‘A state of shock’: Woman testifies in rape trial against Boston attorney

It was “humiliating, at that moment. It’s hard to grasp what you’re feeling when it’s happening,” she said. “[I was in] a state of shock.”

The woman tested that, despite her protests, Zerola silently raped her, and did not stop until she got off the couch and went to wake her friend, who was casually seeing Zerola at the time. Still trying to process what happened, the woman said she told her friend she needed to leave for work, and “acted as normal as possible because there was nothing I could do at that moment.”

As Zerola drove her and

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Prince Harry’s lawyer grills ex-reporter in phone hacking case

LONDON –

A lawyer for Prince Harry finished setting out the royal’s case against a newspaper publisher on Thursday, quizzing a former tabloid reporter about information inserted into stories by then-editor Piers Morgan.

On the final day of evidence, attorney David Sherborne grilled former Daily Mirror royal correspondent Jane Kerr, whose byline appeared on several of the 33 articles cited by Harry as examples of unlawful intrusion by publisher Mirror Group Newspapers.

The lawyer suggested to Kerr that some of the information in her stories came from phone hacking.

“It absolutely didn’t,” Kerr said with a touch of anger.

“I’ve

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Groups file court application over whether Canada’s laws allow entry of former Israeli PM

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is facing a court application aimed at forcing him to determine whether Canada’s war crimes laws prevent former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett from attending a speaking engagement in Toronto later this month.

The application — known by its technical term of a mandamus — was filed Friday in Federal Court and asked a judge to compel Mendicino into making a decision on Bennett’s admissibility.

It was filed by Khaled Mouammar, a former national president of the Canadian Arab Federation, human rights groups Palestinian and Jewish Unity and Just Peace Advocates, and the think-tank Canadian

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Blocking news on Facebook is a rational response to irrational legislation

Policies founded on fantasies collapse quickly.

That’s the most obvious takeaway from the news that US-based Meta is beginning to block linkage to new organizations’ content on Facebook and Instagram in Canada.

The reason is a poorly conceived and then amateurishly-crafted piece of legislation known as the Online News Act. Based on a law passed, but never used, in Australia, C-18 is designed to force Big Tech companies such as Google and Meta-owned Facebook to cough up hundreds of millions of dollars annually to “compensate” news organizations through deals made under the oversight of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

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Federal judge calls Indiana attorney general’s TikTok lawsuit largely ‘political posture’

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The fate of the Indiana attorney general’s lawsuit against the social media company TikTok is uncertain after a federal judge lambasted much of the case as “political posture.”

While US District Judge Holly Brady ruled against TikTok’s request to move the case to federal court, that decision leaves the lawsuit brought by Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita in the hands of a county judge who last month ruled against Rokita on two key points. The state attorney general claims the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform misleads users about its level of inappropriate content and about the security of consumer

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2023-05-12 | NDAQ:PDD | Press Release

NEW YORK, May 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ —

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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announced an investigation of potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of PDD Holdings Inc. f/k/a Pinduoduo Inc. (NASDAQ: PDD) resulting from allegations that PDD may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.

SO WHAT: If you purchased PDD securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.

WHAT TO DO NEXT:

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Cases soared in New York, but constitutionality questioned

ALBANY, NY — The use of the red flag law in New York has surged over the past year to allow judges to confiscate weapons from people they deem dangerous.

The rise in cases, according to prosecutors and elected officials, has helped quell gun violence in New York after an alarming spike during the Covid-19 pandemic.

With an expanded law and more attention to it, the growth in cases has been extraordinary after it was barely used when it was first passed in 2019. In 2021, there were 538 extreme risk protection orders issued. A year later, the number soared

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News stories from the Star you should know about on Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Good morning. This is the Tuesday, May 9 edition of First Up, the Star’s daily morning digest. Sign up to get it earlier each day, in your inbox.

Here’s the latest on Ottawa’s national security efforts, a new Ontario health care law and online sales of sodium nitrite.

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Canada is set to name foreign labs and universities that pose a risk to national security

The federal government is in the “advanced stages” of creating a list of entities that threaten national security, the Star has learned. According to documents reviewed by the Star, the list will include foreign-state-connected

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