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Former MP denies paying Prince Harry privacy witnesses for testimony

Former MP denies paying Prince Harry privacy witnesses for testimony

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Associate director of Hacked Off, Evan Harris. Picture: Reuters/Neil Hall A former MP and ex-director of campaign group Hacked Off has told the High Court that he did not pay for witness testimony. Dr Evan Harris, formerly the Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, gave evidence in support of claims brought against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) over allegations of unlawful information gathering. ANL denies wrongdoing and is defending the claims brought by a group of household names including Prince Harry, Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish. Dr Harris, who works as a researcher for the legal team representing the group, was cross-examined by ANL’s barrister during Wednesday’s hearing. In his evidence, Dr Harris “absolutely” denied a suggestion that witnesses had been “paid for witness statements to say certain things” by him or former journalist Graham Johnson. Antony White KC, for the publisher, said: “It was part of your and Mr Johnson’s modus operandi to pay witnesses for testimony, wasn’t it, Dr Harris?” Dr Harris said in response: “No.” The former MP continued that …

“Deranged”: Trump calls for Jack Smith to be prosecuted following congressional testimony

“Deranged”: Trump calls for Jack Smith to be prosecuted following congressional testimony

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President Donald Trump called for Jack Smith to be “prosecuted” after the former special counsel testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday. In a post to Truth Social, Trump called Smith “deranged” and accused him of committing “large scale perjury” in his testimony. “Based on his testimony today, there is no question that Deranged Jack Smith should be prosecuted for his actions,” Trump wrote. “He destroyed the lives of many innocent people, which has been his history as a prosecutor. At a minimum, he committed large scale perjury!” In his testimony, Smith laid the blame on Trump for the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. Smith told representatives that Trump knew of the potential for a riot in advance and wished to take advantage of the confusion to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “Our investigation revealed that Donald Trump is the person who caused Jan. 6, it was foreseeable to him, and that he sought to exploit the violence,” Smith testified. Start your day with essential news from Salon.Sign up for …

FBI Agent’s Sworn Testimony Contradicts Claims ICE’s Jonathan Ross Made Under Oath

FBI Agent’s Sworn Testimony Contradicts Claims ICE’s Jonathan Ross Made Under Oath

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In testimony last month in federal court in Minnesota, FBI special agent Bernardo Medellin appeared to directly contradict a claim that ICE agent Jonathan Ross made under oath about whether a man they were trying to detain had asked to speak to his attorney. Medellin’s testimony, which details federal training for interactions with drivers, also calls into question whether Ross followed his training during the interaction that led to the shooting and killing Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother, last week. Ross has been identified by multiple media outlets as the shooter; while the Trump administration has declined to confirm those reports, details about the shooter shared by Vice President JD Vance match details of Ross’s biography. As WIRED previously reported, in December Ross testified that last June he led a team seeking to apprehend a man named Roberto Carlos Muñoz-Guatemala, who had an administrative warrant out for being in the US without authorization. According to his testimony, after following Muñoz-Guatemala in an unmarked car, Ross—who was wearing ranger green and grey and had his …

ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony

ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony

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Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer identified by multiple news outlets as the federal agent who shot 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday, is a veteran deportation officer in ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division, according to sworn testimony from the federal district court in Minnesota obtained by WIRED. A member of a Special Response Team, ICE’s version of a SWAT team, he’s had duties as a firearms trainer and led teams drawn from multiple federal agencies including the FBI, Ross testified. The testimony stems from a December 2025 trial related to a June incident with parallels to the interaction that led to Good’s killing. In June according to Ross’s testimony, he led a team seeking to apprehend a man named Roberto Carlos Muñoz-Guatemala, who was on an administrative warrant for being in the United States without authorization. Because the man’s home was across from a school and immigration agents had no authority to enter his home, Ross testified, they instead trailed him in unmarked vehicles. Muñoz-Guatemala’s attorney did not immediately reply …

Trump prosecutor Jack Smith defends probes in House testimony

Trump prosecutor Jack Smith defends probes in House testimony

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Former special counsel Jack Smith arrives for a closed-door deposition with members of the House Judiciary Committee on the prosecutions of President Donald Trump, in Rayburn building on Wednesday, December 17, 2025. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Jack Smith, the former U.S. Justice Department special counsel who brought two now-dropped criminal cases against President Donald Trump, defended his investigation before a House of Representatives panel on Wednesday. Smith told lawmakers that the basis for the prosecutions “rests entirely with President Trump and his actions.” Smith gave private testimony to the Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee following months of disclosures from Trump appointees at the Justice Department and Republican lawmakers intended to discredit Smith’s probe and bolster Trump’s claims that the cases were an abuse of the legal system. Smith and his team secured indictments in 2023, accusing Trump of illegally retaining classified documents following his first term in office and plotting to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. Smith dropped both cases after Trump won the 2024 election, citing a Justice Department policy against prosecuting a sitting president. “If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would …

Popular Christian Singer, Forrest Frank, Shares Testimony of Miraculous Healing – OpentheWord.org

Popular Christian Singer, Forrest Frank, Shares Testimony of Miraculous Healing – OpentheWord.org

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Forrest Frank in concert in 2025Credit:JesusChristIsKing!, Wikipedia, YouTube Capture, CC BY 3.0 Popular Christian pop singer, Forrest Frank, recently shared about the remarkable healing he experienced after being injured while skate boarding, Faithwire reports. Frank, 30, who performs as a solo artist, is also part of a two member group Surfaces. This year his song, Your Ways Better, topped the Hot Christian Song chart. It also placed 61st on the Billboard Top 100 that includes secular music. A couple weeks ago, Frank shared a video of fall he experienced while on his skateboard. He was showing his two year old son some moves. An ambulance was called after he slammed into the edge of the concrete sidewalk severely hurting his back. X-rays revealed that he fractured two bones in his back. He was in excruciating pain and was wearing a back brace. But, people were praying. On July 28, Pastor Tauren Wells led 5,000 people at the Ohio State Fair in prayer for Frank’s healing. He specifically quoted Isaiah 53:5 in his healing declaration. “We …