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(CNN) — The suspect in last month’s mass shooting at Brown University and subsequent killing of an MIT professor admitted to the attacks in a series of short videos authorities recovered from an electronic device, the Department of Justice said Tuesday.

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(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of civil rights activist Julian Bond.

Personal

Birth date: January 14, 1940

Death date: August 15, 2015

Birth place: Nashville, Tennessee

Birth name: Horace Julian Bond

Father: Horace Mann Bond, educator

Mother: Julia (Washington) Bond, librarian

Marriages: Pamela Sue Horowitz (March 17, 1990-August 15, 2015, his death); Alice Clopton (July 28, 1961-November 10, 1989, divorced)

Children: with Deborah Kaye Moore: Mia; with Alice Clopton: Julia Louise, Jeffrey Alvin, Michael Julian, Horace Mann II, Phyllis Jane

Education: Morehouse College, B.A., 1971

Other Facts

Was the first African American to have his name placed in nomination for vice president of the United States. He could not accept the nomination because he was only 28 years old, which is under the age of eligibility according to the Constitution.

His father, Horace Mann Bond, became the first African American president of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.

Timeline

March 1960 – Is arrested during a student protest of the segregated Atlanta City Hall cafeteria.

1960 – Is a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

1961-1966 – Serves as the communications director of the SNCC.

1961 – Leaves college and begins working for the Atlanta Inquirer newspaper.

1965 – Is elected to the Georgia House of Representatives. He is not seated because House members oppose his outspoken views against the Vietnam War.

1966 – The US Supreme Court rules that the Georgia House of Representatives must seat Bond.

1967-1974 – Serves in the Georgia House of Representatives.

1968 – Is part of a challenge delegation from Georgia that successfully unseats Georgia’s regular Democrats at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

1968 – Is nominated as vice president of the United States. He withdraws his name because the Constitution’s age requirement is 35 and Bond, at 28, is too young.

1971-1979 – President of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

1974-1989 – President of the NAACP Atlanta chapter.

1975-1986 – Member of the Georgia Senate.

April 9, 1977 – Hosts “Saturday Night Live.”

1980-1997 – Hosts the show “America’s Black Forum.”

April 2, 1985 – Is arrested outside the South African Embassy while protesting against apartheid.

1986 – Loses the election for US House of Representatives to John Lewis.

March 1987 – Bond’s estranged wife, Alice Clopton Bond, makes public accusations that Bond and other Atl

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(AP) — Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student in 1990, is seeking to overturn her conviction over what her lawyers claim were several constitutional violations.

The petition for habeas corpus relief was filed Monday in New York, where she is being held at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, and, in New Hampshire, where the murder happened.

“Ms. Smart’s trial unfolded in an environment that no court had previously confronted — wall-to-wall media coverage that blurred the line between allegation and evidence,” Jason Ott, who is part of Smart’s legal team, said in a statement. “This petition challenges whether a fair adversarial process took place.”

The move comes about seven months after New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte rejected a request for a sentence reduction hearing. Ayotte said she reviewed the case and decided it was not deserving of a hearing.

A spokesman for the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A spokeman for New Hampshire’s attorney general said it would not comment on pending litigation “other than to note that the State maintains Ms. Smart received a fair trial and that her convictions were lawfully obtained and upheld on appeal.”

In their petition, lawyers for the 57-year-old Smart argue that prosecutors misled the jury by providing them with inaccurate transcripts of surreptitiously recorded conversations of Ms. Smart that included words that were not audible on the recordings. Among the words they claim weren’t audible but in the transcript were the word killed in the sentence “you had your husband killed,” the word busted in the sentence “I’m gonna be busted” and the word murder in the sentence “this would have been the perfect murder.”

“Modern science confirms what common sense has always told us: when people are handed a script, they inevitably hear the words they are shown,” Smart’s attorney, Matthew Zernhelt, said in a statement. “Jurors were not evaluating the recordings independently — they were being directed toward a conclusion, and that direction decided the verdict.”

Lawyers also argued the conviction should be overturned because the verdict was tainted by the media attention and due to faulty instructions to the jury. They argued jurors were told they must find that Smart acted with premeditation, not told they must consider only evidence presented at trial.

They also argued the trial court gave her a mandatory life sentence without parole for being an accomplice to first-degree murder, despite New Hampshire not mandating that sentence for the charge.

Smart was a 22-year-old high school media coordinator when she began an affair with a 15-year-old boy who later fatally shot her husband, Gregory Smart, in Derry. The shooter was freed in 2015 after serving a 25-year sentence. Although Smart denied knowledge of the plot, she was convicted of being an accomplice to first-degree murder and other crimes and sentenced to life without parole.

