Georgia Republican Party official voted illegally nine times, judge rules

A judge ruled this week that a top Georgia Republican Party official, who has promoted former President Donald Trump‘s claims of widespread voter fraud affecting the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, has repeatedly voted illegally. Brian Pritchard, first vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party and a conservative talk show host, was fined $5,000 … Read more

‘What kind of animal are they?;’ Cold case solved 60 years after grisly murder of Dayton mother

Decades after her death, investigators have answered the question of who murdered 43-year-old Daisy Shelton. News Center 7′s Taylor Robertson spoke to Shelton’s grandaughter Maria Walling, who shared her reaction to hearing the news her grandmother’s killers had been found. The case began in June 1964, when a man fly fishing at a local gravel … Read more

False posts claim ‘8 million Buddhists killed’ in Indonesia anti-communist purges

Posts repeatedly shared in Myanmar falsely claimed Muslims massacred “eight million Buddhists” in Indonesia in 1965, completely wiping out Buddhism in the archipelago. Multiple scholars told AFP the posts, which shared unrelated photos, misrepresented mass killings in Indonesia in the mid-1960s which they said targeted communists and not Buddhists. The latest government data showed there … Read more

MicroStrategy Slumps 14% After Short Seller Says Stock Trades at an Unjustifiable Premium to Bitcoin

Kerrisdale Capital is short MicroStrategy stock and long bitcoin. The stock’s relative attractiveness doesn’t justify paying more than double for the same coin, Kerrisdale said. MicroStrategy is no longer a unique way to gain access to bitcoin, it said. MicroStrategy’s (MSTR) shares fell as much as 14% on Thursday after a prominent short seller, Kerrisdale … Read more

Pennsylvania man in ‘Scream’ mask killed neighbor with chain saw, then went home to watch a movie, police say

A Pennsylvania man attacked and killed his neighbor this week using a knife and a chain saw while wearing a mask and costume like the one from the movie “Scream,” officials said. The man then returned home and watched a movie until police came, according to a criminal complaint from the Pennsylvania State Police. Police … Read more