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of the dead erupts in

A nasty rift between the most seriously wounded survivor of the 2018 Parkland school massacre and some families of the 17 murdered erupted in court on Thursday in a fight over dueling lawsuit settlements each side recently reached with the shooter as opposing attorneys accused each other of lying. The immediate fight is over a June agreement survivor Anthony Borges and his parents reached with Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz that would give Borges rights to Cruz's name and image, approval over any interviews he might do and a $400,000 annuity left Cruz by his deceased mother. Attorneys for the families of slain students Meadow Pollack, Luke Hoyer and Alaina Petty, and survivor Maddy Wilford, quickly countered with their own $190 million settlement with Cruz. But as Circuit Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips learned Wednesday, the mutual animosity started during negotiations over a $25 million settlement reached in 2021 with Broward County schools when the famili...

Tells Elon Musk Delete Your Account

What Happened: The spark of controversy ignited when Musk, the CEO of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, took to X (formerly Twitter) to endorse an interview featuring Carlson and Darryl Cooper, host of The MartyrMade Podcast. Musk wrote, “Very interesting. Worth watching,” drawing attention to the interview. Carlson had introduced Cooper as possibly “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States,” noting that Cooper’s latest project delves into what Carlson termed “the most forbidden of all: trying to understand World War Two.” Cuban, entrepreneur and part-owner of the Dallas Mavericks, responded to Musk’s endorsement with a simple yet pointed message: “Delete your account

Attack witness 'ran to her death rather

She thought she was running for her life. Unfortunately she ran into her death." Last week, care worker Anu Okusanya, 46, died in hospital after she fled the scene of an assault on another person close to her home in Newry, County Down. Her family said she ran in fear having been attacked herself on two previous occasions in the same area. They said the incident on 24 August led her to having an asthma attack and multiple heart attacks. The family first shared their story with the Newry Reporter newspaper. Anu's brother, Gbenga Oluwasanya, told BBC News NI she had moved to Northern Ireland from Nigeria more than a year ago to work in healthcare and had finished a 12-hour shift when she witnessed the attack. She ran to a neighbour's house and "as she came in, she couldn't say anything; she was gasping for breath", he added. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said when Anu became unwell officers performed CPR and applied a defibrillator to try...