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Evidence revealed in the Dominion case exposed the channel as the hostage of its viewers’ fantasy: a Trump election victoryIn Kansas City last week, an elderly white man who lives alone heard the doorbell ring. He didn’t need to open the glass front door to see that a young black boy was standing there. He reacted instantly, firing two shots through the glass, one of which struck 16-year-old Ralph Yarl in the head. Ralph had set out to pick up his younger siblings at a nearby house with a similar address: he’d made a mistake, for which he is now fighting for his life. Meanwhile, 84-year-old Andrew Lester has entered a plea of not guilty on a charge of first-degree assault. But listen to the words of Lester’s grandson.He said they used to get on well, but in recent years his grandfather spent more and more time watching TV, specifically conservative cable channels: “He’s become staunchly rightwing, further down the rightwing rabbit hole as far as doing the election-denying conspiracy stuff and Covid conspiracies and disinformation, fully buying into the Fox News … kind of line.” The way he saw it, his grandfather had been immersed in “a 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia”. Continue reading...

Document that advocated more severe punishments for Hispanic defendants ‘not the policy of this office’, Jack Campbell saysA state attorney in Florida has apologized for a “racist” memo produced by staff in a rural county office of all-white prosecutors, advocating more severe punishments for defendants who are Hispanic.The document covering plea deals was exposed by a whistleblower former employee who worked briefly for Jack Campbell, state attorney for the second judicial circuit based in Tallahassee. Continue reading...

A US police force in Wisconsin released bodycam footage showing officers pulling a bobcat from under a car after receiving a callout. Officers from the Wisconsin department of natural resources managed to successfully move the big cat from the vehicle into a truck before returning it to the wild Continue reading...

President has already signalled he intends to run for second term, though questions persist about fitness to runJoe Biden is preparing to announce his bid for re-election as soon as Tuesday, the anniversary of the launch of the 2020 campaign that put him in the White House, multiple news outlets reported.The president has long and clearly signalled that he intends to seek re-election. Last week, he said he would launch his campaign “relatively soon”. Continue reading...

The Florida governor’s flaws are glaringly apparent. Right now, it’s hard to see the nominee as anyone other than TrumpThe Ron DeSantis boomlet is done. He consistently trails Donald Trump by double-digits. A Wall Street Journal poll out Friday pegs Florida’s governor in severe retrograde, slipping 27 points since December. DeSantis mistakenly conflates his campaign’s bulging war chest with adulation. Wrong!He forgot that working-class Americans dominate the Republican party and that mien matters. Voting to gut social security comes with fatal backlash, and eating pudding with your fingers is gross. Said differently, largesse from the party’s donor base coupled with little else is a losing recipe.Lloyd Green is an attorney in New York and served in the US Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992 Continue reading...

Kentucky state law mandates confiscated firearms be sold at public auction as CNN reports notes detail shooter’s motiveThe family of a man who killed five people at a Louisville bank this month is working to destroy the AR-15 rifle he used, despite a Kentucky state law that sends firearms confiscated by law enforcement to auction and uses the proceeds to buy law enforcement equipment.“The Sturgeon family was aghast to learn Kentucky law mandated the assault rifle used in the horrific event last week be sold to the highest bidder at public auction,” a family statement said.Associated Press contributed to this report Continue reading...

Paparazzi pictures of Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman and Bridget Fonda have circulated online, feeding into an odd desire to force reclusive actors back into the spotlightFew headlines get people clicking like “OMG, you won’t BELIEVE how UNRECOGNISABLE this star looks today”. People fall for it every time. They fall for it when the star has succumbed to the natural ageing process (Steve Perry from Journey, seen this week with grey hair). They fall for it when the star is wearing movie prosthetics on set (Colin Farrell filming as the Penguin, the iconic character he played in a highly successful film). They even fall for it when the star has simply chosen to accessorise (“Australian actress looks unrecognisable in a pair of quirky sunglasses during a stroll through London – can you identify the star?” above some photos of Cate Blanchett looking exactly like Cate Blanchett). It’s a cheap trick, basically.But over the last few weeks, these headlines have taken on a grottier note. A month ago, photographs of Gene Hackman, a 93-year-old man who retired from acting almost two decades ago, emerged online. Shortly after that, someone snapped a picture of Jack Nicholson – an octogenarian actor who retired 12 years ago, hasn’t been seen for 18 months and reportedly suffers from dementia – standing on the balcony of his home. And then, this week, the same thing happened to Bridget Fonda. She’s 59, she hasn’t acted in 20 years, and yet the sight of her visiting a landscaping supply store got the whole world fizzing. Continue reading...

