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WASHINGTON — A January 6 rioter who repeatedly struck a police officer with a flagpole as the officer was dragged down the Capitol steps was sentenced Monday to more than four years in federal prison.Peter Stager, a 44-year-old trucker from Arkansas, was sentenced to 52 months in prison by US District Judge Rudolph Contreras. The prosecutors had sought six and a half years in prison, citing Stager's "chilling motivation" and the brutality of the assault.“Every one of those Capitol Hill law enforcement officers, death is the remedy, that's the only remedy they get,” Stager said in a video on Jan.…

Carlee Russell admitted she did not see a little girl wandering on the side of the road and lied about being abducted in a hoax that sparked a national effort to find her, an Alabama lawyer for the woman said Monday. Hoover Police Chief Nicholas C. Derzis read a statement provided by Russell's attorney during a news conference, in which the 25-year-old nursing student said she was not abducted as the nation was led to believe when she went missing on July 13. Russell said that she had not left the Hoover area.She returned home about 49 hours after a…

If soccer star Kylian Mbappe doesn't want to make the leap to play in Saudi Arabia, Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo has joked that he will take his place. Al-Hilal, a Saudi Arabian soccer team, made a record $332 million offer for Mbappe on Monday, following Lionel Messi's recent move to Major League Soccer's Inter Miami in the United States. Cristiano Ronaldo became the first superstar to join the league with Al-Nassr for a contract worth more than $220 million for just one season.Mbappé's current team, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), confirmed the offer and gave All-Hilal the chance to speak to…

WASHINGTON — The attorney representing former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik has turned over thousands of pages of documents to the office of special counsel Jack Smith as part of the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.The attorney, Tim Parlatore, said Monday that he sent the records to Smith's office on Sunday."I have shared all these documents, approximately 600MB, mostly PDF files, with the special prosecutor and I hope to sit down with them in about 2 weeks to discuss," Parlatore said in a statement. statement to CNN which he later confirmed to NBC…