Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Robert Durst of 'The Jinx' faces pre-trial testimony in murder case

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Robert Durst of 'The Jinx' faces pre-trial testimony in murder case

New York real estate scion Durst appears in the Los Angeles Superior Court Airport Branch for a pre-trial motions hearing in Los AngelesWealthy real estate scion Robert Durst faced the first prosecution testimony of the murder case against him in Los Angeles on Tuesday, from a retired dean of the New York medical school his wife attended before she vanished three decades ago. The testimony of Dr Albert Kuperman focused on a telephone call he recounted receiving from a woman identifying herself as Kathleen Durst in 1982, a day after she was last seen alive, saying she would have to miss an appointment due to illness. Prosecutors have raised the possibility that the call in question was actually placed by another woman posing as Durst's wife, and that the fourth-year medical student may have already been dead by then.


U.S. detains Mexican immigrant in Seattle covered by Obama program

U.S. ICE officers conduct a targeted enforcement operation in AtlantaBy Dan Levine and Kristina Cooke SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. immigration authorities have detained a 23-year-old Mexican man who was brought to the United States illegally as a child but later given a work permit during the Obama administration, according to a lawsuit challenging the detention in Seattle federal court. The program was established in 2012 by Democratic President Barack Obama to allow those brought to the country while young to attend school and work. Ethan Dettmer, a partner in the law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and one of the lawyers representing Ramirez, said he is not aware of any other DACA recipient who has been arrested.


Parents of transgender students appeal to Trump on bathrooms
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of parents across the country have called on President Donald Trump to embrace Obama-era protections for transgender students that call for letting them use school bathrooms in accordance with their gender identity.

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