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A social media meteorologist posted comments about being armed when a 6-year-old girl rang his doorbell.His comments were alarming to some of his followers.Bryan Steffy/Getty Images for MoveOn.orgCivic Action When Stefani Seeley moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area seven years ago, she was not used to the area's notoriously unpredictable weather.

Masih Alinejad, a leading Iranian dissident based in the US, has been put under 24-hour police protection in the UK after the Metropolitan police received credible threats to her life.Alinejad has become one of the main amplifiers of the protests inside Iran, appearing at the UN and meeting European leaders such as France's Emmanuel Macron and the Netherland's Mark Rutte.

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A Ventura County man pleaded guilty to making death threats against two Southern California Planned Parenthood clinics, just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade last summer, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.Nishith Tharaka Vandebona, 34, was convicted Monday in federal court of illegal intimidation after pleading guilty to making at least three different threats, including one at an unrelated advocacy group months before the Supreme Court decision.

A retired British stockbroker claims he has been subjected to a sustained campaign of harassment and intimidation in a row over a bridle path running through his property in an idyllic corner of south-west France.It has been hell.In the beginning we all thought it was the traditional sort of spat between neighbours that happens all the time in France, Roderick Sinclair said of the dispute at his French second home, a stone farmhouse his family have spent thousands renovating in Montjoi, in the Tarn-et-Garonne.

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A 29-year-old man was arrested Saturday in Northern California after allegedly making a series of shooting, death and bomb threats over the last six months against Laguna Hills High School, the Orange County Sheriff's Department said.Eugene Thomas Jenkins of San Rafael was booked into Orange County Jail on suspicion of multiple felony offenses including making criminal threats, the false report of a bomb, the false report of an emergency, and threatening a public officer.

Alexandra Pelosi was having one of those days.She's still raw from the hammer attack on her father by a QAnon crazy."I have not slept through the night since," Pelosi confessed.A recent morning found her whipping up a Betty Crocker birthday cake, readying her New York apartment for an invasion of teenage girls and vacuuming the broken glass from a toppled Christmas tree, all while fending off a sister demanding to know why that was included in the new documentary she produced on their famous mother.

Britain has imposed sanctions on the Iranian prosecutor general after the country's execution of the British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari, while Iran has summoned the UK ambassador.Akbar was executed on Saturday after Iranian authorities claimed he was an MI6 spy, charges his family and the Foreign Office deny.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has said he suffers from PTSD after dealing with regular death threats, disasters and terror attacks.Speaking to The Guardian, Mr Khan said a number of events coming together caused a cumulative effect on his mental health, but affirmed he was not comparing it to the extreme level of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that refugees or people in similar situations to himself have experienced.

Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross had to phone his wife at work to tell her a credible death threat had been made against him.He said that while police had acted very quickly to deal with the situation, he wanted to alert his wife Krystle, a police sergeant, before she saw details of it on her work computer.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails An angry resident has blasted the motorhead tourists who visit Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat farm shop as a menace to local people.Villagers clashed at a Planning Inspector meeting which was held on Tuesday to consider the impact of the 62-year-old former Top Gear presenter's Oxfordshire business on the countryside area.

Mexican prosecutors announced Saturday night that they are withdrawing a case against a woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for killing a man as he raped and attacked her.In a ruling last week that touched off a public outcry, a court in Mexico State said that while it agreed 23-year-old Roxana Ruiz was raped in 2021, it found her guilty of homicide with "excessive use of legitimate defense."

A lot of people want Josh Cavallo dead.Not that you'd know it from the way the 23-year-old carries himself.It's been 17 months since the Adelaide United midfielder became - at the time - the world's only top-flight male professional footballer to come out as gay - and since then, his social media accounts have been a beacon of positivity.

A new report says there was a sharp increase in violence at abortion clinics in 2022, the year when Roe v. Wade was overturned, ending the federal right to an abortion.A disproportionate increase occurred in states that protect abortion rights, according to the National Abortion Federation, a professional association for abortion providers.

Sudanese doctors are turning to social media to reach patients as hospitals and heath facilities struggle to function or close completely in the violence.Volunteers have set up 24-hour helplines on messaging platforms including WhatsApp, staffed by hundreds of doctors and specialists.Only 16% of hospitals in the capital, Khartoum, are operating at full capacity, according to the World Health Organization.

