Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
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Ratings: 8.3/10 from 313,168 users Metascore: 76/100
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A group of space criminals must work together to stop the fanatical villain Ronan the Accuser from destroying the galaxy.
Director:James Gunn
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Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Panthers' Cam Newton involved in car accident
HARLOTTE -- Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton is in fair condition after a two-vehicle accident and he will remain in the hospital overnight for observation, the Panthers said this afternoon.
A group of reporters, including eight TV cameras, gathered outside the main entrance of Carolinas Medical Center a few miles from the accident scene. Hospital spokesman Scott White referred all questions about Newton's condition to the team.
Newton was taken by ambulance after his truck flipped over on a bridge near Bank of America Stadium. Police said he and the driver of a second vehicle "were both transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is investigating the cause of the wreck."
According to ESPN, citing a "source," Newton suffered no fractures, just scrapes and bruises.
The Twitter account of the Charlotte Observer's Jonathan Jones said he confirmed that Newton was the only person in his Dodge Ram truck at the time of the accident, around 12:30 p.m. ET. The account included photos of Newton being put on a stretcher, of Newton's truck being pulled upright by a tow truck and of front-end damage to a second vehicle, a dark sedan.
The Observer reported that Newton was treated for 20 minutes at the scene before being taken by ambulance. Witness Tony Douglas told the Observer that he saw a Buick sedan and the truck collide. Douglas said the truck flipped several times and came to rest on its passenger side and that he ran to the truck and saw Newton "alert" but "in pain."
Newton was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2011 NFL draft by the Panthers after winning the 2010 Heisman Trophy at Auburn. With his passing and running, he became an instant star and made the Pro Bowl as a rookie. He also made the Pro Bowl in 2013 when he helped the Panthers to the NFC South title.
Last March, Newton had surgery to tighten loose ligaments in his left ankle. During the preseason, he sustained a hairline rib fracture during a game against the New England Patriots. He sat out the Panthers season opener.
Newton has since made 12 starts this season for the 4-8-1 Panthers, passing for 2,812 yards and 16 touchdowns with 11 interceptions. In Sunday's 41-10 victory at the New Orleans Saints, Newton passed for 226 yards and three touchdowns and ran for 83 yards and a touchdown.
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A group of reporters, including eight TV cameras, gathered outside the main entrance of Carolinas Medical Center a few miles from the accident scene. Hospital spokesman Scott White referred all questions about Newton's condition to the team.
Newton was taken by ambulance after his truck flipped over on a bridge near Bank of America Stadium. Police said he and the driver of a second vehicle "were both transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is investigating the cause of the wreck."
According to ESPN, citing a "source," Newton suffered no fractures, just scrapes and bruises.
The Twitter account of the Charlotte Observer's Jonathan Jones said he confirmed that Newton was the only person in his Dodge Ram truck at the time of the accident, around 12:30 p.m. ET. The account included photos of Newton being put on a stretcher, of Newton's truck being pulled upright by a tow truck and of front-end damage to a second vehicle, a dark sedan.
The Observer reported that Newton was treated for 20 minutes at the scene before being taken by ambulance. Witness Tony Douglas told the Observer that he saw a Buick sedan and the truck collide. Douglas said the truck flipped several times and came to rest on its passenger side and that he ran to the truck and saw Newton "alert" but "in pain."
Newton was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2011 NFL draft by the Panthers after winning the 2010 Heisman Trophy at Auburn. With his passing and running, he became an instant star and made the Pro Bowl as a rookie. He also made the Pro Bowl in 2013 when he helped the Panthers to the NFC South title.
Last March, Newton had surgery to tighten loose ligaments in his left ankle. During the preseason, he sustained a hairline rib fracture during a game against the New England Patriots. He sat out the Panthers season opener.
Newton has since made 12 starts this season for the 4-8-1 Panthers, passing for 2,812 yards and 16 touchdowns with 11 interceptions. In Sunday's 41-10 victory at the New Orleans Saints, Newton passed for 226 yards and three touchdowns and ran for 83 yards and a touchdown.
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Police investigating rapper Earl Hayes, VH1 star Stephanie Moseley’s deaths in apparent murder-suicide
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Rapper, dancer found shot to death
LOS ANGELES – Married entertainers were found dead together Monday, and a famous boxer may have witnessed their violent end via an iPhone video chat.
Rapper Earl Hayes, son of Isaac Hayes, and his wife Stephanie Moseley, star of VH1 series, “Hit the Floor," were found dead in their Los Angeles apartment Monday.
