Rafa Mir to eight and-a-half years of prison for having sexually assaulted two women along with another soccer player. A lower court in the region of Valencia ruled Monday that Mir and the other player had sexually assaulted the two women in 2024 in Mir’s home in the city of Valencia. At that time Mir was playing for Valenica. The court handed Mir seven years for sexual assault and another 18 months for causing physical harm. The second player, identified as Pablo J. G. in court documents, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years of prison. The verdict can be appealed.
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Two men were convicted of a plot last year to set fire to two houses and a car linked to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Ukrainian nationals Roman Lavrynovych, 22, and Stanislav Carpiuc, a 27-year-old Romanian citizen, were found guilty on Monday of a conspiracy to damage property by fire. Petro Pochynok, 35, was acquitted of the charge. The fires in May 2025 damaged the home Starmer moved out of when he became prime minister, as well as an apartment building he once owned a share of and destroyed his former Toyota SUV. Nobody was injured in the blazes.
UK’s ban on Palestine Action under terror legislation was lawful, Court of Appeal says.
Trump's name is gone from the Kennedy Center's facade, according to a top official at the arts venue
The letters spelling out President Donald Trump’s name on the facade of Kennedy Center are now gone. That word comes Saturday from the executive director of the performing arts venue. Matt Floca made that declaration in a court filing to the federal judge who had ordered the removal. A tarp continued to hang over the scaffolding constructed for workers to remove Trump’s name from the building, making it impossible to immediately detect whether the only words remaining on its white marble portico are “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.”
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Cleveland Cavaliers player James Harden was arrested on Saturday in Houston on a misdemeanor charge of unlawful carrying of a weapon in a motor vehicle, according to the Harris County District Clerk’s Office.
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Trump's name poised to be removed from Kennedy Center after court denies last-minute move to keep it
The Kennedy Center is running out of options to keep President Donald Trump’s name on the facade of the iconic performing arts venue. A judge had rejected a request to pause a court-ordered deadline of Friday to remove references to Trump from the building and other aspects of the Kennedy Center’s operations. The institution appealed that ruling, an effort that was also rebuffed Friday evening. Scaffolding was erected around a section of the building that includes Trump’s name but the Kennedy Center sought one more brief delay because of thunderstorms that swept through Washington on Friday evening.
President Donald Trump says a “swift and lethal kinetic” U.S. strike has killed Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, whom he called “the infamous leader” of the Tren de Aragua gang. Tren de Aragua has been labeled by the United States as a terrorist organization. Guerrero Flores has been charged in a New York federal court with racketeering conspiracy and other crimes, including lending support to terrorists in crimes that stretched more than a decade, authorities announced in December. Trump wrote on his social media site Friday that “Tren de Aragua terrorists no longer have safe haven in Venezuela or anywhere else."
Pakistan's prime minister says the United States and Iran have agreed on a final text for a peace deal. Pakistan has been a key mediator in the talks. Iran's foreign minister posted earlier Friday that an agreement "has never been closer.” And it’s already going to be a big weekend for U.S. President Donald Trump. The World Cup returns to the U.S. today; on Sunday, Trump will host a UFC fight at the White House on his 80th birthday; hours later, he’s scheduled to jet off to the G7 summit in the French Alps.
Appeals court rejects Kennedy Center effort to pause court-ordered removal of Trump's name from building.
Alabama seeks to execute man by lethal injection after court ruled nitrogen method is unconstitutionally cruel.