Christian monk recalls ‘traumatic’ arrest ordeal at the hands of Biden prosecutor
EXCLUSIVE – A Christian monk, who was arrested at the behest of a former U.S attorney, is speaking about how the charges, which have since been dropped, ruined his life and reputation.
“There does not seem to be time for Christianity in President Biden’s administration,” Father Brian Andrew Bushell said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Father Andrew and his business partner were charged by former Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins, a Biden political appointee, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and unlawful monetary transactions in Oct. 2022.
“We allege that these two individuals engaged in brazen, criminal behavior that took advantage of our government’s efforts to rescue organizations,” said Rollins at the time of the arrest. “Our government should not and will not foot the bill for fancy designer handbags and lavish lifestyles. Hard-working people deserve these funds.”
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However, the charges were dismissed by Rollins’ replacement, Josh Levy. Levy replaced Rollins after a special counsel report found that Rollins committed “egregious” ethical violations and “abuse of power.” Rollins resigned after the report which Father Andrew said it seemed “like corruption.”
The motion to dismiss, dated Nov. 2023, said the DOJ is backing off “the criminal complaint filed against defendants… charging them with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.”
“The government respectfully submits that dismissal is in the interests of justice,” the motion concluded.
“Thank God that U.S. Attorney Levy had the courage… to admit it when they were wrong,” Father Andrew said.
Father Andrew said the ordeal began with a loud bang on the door in the morning while he was in the middle of prayer at the altar.
“There was no warning. I saw flashlights outside the chapel windows. Dogs started barking,” he said. Father Andrew said he has since learned the FBI can make arrests through a variety of means, but the key was the agency didn’t understand his shrine was a religious organization.
“The entire experience is created in such a way to put outsized psychological pressure on individuals,” he said. “The entire feeling that the apparatus of government, which is supposed to protect the weak and supposed to protect those who are struggling to do good things for others was actually bearing down on me… it’s terrifying. It’s traumatic.”
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Father Andrew said he didn’t know why he was arrested at the time, despite requesting to view the warrant from the agents.
The FBI has a different version of what happened on the morning of Oct. 13, 2022.
Father Andrew “was arrested at his home based on an arrest warrant issued by a U.S. magistrate judge. Law enforcement officers knocked and identified themselves, and after answering the door he was cooperative and taken into custody without incident,” the FBI said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“Extensive planning and preparation take place prior to the service of any federal warrant, and the personnel and tactics used are intended to ensure the safety of everyone involved,” the FBI statement continued.
As for why charges were filed in the first place, Father Andrew believed Rollins was facing pressure to crack down on financial waste, fraud and abuse.
“And this was too good for her to pass up because she was herself being investigated for ethics violations [regarding the Hatch Act]… It was just shocking to me, and she used it, obviously, for her own political gain.”
Rollins resigned after the Department of Justice found her violating the Hatch Act in one of the “most egregious transgressions” the Office of Special Counsel ever probed.
The Hatch Act mandates federal employees to be barred from certain types of political activity and carries tighter restrictions depending on the department and level of seniority.
Rollins leaked non‐public DOJ information to sabotage the political campaign of a candidate she opposed and “attending a Democratic National Committee fundraiser while on duty, in her official capacity, and using a government‐owned vehicle,” according to the special counsel investigation.
“[S]he repeatedly attempted to sabotage the campaign of a political candidate by leaking non-public [DOJ information] to the media to plant a story that he was facing a DOJ investigation. This… violation… is one of the most egregious Hatch Act violations that OSC has investigated,” the report said.
“Rollins’s conduct in leaking non‐public DOJ information constitutes an extraordinary abuse of her authority and threatens to erode public confidence in the integrity of federal law enforcement actions,” Special Counsel Henry Kerner said in a letter to President Biden.
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“OSC has found… Rollins… committed an extraordinary abuse of her power as U.S. Attorney,” the report concluded.
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Father Andrew said the scars of being “defamed” have permanently damaged his reputation and have left him traumatized.
“There are still people who’ve made up their minds based on these lies. And it’s going to be difficult to change their mind,” he said. “Once you’re very publicly arrested… it becomes almost insurmountable.”
Rollins didn’t respond for comment.
’60 Minutes’ host argues with Moms for Liberty co-founders in heated interview
“60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley pressed the co-founders of Moms for Liberty on sexually explicit books in schools during a combative segment that aired Sunday.
