Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Google after it changed the label for the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on its maps platform to match U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order to amend the name of the body of water, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Friday.Sheinbaum said at a press briefing that the lawsuit had been filed against the tech giant, without providing additional details.The lawsuit comes after Sheinbaum threatened in February to sue Google for the name change.MEXICAN PRESIDENT SIGNALS POSSIBLE LAWSUIT AGAINST GOOGLE OVER GULF OF AMERICA NAME CHANGE"We are going to wait. We are already seeing, observing what this would mean from the perspective of legal advice, but we hope that they will make a revision," Sheinbaum said at the time.Mexicos Foreign Relations Ministry has also previously sent letters to Google urging it not to relabel the oceanic basin as the Gulf of America.Trump signed an order on his first day back in the White House in January to rename the northern part of the gulf to the Gulf of America. The body of water has shared borders between the United States and Mexico, and Trumps order only carries authority within the U.S.Mexico has argued that the Gulf of America label should only apply to the part over the U.S. continental shelf. The U.S. has control over about 46% of the gulf, Mexico controls about 49% and Cuba controls about 5%, according to Sovereign Limits,a databaseof international boundaries."What Google is doing here is changing the name of the continental shelf of Mexico and Cuba, which has nothing to do with Trumps decree, which applied only to the U.S. continental shelf," Sheinbaum said in February.The gulf appears in Google Maps as the Gulf of America within the U.S., as the Gulf of Mexico within Mexico and Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) everywhere else. It had been called the Gulf of Mexico for more than 400 years.GOOGLE MAPS, FAA OFFICIALY ACKNOWLEDGE GULF OF AMERICA AFTER TRUMP DECLARATION: ISNT IT BEAUTIFUL?'Google Maps began using Gulf of America for users in the U.S. shortly after Trump's order, citing its "longstanding practice" of following the U.S. governments lead on these matters. In cases where official names vary between countries, Googles policy says users will see their official local names.In February, the Mexican president shared a response from Google's vice president of government affairs and public policy, Cris Turner, who said the company would not change its policy after Trump's order.Sheinbaums announcement of the lawsuit comes after House Republicans passed the Gulf of America Act in a 211-206 vote, marking the first step in codifying Trump's order. The legislation now heads to the Senate.Fox News Digital has reached out to Google for comment.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

A federal judge on Friday issued a temporary pause on the Trump administrations plans to restructure various government agencies and cut tens of thousands of federal workers because the government overhaul was not authorized by Congress.U.S. District Judge Susan Illston put a 14-day pause on the mass layoffs, siding with a group of unions, non-profits and local governments after they filed a lawsuit on April 28.Illston said Trump may broadly restructure federal agencies, but only in "lawful ways" with approval from Congress."The President has the authority to seek changes to executive branch agencies, but he must do so in lawful ways and, in the case of large-scale reorganizations, with the cooperation of the legislative branch," Illston said. "Many presidents have sought this cooperation before; many iterations of Congress have provided it."FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ADMIN FROM DISMANTLING 3 AGENCIES"Nothing prevents the President from requesting this cooperationas he did in his prior term of office," the judge continued. "Indeed, the Court holds the President likely must request Congressional cooperation to order the changes he seeks, and thus issues a temporary restraining order to pause large-scale reductions in force in the meantime."Illston's ruling was the broadest of its kind against administration efforts to overhaul the federal government, which have been led by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE.Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House for comment.In February, Trump directed agencies to work with DOGE to identify targets for mass layoffs as part of the administration's plans to restructure the government.FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS HALT TO TRUMP ADMIN'S CFPB TERMINATIONSThe president instructed agencies to eliminate duplicate roles, unnecessary management layers and non-critical jobs, as well as to automate routine tasks, close regional field offices and reduce the use of outside contractors.The group of plaintiffs said the administration's "unlawful attempt to reorganize the federal government has thrown agencies into chaos, disrupting critical services provided across our nation.""Each of us represents communities deeply invested in the efficiency of the federal government laying off federal employees and reorganizing government functions haphazardly does not achieve that," the groups said in a statement.Illston scheduled a hearing for May 22 for a potential longer preliminary injunction. She said plaintiffs are likely to suffer irreparable harm without the temporary restraining order, which she said preserves the status quo.The judge said the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of some of their claims. They accuse Trump of exceeding his authority and say that DOGE, the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management exceeded their authority and violated administrative law."The Court here is not considering the potential loss of income of one individual employee, but the widespread termination of salaries and benefits for individuals, families, and communities," Illston wrote.Reuters contributed to this report.

Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Friday that "you cannot spy against an ally" in response to reports that the U.S. was gathering intelligence on Greenland, as U.S. President Donald Trump has continued to suggest purchasing the Arctic island."Cooperation about defense and deterrence and security in the northern part of Europe is getting more and more important," Frederiksen told The Associated Press. "Of course, you cannot spy against an ally."Frederiksen made the comments as Denmark and Greenland push back on Trump's desire to acquire the autonomous Danish territory, stressing that it is not for sale. Trump, however, has not ruled out taking it by military force despite Denmark being a NATO ally.GREENLAND'S PRIME MINISTER SAYS ISLAND CANNOT BE BOUGHT, US HAS 'NOT BEEN RESPECTFUL'"I dont rule it out. I dont say Im going to do it, but I dont rule out anything," Trump said earlier this week during an interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press.""We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a very small amount of people, which well take care of and well cherish them and all of that, but we need that for international security," he added.The Danish prime minister's statement on Friday came the day after Denmark summoned the top American diplomat in the country for an explanation to a report from The Wall Street Journal about several high-ranking officials under the U.S. director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, directing intelligence agency heads to collect information on Greenlands independence movement and views about U.S. resource extraction on the island.Acting head of the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, Jennifer Hall Godfrey, met with Danish diplomat Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen at the Danish Foreign Ministry, although details of the meeting were not disclosed.Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen told Greenland newspaper Sermitsiaq that the reports of U.S. espionage are unacceptable and disrespectful.Nielsen said last month that Greenland "will never, ever be a piece of property that can be bought by just anyone" and that "the talks from the United States have not been respectful."TRUMP SAYS HE WASN'T 'TROLLING' ABOUT ACQUIRING GREENLAND, CANADA AS 51ST STATEGabbards office released a statement saying she had made three "criminal" referrals to the U.S. Justice Department over intelligence community leaks in response to the report from The Wall Street Journal, which cited two sources familiar with the matter."The Wall Street Journal should be ashamed of aiding deep state actors who seek to undermine the President by politicizing and leaking classified information," Gabbard said. "They are breaking the law and undermining our nations security and democracy. Those who leak classified information will be found and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law."The Associated Press contributed to this report.

As President Donald Trump called for the reopening of Alcatraz in a Sunday evening Truth Social post, many Americans were reminded of the notorious prison off the coast of San Francisco, California."REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!" Trump wrote. "For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering," he wrote.Trump directed several agencies, including the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, FBI and Department of Homeland Security, to develop plans to reopen a "substantially enlarged and rebuilt" Alcatraz prison that would "house Americas most ruthless and violent Offenders." He said the reopening of Alcatraz "will serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE."During its time as a federal prison, which spanned almost 30 years, Alcatraz housed a total of over 1,500 inmates. Read about the most infamous inmates below:ALCATRAZ 2.0: FMR. FBI AGENT FLOATS 'PERFECT' NEW PRISON SITE THAT WOULD SCARE EVEN MOST HARDENED CRIMINALSAl Capone spent time at several prisons across America before serving a sentence at Alcatraz. Capone was charged with tax evasion in 1931, and while originally entering a guilty plea on June 16, 1931, he would change his plea to not guilty after the presiding judge said he wasn't bound by any plea deal made, according to the FBI.After being convicted on Oct. 18, 1931, Capone was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison, with his six-month contempt of court sentence brought down to time served. While attempting to