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Buster Murdaugh collapsed in tears outside court following father Alex’s murder conviction

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Buster Murdaugh broke down crying uncontrollably outside a South Carolina courthouse after his father Alex Murdaugh was convicted of brutally murdering his mother and brother.

The 26-year-old, who is the surviving son after the Murdaugh patriarch gunned down his wife Maggie and youngest child Paul Murdaugh in June 2021, had mostly remained expressionless throughout the grueling six-week trial. 

‘Buster held up pretty well until the cameras were off him — but then he collapsed,’ a source who was at the

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What the Conviction of Stewart Rhodes Means for Right-Wing Militancy

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For years, Stewart Rhodes used a faded leather briefcase to hold his keepsake photos and papers. He left it with his wife and children in Montana when he moved to Texas in early 2020, the year of COVID lockdowns, social unrest, and election lies that would lead Rhodes, the longtime head of the militant, right-wing Oath Keepers, to his conviction for seditious conspiracy last week. In October, as his trial began in a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C., I visited

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Adam, 30, has spent half his locked up with no conviction for the ‘crime’ of being autistic

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Rampton Secure Hospital is home to the most dangerous and disturbed people in the country.

Former patients include ‘Britain’s most violent prisoner’ Charles Bronson, the Soham murderer Ian Huntley and ‘Crossbow Cannibal’ Stephen Griffiths.

Its current inmates are equally chilling — among them child serial killer Beverley Allitt and Odessa Carey, who decapitated her mother with knives and scissors and carried her head around in a plastic bag.

But deep inside Rampton, past the airport-style security and through a labyrinth

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Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar throw huge New Year’s party after Josh’s child porn conviction

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Just three weeks after their eldest son Josh was convicted of downloading child pornography, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar found reason to celebrate and threw a large New Year’s Eve party at their Arkansas home.

The ex-reality TV parents didn’t let a little thing like their child being in federal prison but a damper on the festivities, and invited dozens of friends to spend the evening talking, eating, and praying at their house in Tontitown.

Oldest daughter Jana, who turns

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s siblings have ALREADY started appealing her sex trafficking conviction

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s siblings have already launched an appeal against her child sex trafficking conviction, claiming that she will be cleared of any wrongdoing.

‘We believe firmly in our sister’s innocence – we are very disappointed with the verdict. We have already started the appeal tonight and we believe that she will ultimately be vindicated,’ the Maxwell siblings said in a statement.

The British socialite was found guilty of recruiting and grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse by her former lover,

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s child sex trafficking conviction ‘doesn’t bode well’ for Prince Andrew

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction for child sex trafficking in the US ‘doesn’t bode well’ for Prince Andrew who should be ‘quaking in his boots’ as his old friend faces spending the rest of her life behind bars unless she flips and ‘names names’.

Lawyers in the US warned today that the Duke of York’s chances of defeating the legal action brought against him by Virginia Roberts Giuffre will now be even harder after Maxwell was found guilty by a New York

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Jessa Duggar reacts to ‘rude’ fan who said she was trying to distract people from Josh’s conviction

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Jessa Duggar clapped back at a commenter on one of her YouTube videos who accused her of trying to ‘distract’ the public in the wake of Josh’s child porn conviction.

Jessa, 29, has been quite active on social media in the past couple of weeks, after her older brother Josh, 33, was found guilty of downloading child pornography.

On Wednesday, she uploaded a YouTube video of her family having a pre-Christmas celebration, prompting a viewer to comment that Jessa’s father,

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Amanda Knox, 34, feared ‘motherhood had been stolen from her’ after murder conviction

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Amanda Knox has opened up about her fears that ‘motherhood had been stolen from her’ following her wrongful murder conviction in Italy, saying she imagined ‘all the ways she could kill herself in her prison cell in the wake of her 26-year sentence.  

The 34-year-old had already spent two years in prison when she was convicted of her British roommate Meredith Kercher’s 2007 murder in December 2009. After spending nearly four years behind bars, she was acquitted in 2011 and

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