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The driver who allegedly crashed her vehicle into a busy Los Angeles intersection at nearly 100 miles per hour, killing six people, is facing multiple murder charges. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced on Monday that nurse Nicole Linton, 37, has been charged with six counts of murder and five counts of gross vehicular manslaughter for her involvement in causing the fiery crash. If convicted on all counts, Linton faces up to 90 years in prison. After she was released from the hospital Linton was arrested, and her bail was raised to $9 million after initially being set at $2 million. She is currently in custody at Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, California, CBS News reported . The fiery crash occurred on Thursday at around 1:40 p.m. as Linton allegedly drove her Mercedes nearly 100 miles per hour in a 35 miles per hour zone and “barreled into cross traffic at the busy intersection of La Brea and Slauson” in the Windsor Hills … [Read more...] about Woman Facing 6 Murder Charges for Fiery Crash at L.A. Intersection

London (CNN Business) Nearly one third of households in the United Kingdom will face poverty this winter after paying energy bills that are set to soar again in January, campaigners say. About 10.5 million households will be in fuel poverty for the first three months of next year, according to estimates from the End Fuel Poverty Coalition (EFPC) published on Tuesday — meaning that their income after paying for energy will fall below the poverty line. The UK government defines poverty as household income of less than 60% of the UK median, which stood at £31,000 ($37,500) in 2021, according to official statistics. The predictions are based on new estimates from research firm Cornwall Insight, also published Tuesday, which show that the average household energy bill is expected to hit £3,582 ($4,335) a year from October, and £4,266 ($5,163) from January — equating to about £355 ($430) a month. January's forecast represents a 116% increase in … [Read more...] about A third of Brits face poverty with energy bills set to hit $5,000

Photo: Ron Adar/SOPA Images/Shutterstock Yuh-Line Niou is used to running in a crowd. In 2016, she defeated five other candidates to win the Democratic nomination for the Assembly seat vacated by Speaker Sheldon Silver when he was indicted on corruption charges. Six years later, she is running for Congress against a dozen other candidates, including fellow front-runners City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera , former House impeachment counsel Dan Goldman, and Representative Mondaire Jones, in the newly redrawn Tenth District . It includes Chinatown and the Lower East Side, which she represents in Albany. If she wins, 39-year-old Niou — whose parents emigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan when she was a child — would become only the second Asian American elected to Congress from New York, after Grace Meng. She has been endorsed by progressive heavyweights like the Working Families Party and the Sunrise Movement, as well as by some of her fellow state lawmakers, like progressives Julia … [Read more...] about Yuh-Line Niou on Her Especially Personal Run for Congress