Tech entrepreneur alleged to have duped Hewlett-Packard into overpaying for software in $11bn dealMike Lynch, the tech entrepreneur once hailed as Britain’s answer to Bill Gates, has lost an appeal against extradition to the US to answer criminal fraud charges.Lynch, the founding investor of the British cybersecurity firm Darktrace, is facing allegations that he duped the US firm Hewlett-Packard into overpaying when it struck an $11bn deal (£8.2bn) for his software firm Autonomy in 2011. Continue reading...

Asked if he will subpoena John Roberts over allegations against Thomas, Senate judiciary chair says: ‘I don’t have a majority’Asked if he would subpoena the chief justice of the US supreme court for testimony over corruption allegations against the conservative justice Clarence Thomas, the chair of the Senate judiciary committee made clear his frustration with a continued absence from the panel that has left Democrats unable to make such a move.“It takes a majority,” Dick Durbin of Illinois said on Thursday. “I don’t have a majority.” Continue reading...

The supreme court is expected to rule on Friday on whether to uphold restrictions on mifepristoneThe supreme court is expected to rule on Friday on whether to allow restrictions on mifepristone to go into effect while a lawsuit brought by anti-abortion groups targeting the pill proceeds.On Wednesday, justice Samuel Alito extended an administrative stay on a lower court ruling that reimposes pre-2016 restrictions on the drug. Access to the drug remains unchanged while the supreme court deliberates. Continue reading...

Challenge to FDA approval of mifepristone could affect women’s health rights. Plus, two men who spent years in jail are declared innocentGood morning.The supreme court is poised to decide whether to preserve access to a widely used abortion medication, after extending its deadline to act until at least today.Where it all began. The legal clash began in Texas, with the US district judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling to revoke the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug first approved more than two decades ago and used by more than 5 million women to end their pregnancies.Glimmer of light for future injustices. Defense attorneys said the case was the first brought under a law that guarantees compensation for defendants who have their cases thrown out and also allows them to present evidence proving their innocence. Continue reading...

Where does Raab’s resignation leave Rishi Sunak? The PM’s pledge to leave scandal behind is wearing thinIt’s unfortunate that the epithets “boxing fanatic” and “karate black belt” are so frequently attached to Dominic Raab. When they appear in a news report, these have much the same effect as the words “former nightclub bouncer”. You know the final sentence of said report will simply read: “The trial continues.”Anyway: the trial continued, until it finally ended this morning with Raab’s eye-bulgingly aggressive resignation letter. How did you enjoy episode 97 of He-Hulk: Attorney at Ministry of Justice? Having been handed the report into Raab’s alleged bullying of staff at three government departments over a number of years, prime minister Rishi Sunak spent a full 24 hours reading it and considering what to do about its findings.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Florida governor lines up four-nation tour in attempt to boost credentials as credible leader on world stageRon DeSantis, the Florida governor, is to meet the UK foreign secretary, James Cleverly, in London at the end of the month as he attempts to burnish his credentials as a credible Republican leader capable of operating on a global stage ahead of a widely expected run for US president.He is to lead a Florida trade delegation on a four-nation tour taking in Japan, South Korea, Israel and the UK. Continue reading...

Genuine rancor between America’s two most popular boxers is on full display in Las Vegas for the blockbuster showdownThe genuine antipathy between America’s two most popular and divisive boxers was laid bare on Thursday when Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia each pledged to break the other’s jaw during the final press conference ahead of their fastly approaching scrap on the Las Vegas Strip.“I touch that jaw, I’m telling you, you’re going to sleep. I promise you,” seethed Davis, the 28-year-old three-weight champion from Baltimore nicknamed Tank, from beneath a baseball cap that read I ♥ SEX. “I’ll probably break your jaw. Facts. Don’t even bring your mother or your daughter.” Continue reading...

The leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints issued a ‘revelation’ that has parents worried“This is child trafficking. This is kidnapping,” said Lorraine Jessop.Several former members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the polygamist sect led by Warren Jeffs, are calling on law enforcement and prosecutors to help them find their missing children, some of whom have not been seen for years. Continue reading...

Last year saw 15 strikes, the highest number of strikes in academia in at least 20 years, and the surge has continued into 2023Thousands of workers at universities have gone on strike in 2023 amid new union contract negotiations in demand of pay increases that align with the effect high inflation rates have had on the cost of living.The strikes are a continuation of wave of industrial action in higher education in the US last year. In late 2022, 48,000 graduate workers and post-doctoral researchers went on strike throughout the University of California system, the largest strike in US higher education history. There were 15 academic strikes in the US in 2022, the highest number of strikes in academia in at least 20 years. Continue reading...

An important part of parenting is securing children’s future. Too many of us are reading bedtime stories in a house that’s burning downParents do a lot. We spend hours reading stories or freezing on the edges of sports pitches. We buy food, clothes, buggies, car seats, bikes, music lessons, gadgets, parties, holidays, not to mention hundreds of toys. But here’s the bad news. While we obsess about our kids as individuals, we’re missing a last-ditch collective chance to save them from environmental catastrophe.Take that seriously, and being a “good” mum or dad is about much more than what you do with your child or the opportunities you buy them. It becomes political. Continue reading...

Republican-backed culture warrior candidates fare poorly in Illinois and Wisconsin, offering hope to the leftScores of rightwing extremists were defeated in school board elections in April, in a victory for the left in the US and what Democrats hope could prove to be a playbook for running against Republicans in the year ahead.In Illinois, Democrats said more than 70% of the school board candidates it had endorsed won their races, often defeating the kind of anti-LGBTQ+ culture warrior candidates who have taken control of school boards across the country. Continue reading...

The team have soared to the top of the Western Conference, scoring seemingly at will. Their success has been aided by a clear visionNo expansion team in Major League Soccer history has been where St Louis City are right now. Never before has a newbie to the league taken 18 points from their first eight fixtures. The sight of Bradley Carnell’s team atop the Western Conference as MLS’s top scorers – they average 2.5 goals a game – is unprecedented.Nobody saw this coming. Most expected St Louis City, who were largely assembled in the space of just 12 months and have few recognisable names, to struggle. Instead, they are early-season frontrunners. Continue reading...

William White and his daughter Kinsley were seriously hurt during shooting in North CarolinaA six-year-old girl and her parents were allegedly shot by a neighbor after a basketball that the child was playing with rolled into the attacker’s yard, according to authorities and local media reporting.The shooting occurred on Wednesday in North Carolina when several young children were playing with a basketball which rolled into the yard of Robert Singletary, the news outlet WSOC-TV reported. Online court records show Singletary was arrested Thursday afternoon near Tampa. He is scheduled to appear in court on Friday. Continue reading...

Self-proclaimed ‘pro-natalists’ don’t go around saying that they only want white babies, but there’s a thin line between their movement and the ‘great replacement theory’Simone and Malcolm Collins are a thirtysomething couple with three kids called Torsten, Octavian, and Titan Invictus. (They refuse to give their girls traditionally feminine names because they think that means they’ll get taken less seriously.) The Pennsylvania-based pair plan on having at least eight children and hope each of their children can have eight children so that, in 11 generations, the world will ooze with their bloodline and there will be more Collinses stalking the Earth than there are people alive today.A bit weird, right? Maybe the sort of fantasy you’d be best off keeping to yourself? The Collinses disagree. They’ve made themselves the poster children of “pro-natalism” and are taking it upon themselves to combat what they describe as “fertility collapse” – not only by having multiple kids themselves but by trying to push for policies that would increase birth rates in the developed world. The media is paying attention to their crusade: Britain’s Telegraph profiled the pair this week, with the headline “Meet the ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind”. This followed a long profile on the Collinses last November from Insider and pieces by Entrepreneur and Bloomberg. Continue reading...

