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Bill Maher skewers Trump, GOP's shift on abortion: 'So killing babies is OK in some states?'

“Real Time” host Bill Maher took aim at former President Trump and Republicans for their dramatic shift on abortion as the 2024 election steadily approaches.  Maher kicked off the panel discussion on the Arizona Supreme Court’s landmark ruling upholding a near-total abortion ban in the state, a direct result of the Supreme Court overturning Roe … Continue reading Bill Maher skewers Trump, GOP's shift on abortion: 'So killing babies is OK in some states?'

Tennessee bill would require defendants convicted of killing a parent to pay victims' children

Tennessee lawmakers proposed legislation that would require defendants convicted of certain violent crimes that killed a parent to pay the victim’s children until the children become adults.

SB2878/HB2960 is sponsored by Sen. Sara Kyle and Rep. G.A. Hardaway, both Democrats, in their respective chambers.

The legislation would create a new financial penalty for those convicted of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, vehicular homicide and aggravated vehicular homicide.

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If a defendant is convicted of one of those charges and their victim has children, they would be ordered to “pay restitution in the form of child maintenance to each of the victim’s children until each child reaches eighteen (18) years of age and has graduated from high school or the class of which the child is a member.”

The bill would take effect in July if it is approved.

Russian lawmakers weigh bill to seize property from those who criticize Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

Russian lawmakers are weighing a bill that would grant the state power to seize property from people who criticize Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Criticizing the invasion, which began nearly two years ago, is effectively a crime already. But the new bill aims to make penalties even harsher. 

The draft bill, considered by Russia’s parliament on Monday, would allow for the state to seize the property of Russians who have left the country and have criticized the war but who continue to rely on revenue from renting out their houses or apartments in Russia.

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The speaker of the State Duma lower house of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, a close Putin ally, has dubbed the new bill “the scoundrel law.” 

“Everyone who tries to destroy Russia, betrays it, must be punished accordingly and repay the damage to the country in the form of their property,” he said at the weekend while announcing the submission of the bill.

The move is being compared to the hunts of the 1930s under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin with their “enemy of the state” rhetoric, and could affect thousands of Russians who have spoken out against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Bill Cosby sued for sexual assault, false imprisonment in new complaint

Bill Cosby was accused of sexual battery and false imprisonment in a new civil complaint filed in Los Angeles.

The disgraced comedian, 86, allegedly “drugged and raped” accuser Donna Motsinger in 1972 while she was working as a server at The Trident, a popular restaurant in Sausalito, Calif.

Motsinger also filed the complaint against Cosby’s production company, Jemmin, Inc., as well as the Circle Star Theater, for “failing to ensure the safety of its guests at the hands of its performers,” in documents obtained by Fox News Digital.

“Jemmin, Inc. is vicariously liable for Mr. Cosby’s sexual battery as Jemmin, Inc. authorized and ratified the sexual battery through Mr. Cosby himself,” documents stated. In addition, Motsinger’s suit said “Jemmin, Inc. is guilty of fraud, oppression, and malice for the sexual battery of Ms. Motsinger at the hands of Cosby.”

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Cosby’s representatives did not have a comment to provide Fox News Digital.

Motsinger said Cosby, a regular at The Trident, “followed her” home one night and asked her to go to one of his shows at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, Calif. He picked her up in a limousine, and gave her a “glass of wine in the limo along the way,” docs stated.

Cosby was allegedly filming his comedy stand-up act for “Inside the Mind of Bill Cosby,” the complaint said.

She claimed that Cosby took her to the dressing room, where “she began to feel sick and Mr. Cosby gave her what she believed was an aspirin.”

“Next thing she knew, she was going in and out of consciousness while two men attending to Mr. Cosby were putting her in the limousine with Mr. Cosby,” the complaint stated. “In the limousine, Mr. Cosby sat near the window and put his arms around her. The last thing Ms. Motsinger recalls were flashes of light.”

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Motsinger claimed she “woke up in her house with all her clothes off, except her underwear on – no top, no bra, and no pants. She knew she had been drugged and raped by Bill Cosby.”

She said that due to the sexual battery, she “suffered economic and noneconomic damages to the maximum extent allowed by law, including but not limited to the lost wages, medical bills, pain and suffering, emotional distress, and any other remedy available at law.”

Motsinger also waged allegations against the Circle Star Theater, who “chose not to intervene” when she claimed to be unconscious.

“At the theater, Ms. Motsinger was so drugged and sedated that she was going in and out of consciousness by the time she left in Mr. Cosby’s limousine,” documents stated. “Employees and agents of Circle Star Theater knew or should have known of the dangerous drugged and sedated state that Ms. Motsinger was in and should have rendered care and aid to Ms. Motsinger.”

She seeks unspecified damages economic, non-economic and punitive damages.

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Motsinger was one of the 12 anonymous “Jane Does” who testified in a 2005 civil rape case filed against Cosby by former Temple University athletics director Andrea Constand. The case was osettledut of court one year later. 

Cosby was released from prison in 2021 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated his 2018 criminal conviction for sexual assault.

The disgraced actor, once known as “America’s Dad,” served more than two years of his three-to-10-year sentence after he was convicted of drugging and molesting a woman at his Cheltenham, Pa. home in 2004.

The state’s highest court threw out Cosby’s conviction after finding that District Attorney Kevin Steele, the prosecutor who brought the case against Cosby, violated an agreement to not charge him that previous District Attorney Bruce Castor had made in 2005, though the deal had apparently never been put in writing. 

Best known for “The Cosby Show,” the actor maintained his innocence. He had been denied parole in May 2021.

In June 2022, Jurors found Cosby sexually abused Judith Huth, who accused the former comedian of sexual assault at the Playboy mansion in 1975 when she was a teen.

Former Playboy model, Victoria Valentino, now 52, filed a lawsuit against Cosby in June, and claimed Cosby drugged and raped her in 1969. The model has previously spoken about her allegations against the comedian and even appeared at his sentencing in 2021.