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Steven Hirsch/Getty ImagesJudge Juan Merchan on Friday notified both the prosecution and defense in Donald Trump’s historic hush-money trial about a bizarre comment posted to the New York Courts Facebook page claiming to have insight from a “juror” prior to Trump’s conviction.In a brief letter addressed to both defense attorney Todd Blanche and Manhattan ADA Joshua Steinglass, Merchan informed both parties that the court had “been made aware” of a comment posted to the courts system’s public Facebook page on May 29, one day before the verdict was issued. The comment, quoted in the letter, reads:“My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted 🎉 Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!! ❤️."Read more at The Daily Beast.

Police handoutNewly surfaced CCTV footage appears to show British TV doctor Michael Mosley strolling through a small Greek town less than half an hour after he was last seen by his wife leaving a nearby beach, offering investigators a clue in the timeline of his disappearance.Dressed in black with his face partially obscured by a hat and carrying an umbrella over his shoulder, the BBC presenter appears in the footage walking along a main road in Pedi, a town on the Greek island of Symi, near where he was vacationing with his wife. The footage is timestamped to 1:50 p.m. local time, about 20 minutes after Mosley left his wife at St. Nicholas Beach to go for a walk along a cliffside path.After Mosley was reported missing on Wednesday evening by his wife, cops feared that the 67-year-old may have fallen from the cliffside walk while en route to Pedi. But with the discovery of the new footage, it appears that Mosley at least survived the initial walk and made it to the nearby village.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Laurie Skrivan/Getty ImagesThe St. Louis couple who went viral in 2020 for waving their firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters marching past their house got a clean slate from a Missouri judge who expunged misdemeanors from their records this week. Now, they want their precious guns back.Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the attorneys who outraged the left and charmed the right with their rifle-waving counter protest in 2020, officially got their records scrubbed on Wednesday, against the wishes of city prosecutors and police. Judge Joseph P. Whyte, granting the McCloskeys’ request from January, said the expungement was to give people who have rehabilitated themselves a second chance, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported, and that prosecutors failed to show how the McCloskeys posed a public threat after June 28, 2020, the day they aimed at BLM protesters.Immediately after the order was passed, Mark McCloskey demanded the city return his guns, which were seized after he pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesThe paternal aunt of former Hawaiian Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) was allegedly stabbed multiple times and beaten to death with a hammer in a brutal murder by her protégé in Samoa, police in the island nation said.Caroline “Sina” Sinavaiana-Gabbard, 78, was found dead on May 25 at the GaluMoana Theater in Vaivase-Uta, Spectrum News reported. Sinavaiana-Gabbard allegedly got into a fight with Papalii Sia Figiel, 57, a Samoan poet and writer who was reportedly mentored by the older woman. The fight escalated to lethal blows when Figiel allegedly stabbed Sinavaiana-Gabbard multiple times and struck her with a hammer before fleeing to a friend’s house, where she was arrested, police said.Figiel was initially charged with manslaughter, but the charges were upgraded to murder after a police investigation, Samoa police commissioner Auapaau Logoitino Filipo told reporters at a news conference.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Victoria Jones/Getty ImagesBillionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch is once again a married man — he tied the knot with Elena Zhukova, a retired molecular biologist whose daughter was once married to a prominent Russian oligarch.Zhukova, 67, became the 93-year-old’s fifth wife after several months of dating. Photos published by The Sun, a Murdoch-owned tabloid, showed the pair beaming in a wedding photoshoot at Murdoch’s Moraga vineyard in California. The British tabloid reported that the pair were surrounded by “delighted relatives” on their big day.Murdoch, who is the owner of Fox News and The Wall Street Journal through his company News Corp—and who was a key inspiration for the HBO show Succession—has six children, one of whom succeeded him as News Corp chairman last year. Zhukova’s daughter, 42-year-old art collector Dasha, was previously married to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, the Chelsea FC owner who has ties to Vladimir Putin. Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova were married in 2008 and divorced in 2018; she is now married to a son of Greek shipping magnate Phillip Niarchos.Read more at The Daily Beast.

XTwo Yakovlev Yak-52 planes collided in mid-air during a demonstration at Portugal’s Beja Air Show on Sunday, resulting in a deadly crash that killed one pilot, the country’s air force said.“The air force regrets to announce that at 4:05 pm (1505 GMT), at the Beja Air Show, two planes were the victim of an accident during an aerial demonstration,” it said in a statement.The rest of the air show was cancelled as emergency vehicles rushed onto the scene, multiple media outlets reported.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Contributor/Getty ImagesModel Emily Ratajkowski became the latest celebrity to make a political fashion statement this week, sporting a black T-shirt with Stormy Daniels’ face on it the day Donald Trump officially became a convicted felon.Ratajkowski wore the $95 limited-edition Platform style on a walk around New York City, paired with red Vans and gray sweat shorts. On the same day across town, a jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts related to falsified business records to cover up his affair with the porn star Daniels, which prosecutors argued could’ve influenced the 2016 election.According to the brand Platform’s website, the Stormy T-shirt’s illustration was done by cartoonist R. Crumb, and ten percent of all proceeds go to Safe Horizon, a New York organization supporting victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Ada County Sheriff’s OfficeIdaho doomsday author Chad Daybell received the death penalty at his sentencing on Saturday, bringing a stunning end to a five-year trial over the murders of his first wife and two of his second wife’s children.“The jury has made a finding that it would be appropriate to impose the death penalty,” Judge Steven Boyce said in the Saturday afternoon sentencing hearing.Daybell appeared emotionless in court as the decision was handed down.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Wayne Roustan/Getty ImagesThe Florida deputy who fatally shot Black Air Force member Roger Fortson in Fortson’s own home last month has been removed from his post, the Okaloosa County Sheriff announced Thursday.Eddie Duran, 39, was terminated after an internal investigation found the “use of deadly force was not objectively reasonable and therefore violated agency policy” when Duran entered Fortson’s home and shot him on May 3.In the release, Okaloosa sheriff Eric Aden called Fortson’s killing a “tragic incident” that should’ve never happened.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Luiz Ribeiro/Getty ImagesMore than 200 rainbow flags disappeared overnight from the town of Carlisle Massachusetts on Monday, the Carlisle police department said in a news release.Officials are investigating the apparent mass theft of the LGBTQ+ flags, which went missing from the rotary at Carlisle Center just days before the start of Pride Month. Police chief Andrew Amendola said authorities are taking the disappearance “very seriously” and called it a sad instance that didn’t reflect the town’s values.“It is unfortunate, as Carlisle is an inclusive community, and we want everyone to feel safe and welcomed here,” Amendola said in a press release.Read more at The Daily Beast.