"LAPD’s SWAT officers responded to the location and discovered two victims inside the apartment suffering from gunshot wounds," the LAPD said in a statement, according to Us Weekly. "The initial investigation revealed that 34-year-old Earl Warren Hayes shot his wife, 30-year-old Stephanie Elyse Moseley to death and then took his own life."
TMZ first reported the news of their deaths, saying neighbors could hear a woman screaming Monday morning and gunshots.
VH1 said in a statement the network was "incredibly saddened" at the news of Moseley's passing.
"VH1 and the entire ‘Hit The Floor’ family send our thoughts and condolences to her family and friends at this difficult time," rep Chris Delhomme told FOX411.
“Stephanie was exceptionally beautiful, an absolutely amazing and incredible dancer, and judging by how the other girls spoke about her, a lovely human being,” "Hit the Floor" co-star Dean Cain said. “I'm heartbroken and saddened.”
Hayes was once signed to boxer Floyd Mayweather's record label and was often seen partying with the famous boxer. TMZ reported Mayweather watched the tragedy unfold via FaceTime.
Before her VH1 series, Moseley had been a backup dancer for Chris Brown and Britney Spears among other performers.
Chris Brown instagrammed a photo in memory of the dancer with a caption, “RIP baby girl. Danced with me on tour and was always the coolest person. My prayers go out to you and HAZE family."
FOX411's Diana Falzone contributed to this report.
HE PUNCHED DRAKE OVER A SONG
Diddy assaulted Drake early Monday morning because of a feud over a song ... TMZ has learned.
As we reported, Diddy punched Drake at LIV nightclub in Miami Beach, and we were told it was because Diddy felt disrespected by the rapper, and now we know why.
Our sources say, producer Boi-1da had given both Diddy and Drake a song to record more than 8 months ago. We're told Diddy sat on the song, which frustrated Drake because he wanted to record it. So recently Drake recorded the song on his own and it did well, which pissed Diddy off.
Diddy saw Drake at LIV Monday for the first time since the song was released. Sources close to Diddy say he confronted Drake, who just blew him off, and that's when Diddy said, "You'll never disrespect me again," and then punched him.
We're told Drake ended up at an ER because in the ruckus he hit his shoulder and exacerbated an old injury.
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Cam Newton injured in car crash
Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton is in "fair condition" following a two-car accidentTuesday afternoon near the team's stadium.
The accident took place around 12:30 p.m. ET, according to Charlotte police. Both Newton and the driver of the other vehicle were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The Panthers released a statement saying Newton will be held overnight for observation but that the franchise quarterback "is in fair condition and undergoing tests at Carolinas Medical Center."
Team owner Jerry Richardson told the Charlotte Observer that Newton is "in good shape," after speaking with Carolinas Medical Center doctors.
Preliminary tests performed on Newton indicate he escaped a rollover accident without suffering any fractures or other serious injuries.
"At this point, it looks like he's just got scrapes and bruises, but he should be OK," a source told ESPN's Ed Werder. "He's going to be sore and beat up, but he should be relatively OK."
Newton, 25, was conscious when he was transported to the hospital, a source told Werder.
A witness told the Charlotte Observer that Newton was "alert" but "in pain" at the scene of the accident.
The Charlotte Observer tweeted out a photo of Newton after he was removed from his vehicle.
In his fourth season, the former No. 1 overall pick has thrown for 2,812 yards, run for 425 yards and accounted for 19 total touchdowns this season (16 passing, 3 rushing) to go along with 11 interceptions for a Panthers team that remains in the hunt for the NFC South division title despite a 4-8-1 record.
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CIA report details 'brutal' post-9/11 interrogations
The CIA carried out "brutal" interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects in the years after the 9/11 attacks on the US, a US Senate report has said.
The summary of the report, compiled by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that the CIA misled Americans about what it was doing.
The information the CIA collected this way failed to secure information that foiled any threats, the report said.
In a statement, the CIA insisted that the interrogations did help save lives.
"The intelligence gained from the programme was critical to our understanding of al-Qaeda and continues to inform our counterterrorism efforts to this day," Director John Brennan said in a statement.
However, the CIA said it acknowledged that there were mistakes in the programme, especially early on when it was unprepared for the scale of the operation to detain and interrogate prisoners.
The programme - known internally as the Rendition, Detention and Interrogation programme - took place from 2002-07, during the presidency of George W Bush.
Suspects were interrogated using methods such as waterboarding, slapping, humiliation, exposure to cold and sleep deprivation.
