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Jim Manzon

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Junior Editor at @IBTimesUK covering US politics, technology & world news. Defense & special ops reporter at @SOFXNetwork. Stories that hold up under scrutiny.

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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Berlin Marathon Influencer Admits Cheating After Bizarre 6-Minute Split Raises Bike Shortcut Questions
Chinese influencer Abeeeer admitted to riding a bike at the 2026 Berlin Marathon after her 35km to 40km split exposed the shortcut, and Brooks China dropped her over the faked finish.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Chinese fitness influencer Abeeeer admitted to cheating at the 2026 Berlin Marathon on 3 October after a photo and timing data exposed her bike ride near the 38km (23.6-mile) mark, showing how official race data can expose a false result.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Is Sydney Sweeney Marilyn Monroe's 9th Cousin? Family Link Revealed Amid Controversial $2 Billion Novig Ad
MyHeritage says Sydney Sweeney and Marilyn Monroe are ninth cousins, confirming the blonde icon's blood tie just as her nude Novig ad pushes the betting firm to a $2 billion valuation.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sydney Sweeney and Marilyn Monroe are ninth cousins once removed, MyHeritage said on 7 October, confirming a blood tie between the blonde icons as Sweeney stars in a nude Novig advert for a $2 billion sports prediction market.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Tracey Nix Hot Car Death Trial Update: Judge Blocks Evidence of Another Grandchild's Drowning
A Florida judge barred jurors from hearing that Tracey Nix's grandson drowned in her care months before her granddaughter died in a hot car. Here is why the judge blocked the evidence.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A Florida judge blocked jurors from hearing that Tracey Nix's grandson drowned in her care 11 months before her 7-month-old granddaughter died in a hot car, a ruling that shaped the 2025 trial of the former elementary school principal.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Andrew Tate Faces 42 UK Charges as Unsealed Court Papers Detail Extreme Pornography Allegations
Andrew Tate faces 42 UK charges after unsealed court papers revealed new child-image and extreme pornography counts tied to four accusers. He sits jailed in Miami, fighting extradition.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Andrew Tate now faces 42 criminal charges in Britain after unsealed US court papers detailed allegations behind charges involving indecent images of a child and extreme pornography, adding detail to a case that threatens the brand he sold to millions.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Paralysed Fort Hood Killer Nidal Hasan Faces December Firing Squad in a Wheelchair
Nidal Hasan, paralysed since his 2009 Fort Hood rampage, will die by firing squad on 3 December in the first US military execution in 65 years, the Army has confirmed.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nidal Hasan, the paralysed former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, is scheduled to face a firing squad in his wheelchair at the same Texas base on 3 December, the first US military execution in 65 years.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Christa Pike Is Awake and Speaking After a Failed Lethal Injection the Experts Call Unprecedented
Christa Pike survived Tennessee's lethal injection and is now awake and speaking, raising a rare legal fight over whether the state can constitutionally attempt to execute her again.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, is awake and speaking six days after surviving a failed lethal injection on 30 September, an event death-penalty experts say has no precedent in the US.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Trump Mobile Hackers Claim the Company Admitted It Had 'No Team' To Handle the Data Breach
Hackers calling themselves BYOD claim they leaked data on 3,615 Trump Mobile customers and say the company admitted it had no team to handle the breach.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hackers who say they stole data from 3,615 Trump Mobile customers this week claim the company shrugged off their warning, admitting it had 'no team' to handle the breach and potentially exposing names, emails, and home addresses online.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Biden-Era FBI Tracked Trump Family Movements Before the Mar-a-Lago Raid, 'Plasmic Echo' Files Reveal
Declassified Plasmic Echo files show the Biden-era FBI tracked Melania and Barron Trump's travel before the Mar-a-Lago search and logged call details for Trump aide Susie Wiles.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Biden-era Federal Bureau of Investigation agents tracked the travel of Melania and Barron Trump while planning the 2022 Mar-a-Lago search, declassified Plasmic Echo files released on Monday show, monitoring a former first lady and her teenage son.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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New York Declares Statewide Measles Emergency as Rural Cases Rise Amid 35-Year US High