Geraldine Dozier-Gimblet had dipped into her savings to help pay for her child’s successful treatmentEarly in November last year, Geraldine Dozier-Gimblet posted a horoscope on her Facebook account that predicted she would receive an answer to her prayers, a solution to one of her “biggest problems”, and “peace in the foreseeable future”.She bought a lottery ticket about eight weeks later that made her a millionaire, helping her recover the life savings that she had sacrificed to pay for her daughter’s successful cancer treatments, as she and officials tell it. Continue reading...

Everything from the gamer leaker to the global spread of potential sources reveals much about the anxiety-making conditions of 21st-century espionageAfter TS (top secret), two other letters repeatedly stand out throughout the leaked Pentagon files: SI. The letters stand for special intelligence, and signify that the information has been derived from signals intelligence work. This encompasses eavesdropping, surveillance and even backdoor access to information systems – all part of a panopticon of global, US-led intelligence collection.Signals intelligence told the 1.25 million Americans with top secret clearance – and sometimes their British allies – that Russia had made marginal battlefield gains in Ukraine, that the Wagner group may be allowed to restart recruiting prisoners, and even that Russian hackers had gained control of a Canadian gas pipeline they hope to explode. Continue reading...

Baldwin was pointing a pistol at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal in 2021 when the gun went offProsecutors in New Mexico have dropped criminal charges against the actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the western movie Rust, officials confirmed on Thursday.Baldwin, 65, was pointing a Colt .45 pistol at Hutchins during a rehearsal on 21 October 2021 when the gun went off, killing Hutchins and wounding the director Joel Souza. Continue reading...

MyPillow CEO’s ‘Prove Mike Wrong Challenge’ promised money to anyone who could disprove data he claimed showed Trump wonMike Lindell must make good on a promise and pay $5m to a software expert who debunked data the conspiracy theorist touted in advancing Donald Trump’s lie that his 2020 election defeat was the result of voting fraud, an arbitration panel decided.In its decision, the panel said: “The data Lindell LLC provided, and represented reflected information from the November 2020 election, unequivocally did not reflect November 2020 election data.” Continue reading...

No gunpowder residue found on Manuel Paez Terán, who was alleged to have fired first in fatal confrontation with Georgia policeOfficial autopsy results for Manuel Paez Terán, an environmental activist police shot and killed three months ago during a raid in a Georgia public park near the planned site of a police and fire department training center, do little to advance the state’s version of events, including the notion that the activist shot first, wounding an officer.Paez Terán, or “Tortuguita”, was one of the “forest defenders” camped throughout the public park less than a mile away from the planned center, known as “Cop City”, when dozens of officers entered the South River Forest south-east of Atlanta, Georgia, on 18 January. Continue reading...

Judge rejects lawyers’ request that jurors be told ‘logistical burdens on New York City’ the reason for possible Trump no-showDonald Trump on Thursday was rebuked by the judge in his looming civil rape trial over a request for jurors to be told that if the former president did not testify, it would be out of concern that his presence would adversely affect New York City.This week, a lawyer for Trump, Joe Tacopina, first tried to delay the trial then requested the jury instruction. Continue reading...

Policy opposed by Democrats, who say it will ‘incite fear and hatred’, applies to school teams that receive public fundingHouse Republicans are escalating attacks on transgender athletes under the guise of protecting women’s sports, according to the passage of a new bill.During a Thursday press conference the House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, and other legislators announced the passage of the so-called “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act” in a party-line vote. Continue reading...

Nearly 50% of commercial airline workforce will retire in next 15 years, which could mean fewer travel options and price increasesAviation experts are warning that the US airline industry is going to be hit by a “tsunami of pilot retirements” in the coming years, which could mean fewer travel options and price increases.On Wednesday the CEO of the Regional Airline Association, Faye Malarkey Black, told the US House transportation and infrastructure committee that over the next 15 years, nearly 50% of the commercial airline workforce will be forced to retire because they will reach the age of 65. Continue reading...