The Chancellor is understood to have warned over the economic harm that limiting foreign student numbers would inflict (Photo: Toby Melville/Reuters) The Government's plans to curb the number of foreign students arriving in the UK are in doubt after receiving major pushback from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, understands.

If Everton thought that their season couldn't get any worse they were sorely mistaken, after the Premier League referred the club to a commission for an alleged breach of the league's Profitability and Sustainability Rules, something the Toffees strongly contests.'At present, the Merseyside outfit find themselves in 15th place but just two points off of the relegation zone.

Arturo Holmes/Getty Images Basketball Hall of Famer Paul Pierce has spoken about needing police protection and receiving death threats during his time playing for the Boston Celtics.In an interview with Steve Bulpett of Heavy.com,Pierce explained he received death threats even before he was stabbed at a nightclub in Boston in 2000.

The San Pablo Park playground became a neighborhood waterpark on Friday, March 10, 2023.Credit: Citizen reporter Heads up: We sometimes link to sites that limit access to non-subscribers.City files notice of violation against Berkeley's so-called' chess club (Daily Cal) Berkeley students caught faking names, gaming Big Give fundraiser (SFGATE) A noisy fight over student parties amplifies California housing crisis (Politico) Black director with roots in Berkeley faces cutbacks, death threats as head of Oregon Shakespeare Festival (SF Chronicle) U.S. Senate confirms Berkeley lawyer as top prosecutor (SF Chronicle) Could the Bay Area lose BART? (SF Chronicle) Vote could ban selling some gas appliances in Bay Area (SF Chronicle) AI lectures at Berkeley to explore possibilities, implications of ChatGPT (Berkeley News) First-ever Nowruz Market was held in Berkeley last weekend (East Bay Times)

A Michigan man has been charged with unlawfully owning several firearms after federal agents uncovered online death threats he allegedly made against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and President Joe Biden.Randall Robert Berka II faces one charge of possessing a firearm as a prohibited person.He has not yet entered a formal plea, and a lawyer is not yet listed on his court docket.

A Quebec judge declared last month, as he acquitted a man who had been accused of threatening and harassing his neighbor, that Canadians have a God-given right to give someone the middle finger.The man who was acquitted, Neall Epstein, had been arrested outside his home in Beaconsfield, a suburb southwest of Montreal, in May 2021 and charged with criminal harassment and uttering death threats.

Tundu Lissu, Tanzania's leading opposition figure, returned home on Wednesday after more than two years in exile, one of the strongest indications yet that efforts by the East African nation's first female president to increase political freedoms and rights protections were being realized.Mr. Lissu, of the opposition Chadema party, arrived in the port city of Dar es Salaam to a cheering crowd of supporters.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email EuroMillions lottery players are being urged to check their tickets after four 1m winners failed to come forward to collect their prizes.In all, 31 people in the UK scooped a million-pound jackpot in a special draw last Friday, but so far four of them have not claimed.

Sign up to our free fortnightly newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Nadine White Sign up to our free fortnightly newsletter The Race Report Meghan Markle's critics are in denial about the misogyny and racism which fuel their attacks against her, a prominent women's rights activist has warned.

Ahead of the release of her first children's book, Chaya Raichik, the former Brooklyn real estate agent behind anti-LGBTQ+ social media account Libs of TikTok, has been kicked off of Slack, a workplace communication and productivity platform.Raichik has risen to prominence on the far right recently, amassing over 1.9 million followers on Twitter thanks to her posts falsely accusing LGBTQ+ people and their allies of "grooming" children for abuse.

An Education minister has condemned reported death threats against pupils who allegedly damaged a copy of the Koran as totally unacceptable.Minister for Schools Nick Gibb has said his department is working with Kettlethorpe High School in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, after it suspended four students over the incident.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Police have spoken to a pupil who sent death threats to an autistic boy after he caused minor damage to a copy of the Koran.A Year 10 student brought the Islamic text to Kettlethorpe High School in Wakefield on February 23, reportedly as part of a dare, and its cover was slightly torn while smears of dirt were found on some pages.

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Graham Potter has revealed both he and his family have received death threats from Chelsea supporters frustrated at the team's disappointing form.The Blues have won just two of their last 14 matches across all competitions and were booed off after last weekend's 1-0 home defeat to manager-less Southampton, a result which prompted some fans to call for Potter to be sacked.