appeal his conviction, Capone was being held at the Cook County Jail in Illinois.He began his sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, but was transferred to Alcatraz in 1934 after allegations that Capone was receiving cushy treatment by manipulating the prison system, according to History.com.Capone was released from Alcatraz in 1939 for good behavior. He spent his last year at Alcatraz in a hospital after contracting syphilis.After being released from Alcatraz, Capone didn't return to his old style of life and was deemed to have the mentality of a 12-year-old child by a Baltimore psychiatrist in 1946. He lived with his wife and immediate family in Palm Island, an isle off of Miami, Florida.He died of a stroke and pneumonia on Jan. 25, 1947.George Kelly, along with hs wife, Kathryn Kelly, kidnapped Oklahoma business tycoon Charles F. Urschel and Walter Jarrett on July 22, 1933. Longtime associate Albert Bates also assisted in the kidnapping.On July 26, 1933, J.G. Catlett, a close friend of Urschel, received a package written by Urschel which demanded he head to Oklahoma City and not communicate with the Urschel family. The package also received a ransom demand for $200,000.After the ransom was completed, Urschel finally returned home on July 31, 1933.The Kellys were arrested in Memphis, Tennessee during a Sept. 26, 1933 law enforcement raid by FBI agents and the Memphis Police Department. During the arrest, George Kelly allegedly famously cried "Dont shoot, G-Men! Dont shoot, G-Men!" according to the FBI.George Kelly was locked away at Alcatraz from 1934-1951. He got his nickname "machine gun" after his wife bought him a machine gun and encouraged him to go into a life of crime.LEGAL EXPERTS SAY TRUMP CAN DEFINITELY REOPEN ALCATRAZ, BUT COULD FACE 'AVALANCHE OF LAWSUITS'In 1909, Robert Stroud killed a bartender who allegedly didn't pay a prostitute he was pimping. He was convicted of manslaughter and served his sentence at U.S. Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington. While in federal prison, according to the Bureau of Prisons, Stroud attacked another inmate, resulting in his transfer to USP Leavenworth.While at USP Leavenworth, Stroud killed corrections officer Andrew Turner in 1916.Stroud was convicted of first-degree murder as a result, and was sentenced to death. In 1920, former President Woodrow Wilson commuted his sentence to life in prison.While in prison, Stroud developed a deep interest in birds, and would go on to write two books about birds and their diseases. Prison officers eventually found contraband items hidden inside bird cages that Stroud got his hands on, resulting in his transfer to Alcatraz in 1942.Stroud spent 17 years in Alcatraz before he died on Nov. 21, 1963.Alvin Karpis was a member of the Barker/Karpis gang, which was involved in a number of high-profile kidnappings.Karpis was involved in the 1933 kidnapping of William A. Hamm, Jr., president of the Theodore Hamm Brewing Company, according to the FBI. Hamm, Jr. left the building when he was grabbed by four individuals who pushed him into a car.Members of the Barker/Karpis gang were responsible for the kidnapping, and demanded a ransom of over $100,000. Hamm signed a number of ransom notes in Wisconsin before he was taken to a hideout in Bensenville, Illinois. After the ransom was paid, Hamm was released near Wyoming, Minnesota.Using fingerprint technology, the FBI used fingerprints on the ransom notes to identify suspects in the kidnapping Karpis, "Doc" Barker, Charles Fitzgerald, and other members of the gang.Karpis was eventually arrested in New Orleans, Louisiana, with former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover being part of the raid which led to his arrest on May 2, 1936.Karpis, born in Montreal, spent 10 years in prison for burglary before working with members of the Barker family on more extreme crimes.While Karpis was sentenced to life in prison, he spent time in various federal prisons, including Alcatraz. He was paroled in the late 1960s. He got his "creepy" nickname because of his smile.Morton Sobell was convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union in 1951, but wasn't convicted of providing the Soviet Union with stolen nuclear secrets, according to History.com.He was sentenced to 30 years in prison, with 18 of them being spent in Alcatraz before he was paroled in 1969.Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were charged along with Sobell, were sentenced to death through electric chair.

