A judge has granted a hearing to explore claims that a man wants to recant allegations of ****** ual abuse years ago by Penn State ****** istant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
Sandusky, 82, has been serving a decades-long prison sentence since he was convicted of 45 counts of ****** ual abuse in 2012. Eight young men testified about what happened to them as boys. He has repeatedly lost efforts to get a new trial, but Sandusky's lawyers are trying again.
A man identified in court documents as R.R. said he was coached extensively by authorities.
"I was told — both directly and indirectly — that trauma may have fragmented my memory, and that I could safely affirm details I did not fully recall. I was ****** ured this was common and even expected," R.R. said in an affidavit filed by Sandusky's attorneys.
A court hearing in Centre County has been scheduled for Sept. 8.

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The father of a 10-year-old rescued from pounding surf off the California coast in a dramatic scene captured on video says he is beyond grateful to the teenage lifeguard who saved his son. NBC News' Kaylee Hartung reports on the lifeguard's reaction to the viral video.

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A Republican governor in a state that voted to elect President Donald Trump is facing intense backlash online after an interview arguing against the president's order to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) migrants from the United States.
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine's state is home to an estimated 30,000 Haitian TPS holders. He told CBS earlier this week that the Haitians shouldn't be sent back to their country of origin.
"Haiti is ****** today. So you'd be sending people… back to ****** ," he said. "Very few of these Haitians will voluntarily go back to Haiti. If they have to leave, they'll go someplace else. They want to work. They want to support their family. They don't want to go back to Haiti."
Blue State Leaders Erupt After Supreme Court's Decision Ending Tps Protections For Haitians, Syrians
Online detractors quickly seized on DeWine's comments, mostly from users claiming that those responsible for Haiti's conditions are the ones that the governor wants to allow to stay in the United States.

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Multiple people were injured after two passenger trains collided in England, officials said.
The collision occurred Friday evening in the Bedford area, north of London, according to British Transport Police. A "number of people" have been injured, according to UK Health Secretary James Murray.
The collision involved two East Midlands Railway passenger trains, according to UK Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander.
"I'm grateful to emergency services who are on the scene, attending to those affected," Alexander said in a statement on social media. "We're working quickly with the rail industry and local partners to support passengers."
An East Midlands Railway spokesperson said a train traveling from Corby to London was involved in a collision south of Bedford with a train traveling from Nottingham to London.

The music industry is mourning singer Oliver Tree after he was killed in a helicopter crash in Brazil. He was 32. Two helicopters collided midair on Sunday, June 14, over Rio de Janeiro, according to CNN, killing all six passengers aboard. Local authorities noted that one of the helicopters crashed on the parking lot of a car dealership, resulting in a fire which was later extinguished. After news broke of Tree's passing, celebrities, including Kid Cudi, Bebe Rexha, and his ex-girlfriend Melanie Martinez paid tribute to him on social media.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A mass shooting in South Africa this week was the latest in a trend of killings in some of the country's poorest areas that experts say is a symptom of organized crime gangs taking advantage of the failures and sometimes absence of police.
The shooting carried out by multiple suspects in an informal settlement of shacks in Johannesburg left 12 people dead and at least 15 wounded, according to authorities.
There have not been any arrests.
South Africa's president deployed the army to the streets in several hotspots earlier this year in an attempt to combat organized crime — an unusual move seen by critics as an admission that police in Africa's most developed country were losing the battle in those areas.
Alongside that, South Africa's police force has been embroiled in allegations of corruption and collusion with criminal syndicates. That has resulted in more than a dozen senior officers being arrested and top officials, including the police minister and the national police commissioner, being suspended.

KYIV, June 3 (Reuters) - NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday warned young Russians that they ‌would probably die if they sign up to ‌join Russia's war in Ukraine.
"You are being sold a raw deal," Rutte said during a press conference in Kyiv, in remarks he directly addressed to "young Russians and their families".
"Men like you who join the fight - you won't be ‌trained. Equipment they'll provide ⁠you with is substandard. There is a very high chance you'll die or be ⁠wounded while you're out there," he said.
"And odds are, that if you are wounded, you will be left to suffer in the mud and die."
Rutte said Russia was ‌incurring "absolutely staggering" losses in Ukraine, where he said more than 30,000 Russian soldiers died every month - matching figures he has cited before.