“We love teachers,” Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich told Pelley. “My children have had the best teachers. I’ve had the greatest teachers that have influenced and impacted me.”
“But there are rogue teachers in America’s classrooms right now,” Descovich added.
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“Parents send their children to school to be educated, not indoctrinated into ideology,” Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice said.
“What ideology are they being indoctrinated into?” Pelley asked.
Descovich replied, “Let’s just say children in America cannot read.”
Pelley then narrated over the segment, claiming, “They often dodged questions with talking points.”
“You’re being evasive,” Pelley told them. “What ideology are the children being indoctrinated into? What is your fear?”
“I think the parents’ fears are realized,” Justice responded. “They’re looking at these books where sexual discussions are happening with their children at younger and younger ages.”
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Pelley again narrated over the segment as Justice was seen reading examples from books that she brought in to show the sexually explicit nature of the books in question.
“Tiffany Justice read from sexually explicit books written for older teens but found in a few lower schools,” Pelley said. “Most people wouldn’t want them in a lower school. But in a tactic of outrage politics, Moms for Liberty takes a kernel of truth and concludes these examples are not rare mistakes but a plot to sexualize children.”
A number of books that have come under national attention, including “Gender Queer,” have been challenged by parents and at school board meetings across the country. “Gender Queer” is a graphic novel that has been called “pornographic” by critics and courted major controversy for its images and explicit descriptions of oral sex and masturbation.
Moms for Liberty, a conservative organization founded in 2021, has capitalized on anger from parents amid controversy over allegedly sexually explicit books present in public school classrooms and school libraries.
In West Virginia, Republicans are seeking to allow criminal charges to move forward against teachers and librarians who expose children to sexual material after parents around the country have complained about pornographic content in books in schools.
Maryland has also become a battleground for sexually explicit materials in schools, with the Board of Education in Carroll County, Maryland, unanimously voting in favor of a policy to restrict “sexually explicit” books from schools on Jan. 10.
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60 Minutes did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Fox News’ Hannah Grossman contributed to this report.
Biden predicts 2024 win in rare interview, taunts media, calls Trump ‘loser’
President Biden took sharp aim at former President Trump in a rare interview, calling him a “loser” and confidently predicting he’d beat him in November, all while reminding the press of past predictions of his political demise.
“Losers who are losers are never graceful,” Biden said of Trump in a lengthy interview granted to the New Yorker‘s Evan Osnos, who penned a biography of the president that came out shortly before his 2020 election victory.
“I just think that he’ll do anything to try to win. If — and when — I win, I think he’ll contest it,” Biden continued. “No matter what the result is.”
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Osnos claimed that Biden was sharp during his interview.
“For decades, there was a lightness about Joe Biden—a springy, mischievous energy that was hard not to like, even if it allowed some people to classify him as a lightweight,” Osnos wrote. “For better and worse, he is a more solemn figure now. His voice is thin and clotted, and his gestures have slowed, but, in our conversation, his mind seemed unchanged. He never bungled a name or a date.”
Biden brought up past media predictions that he defied, such as when he won the 2020 Democratic primary after poor showings in Iowa and New Hampshire. Democrats also vastly exceeded expectations in the 2022 midterms, expanding their Senate majority and holding their House losses to smaller-than-predicted margins.
“Well, first of all, remember, in 2020, you guys told me how I wasn’t going to win? And then you told me in 2022 how it was going to be this red wave?” Biden said, smiling tensely according to the report. “And I told you there wasn’t going to be any red wave. And in 2023 you told me we’re going to get our a– kicked again? And we won every contested race out there. In 2024, I think you’re going to see the same thing.”
Osnos also shared an anecdote from his conversation with Biden, sharing that the president “pulled out a white notecard inscribed with some of Trump’s most alarming comments.”
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The notecard included Trump’s “threat to terminate the Constitution, his casual talk of being a dictator on ‘Day One,’ his description of immigrants as ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’”
“Biden tossed the list on his desk and gave a look of disbelief. ‘What the hell!’” Osnos recounted Biden as saying.
“If you and I had sat down ten years ago and I said a President is going to say those things, you would have looked at me like, ‘Biden, you’ve lost your senses,'” the president reportedly told Osnos.
Biden has previously cursed at Trump in private, according to Politico. The outlet reported in early February that Biden has referred to his 2024 rival as a “sick f—” and “a f—ing a–hole” to longtime friends and allies.