While Republicans have celebrated President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, Democrats have accused the Trump administration's deportations of violating due process."We need judges that are not going to be demanding a trial for every single illegal immigrant. We have millions of people who have come in here illegally, and we can't have a trial for every single person. That would be millions of trials," Trump recently told reporters on Air Force One.Fox News Digital asked lawmakers on Capitol Hill to respond to Trump's argument that illegal immigrants are not entitled to due process."People come here and get a legal process called parole and have a right to due process," said Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz. "We are a country of laws, and we shouldn't be kicking people out of the country without having that due process."FOX NEWS RIDES ALONG AS FLORIDA HIGHWAY PATROL BEGINS ENFORCING FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAWS ON STATE ROADSAccording to the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, all "persons" are entitled to due process. While the extent of due process for deporting illegal immigrants has played out in the courts, Kelly made his position clear when pressed by Fox News Digital.DEM CONGRESS MEMBERS STORM NEW JERSEY ICE PRISON TO CONDUCT 'OVERSIGHT VISIT': 'PEOPLE DESERVE DIGNITY'"I'll also say, throwing out little kids who are U.S. citizens, it's wrong, it's dangerous. It is certainly not fair to them or their parents, but it really does affect everybody. I mean, tossing out a 2-year-old who's a U.S. citizen is crazy," Kelly said.But Republicans who spoke to Fox News Digital weren't so sympathetic, as they doubled down on their support of the Trump administration deporting illegal immigrants."Nobody should be coming into the country illegally," Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said. "[Former President Joe] Biden has ruined all this. He's ruined the whole immigration process. He has tainted immigration. Now we have [Venezuelan President Nicols] Maduro's criminals that are coming in, that he sent here. We have all the drug traffickers here. We have terrorists here. These people need to get out of the country. They're here illegally. I want this country safe."Scott's comments mimic Trump's accusations on the 2024 presidential campaign trail of Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro intentionally sending criminals to the U.S., and blaming former President Joe Biden for the surge in illegal immigration."The law does not require someone to actually have a jury trial," Sen. James Lankford, D-Okla., countered to Fox News Digital. "A hearing can be done. It's not a trial. It's not a jury trial. That's not the right of someone that's not legally present in the country."Lankford said illegal immigrants are only entitled to a hearing, not a trial before a jury before deportation, which is supported by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment."No, it's not necessary," said Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., agreeing with Trump. "These people are illegal."Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., explained to Fox News Digital that while illegal immigrants are entitled to prior notice before deportation under habeas corpus, the judicial system has not clearly defined how long that window is."Basically, the courts have said under a habeas proceeding, there needs to be notice," said Schmitt. "But the question is, what does that notice mean? Is it an hour, is it a day or is it a week? I think what you're ultimately going to see, not under the Alien Enemies Act, but under the habeas cases, is that there's going to be a relatively short window, and [Trump's] going to be able to proceed with these deportations."White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told reporters on Friday that the White House is considering suspending habeas corpus, which he said the Trump administration has the authority to do during "a time of invasion.""A lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not," Miller said.

Historians recently unveiled their findings about an ancient purple dye factory located in modern-day Israel revealing a glimpse into life during biblical times.In an article recently published in the journal PLOS One, historians announced the discovery of Tel Shiqmona, an archaeological mound south of the Israeli city of Haifa. The site is located on the coast of the Mediterreanean Sea.Tel Shiqmona, the article's authors say, "can unequivocally be identified as a specialized facility for large-scale and long-term production of the lucrative purple dye."HISTORIC MARYLAND CHURCH OPENS DOORS TO VISITORS 320 YEARS AFTER CLOSING DOWNThe site dates back as early as 1100 B.C., during the Iron Age. In Biblical terms, the site predated the reigns of Kings Solomon and David by over a century, and likely became more sophisticated over time."It is the only site in the Near East or around the Mediterranean indeed, in the entire world where a sequence of purple-dye workshops has been excavated and which has clear evidence for large-scale, sustained manufacture of purple dye and dyeing in a specialized facility for half a millennium, during the Iron Age," the article describes."The number and diversity of artifacts related to purple dye manufacturing are unparalleled."Pictures show fragments of vats with purple dye stains, as well as purple residue on various stone tools. What makes the site so unique is that it produced purple dye on an industrial scale which historians previously thought was introduced by Romans in the first century A.D.LONG-LOST CAPITAL OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATION MAY HAVE FINALLY BEEN UNCOVERED, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY: 'UNIQUE FIND'The dye, which was harvested by crushing the shells of certain mollusks, was highly valued in antiquity, and mentioned in the Bible several times. One biblical mention of purple dye occurs in Acts 16:14, which describes a female merchant."One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth," the verse reads. "She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Pauls message."In Mark 15:17, Jesus was dressed in purple cloth by his captors in order to humiliate him, as the color was associated with royalty.For more Lifestyle articles, visit foxnews.com/lifestyle"And they clothed him in a purple cloak; and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on him," the verse says.At Tel Shiqmona, researchers used a variety of techniques, including chemical and mineralogical analyses, to understand each artifact that was uncovered. In an interview with New Scientist, archaeologist Golan Shalvi said the mollusks would secrete a greenish fluid when crushed, and the fluid would turn purple when oxidized."However, in order to transform it into an actual dye one that chemically bonds with textiles it must be processed into a solution through a complex series of chemical steps," Salvi explained."It was an industrial site throughout most of the Iron Age, without monumental architecture or any particular beauty or elegance," he added. "I imagine it as a very smelly place especially to a modern nose since the production process emitted a terrible odor. I picture wool fleeces dyed in various shades drying outside and inside the buildings, which may have given the site a purplish-reddish-blue hue."CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTERThe team of analysts found that the factory at Tel Shiqmona both produced purple dye and then dyed fibers and fleeces, as opposed to simply producing dye."The size and opening of the vats would have allowed the dipping of the fleeces or fibers into the vats," the article explains."Given their substantial weight when full, it is unlikely that the vats were intended to be moved, nor could they be tilted. Producing the dye in these very large vessels and then transferring it to other containers for dyeing (at Shiqmona or elsewhere) does not seem to be a plausible reconstruction of the process.""Therefore, we conclude that the entire manufacture, from harvesting the snails to dyeing, was conducted at the site, and that dye-production and dyeing were conducted in one container apparently a rather efficient process."

