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CHICAGO – Jailed political fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko’s lawyer made an emotional plea for his release from a federal lockup Wednesday, saying he is being held in “degrading” conditions where inmates must share underwear. “It’s disgusting, judge,” chief defense counsel Joseph Duffy told U.S. District Judge Amy J. St. Eve. …

A bloody duvet stuffed into a supermarket cage bore his lifeless corpse while his severed head was found in a canal nearby, in Kilburn — just north of London. Lakhdar Ouyahia, 43, was an Algerian national. A pedestrian discovered his body, police his head, reports the BBC. Mohamed Boudjenane, 45, …

A Colombia missionary who was granted asylum by a U.S. judge in October may be deported back to her native country, where her life was being threatened, according to a MyFOXOrlando.com report. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, has appealed the asylum case because they say Janeth Reyes assisted …