It took until 2024 for Smart to take full responsibility for her husband’s death. In a video released in June, she said she spent years deflecting blame “almost as if it was a coping mechanism.”

Smart’s trial was a media circus and one of America’s first high-profile cases about a sexual affair between a school employee and a student. The student, William Flynn, testified that Smart told him she needed her husband killed because she feared she would lose everything if they divorced and that she threatened to break up with hi

Por Federico Leiva, CNN en Español

España entregará esta semana a su primer campeón del año. Lo hará a más de 4.500 kilómetros de distancia, en Arabia Saudita, nuevamente sede de la Supercopa que disputan los equipos más destacados de la pasada campaña. No será, sin embargo, el primer campeón del 2026 de las cinco principales ligas de Europa, ya que este jueves PSG y Olympique Marsella definirán la Supercopa de Francia.

El Atlético de Madrid, el Athletic Club de Bilbao, el FC Barcelona y el Real Madrid serán los protagonistas de un minitorneo que repite su formato: dos semifinales a un partido a jugarse miércoles y jueves, y una final que se disputará el domingo.

La Supercopa, que en algún momento enfrentaba únicamente al campeón de la pasada Liga de España con el ganador de la Copa del Rey, se ha ampliado desde hace algunos años para incluir a los subcampeones de ambas competencias y así formar un cuadrangular.

El conjunto culé llega tras haber levantado ambos trofeos en la temporada 2024/2025, y como el Merengue fue segundo en las dos competiciones, se incluyó a los equipos que terminaron en el tercer y cuarto escalón de LaLiga: el Colchonero y el conjunto vasco.

El primer duelo será entre el FC Barcelona y el Athletic Club. Los catalanes llegan en buena forma, con ocho triunfos consecutivos entre todas las competencias y cuatro encuentros seguidos sin recibir goles. Esos números lo catapultaron al liderato de la liga local con cuatro unidades de ventaja sobre el Madrid, aunque en la Champions League los culés corren desde atrás.

Los Leones no atraviesan un buen momento. Apenas lograron tres triunfos en sus últimas 10 presentaciones, están octavos en LaLiga (fuera de los puestos de clasificación a copas europeas) y en puestos de eliminación en la Champions League (puesto 28), con solo dos partidos más por jugar. Los últimos antecedentes directos con el FC Barcelona también le juegan en contra: se vieron las caras el 22 de noviembre, con paliza azulgrana por 4 a 0, y también en las semifinales de la Supercopa de 2025 (otra derrota por 0-2).

A los tumbos. Así llega el Real Madrid de Xabi Alonso a la segunda semifinal del torneo. Cuatro victorias en fila enfriaron un poco el asiento del DT, muy cuestionado por un noviembre y diciembre plagados de tropiezos que pusieron al Merengue en una situación apremiante. El Madrid está segundo en LaLiga y séptimo en la Liga de Campeones, con dos partidos trascendentales por jugar ante Monaco y Benfica. La lesión de Mbappé parecía golpear aún más a un equipo tambaleante, pero entonces los blancos jugaron mucho mejor sin el francés ante el Betis (goleada 5-1).

Ahora tendrán la oportunidad de confirmar esa levantada en el clásico de la ciudad ante el Atlético de Madrid. El Colchonero transita una campaña sumamente irregular. Ya prácticamente quedó afuera de la pelea por la Liga de España (está 11 puntos por detrás del FC Barcelona), aunque en Europa tiene buenas posibilidades de clasificar directamente a los octavos de final (está octavo, con dos partidos accesibles por jugar). Será una revancha de lo visto el 27 de septiembre, cuando los dirigidos por Diego Simeone golearon 5-2.

• 2 p.m. de Miami.
• 1 p.m. de Ciudad de México.
• 2 p.m. de Bogotá.
• 4 p.m. de Buenos Aires
• 8 p.m. de Madrid.

El partido podrá verse por ESPN, ESPN 2 y Fubo Sports (Estados Unidos), Movistar+ (España), Sky Sports (México y Centroamérica), FLOW (Argentina, Paraguay y Uruguay), Win Sports (Colombia) y ECDF (Ecuador).

• 2 p.m. de Miami.
• 1 p.m. de Ciudad de México.
• 2 p.m. de Bogotá.
• 4 p.m. de Buenos Aires
• 8 p.m. de Madrid.

El clásico estará en las pantallas de ESPN, ESPN 2 y Fubo Sports (Estados Unidos), Movistar+ (España), Sky Sports (México y Centroamérica), FLOW (Argentina, Paraguay y Uruguay), Win Sports (Colombia) y ECDF