As opening statements in Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking trial are set to kick off Monday, the defense and prosecution have seemingly run into a few roadblocks.The prosecution has lost communication with Victim 3 and cannot locate her, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey."The disappearance of a key victim at trial is crippling for the prosecution," attorney JohnJ.Perlstein told Fox News Digital. "I doubt it impacts other counts; however, it will severely impact the one relating to the AWOL victim. A lot of times, people reconsider wanting to be involved in such a high-profile matter. Good prosecutors will adapt and, hopefully, their case is not dependent on the cooperation of one person."DIDDY FACES JURY IN OPINIONATED NY HOMETOWN AMID BID FOR FREEDOM ON SEX TRAFFICKING CHARGESNo-shows "add stress" to any trial and witnesses can become non-responsive for many reasons, according to Judie Saunders, partner of NYC-based ASK LLP."If this witness doesnt show, thats a problem," entertainment lawyer Tre Lovell explained to Fox News Digital. "One of the biggest questions in this prosecution is the small number of victim-witnesses in light of all the civil lawsuits and victims out there."To have only three to four actual victims testifying against allegations of two decades-long criminality is telling. Although the government will have other witnesses to testify (i.e. staff workers, Diddy associates, people that were part of his entourage), the victims will be the most compelling and important people on the stand."PROSPECTIVE DIDDY JURORS QUIZZED ON MIKE MYERS, INFIDELITY, MUSICDiddy has been charged with racketeering conspiracy; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; and transportation to engage in prostitution in a federal indictment unsealed Sept. 17. He has maintained his innocence. If found guilty, he faces a minimum of 15 years behind bars or a maximum sentence of life in prison.Authorities allege Diddy ran a criminal enterprise through his businesses, including Bad Boy Entertainment, Combs Enterprises and Combs Global, among others. He used "firearms, threats of violence, coercion and verbal, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse" to fulfill his sexual desires, according to prosecutors.WATCH ON FOX NATION: WHAT DIDDY DO?While opening statements will begin Monday, the jury panel has yet to be finalized, according to Friday's status conference in the case. Diddy's legal team was concerned about jurors getting cold feet over the weekend, and Judge Arun Subramanian agreed."This doesnt necessarily signal a struggle to seat the jury; its more about being cautious and setting the trial up for a smooth start with minimal disruptions," criminal defense lawyer Jo-Anna Nieves told Fox News Digital. "Its a thoughtful and fairly common precaution."Criminal defense attorney Eric Faddis added, "Its normal for different phases of the trial to take longer than expected, but apparently at least one of the 45 potential jurors remaining has recently asked to be removed from this controversial, high-profile case."LIKE WHAT YOURE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSDiddy's lawyer has also revealed the defense plans to introduce the idea that there was mutual violence in the rapper's relationships. Legal experts explained this tactic is "risky and complicated.""The defense is essentially arguing that the relationship with Victim 1 was volatile on both sides, so it shouldnt be seen as one-sided abuse or coercion," Nieves explained. "That might sound plausible at first, but in court, mutual violence doesnt automatically cancel out claims of coercion. The focus will be on who held the power in the relationship. If Diddy controlled the situation through money, status, threats or manipulation, then any violence from the other party wont excuse or equalize that dynamic.""Jurors also tend to be turned off by strategies that seem like victim-blaming," she continued. "Trying to make the victim look just as responsible can backfire, especially if theres evidence that Diddy was the primary aggressor. This approach might raise some questions in the jurys mind, but its a strategy that depends heavily on context and credibility."A "mutual combat" defense "doesnt transform an allegedly non-consensual sexual encounter into a consensual one," Faddis added. "Though, if accepted as true, it may mitigate Diddys alleged actions in the eyes of the jurors."SEAN DIDDY COMBS ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTS EX-GIRLFRIEND CASSIE IN HOTEL VIDEODiddy's mutual violence position is likely going to be used to undercut the