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The attorneys for 50-year-old Christa Pike filed an emergency order to preserve all evidence from her botched execution attempt on Wednesday night. Pike’s attorneys detail her conditions, saying she is intubated, unconscious and on a ventilator with her arms swollen, blistered and burned. The filing alleges the medical team improperly placed the IV and both lethal doses of pentobarbital went into her body, not her veins, calling their actions “reckless” and “incompetent.”
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Comedian and actor Dane Cook joins Jen Fessler and Elisa Donovan to open up about the shocking betrayal at the center of his new documentary, Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story. After discovering his half-brother had stolen millions from him, Dane’s life, career and relationship with his family unraveled in ways he never saw coming. He reveals what the betrayal did to him personally, how he rebuilt his life after one of its darkest periods, and the lessons he learned the hard way about money and trust. Plus the surprising answer to whether he would ever sit down with him face-to-face.
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Residents are demanding answers after a county in Florida discovered multiple Flock cameras that were not permitted, and have no known owner. It’s also unclear whether those cameras are actively collecting data or who can access it. Florida isn’t alone, several other municipalities have found non-permitted cameras on city property that no one has publicly claimed. Flock cameras have drawn recent scrutiny across the country over police misuse and privacy concerns, with many municipalities removing them and ending their surveillance.
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Governor Kathy Hochul held a brief, joint press conference with New York Attorney General Letitia James. Governor Hochul said the Cornell rape accuser was 'failed' by the people who were obligated to protect her, namely the police and the District Attorney. Hochul issued an executive order appointing James as special prosecutor, saying newly released information raises serious questions about the investigation. The alleged victim went to campus police three weeks after she says seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity drugged and raped her back in 2024.
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50-year-old Christa Pike remains in the hospital, in critical condition this morning. Pike’s attorneys say she was chemically tortured, suggesting the drugs went into her arm tissue rather than her bloodstream. They also have expressed frustration that they haven't been given any sense of her prognosis, but if Pike survives, it will be unprecedented. Meantime, her victim’s mother, May Martinez is speaking out, frustrated by the botched execution.
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