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Prosecutors dropped their case against a man granted a retrial on charges that he killed Washington intern Chandra Levy in 2001, a death that contributed to a congressman’s downfall, authorities said on Thursday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the U.S. capital asked a judge to dismiss charges against Ingmar Guandique, a Salvadoran immigrant who was…
News of the mounting crisis in Israel caught two young interns, one Israeli and the other Palestinian, far away from home. At their host family’s house in northwest Washington, both tried to keep up to date. Yehonatan Toker, 28, rushed to the Internet to catch up on news and to read emails from his Israeli…
A spokeswoman for scandal-ridden New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner said on Wednesday she would remain in her job despite a political news website’s publication of profane comments she made about a former campaign intern. The remarks were the latest hiccup for former Democratic U.S. Rep. Weiner as he tries to resurrect his political…
Newly released court documents raise startling new questions about the credibility of the star witness in the murder trial of a man convicted of killing Capitol Hill intern Chandra Levy in 2001. Hundreds of pages of documents released this week reveal that a cellmate of Ingmar Guandique who testified that he confessed to the sensational…
PBS talk show host Charlie Rose and his production company will pay roughly $110,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by former unpaid interns, under an agreement approved by a New York state judge. The victory, another win on the wages front for interns, comes amid a wave of lawsuits that followed a June 11 ruling…
A collection of items used in the investigation of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky’s sexual encounters with then U.S. President Bill Clinton is being auctioned online, Nate D. Sanders Auctions said. The 32-item collection was submitted by Lewinsky’s former lover Andy Bleiler to special prosecutor Kenneth Starr during his investigation of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal…
The mother of Chandra Levy, the Capitol Hill intern who was murdered in 2001 has admitted in a new interview that she has doubts about whether the man convicted in her daughter’s murder is actually the killer. Susan Levy told CNN’s Anderson Cooper she is only 85% sure that Ingmar Guandique is the murderer. ‘I…
די ווערק פֿון דרײַ קינסטלער גיבן איבער אַנדערע קוקווינקלען אויף דער אויסראָטונג פֿון ייִדישן לעבן אין מיזרח־אייראָפּע.
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