内容摘要：U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) acting President George Moose, left, and USIP acting counsel George Foote take part in a newss conference outside the Institute, Wednesday, May 21, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) acting President George Moose, left, and USIP acting counsel George Foote take part in a newss conference outside the Institute, Wednesday, May 21, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Over the last seven years, the case has been seen as something of a crucible for the. The anti-sexual-misconduct outcry took flight after allegations against Weinstein

He was later convicted of sex crimes in. The New York conviction waslast year, and the case was sent back for retrial.

The new trial was expanded to include an accuser who wasn’t part of the first trial. One of the criminal sex act charges is based on her allegations.New York City mayoral race front-runner

was forced to fend off a volley of attacks from his Democratic primary rivals in a debate Wednesday, with his opponents unleashing pent up barbs at the former governor in an attempt to chip away at his lead.

was on the defensive from the opening bell.No one disputes that Patterson, 50, served death cap mushrooms to her guests for lunch in the rural town of Leongatha, but she says she did it unknowingly.

Patterson said Wednesday she splurged on expensive ingredients and researched ideas to find “something special” to serve. She deviated from her chosen recipe to improve the “bland” flavor, she said.She believed she was adding dried fungi bought from an Asian supermarket from a container in her pantry, she told the court.

“Now I think that there was a possibility that there were foraged ones in there as well,” she told her lawyer, Colin Mandy. Patterson had foraged wild mushrooms for years, she told the court Tuesday, and had put some in her pantry weeks before the deaths.Patterson, who formally separated from her husband Simon Patterson in 2015, said she felt “hurt” when Simon told her the night before the lunch that he “wasn’t comfortable” attending.