video of the rapper engaging in a physical altercation with ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura."Diddys legal team needs to distance the Cassie Ventura hotel video from the allegations in this case and box it,'" Lovell explained."This means describe it as a mutually violent altercation, a fight between two people in a romantic, decade-long relationship that has everything to do with private issues (i.e. infidelity) between a couple as opposed to racketeering or sex trafficking."CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERDiddy also faces testimony from Ventura. The musician, who is pregnant, is set to testify using her real name in the trial, People magazine reported. Other alleged victims have been allowed to testify using pseudonyms."Cassie will gain sympathy from the jury as being an assault victim and the fact she is a soon-to-be mother," Lovell noted. "Nevertheless, Diddys team can remind the jury of how long ago this was, and that she was very different back then. Appearance before a jury is always very important, for both the defendant and credibility of witnesses, but the attorneys can diffuse this through evidence and reminding the jury that everyone in court will be on their best behavior and, by design, not exhibit the conduct for which they are either the subject of the prosecution or a testifying witness."While the "Me & U" singer's current pregnancy doesn't "erase proof" of an allegedly violent past, Perlstein a top Los Angeles litigator told Fox News Digital, it could help her seem sympathetic on the stand.Ventura's pregnancy "only increases the likelihood" that jurors will view her as a "sympathetic witness," Faddis told Fox News Digital. "It also undercuts the defenses argument that Cassie, a woman modest in stature, is somehow equally involved in and responsible for the alleged physical altercations between the two."Diddy has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him and denied all the allegations.

Two years after Alex Murdaugh's murder conviction, defense attorney Dick Harpootlian still believes the disgraced lawyer is innocent in the murders of his wife and youngest son.Murdaugh, 56, is serving a life sentence for fatally shooting his wife, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul, in June 2021 on their family's hunting estate in Colleton County, South Carolina."Do I believe he did it? No," Harpootlian told Fox News Digital. "I got hired when Paul was charged with the boat case a year before the murders. And in the office I'm sitting in right now, at least once every two weeks, Alex and Maggie and Paul would come and we'd meet and talk about the case and what was going on and what we needed. Every time Maggie and Alex left this office, they were holding hands. Paul was the apple of his eye. There's no way in hell that he would have executed that kid."Prosecutors argued that their murders were an attempt to distract from Murdaugh's mounting financial crimes, which were beginning to come to light around that time, and which Harpootlian wholeheartedly believes Alex is guilty of committing. The disgraced South Carolina lawyer was also sentenced to 27 years for his financial crimes in a state case in November 2023.ALEX MURDAUGH'S SURVIVING SON, BUSTER MURDAUGH, GETS MARRIED IN LAVISH LOWCOUNTRY WEDDING"Remember, the state says he concocted this plan to distract from the money he stole. Alex would confess it if he thought it would protect Paul anyway and Maggie," Harpootlian said. "Whoever shot Paul, and this is public testimony, put a shotgun to the top of his head and literally blew his brains out. His brains hit the ceiling. The head exploded. There's no way in hell, in my opinion, Alex would have done that. Now, his knowledge of who may have done it, that's another matter altogether."There are still a number of lingering questions in the case, Harpootlian said, number one being: "Who killed them?"WATCH FALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDAUGH ONLINE"I thinkwe've learned some things since the trial that perhaps will help us lead to we don't have to prove who killed them," he said. "We just need to give the jury a reasonable doubt as to [Murdaugh] killing [Maggie and Paul], and there are plenty of them. I mean, forensically, before you ever get to any testimony, whoever killed Paul would have been covered in blood and brains from head to foot. There's no evidence whatsoever that was a single drop of blood on Alex Murdoch. And he is with other people within an hour of the time that the prosecutor said Maggie and Paul were killed."Harpootlian is optimistic that they will get a new trial