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[ad_1] A 19-year-old Minnesota man is accused of waterboarding and brutally physically and sexually assaulting a woman for three days in her dorm room last weekend. St. Paul police arrested Keanu Avery Labatte, 19, at St. Catherine University, a women’s college, shortly after noon Sunday, alleging he forcibly held the woman he had been dating in her dorm room for three days while repeatedly assaulting her and threatening to kill her and her family, according to Ramsey County sheriff’s records and the criminal complaint, which NBC News obtained. The woman told police that she and Labatte had been dating for…

[ad_1] A 31-count superseding indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn adding three defendants, Yuan Yuan Chen, also known as “Xiao Pang,” Yichu Chen and Johnnie Kim, as well as 10 additional assaults in-aid-of racketeering to the pending charges against co-defendants Rong Rong Xu, also known as “Eleanor,” Siyang Chen, Siyu Chen, also known as “Ban Ban,” Carlos Cury, also known as “Red,” Bo Jiang, Meizhen Song, also known as “Die Die,” and Jilong Yu.  The charges relate to the defendants’ alleged participation in a Queens-based criminal organization that engaged in sex trafficking, beatings, and robberies of dozens…

[ad_1] PROVIDENCE – A chaotic police chase that began in Burrillville and involved a highway shooting in North Smithfield ended Friday night, police say, near Women & Infants Hospital with two city police officers shooting at the suspect’s car, killing him and wounding his minor passenger. At a Saturday news conference attended by city and state law enforcement officials, Providence Police Chief Oscar L. Perez Jr. identified the deceased man as Michael Pinto, 40, of Glocester. Also injured was Providence police Lt. Eugene Chin, who the chief said had reached into Pinto’s car to try to get him to stop while he…

[ad_1] Two women were killed after a Wednesday night shooting outside a Merion Village bar.The shooting was reported around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday outside Double D’s Pub, located at 1501 S. High St.Columbus police said 24-year-old Tavia Copley, of the West Side, died at the scene.Another woman, 24-year-old Taya Mollette, also of the West Side, was taken to an area hospital but died from her injuries at 12:29 a.m. Thursday.Police said a third adult was also injured in the shooting and remains hospitalized but is expected to survive. No motive or suspect information was released by police.Erick Bellomy Jr. of Franklinton…

[ad_1] Daytona Beach police arrested two women at Seabreeze Boulevard after they were seen “tossing” a baby “back and forth.”Sierrah Newell, 20, and Brianna Lafoe, 19, were arrested around 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning near the Coyote Ugly Saloon at 512 Seabreeze Blvd.Police responded to the scene and were told by witnesses that Newell and Lafoe were “aggressively” handling the child, “throwing him in the air” and “flipping him upside down,” according to the charging affidavit.Bar patrons and others witnessing the scene confronted one of the women. According to the affidavit, one of the women, while holding the baby in one…

[ad_1] Daytona Beach police arrested two women at Seabreeze Boulevard after they were seen “tossing” a baby “back and forth.”Sierrah Newell, 20, and Brianna Lafoe, 19, were arrested around 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning near the Coyote Ugly Saloon at 512 Seabreeze Blvd.Police responded to the scene and were told by witnesses that Newell and Lafoe were “aggressively” handling the child, “throwing him in the air” and “flipping him upside down,” according to the charging affidavit.Bar patrons and others witnessing the scene confronted one of the women. According to the affidavit, one of the women, while holding the baby in one…

[ad_1] Okay. Real talk: Certain cultural phenomena kind of – I don’t know. I just can’t dig into them. I mean, it’s not out of malice. I just don’t really get around to reading about it. And honestly, fraternities and sororities are in that category. I went to a big state university that didn’t really need Greek life to maintain its hard partying reputation. But like Barbie, Beyoncé and Taylor, RushTok is yet another feel good femme hit of the summer. It’s here. It’s here. My favorite time of year. It’s Alabama Rush week next week. The OOTD’s are back.…

[ad_1] Comment on this storyCommentTELLURIDE, Colo. — Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film, “Poor Things,” is packed with such unabashed, libidinous gusto that it makes “And Just Like That…” feel like reading a driver’s-ed manual.It also contains what is, by far, Emma Stone’s most joyously sex-crazed role to date, as Bella Baxter, a woman who lives in a twisted version of Victorian London and embarks on adventures across Europe and the Middle East — often naked and engaged in what she calls “furious jumping,” all in the name of answering some of the film’s vital questions: What if women could be reborn…

[ad_1] Comment on this storyCommentStarSolidStarSolidStarHalfStarOutline(2.5 stars)The dividing line could not be clearer between the two forces that are marshaled against each other in “Dumb Money,” an entertaining if cardboard docu-comedy based on the true David-vs.-Goliath tale of small investors in GameStop who faced off against predatory hedge fund managers hoping to profit from the video game retailer’s demise. On one side are the Wall Street guys: Gabe Plotkin of Melvin Capital Management (Seth Rogen); Steve Cohen of Point72 Ventures, and the owner of the New York Mets (Vincent D’Onofrio); and Ken Griffin of Citadel LLC (Nick Offerman). They’re all based…

[ad_1] Comment on this storyCommentBy all accounts, 2023 was shaping up to be a rough year for Shakira. She and her longtime partner, Spanish footballer Gerard Piqué, were in the midst of a very public split, and the pop superstar had also been ordered to stand trial for alleged tax fraud in Spain.But less than two weeks into the new year, Shakira came out swinging on a record-breaking collaboration — with in-demand Argentine DJ-producer Bizarrap — that set the now-46-year-old singer on a path to have one of the best years of her career. One highlight unfolded Tuesday at MTV’s…