Retailer’s fortunes bounce back after expansion abroad and pivot towards electronics and premium food rangesLess than three years ago WH Smith, the chain once known for its chocolate promotions, magazines and stationery, had lost almost two-thirds of its stock market value as the pandemic damaged its UK high street business.But now the retailer is reaping dividends from a transformation that means its typical customer is more likely to be picking up high-end headphones, a smartphone charger or some sushi – and may well be American. Continue reading...

Writers organisation denounces ‘relentless’ Republican crusade as 1,477 books banned in first half of 2022-23 school yearBook bans in US public schools increased by 28% in the first half of the 2022-23 academic year, the writers’ organisation Pen America said on Thursday, describing a “relentless” conservative “crusade to constrict children’s freedom to read”.Releasing a new report, Banned in the USA: State Laws Supercharge Book Suppression in Schools, Pen said the increase was over figures for the previous six months. Continue reading...

New board of directors hand-picked by Florida governor propose low-income housing next to park and increase in taxesThe Republican-dominated legislature in Florida has moved quickly to amplify Governor Ron DeSantis’s feud with Disney over LGBTQ+ rights, advancing a proposal to overcome the company’s thwarting of his earlier plan to seize control of the theme park giant.DeSantis, a likely candidate for the Republicans’ 2024 presidential nomination, was outfoxed by Disney after installing a hand-picked board of directors with oversight of the state’s biggest private employer. At its first meeting, the board discovered a last-minute deal between Disney and outgoing directors had rendered it in effect impotent. Continue reading...

Black women are four times more likely than white women to die giving birth. Fixing that requires change that goes way beyond healthcareIn 2018, we learned that Black women were five times more likely to die in childbirth than their white counterparts. Five years on, the data hasn’t changed much. Now, we are almost four times more likely to die, according to the findings of a new report by the women and equalities committee.Ministers had failed to tackle “appalling” and “glaring” racial disparities in maternal health over a number of years, the authors found. This comes as little surprise to me. Every year, I and other Black commentators who feel passionately about these disgusting racial disparities in maternal outcomes are rolled out to condemn the latest figures that point to Black women dying at disproportionate rates. I wish I could still feel shocked. But, if I can be frank, I’m just bored.Candice Brathwaite is a journalist and author of I Am Not Your Baby Mother, Sister Sista and Cuts Both Ways. As told to Lucy Pasha-RobinsonDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Intensive fighting has pushed the country to breaking point. The UK has a duty to lead a campaign of international pressureEvery phone call I make home to Sudan is interrupted by the crackle of gunshots or an explosion in the background. This is followed by an eerie pause from the person on the other end, before one of us carries on with the conversation. Several days after the outbreak of fighting in Sudan, some people may already be treating the situation as normal. But it isn’t.The fighting between the Sudanese armed forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – Sudan’s two main military organisations – that broke out in the capital, Khartoum, on 15 April is unprecedented even given Sudan’s turbulent and violent history. While Khartoum has not escaped violence in its modern history, including an attack by a rebel group in 2008 and decades of brutal dispersals of protesters, the scale and intensity of the current fighting is previously unknown for the capital. The violence has rapidly spread across Khartoum and to other cities and regions more familiar with the horrors of war, including the restless Darfur region. Continue reading...

Allies say Trump believes states should rule on reproductive rights and that support for federal ban could cost him 2024 electionDonald Trump considers a federal abortion ban a losing proposal for Republicans as the party prepares to enter the first presidential election since the supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade – and is unlikely to support such a policy, according to people close to him.The former president has told allies in recent days that his gut feeling remains leaving the matter of reproductive rights to the states – following the court’s reasoning in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization that ended 50 years of federal abortion protections. Continue reading...

Governor’s office confirms resignation of one of several officials to discuss killing reporters and lynching Black peopleA county commissioner in far south-east Oklahoma who was identified by a local newspaper as one of several officials caught on tape discussing killing reporters and lynching Black people has resigned from office, the state’s governor confirmed on Wednesday.A spokesperson for Governor Kevin Stitt, Carly Atchison, said their office received a handwritten resignation letter from the McCurtain county commissioner Mark Jennings. In it, Jennings says he is resigning immediately and that he plans to release a formal statement “in the near future regarding the recent events in our county”. Continue reading...