A woman who left a 12-year-old boy permanently scarred after hitting him in the forehead with a paddle has been handed a suspended prison sentence.Fay Johnson, 32, admitted a charge of assault causing actual bodily harm on Antwon Forrest, who was attacked while with friends at Conham River Park in Bristol on March 26 last year.

The UK has sanctioned Iran's prosecutor general after Tehran carried out the execution of British-Iranian national.Foreign secretary James Cleverly said the government was holding the regime to account for its appalling human rights violation following the death of Alireza Akbari.Following condemnation of the killing by Rishi Sunak, the Iranian foreign ministry summoned the British ambassador over what it called the UK's meddling in Iran's national security realm, Iran state news agency IRNA reported.

Human rights campaigners have condemned Iran for having pitifully little respect for the right to life after it executed British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari on spy charges.The comments from Amnesty International UK came after Iranian state media on Saturday announced that Mr Akbari, a former Tehran defence official who was seen by the Islamic Republic as a reforming moderate, had been hanged.

Two men idiotically broke into a zoo and threw a bottle at a giraffe before posting a video to Snapchat.Bradley Green and Nathan Daniels, from Fareham, Hampshire, have admitted breaking into Marwell Zoo, Hampshire, on February 15 2021.A police helicopter and armed officers were called out after someone spotted the video on the social media site and called 999.

A British-Iranian man sentenced to death for allegedly spying against Iran, gave information to MI6 agents on Iran's nuclear programme, according to a heavily-edited confession aired on Iranian state television.During the video, Alireza Akbari is also asked about the assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was shot dead in 2020.

Hanif Kureishi says Sir Salman Rushdie has written to him every day as he continues to recover from a fall which left him unable to move his arms or legs.The author and playwright, 68, posted a lengthy update on his condition online, in which he said Sir Salman had encouraged him to be patient.Kureishi best known for his works The Buddha Of Suburbia, Intimacy and Mother revealed on Twitter that he was being treated at a hospital in Rome following an incident on December 26.

Chaya Raichik, who goes by LibsofTikTok on social media, showed her face and called the LGBTQ+ community "evil" "groomers" in her first-ever televised interview with Fox Nation host Tucker Carlson.She also mentioned that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) invited her and her family to stay in a guest house at the governor's mansion after her identity was made public by Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz earlier this year.

Harry Melling says transgender rights are a "very simple" issue after the backlash against 'Harry Potter' writer JK Rowling.The 33-year-old actor, who found fame after playing Dudley Dursley in the wizard film franchise, says he can "only speak for himself" amid the furore surrounding JK's comments on the transgender community, but says he supports the freedom for anyone to choose to identify in whatever manner they choose.

In 2023, trust in news media will continue to decrease in any country that has a government with any semblance of normalcy.This will be most evident with the continuation of the Biden administration in the U.S. and with a new post-Bolsonaro government in Brazil.With outwardly anti-press presidents gone, and more critical coverage of relatively stable governments, trust in news media will decrease simply because newspapers will have fewer allies in the audience.

No further action will be taken against a man suspected of sending death threats to Piers Morgan, the Metropolitan Police has said.The TV host, 57, reportedly received messages earlier this year telling him he was a marked man and promising he was getting killed.A 43-year-old man was subsequently arrested in Manchester on suspicion of making threats to kill.

Joanna Cherry has said fellow SNP representatives in Westminster and Holyrood are scared to speak out on gender reform.The Edinburgh South West MP has been a fierce critic of the Scottish Government's legislation which will make it easier to obtain a gender recognition certificate (GRC) on the basis of self-declaration and removing the need for a gender dysphoria diagnosis.

The Duke of Sussex has revealed he never thought the British authorities would remove his family's security after announcing they wanted to step down as working royals.Harry, speaking during his Netflix series, said with a documented hate campaign against them and suspect packages being sent to palaces, he did not believe they would lose the police protection that had kept them safe.

The Duchess of Sussex broke down in tears as she described the impact of online trolling and receiving death threats.In an emotional moment during the fifth episode of the Harry & Meghan Netflix series, Meghan said negative media coverage had made people say they wanted to kill her.The episode focused on the couple's decision to step back as senior royals, and the influence of the British press over their lives.