Senior Trump campaign adviser Chris Lacivita responded to the Politico report, “It’s a shame that Crooked Joe Biden disrespects the presidency both publicly and privately. But then again, it’s no surprise he disrespects the 45th president the same way he disrespects the American people with his failed policies.”
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The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital regarding Biden’s comments to the New Yorker.
Fox News’ Kristine Parks contributed to this report.
Google facing shakedown on Capitol Hill after admitting to racial bias in new tech
Lawmakers have started reacting to Google’s admitted racial and historical bias, and one Republican senator wants to see the “breakup” of one of the most well-known and profitable tech companies.
“This is one of the most dangerous companies in the world. It actively solicits and forces left-wing bias down the throats of the American nation,” Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, told FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo in a “Sunday Morning Futures” exclusive interview.
The Alphabet-owned tech giant is scrambling to right the ship after pulling the plug on Gemini’s image generation features, with CEO Sundar Pichai telling employees last Tuesday the company is working “around the clock” to fix the tool’s bias, calling the images generated by the model “completely unacceptable.”
Social media users had flagged Gemini was creating inaccurate historical images that sometimes replaced White people with images of Black, Native American and Asian people.
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Fox News Digital previously tested Gemini multiple times to see what kind of responses it would offer: when the AI was asked to show a picture of a White person, Gemini said it could not fulfill the request because it “reinforces harmful stereotypes and generalizations about people based on their race.”
Sen. Vance expanded on how the alleged bias can have ripple effects on other information sectors, including politics.
“Think about the effect this has on the presidential election when unbiased, non-committed voters are searching things about Donald Trump, and also about Joe Biden, right before they cast their ballots,” the senator said.
“We cannot allow a company that is in bed with some of the worst people in the world to control the flow of information and to bias it in a left-wing direction,” he continued. “We [have] got to break this company up and bring back some common sense standards.”
Addressing the likelihood that legislative action may be taken against Google, the senator claimed there are “growing calls” across the political spectrum for a shakedown on the tech giant, noting it’s gotten “too big, too powerful.”
“My friends on the left, Maria, say they feel like our democracy is under threat. The biggest way our democracy is under threat is you have these massive, international companies that are sort of controlling what we think, what we read, what information we consume,” Vance said.
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“That’s a big problem. But I actually do think that there’s going to be growing momentum to rein Google in,” he added. “We saw this with the release of Gemini. This is a radically left-wing company that is trying to control how we consume information. If we let that happen, we are going to get exactly what we deserve.”
On Saturday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote a letter to Google parent company Alphabet, demanding that the company explain whether the Biden administration influenced Gemini’s A.I. error.
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Idaho murder suspect’s twist of fate foils prosecution strategy, gives defense upper hand
There’s one known eyewitness to the University of Idaho student murders – a housemate who overheard sounds of a struggle and came face to face with a masked intruder on the night four undergrads were stabbed to death in Moscow, Idaho.
By the time the case goes to trial, years will have passed, with potential implications for her memory of the events.
Meanwhile, suspect Bryan Kohberger’s defense has bought more time to build up an alibi and pore over vast amounts of other evidence. Latah County District Judge John Judge is still weighing scheduling and a defense motion to have the trial moved to another county. And the victims’ families are still waiting for justice.
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“I’m listening carefully to both sides, and it’s a complicated case,” he said during a Wednesday hearing. “It’s a death penalty case.”
After Kohberger’s arrest at the end of December 2022, a trial had been penciled in for October 2023. Kohberger waived his right to speedy proceedings, postponing the trial. More recently, prosecutors requested a trial date for this June, but the defense asked for more time to prepare – seeking a date no earlier than the summer of 2025.
This illusion by everyone involved that they can control what happens is frustrating. A jury will hear the evidence and return a verdict. But we need to get there sooner rather than later.
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The families of two victims, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20, said in a joint statement that regardless of when the case goes to trial, everything will be reviewed with a fine-toothed comb, whether on appeal or by the public.
“We want to start healing, we do, we want to find justice and try to move on from this horrible tragedy, so please, please, start making some decision, get to work and quit playing the delay game,” they said through their attorney Shanon Gray.
The other victims were Goncalves’ best friend, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20.
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Long delays could have a negative impact on witnesses for the defense, said James Scozzari, a Michigan-based attorney who has represented murder suspects at trial.