New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a statewide measles disaster emergency as rural upstate cases reached 108 and the US outbreak hit its worst level in 35 years.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a statewide measles disaster emergency on Monday, after 108 cases were reported in New York, including 92 since 15 July in rural communities, as US cases reached a 35-year high.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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One of the Cornell 7 Says He Was the Real Victim, Claiming Oral Sex Happened While He Was Too Drunk To Consent
A civil lawsuit forced New York prosecutors to reopen the Cornell 7 criminal case, where one accused man now says he too was too drunk to consent and no one was ever charged.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Matthew Ingalls, one of the Cornell 7 men accused of rape told investigators he was a victim, saying the woman performed oral sex on him while he was too drunk to consent.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Kash Patel's Own Vow to 'Ground' FBI Planes Haunts Him Amid Probe Into Luxury Jet Trips to Girlfriend
FBI Director Kash Patel's engagement has revived scrutiny of his taxpayer-funded jet trips to see Alexis Wilkins, and his own 2023 vow to ground a predecessor's government plane.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
FBI Director Kash Patel's engagement to country singer Alexis Wilkins has thrust a taxpayer-funded jet controversy back into view, renewing attention to the congressional probe into his personal flights and his own 2023 demand to ground a predecessor's government plane.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Epstein Whistleblower Dies at 57 After FBI Declined To Investigate His Lutnick Tip Years Earlier
Simon Andriesz warned the FBI about Howard Lutnick's Epstein ties in 2020 and was ignored. Five years on, the whistleblower is dead at 57, and Congress has lost its key source.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Simon Andriesz, the British banker whose Epstein files search exposed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's undisclosed ties to Jeffrey Epstein, has died at 57, years after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) did not investigate his 2020 warning.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Kristi Noem DHS Bought Five Jets From a Political Donor at a Steep Markup Before She Left Office
Documents show DHS bought five planes from a Noem donor's firm at a steep markup as she left office, part of a $464 million fleet that has sat grounded for months.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Homeland Security bought five aeroplanes from a political donor's firm at a steep markup on the final day of Kristi Noem's tenure, documents show, adding hundreds of millions to a taxpayer-funded fleet that has barely flown since, raising questions about how the deal was approved and priced.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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UFO Whistleblower Claims US Forces Had a Deadly Shootout With Seven-Foot-Tall Reptilian Aliens
David Grusch told Joe Rogan that US forces shot seven-foot reptilian aliens after a crash, yet he admits the account is secondhand and the Pentagon reports no evidence.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
David Grusch, the former US intelligence officer who testified at the 2023 congressional UFO hearing, recently told that US forces allegedly shot dead about seven-foot-tall reptilian beings after a crashed craft, although he said he never personally saw them.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Is Nancy Guthrie Alive? FBI Reward Tops $100,000 Eight Months After Ransom Note Death Claim
Eight months after Nancy Guthrie vanished, the FBI reward reaches $100,000, a ransom note claims she died, yet no body or suspect has surfaced.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of 'Today' host Savannah Guthrie, was last seen at her Tucson home on 31 January 2026, and nearly eight months later, the FBI is offering up to $100,000 for information, yet no body, suspect, or confirmed death has emerged.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Kylie Kelce Admits She Did Not Know Calling the Royal 'Princess Kate' Was Seen as Offensive Until Now
Kylie Kelce apologised for calling Catherine the Princess of Wales 'Princess Kate' on her Not Gonna Lie podcast. Here is the correct royal title and why so many Americans get it wrong.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kylie Kelce apologised on the 1 October episode of her 'Not Gonna Lie' podcast for calling Catherine, Princess of Wales, 'Princess Kate,' admitting she had not known the informal title was considered offensive.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Pentagon Launches Office of Religious Affairs Reporting to Hegseth After 180 Religious Codes Removed
