If the appeals court agrees, Patterson would only be the second woman to receive a full life sentence in Australia, after Katherine Knight, who murdered her de facto husband and cooked parts of his body.
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Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
20 Aug. 2026
On August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother, Andrew and Abby Borden, were murdered in the family’s home in Fall River, Massachusetts.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
19 Aug. 2026
At the site, excavators found stone tools alongside bones of ancient elephants — and the recent paper, written by archaeologists and paleoanthropologists, suggests the remains were likely deliberately butchered by early human ancestors.
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Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
14 Aug. 2026
The meats — some butchered on-site by Soto — sear over mesquite charcoal, with smoke wafting through the large patio and over the restaurant’s bright pink walls.
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Stephanie Breijo,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Aug. 2026
McCaffrey has either finished as the RB1/2 or missed 10+ games for six straight seasons, recording three of each.
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Jess Bryant,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2026
The body of the most extreme version of the automaker’s iconic sports car is available finished in either White or GT Silver Metallic with the front and rear fascias, along with the wing caps, covered in a green protective film.
If the war does indeed come to an end and oil keeps falling, Warsh might get breathing room for rate cuts down the line.
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Alexa LoMonaco,
CNBC,
16 June 2026
Courtesy of the Abu Haikal family Haikal said his family’s own homes have been targeted in settler attacks, including having stones thrown at their home, their crops destroyed, trees cut down and property stolen.
Some 600 drones were detected headed toward the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third destroyed over the Moscow region itself.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Aug. 2026
An airstrike destroyed a house in Ansar town, killing seven people and wounding three others on Saturday morning, NNA said.
Air defense forces and electronic warfare units shot down and neutralized 187 drones over the Moscow region, according to its governor, Andrey Vorobiev.
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Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
16 Aug. 2026
These antibodies later neutralized about 16% of tetrodotoxin in laboratory tests.
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