Brady ad features US navy veteran’s shocking account of Vietnam gunfire and comes on heels of several devastating mass shootingsA gun safety group has created a provocative new ad campaign calling for the renewal of a federal assault weapons ban, in the wake of several devastating mass shootings across the US that involved the use of military-style rifles.The ad, released on Thursday by the gun safety group Brady and shared exclusively with the Guardian, features a US navy veteran of the Vietnam war reading a chilling account of coming under gunfire and being struck by a bullet. Continue reading...

Messages showing Antioch officers using racist slurs, and bragging about making up evidence and beating suspects have sparked outrage. Plus, supreme court delays decision on abortion pill restrictions

In this pragmatic Rishi Sunak era, a fresh start with China – and an end to bullish Tory sabre-rattlers – is on the cardsCleverly by name. And perhaps even Cleverly by nature, too? Judging by his Guardian interview this week, and by his step-by-step rebuilding of Britain’s relations with Europe, James Cleverly seems to be quietly cajoling Conservative foreign policy down off the post-Brexit battlements and towards a more recognisably practical and stable place in world affairs. If so, two important questions follow. Where exactly is that new place for Britain? And will the Tory party let him do it?The foreign secretary’s interview in Tokyo exemplifies Rishi Sunak-era pragmatism. The interview’s tone is less brazen towards China than anything that any of Cleverly’s recent predecessors would have either wanted or felt able to say. But it is also stronger on mood music than on measurable stuff. It reads in part like an attempt to soothe the ill-feeling provoked by Emmanuel Macron’s comment that America’s allies should not become its “vassals” in any confrontation with China. Continue reading...

The Florida star is a gifted but flawed NFL prospect. But teams are more willing to overlook negatives as they search for the next big thingWe are a week away from the NFL draft and Anthony Richardson fever shows no sign of letting up.When the quarterback announced he was leaving Florida for the pros after a single season as the Gators starter, observers of the college game scoffed. Sure, he was fun and exciting; he could do things few, if any, college quarterbacks could dream of. But Richardson was horribly inaccurate. Another season in the SEC oven, and he may just round into the kind of polished passer the league would prize. This current version though? Maybe a team would take a flyer at the foot of the first round. Continue reading...

Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow was linked to a conservative group that had court business while Thomas was on the benchEarlier this month, the supreme court justice Clarence Thomas put out a statement in which he addressed the storm of criticism that has engulfed him following the blockbuster ProPublica report that revealed his failure to disclose lavish gifts of luxury vacations and private-jet travel from a Texan real estate magnate.Thomas confirmed that the Dallas billionaire and Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow and his wife Kathy were “among our dearest friends”. Thomas admitted, too, that he and his wife Ginni had “joined them on a number of family trips during the more-than-a-quarter-century we have known them”. Continue reading...

A representative said filming likely to restart in Montana on Thursday while a number of legal issues remain unresolvedFilming on the western movie Rust could resume this week in Montana, the production company said, 18 months after the fatal shooting of a cinematographer during a rehearsal with actor Alec Baldwin on the original production in New Mexico.Baldwin is set to continue his involvement with the project as both actor and co-producer. Rust Move Productions attorney Melina Spadone said via a representative that filming will restart on Thursday at the Yellowstone Film Ranch. Continue reading...

Company accused of ‘gaslighting’ public on surveillance concerns during Senate inquiry into foreign influence through social mediaTikTok will either need to divest itself from Chinese ownership or face a ban in the United States, according to the commissioner of the US federal communications commission, Brendan Carr, who accused the company of “gaslighting” the public on surveillance concerns.Appearing before the Australian Senate inquiry into foreign influence through social media, the Trump appointee said concern about TikTok in the US was “broad and deep”, and crossed party lines. Continue reading...

Blake Walsh, who dated Kaylin Gillis for more than four years, says he wants ‘the world to know how good of a person she really was’A man whose girlfriend was shot dead after they pulled into the wrong driveway in upstate New York said their “high hopes and plans” were shattered in a single, brutal moment.“I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her,” Blake Walsh, 19, told NBC of his girlfriend, Kaylin Gillis. “My world was taken from me.” Continue reading...