Man arrested in ‘one of most heinous, notorious cold cases’ more than 30 years after mother’s murder

James Lawhead was arrested after forensic DNA analysis lead in decades-old killing of Cindy Wanner

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A 64-year-old man was arrested last week in connection to a decades-old murder investigation that had long haunted the affluent suburb of Sacramento where it occurred.

On 25 November 1991, Cindy Wanner, 35, vanished from her sister’s home in Granite Bay, California. Her husband arrived to the residence with their four-year-old daughter and found their 11-month-old baby alone, wailing and strapped to a high chair. Three weeks later, Wanner’s body was discovered 40 miles away in a secluded wooded area. She had died from strangulation.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/cindy-wanner-cold-case-murder

Virginia weighs legality of new congressional map favoring Democrats that could reshape US House

The case is part of a national redistricting fight with high stakes for the November midterm elections

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Virginia supreme court justices on Monday questioned whether the state’s Democratic-led legislature complied with constitutional requirements when it sent a congressional redistricting plan to voters, in a case that carries high stakes for the balance of power in the US House.

The new districts, which could net Democrats four additional seats, won narrow voter approval last week. But a Republican legal challenge contends the general assembly violated procedural rules by placing the constitutional amendment before voters to authorize the mid-decade redistricting. If the court agrees that lawmakers broke the rules, it could invalidate the amendment and render last week’s statewide vote meaningless.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/27/virginia-redistricting-map-house

Mali Rebels Strike Major Blow Against Junta and Russia’s Africa Corps #wanitaxigo

Number of executions in North Korea rose dramatically during Covid – report

Regime used its isolation after closing borders to escalate killings when global scrutiny disappeared, NGO claims

North Korea dramatically increased its use of the death penalty after closing its borders during the Covid-19 pandemic, using its isolation to escalate killings when international scrutiny disappeared, according to a report mapping 13 years of executions under the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un.

The number of documented cases of executions and death sentences increased by 117% in the nearly five years after North Korea sealed its borders in January 2020 compared with an equal period before the closure, according to a report by the Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG), a human rights NGO in Seoul.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/27/executions-death-sentences-north-korea-rose-during-covid-report

Anti-Trump sentiment being examined as motive for White House press dinner shooting

Alleged manifesto reportedly written by the suspect had Trump administration officials at top of list

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Investigators are looking into anti-Trump sentiment as being a motive for the attacker who sought to breach the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington DC where the US president and top members of his administration were present.

Officials have said that the shooter likely was targeting Donald Trump and other senior administration officials. “We do believe, based upon just a very preliminary start to understanding what happened, that he was targeting members of the administration,” acting US attorney general Todd Blanche said in a TV interview.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/white-house-press-dinner-shooting-motive

Al Qaeda-Linked Militants Launch Major Attacks on Cities Across Mali #wanitaxigo

Australia news live: Taylor says Coalition preferencing One Nation in Farrer to stop ‘teal policies’; Victoria announces one-off car rego rebate

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Angus Taylor says welcome to country should be used less

The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, has called for welcome to country remarks to be used less often, saying he is frustrated they have been “devalued” by “overuse”.

Can I say, booing, whatever the cause, on Anzac Day, [at] Anzac Day ceremonies, is absolutely inappropriate and un-Australian. It shouldn’t happen. It simply shouldn’t happen.

I can understand the frustration Australians feel about over use of welcomes to country. I feel that at times. Often actually. I think it is overuse and as a result they are devalued.

Absolutely not boo, absolutely.

Some of the great Australians have come from countries that were bad countries at the time. But there is a higher risk that some bad people come from those bad countries.

We have bad countries around the world. I mean, to claim that Iran is a good country right now, seriously, and the government itself has put legislation in place to make it harder for people to come from Iran.

We have seen terrible acts of atrocity coming from Gaza.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/apr/26/australia-news-live-victoria-car-registration-rebate-cost-of-living-fuel-crisis-anzac-angus-taylor-albanese-chris-bowen-labor-liberal-ntwnfb