based on the "misconduct of the clerk of court," he said. He still talks to Murdaugh once a week, he said.FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X"He really takes everything in stride and when you consider where he was and how far he's fallen," Harpootlian said of Murdaugh. "I mean most folks would be curled up in a fetal position in their cell refusing to come out. That ain't Alex."While Harpootlian is known for defending Murdaugh in the double murder trial, his professional experience in the courtroom dates back to the 1980s. When he graduated from Clemson University in 1975, Harpootlian said he was a "sort of a long-haired hippie" who opposed the death penalty and the Vietnam War.When he began his career as a prosecutor in the Fifth Circuit Solicitors Office, his perspective on the death penalty began to shift. He has since prosecuted hundreds of murder cases and 12 death penalty cases, including the prosecution of Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins, who was South Carolinas most notorious serial killer.MURDAUGH FIRST RESPONDER REVEALS NEW CRIME SCENE DETAILS AFTER GUILTY VERDICTHarpootlian discusses the case and his shifting perspective on the death penalty in his new book, "Dig Me a Grave: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer who Seduced the South," co-authored with Shaun Assael.Gaskins nicknamed Pee Wee because of his short stature at 5 ft. 2 in confessed to 13 murders in an attempt to receive a life sentence rather than the death penalty in the 1980s,. He disposed of his victims' bodies in the swamplands of coastal South Carolina.However, he was eventually sentenced to death after being hired to kill a man in prison. In 1982, a man named Tony Cimo of Murrells Inlet hired Gaskins to kill Rudolph Tyner, who was on death row for murdering Cimo's adoptive parents. However, the South Carolina Supreme Court reversed the decision to sentence Tyner to death, declaring "the death penalty statutory construct" prosecutors were using at the time to be "unconstitutional," Harpootlian said."The Department of Corrections knew that [Gaskins] had skills as an electrician, a plumber, and they made him the head trustee of the cell block to the most secure cell block at our central correctional institution, and death row was one of the tiers in that cell," he explained. "Cimo was upset that Tyner had not been executed, and it had been almost a decade. And so he, through an intermediary, contacted Gaskins by phone, and arranged for Gaskins to poison him."ALEX MURDAUGH: TIMELINE OF ONCE-POWERFUL SOUTH CAROLINA LAWYER'S SPECTACULAR DOWNFALLThe poisoning did not work, so Gaskins arranged over the phone to get explosives smuggled into the prison where he was staying. In the call, which Harpootlian played from his phone for Fox News Digital, Gaskins can be heard asking in a heavy southern accent for "one electric cap," "as much of a stick of damn dynamite that you can get," and a "damn radio.""That son of a b---h will go off, and there won't be no damn coming back on that," Gaskins can be heard saying in the recording.SIGN UP TO GET THE TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTER"The tapes obviously were damning, and the jury sentenced him to death, and he was executed in 1991," Harpootlian said. "By then, I was the DA, or the solicitor, and he had a plot to have his son kidnap my 4-year-old daughter, which was uncovered two weeks before his execution. When he said he liked killing, he really did, and the week that was discovered, and my family and I lived with armed guards for a couple of weeks until he was only executed in the electric chair."After Gaskins successfully executed Tyner, prosecutors again sought the death penalty for the serial killer.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPHarpootlian recalled a moment he shared with Gaskins when the serial killer told him, "You like killing.""And I said what do you mean I like killing? And he said: 'You like killing me. I can tell that you're enjoying killing me,'" Harpootlian recalled. "It became clear to me, especially after he was executed, that I participated in and take responsibility for killing him. And then the question is, did I like it like he said? Was he right? Or was I just doing my job that society, the community hired me to do?"GET REAL-TIME UPDATES DIRECTLY ON THE TRUE CRIME HUBHarpootlian discusses what he described as that "moral dilemma" in his new book, which he said was "cathartic" to write. The book comes out on Dec. 16 but is currently available for pre-order.

Baraka, ICE, China Trade Talks

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