“Witnesses forget events or even die, depending on the length of time between charges… and trial,” he told Fox News Digital. “The defendant essentially loses his ability to confer with potential defense witnesses, or even to keep track of their whereabouts. Hard to present a defense in those situations. Also, evidence gets lost or destroyed.”
Although Kohberger waived his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial, legal precedent upholds that the “passage of time makes proof of any fact more difficult,” he said.
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That cuts both ways, impacting prosecutors as well.
“The delays are bad for the prosecution,” said Neama Rahmani, a former assistant U.S. attorney whose cases included the successful prosecution of a fugitive killer featured on “America’s Most Wanted,” Logan Quiroga.
“Witness memories fade and evidence can disappear over time, and the victims’ families deserve justice,” Rahmani added.
If the defense doesn’t expect helpful testimony from the lone eyewitness, delays could be part of their plan, said Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. But that’s not his main concern.
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“Delay until everyone forgets or dies,” he told Fox News Digital. “I have worries about the case, delays aren’t one of them.”
Those issues, he said, are related to physical evidence in the case.
“I have two big ones,” he said. “How the crime scene was handled and what, if anything, was found in his vehicle. There’s no way you could pull a vicious scene like that off without transferring blood out into the snow and into his vehicle.”
Giacalone has questioned the integrity of the crime scene during the early stages of the investigation, the eventual release of the scene and personal effects inside the home, and the destruction of the building.
“Did the gatekeeper keep a record of who entered the crime scene, at what time, what they did and what time they left?” he asked. “Lots of video where the cop never gets out of the car. Was there a sign-in sheet inside? Who was supervising it was being used?”
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He took issue with the decision to return the victims’ belongings to family members while police were still monitoring the scene. And he highlighted the initial decision to bring in a cleaning crew to clear out the house, which was canceled the following day before a suspect had been arrested and defense investigators arrived.
Kohberger, a 29-year-old Pennsylvania criminology Ph.D. student, was attending Washington State University in Pullman, across the state line from Moscow, Idaho, where prosecutors allege he entered an off-campus home around 4 a.m. on Nov. 13, 2022, and massacred four students with a large knife.
Christian nightclub for Gen Z opens with rules centered around twerking and drinking
‘The Cove’, a pop-up nightclub in Nashville, gives adults aged 18 and over an alternative to traditional nightlife: a nonalcoholic space for young Christians to let loose without compromising their faith-based values.
The hotspot located in the heart of the ‘music city’ has three nonnegotiable rules: no twerking, no drinking, and no smoking.
There is reportedly another unspoken rule enacted by the club: a playlist featuring all Christian music.
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The discotheque, founded by seven Black Christian men in their 20s, first opened its doors in 2023 with the intent of building “a thriving community and a welcoming space for young Christians outside houses of worship.”
Cornell University alumni, Eric Diggs, one of the co-founders and CEO of ‘The Cove,’ said, “We ourselves experienced a pain point of not being able to find community outside of our church, not knowing what to do to have fun without feeling bad for doing stuff that’s conflicting to our values. There wasn’t a space to cultivate that, so we created it ourselves.”
The Christian nightclub held their first monthly party during the holiday season this past November, their second event was during New Years, and their most recent get together was held just last month.
Diggs, one of seven founding members, runs ‘The Cove’ alongside his two brothers, Jonathan and Jordan, events manager Shem, nightclub assistant Darin Starks, social media manager Aaron Dews and production manager Battz.
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Jordan, manager of ‘The Cove,’ said, “Christians get a rep for being corny, and we want to show that Christians can be normal, can be cool, and they can have fun.”
The young entrepreneurs used the power of social media to build a community and promote the nightclub’s events. A recent TikTok video on The Cove’s page was captioned, “We’ve officially redefined party culture for Gen Z [and] young Millennials.”
The 45-second clip continued, saying, “It all started with an idea. What if we could create a space for young adults to turn up and have fun without alcohol or substances? So we came up with the idea of starting a Christian nightclub in Nashville.”
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Dews added, “With us being seven Black guys, just seeing the expansion of the type of people that we can bring in, and the unification around one idea has been incredibly encouraging.”
