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In Season 7 of Love is Blind, Monica, a 37-year-old sales executive and Stephen, a 34-year-old electrician, found “love in the pods.” But their relationship fell apart when Stephen was caught sexting with another woman. The content of those sexts was kinky, which added another layer to Monica’s feelings of betrayal.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U. S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. The late-night ruling to spare for now the life of Robert Roberson, who was convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter in 2002, capped a flurry of last-ditch legal challenges and weeks of public pressure from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers who say he is innocent and was sent to death row based on flawed science. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] In the hours leading up to the ruling, Roberson had been confined to a prison holding cell a few feet from America’s busiest death chamber at the Walls Unit in Hunstville, waiting for certainty over whether he would be taken to die by lethal injection. “He was shocked, to say the least,” said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson Amanda Hernandez, who spoke with Roberson after the court stayed his execution.

BERLIN— Germany honored U. S. President Joe Biden for his contribution to trans-Atlantic relations on Friday, ahead of his meetings with European allies on Russia’s war in Ukraine and the conflict in the Middle East. But the presidential election cast a long shadow over Biden’s trip, the first bilateral visit to Germany by a U.

On January 27, 2021, then Gov. Larry Hogan announced some good news for affordable housing in Maryland: nearly $40 million in competitive awards to spur construction of 18 low-income housing projects. “During our administration,” Hogan said, “The State of Maryland has provided financing and tax credits to create or preserve more than 20,000 affordable rental units across the state—an unprecedented level of production.” But there was one detail Hogan didn’t mention: one of the projects was being developed on his own family’s property. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The bucolic land in Frederick County, roughly 50 miles north of Washington, D.

Moon Alert: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in Taurus. Happy Birthday for Friday, Oct. 18, 2024: You are decisive, intelligent and intuitive. You are also a natural leader when you want to be. This is the last year of a nine-year cycle, which means it’s time to take inventory and let go of people, places and things from the past that have held you back. ARIES (March 21-April 19) ★★★ When it comes to financial matters or shopping for anything today, you will be careful, frugal and cautious.