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John Walton/PA Images via GettyPrincess Anne has left a hospital following several days of treatment for a concussion and other head injuries sustained in an incident that is suspected to have involved a horse, Buckingham Palace said Friday.The 73-year-old Princess Royal—King Charles III’s younger sister—was thought to have possibly been kicked or headbutted by a horse while she was walking in the grounds of her Gatcombe Park estate in southwest England on Sunday. She received treatment from emergency services called to the scene before being taken to a hospital for what proved to be a five-night stay.She’s now set to recuperate on the estate and will return to public royal duties once her doctors recommend that it’s safe to do so.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Max Mumby/Indigo via GettyA lawyer for the publisher of Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid The Sun on Thursday accused Prince Harry of deliberately destroying evidence that may have been relevant to his lawsuit against the media group.Harry and dozens of other claimants including Hugh Grant are suing News Group Newspapers (NGN) over claims of reporters and private investigators using unlawful information gathering tactics. Attorney Anthony Hudson, representing NGN, told London’s High Court that the prince had intentionally wiped text messages with J.R. Moehringer, the journalist who ghostwrote Harry’s memoir, Spare, according to the Associated Press.A trial based on some of the claims against NGN is set to begin in January 2025. Before it opens, NGN’s attorneys have sought an order to make Harry disclose all of the information in his possession—or which might be held by the royal household or his former lawyers—pertaining to what he knew about the alleged illegal practices before the end of 2013.Read more at The Daily Beast.

NASA via Wikimedia CommonsNASA has handed Elon Musk’s SpaceX an $843 million contract to make a vehicle that will bring the International Space Station out of orbit in a few years’ time when the trailblazing laboratory is retired.The space administration on Wednesday announced that the billionaire’s company has been chosen to “develop and deliver the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle,” the spacecraft which will guide the ISS on its fiery journey through the Earth’s atmosphere.The SpaceX vehicle will “provide the capability to deorbit the space station and ensure avoidance of risk to populated areas,” NASA said. The government agency, which will oversee the deorbiting mission when it takes place, has previously said it expects the station to break up during the intense heat of atmospheric re-entry—which will also likely vaporize most of the station’s hardware—while some denser or heat-resistant components will survive and splash down into an unpopulated area of the ocean.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Metropolitan Police Handout via Getty ImagesA British aristocrat and her boyfriend have been found guilty of perverting the course of justice after hiding the body of their newborn daughter who died as the couple were on the run from the law in the U.K., according to local reports Wednesday.Constance Marten, 37, and 50-year-old Mark Gordon, were also convicted of concealing the birth of their daughter, Victoria, whose decomposed body was eventually found stashed in a shopping bag in a shed on the south coast of England in March 2023 after a national police search.The guilty verdicts were reached last month but could not be reported until now due to court-ordered media restrictions on the trial. The jury at London’s Old Bailey was discharged last week after failing to reach verdicts on more serious charges of the manslaughter of their daughter by gross negligence and causing or allowing the death of a child, according to the BBC.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Jim Spellman/GettyShifty Shellshock, the co-founder and singer of the rap rock group Crazy Town, has died. He was 49.The musician—real name Seth Binzer—passed away at a residence on Monday, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s website. No cause of death has yet been disclosed, though Shellshock reportedly battled addiction for years.Shellshock started collaborating with Bret “Epic” Mazur under the name The Brimstone Sluggers in the 1990s, going on to perform as Crazy Town by the end of the decade. Their 2000 song “Butterfly” topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two non-consecutive weeks, while their debut album, The Gift of Game, sold over 1.5 million copies.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesThe U.S. surgeon general on Tuesday declared gun violence an urgent public health crisis, calling for the “collective commitment of the nation” to change course. Dr. Vivek Murthy issued the advisory advocating for a public health approach in responding to the emergency like those that have successfully reduced smoking-related disease and car crash deaths. “It is up to us to take on this generational challenge with the urgency and clarity the moment demands,” the advisory reads. “The safety and well‑being of our children and future generations are at stake.”The advisory—which is the first publication from the Office of the Surgeon General dedicated to gun violence—lays bare the scale and complexity of the threat that firearms pose to Americans’ health. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court on Monday agreed to weigh whether or not a Tennessee law banning specific gender-affirming care for minors breaches the Constitution, marking the first time that the justices will consider arguments around medical treatments for trans children.The Biden administration is challenging a ruling from a lower court that upheld the state ban on treatments including hormones and surgeries for children who experience gender dysphoria. Other Republican-led states have similarly taken steps to restrict transgender access to healthcare.Arguments are expected to take place in the court’s next term, which begins in October.Read more at The Daily Beast.

CNNCNN unceremoniously booted a Donald Trump spokesperson off the air Monday after she refused to stop criticizing the network’s journalists set to moderate the first presidential debate this Thursday.CNN This Morning anchor Kasie Hunt repeatedly warned Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt to quit taking shots at Jake Tapper and Dana Bash or else the interview would be stopped. But rather than focusing on how her boss would deal with President Joe Biden in the debate, Leavitt ignored the warnings and continued blasting Hunt’s colleagues instead.Hunt opened the interview asking how Trump’s approach would be different in Thursday’s debate from the tactics he pursued in 2020. Leavitt started out by saying that Trump is “well prepared” for the showdown, adding that “unlike Joe Biden, he doesn’t have to hide away and have his advisers tell him what to say.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Volunteer fire station of Hydra via ReutersCrew members of a superyacht have been accused of starting a devastating forest fire on the Greek island of Hydra after allegedly launching fireworks from their vessel last week to entertain their guests, according to reports.The blaze erupted on Friday night and raged into the following day, with a Greek official saying scenic woodlands were destroyed in the inferno. The 13 crew and passengers of the vessel appeared in the criminal court in Piraeus on Sunday on charges related to the fire in the island’s only pine forest.The Persefoni I, a lavish 176-foot vessel which charters for around $320,000 a week in the summer months, was chartered by 17 people from Kazakhstan, according to local reports. The nationalities of the crew members are not clear. If convicted, they could face large fines and prison sentences of up to 20 years, according to Greece’s Kathimerini newspaper.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Marton MonusThe U.S. Ambassador to Hungary hasn’t exactly been embraced by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government. But now, it seems, things are getting petty.David Pressman, a gay human rights lawyer who acts as Washington, D.C.’s envoy in Budapest, had been hoping to attend an event in Hungary’s parliament building this week. “I was honored to have been invited to speak at an event organized by members of Hungary’s parliament featuring a diverse array of speakers inside of the house of Hungarian democracy where they were elected to work,” Pressman told The Daily Beast. But the gathering, which Pressman says was intended to address “the human rights of the LGBT community,” never took place.The event had been arranged by a parliamentary group called For a Diverse Hungary. The organization, which is made up of 20 Hungarian lawmakers from five different opposition parties, aims to “give a voice to the community in the parliament and represent both the ideas and the interests of the LGBTQ community in Hungary,” Dávid Bedő, the group’s chairman and a member of the Hungarian parliament with the centrist Momentum party, tells The Daily Beast.Read more at The Daily Beast.