Hegseth's new Office of Religious Affairs reports directly to him and carries fiscal deadlines, raising church-state questions for minority-faith and nonreligious troops.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Pentagon has created an Office of Religious Affairs reporting directly to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who announced it on 30 September at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia and called faith the 'most essential component of our republic'.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Renée Good's Family Invokes 1871 Anti-KKK Law in Suing Ice Agent and Trump Officials Over Her Killing
Renée Good's family filed two federal lawsuits invoking an 1871 anti-KKK law, naming ICE agent Jonathan Ross and top Trump officials over her fatal Minneapolis shooting.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Renée Good's family invoked an 1871 anti-KKK law Thursday, filing two lawsuits in Minnesota over her fatal shooting by an immigration agent and naming Trump officials they say made her killing predictable.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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What Is Pentobarbital? The Veterinary Drug That Failed To Execute Christa Pike in Tennessee
Pentobarbital, a barbiturate used in animal euthanasia, is now Tennessee's sole execution drug. Here is why it failed to kill Christa Pike and what her lawyers allege.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Christa Pike was still breathing after Tennessee injected her with two doses of pentobarbital on Wednesday night, forcing officials to call off her execution in Nashville and reviving hard questions about Tennessee's single-drug lethal injection protocol.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Fed Insider John Rogers Was Lured, Blackmailed With Nudes, Then Jailed for Lying About His China Contacts
A classic honeytrap led a senior Federal Reserve adviser to share restricted information with Chinese intelligence. He was jailed for lying, not spying.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A former Federal Reserve insider became entangled with a man US officials identify as a Chinese intelligence operative, was later blackmailed with his own nude photos, and was jailed this year for lying to investigators.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Nicole Kidman Divorce Reality Debunks Claims That Daughters Cut Ties With Father Keith Urban
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's divorce records and People sources counter viral claims that their daughters cut off their father, showing a quieter co-parenting reality after the split.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nicole Kidman's finalised divorce from Keith Urban tells a softer, more private story than the tabloids claim, as court records and close family sources show the couple's two young daughters still regularly see their father, countering viral reports that the girls cut him off entirely.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Barron Trump Swaps New York Dating Gossip for a Start-up Push as He Settles Into White House Life Aged 20
Barron Trump has traded dating rumours for a start-up push, launching a yerba mate drinks brand and crypto venture while living in the White House aged 20.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
President Donald Trump's youngest son, Barron, has traded New York dating gossip for a business push after moving into the White House during his sophomore year at New York University, while building ventures in drinks and crypto after an earlier property venture dissolved.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Netanyahu Faced Mamdani's Arrest Threat in New York; NYPD Protected Him as Protesters Were Arrested
Former NYC mayor Eric Adams dared Benjamin Netanyahu to test Zohran Mamdani's threat to arrest him. Netanyahu came to New York for the UN, and Mamdani's police arrested protesters instead.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced the arrest threat Zohran Mamdani had made, arriving in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, where the NYPD protected him and arrested protesters.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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JPMorgan Sued as Boss Allegedly Tells Gay Worker To Separate His 'Gay Job' From His 'Day Job'
A former JPMorgan Chase associate says his boss told him to 'separate his gay job from his day job' and warned 'DEI is not going to save you' before he was forced out. The bank denies it.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A former JPMorgan Chase associate sued the bank in New York on 23 September, alleging a supervisor told him to 'separate [his] gay job from [his] day job' and that the bank forced him out, in a case over US workplace protections.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Former Trump Activist Rich Logis Maps the Strategy He Says Can Help Break MAGA's Grip on Families
Former Trump activist Rich Logis, founder of the nonprofit Leaving MAGA, shares the exact method families can use to reach relatives still loyal to the movement.
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Jim Manzon @jimmanzon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rich Logis spent seven years inside MAGA before walking away, and the former Trump activist has laid out a step-by-step method for families trying to reach relatives still in the movement, arguing that empathy, not confrontation, opens a closed door.
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