Analysis: Frank Gardner, BBC security correspondent
This report makes deeply uncomfortable reading but it shines a much-needed torch into some dark places.
The fact that "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" (EIT), or torture by any other name, was stopped years ago or that some people at the top of the US administration may not have known its full extent, does not excuse the fact it took place at all.
After going through six million pages of documents, the authors concluded that in none of the cases they looked at did these brutal methods stop a terrorist attack. Meaning that America's reputation, and by extension that of the wider West, has been sullied for no tangible gain.
This will lay the US open to charges of hypocrisy, making it far harder for the West to criticise brutal and dictatorial regimes. It may also encourage terrorists to justify their atrocities by pointing to this past abuse.
It can only be hoped this report's publication means these practices will be consigned to history's dustbin.
'Significant damage'
Introducing the report to the Senate, Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein described the CIA's actions as a stain on US history.
"The release of this 500-page summary cannot remove that stain, but it can and does say to our people and the world that America is big enough to admit when it's wrong and confident enough to learn from its mistakes," she said.
"Under any common meaning of the term, CIA detainees were tortured," she added.
Earlier, President Obama responded to the report, saying the methods used were inconsistent with US values.
"These techniques did significant damage to America's standing in the world and made it harder to pursue our interests with allies and partners," he said in a statement.
Reacting to the release of the report summary, the Senate Republican leaders insisted that the methods used helped in the capture of important suspects and the killing of Osama bin Laden.
"Claims included in this report that assert the contrary are simply wrong," Senators Mitch McConnell and Saxby Chambliss said in a joint statement.
The Senate committee's report runs to more than 6,000 pages, drawing on huge quantities of evidence, but it remains classified and only a 480-page summary has been released.
Case study: Saudi terror suspect Abu Zubaydah
Described by US officials as al-Qaeda's former operational planner and terrorist recruiter, Abu Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan and sent to a secret facility in Thailand.
His cell was described as white with no natural light or windows, but with four lights pointing into the cell and an air conditioner.
He had two chairs, one more comfortable than the other, rotated based on his level of co-operation.
From 4-23 August 2002, following 47 days of complete isolation, Abu Zubaydah was subjected to EIT almost 24 hours a day.
Security personnel entered his cell, shackled and hooded him and removed his towel so that he was naked.
"Abu Zubaydah was typically kept naked and sleep-deprived," the report says.
He was backed up against the wall and a box laid on the floor to look like a coffin.
Whenever the suspect denied having certain information, the interrogators grabbed or slapped his face.
On the first evening, he was waterboarded, as a result of which he coughed, vomited and had spasms.
The sessions accelerated, progressing more quickly to waterboarding.
According to the report, the objective was "to ensure [he] is at his most vulnerable state", at all times.
The main points of the report include the following:
- At no time did coercive interrogation techniques lead of collection of intelligence on imminent threats
- None of 20 cases of counterterrorism "successes" attributed to the techniques led to unique or otherwise unavailable intelligence
- The CIA misled politicians and public, giving inaccurate information to obtain approval for using techniques
- The CIA claimed falsely that no senators had objected to the programme.
- Management of the programme was deeply flawed, for example the operation of the second detention facility, known as COBALT
- At least 26 of 119 known detainees in custody during the life of the programme were wrongfully held, and many held for months longer than they should have been
- Aggressive techniques were used on suspects from the start, despite CIA claims that interrogations would begin with less coercive methods
- Methods included sleep deprivation for up to 180 hours, often standing or in painful positions
- Waterboarding was physically harmful to prisoners, causing convulsions and vomiting
Mr Obama halted the CIA interrogation programme when he took office in 2009.
Earlier this year, he said that in his view the methods used to question al-Qaeda prisoners amounted to torture.
Publication of the report had been delayed amid disagreements in Washington over what should be made public.
Security was increased at US facilities around the world ahead of publication.
Embassies and other sites were taking precautions amid "some indications" of "greater risk", a White House spokesman said.
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said he had ordered all top US military commanders to be on high alert.
US intelligence agencies were accused of using "extraordinary rendition" to send terror suspects for questioning in countries where they had no legal protection or rights under American law. Some of the suspects claimed they had been tortured in countries such as Syria and Egypt.
A Council of Europe report in 2006 said it had pieced together details of a "spider's web of secret detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers", based on evidence from detainees' testimonies, flight plans and other publicly-available information.
The Senate report released on Tuesday said that the CIA sent some of its al-Qaeda suspects to detention centres in other countries, but did not say which ones.
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