A spokesperson for ‘The Cove’ told Fox News Digital, “Our mission is to cultivate a welcoming space where young adults can connect, have fun and encounter God through innovative experiences and vibrant community. Recognizing the growing health-conscious movement among Gen Z and young Millennials, we offer a unique, safe and substance-free environment for young adults to enjoy themselves. This is more than a nightclub. It’s a community. It’s a movement.”
The statement continued, “In a generation where so many people have experienced church hurt, we believe many individuals will choose to step foot into The Cove before stepping foot into a church. We embrace the seemingly contrasting ideas of “nightclub” and “Christian,” as we believe Jesus is present everywhere, not just within the four walls of a church building.”
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“It sounds oxymoronic — a Christian dance club,” Nicholas Oldham, who manages the club’s business, told the Associated Press.
“What it says for old fogies like me, is that the young are hungry for the word of God,” Oldham continued. “The church isn’t the building, and these young people are catching up to that.”
Identical twins allegedly traded places after 2 Amish children killed in crash
Identical twins from Minnesota are accused of swapping places after one of them, allegedly driving high on a rural highway, rear-ended an Amish horse-drawn carriage and killed two children.
Police spent months building the case before announcing charges. But, according to one expert, the damning evidence might not be as strong as it appears.
Prosecutors now allege Samantha Jo Petersen was behind the wheel Sept. 25, 2023, when a motor vehicle slammed into a horse-drawn carriage, killing two children and injuring their two siblings. It was not her identical twin sister, Sarah Beth Petersen, who took responsibility at the scene, who was driving, the prosecutors say.
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Authorities said the crash killed 7-year-old Wilma Miller and 11-year-old Irma Miller and sent two of their siblings, ages 9 and 13, to the hospital.
Samantha Petersen had an expired driver’s license and no insurance for her silver Toyota 4Runner at the time of the crash, according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
Sheriff John DeGeorge told local media in February dozens of charges had been filed against the sisters after a “lengthy investigation” found suspicious “inconsistencies” that later led to the unraveling of the alleged plot.
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“Sarah was on scene a short time before our first deputy arrived,” he said in televised remarks. “That allowed them to come up with this story where Sarah would take responsibility for the crash and start to mislead the investigation from that very point.”
When police arrived, she told them she was the driver and that she hit the buggy.
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The sisters allegedly pulled off the switcheroo because Samantha Petersen was high on drugs at the time of the crash and was scared she’d be sent to prison, according to court documents.
Sarah had recently been in prison as well, according to the filings, and may have felt she owed her sister a favor for taking care of her kids while she was locked up.
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Responding officers allegedly found “a couple of burnt marijuana blunts” and a tin can of pot in the crashed vehicle, and investigators later found evidence she was also using methamphetamine.
An officer left his recorder running and walked away during the investigation, and it also allegedly recorded Samantha Petersen telling her sister, “I think one of the guys is onto me, but I really don’t care … there’s no way they would ever know the difference between the two of us, so they can’t tell.”
Detectives allegedly found damning evidence in a text exchange between Samantha Petersen and someone investigators have identified as “DH” that said, in part, “i don’t think you realize that i did that…i hit that amish buggy and killed two people…made sarah come there and take the fall for it so i wouldn’t go to prison.”
Detectives also allegedly found evidence the suspect did searches on her phone for phrases that included “what happens if you get in an accident with an Amish buggy and kill two people?”
She has a prior record of charges including at least two prior DWI arrests and giving a false name to law enforcement, court records show.
Now she’s facing 21 counts, including vehicular homicide, DWI and leaving the scene of an accident. She’s due in court March 25.
Sarah Petersen is due in court April 1 on 16 felony charges, including aiding and abetting and trying to take responsibility for a crime.
“There’s a huge circumstantial case as it relates to impaired operation,” against the suspected driver, said David Gelman, a former prosecutor and now a defense attorney.
But it wasn’t a particularly high-speed crash, he said, so it could be a hindrance for prosecutors at trial. On the other hand, he said the “negligence” threshold under Minnesota law is easier to prove than “recklessness” required in some other states.
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“It’s a challenging case from a vehicular homicide standpoint, for the state, I think, but [the suspects] certainly didn’t do a lot to help themselves with the antics of trying to switch drivers at the scene,” he said. “Sometimes juries get really, really angry and upset when they see that type of shenanigans.”
The case against Sarah Petersen, the sober sister, could be even harder to prosecute as charged, he said, but authorities could be looking to pressure her into a plea deal to secure her testimony against Samantha Petersen.
