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New Year: Court judgments to watch out for in 2025

NAIJ.COM (Nigeria News) 

Year 2025 has a lot in stock for Nigerians, particularly in the judiciary as the court judgments the people should watch out for emerged. The list has been compiled.

Fury after civil servants wrongly paid out massive nine-figure sum to dead people since 2019

TheSun.co.uk 

Alamy

CIVIL servants have wrongly paid out £512million to dead people since 2019, stats show.

The huge sum in pensions and pension credits included £159million last year alone.

Less than half has been recovered — with the missing £257million enough to cover Winter Fuel Payments for 1.3million pensioners.

Reform MP Rupert Lowe, who uncovered the figures through a parliamentary question, hit out: “This is a shocking waste that underlines the contempt... Читать дальше...

NY judge denies Trump's request to delay hush money sentencing

France24.com (en) 

A New York judge has dismissed President-elect Donald Trump's plea to postpone his upcoming hush money case sentencing. Despite Trump's attorney arguing that his election victory should conclude the case, Judge Juan Merchan affirmed the sentencing will proceed on Friday, as scheduled.

US sees first human death by bird flu

Las Vegas Review-Journal 

The first U.S. bird flu death has been reported — a person who had been hospitalized with severe respiratory symptoms.

Catching a fish catcher in the act

Chicago Sun-Times 

Maybe this should change to fish-catcher of the week.

Robert Loerzel, great chronicler of lakefront and Chicago wildlife on social media, messaged on Bluesky, "I think you might enjoy my pictures of a red-breasted merganser catching a yellow perch in Montrose Harbor on Dec. 30."

I found the close-up of the merganser's serrated beak particularly striking.

Afterward, Loerzel messaged that the merganser "skedaddle[d] to dine alone away from other mergansers."

From the series of photos... Читать дальше...

TVLine Items: Gypsy Rose Premiere Date, A Real Pain on Hulu and More

TVLine.com 

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is ready to bloom again this spring on Lifetime. Season 2 of the reality series Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up, which chronicles Blanchard’s life after her release from prison, will premiere Monday, March 10 at 9/8c on Lifetime, the network has announced. The sophomore season “will follow Gypsy’s emotionally charged journey […]