“She can’t really be proven to have done more than hinder the investigation,” he said. “She was not the driver. She may have given false statements, which again goes to hindering.”
He pointed out some other items he said defense attorneys could turn to. The affidavit states that one of the suspects moved a vehicle during the initial investigation.
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“The scene was contaminated immediately by the women moving the scene, moving around willy nilly,” he said. “As a defense attorney, I’m going to be pounding them. … They did not protect that crime scene.
“At the end of the day, you have innocent people who are dead, and juries don’t like that,” he said. “But the defense does have good talking points here.”
Fox News’ Stepheny Price contributed to this report.
Archaeologists make ‘bone-chilling’ discovery at construction site in small town
Mexican archaeologists recently uncovered a cache of ancient bones during a construction project.
In a translated press release issued on Feb. 26, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) explained that the burial dated from the pre-Columbian era.
Archaeological experts discovered the trove of skeletons in the town of Pozo de Ibarra. A sewage-related construction project was happening at the time.
According to the INAH press release, the bones were all part of a “complex funerary system.” At least seven intact skulls were found and showed signs of “cranial modification,” which INAH says could have been done for aesthetic purposes.
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“It is a funerary system composed of a primary burial, that is, the skeleton maintains the anatomical relationship, accompanied by a concentration of human bone remains deposited without anatomical relationship, which have a particular arrangement,” the press release, which was translated from Spanish to English, explained.
The exact placement of the bones was intentional, the INAH says.
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“It was identified that long bones, such as femurs, tibias, rays and ulnae, were carefully placed in a specific sector,” the INAH added. “Similarly, the skulls were intentionally grouped, some even stacked on top of each other, in another sector of the ossuary.”
The exact age of the bones is unknown, but could go back 1,500 years.
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“The discovery is possibly related to the Amapa cultural phase (500-800/850 AD), because ceramic vessels and anthropomorphic figurines from that period were also recovered,” the statement added.
The INAH called its discovery “exceptional” and said it enriches the field of archeology in Mexico.
“This archaeological find is exceptional, since there are no precedents for this type of burial in other nearby sites, and it enriches the understanding of funerary practices in the region. In addition, it encourages collaboration between the different INAH bodies for the protection, research, conservation and dissemination of heritage.”
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You can get paid to sip soda and travel the world — without being an influencer
If you’re tech-savvy and love to travel, you might be a great contender for a dream role with a beverage brand that’s hiring a “senior soda consultant” to embark on an American adventure.
“OLIPOP is looking for two real besties great at creating content, and open to traveling to each city on OLIPOP’s tour to share their love of soda not only with locals, but with each other as well,” a representative at OLIPOP, a soda brand that offers a variety of flavors, shared with FOX Business.
Last year, OLIPOP received over 90,000 applications on LinkedIn from people who were interested in the role.
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The brand also reached billions of fans on social media by sending them a box of their favorite OLIPOP soda, Steven Vigilante, director of growth and partnerships, told FOX Business.
The soft drink company listened to the feedback it received from OLIPOP enthusiasts and is now giving them the opportunity to officially join the team.
“We wanted to do something different and unique and actually put these people on payroll,” Vigilante added.
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The “senior soda consultants” will visit four cities across the U.S. with $10,000 allotted for each city.
Flights and hotels will be provided by the future employer.
As with every job application, OLIPOP does have some criteria for finding the right “superfans.”
The perfect candidates are two best friends who can create content showcasing the beautiful cities they visit and represent OLIPOP, Vigilante said.
“We want to create an awesome, memorable experience for whoever the two winners are.”
Instead of going to “the four most obvious cities,” the beverage brand is excited for the newest employees to visit some cities that might be underrated but full of vibrancy.
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OLIPOP is creating the ultimate travel guide by showcasing exciting sights and cultures in “markets that people might not be aware of,” Vigilante said.
The job is listed on the OLIPOP website; people can apply until March 22.
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Applicants are asked to fill in some personal information, submit resumes and upload video samples to share why they’re the perfect “superfans.”
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The “senior soda consultants” will take off on April 5 and enjoy the first city until April 10, when they’ll then continue on with the adventure.
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“We want to create an awesome, memorable experience for whoever the two winners are,” Vigilante said.
“Most ideas don’t have virality to them as a brand, [but] I think this is something that has a chance of taking off on social and becoming something that people get really competitive about,” he said.
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