A woman who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after the loss of her husband has been found guilty of his murder.

Kouri Richins slipped five-times the lethal dose of fentanyl into a cocktail that Eric Richins drank in the false hope of inheriting his estate worth more than $4m (£3m) in Utah in March 2022, prosecutors said.

They said Richins, an estate agent, was deep in debt and planning her future with another man.

She had opened numerous life insurance policies on her husband without his knowledge, with benefits totalling about $2m, prosecutors said.

The internet search history from Richins’s phone included “what is a lethal.dose.of.fetanayl” and “luxury prisons for the rich America”, a digital forensic analyst said.

Prosecutor Brad Bloodworth played a clip of Richins’s 911 call from the night of her husband’s death in court.

That’s “not the sound of a wife becoming a widow”, he said, quoting the defence’s opening statement.

“It’s the sound of a wife becoming a black widow.”

Defence lawyer Wendy Lewis said the prosecution “looks at facts one way and sees a witch, but if you look at those facts another way, you see a widow”.

The defence team argued Eric Richins was addicted to painkillers and asked his wife to procure opioids for him.

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Richins, 35, stared at the floor and took deep breaths as she was convicted of aggravated murder on Monday.

She was also convicted of other felonies, including attempted murder for trying to poison her husband weeks earlier on Valentine’s Day with a fentanyl-laced sandwich that made him black out.

Jurors also found Richins guilty of forgery and fraudulently claiming insurance benefits after his death.

Shortly before her arrest in May 2023, Richins self-published a book for children about coping with the loss of a parent.

Prosecutors argued she planned the killing and tried to cover it up.

She will be sentenced on 13 May – the day her husband would have turned 44.

Team USA will appear in their third straight World Baseball Classic final on Tuesday night against Venezuela, looking for their second title in the international tournament.

The U.S. is looking to avenge their 3-2 loss to Japan in the 2023 World Baseball Classic final with a victory over Venezuela at 8 p.m. ET at loanDepot Park in Miami. The game will be broadcast on Fox.

Venezuela rallied to beat Italy 4-2 in the semifinal on Monday night to set up a final against the Americans. Tuesday’s game will be the first-ever World Baseball Classic championship appearance for the country.

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(Left) United States’ Aaron Judge runs the bases after hitting a two-run home run during the third inning of a World Baseball Classic game against Mexico in Houston, Texas, on March 9, 2026. (Right) Ronald Acuña Jr. (21) of Team Venezuela looks on prior to a World Baseball Classic Pool D game against Team Israel at loanDepot park, in Miami, Florida, on March 7, 2026. (Ashley Landis/AP Photo;Rich Storry/Getty Images)

The U.S. and Venezuela have defeated some of the top teams in the tournament on their journey to the championship game.

The U.S., who only reached the quarterfinal round with the help of Team Italy, beat Team Canada 5-3 on Friday, continuing a recent trend of United States victories over Canada from the Olympics and Paralympics in hockey.

Team USA’s win over Canada set up a highly anticipated matchup with the Dominican Republic. The U.S. sent Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes to the mound to take on one of the most vaunted lineups in the tournament.

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Gunnar Henderson of Team USA rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run in the fourth inning of the 2026 World Baseball Classic game between Team USA and Team Dominican Republic at loanDepot park in Miami, Florida, on March 15, 2026. (Daniel Shirey/WBCI/MLB Photos)

Skenes and the Team USA bullpen led the team to a thrilling 2-1 win. Baltimore Orioles star Gunnar Henderson and Boston Red Sox phenom Roman Anthony each hit a solo home run in the win.

Venezuela knocked out Japan, the defending champion, in the quarterfinals with an 8-5 victory. Red Sox outfielder Wilyer Abreu hit an electrifying go-ahead three-run home run in the sixth inning to put Venezuela up 7-5, and they never looked back.

Venezuela’s 4-2 comeback win over Italy began with Eugenio Suárez’s solo home run in the fourth inning, which cut the lead to 2-1. Venezuela tied the game in the seventh inning when Atlanta Braves superstar Ronald Acuña Jr. ran out a groundball in the shortstop hole, allowing Andres Giménez to score.

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The Venezuela team celebrates after defeating Italy at a World Baseball Classic semifinal game in Miami, Florida, on March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

One batter after Acuña, Kansas City Royals star Maikel García ripped a line drive single into left field, scoring Jackson Chourio to give Venezuela a 3-2 lead.

Luis Arraez continued the rally when he punched a looping line drive into center field to score Acuna, giving Venezuela a 4-2 lead they would not relinquish.

Team USA is starting New York Mets rookie Nolan McLean on the mound, while Venezuela is sending out Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Eduardo Rodríguez for the title game.

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In protest against the attack on Iran, an appeal is being made in some places in India to celebrate Eid with simplicity and offer namaz by tying a black band on the arm. Meanwhile, Maulana Khalid Rashid Farangi Mahali, senior executive member of All India Muslim Personal Law Board, has expressed disagreement with this. He said on Tuesday (March 17) that Eid is Allah’s reward to the fasting people and it is not related to any single human incident.

Maulana Khalid Rashid, in an important meeting held at Idgah Lucknow regarding the preparations for Eid-ul-Fitr, while referring to the appeals of not celebrating Eid in protest against the attack on Iran and offering Eid prayers by tying a black band on the arm, said that Eid is not related to any single human event.

What argument did Maulana Khalid Rashid give in favor of the statement?

Arguing in favor of his statement, he said that Ghazwa-e-Badr (battle in the plains of Badr) took place on 17 Ramzan in the second Hijri (Islamic calendar), even after that Eid was celebrated. He said, “Apart from this, Hazrat Ali was martyred on 21 Ramzan, 40 Hijri and Prophet Mohammad Sahib died on 12 Rabiul Awal in 11 Hijri, but despite that, Muslims celebrated Eid that year too.”

Do not associate Eid with any human incident – ​​Khalid Rashid

Maulana further said that Eid-ul-Fitr is a worship among Muslims, hence it should not be linked to any human incident. It is known that in some areas of Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, people of Shia community have appealed not to celebrate Eid and not to wear new clothes. At the same time, Maulana Saif Abbas Naqvi, President of Shia Chand Committee in Lucknow, has called upon Muslims to offer Eid prayers by tying a black band on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.

Apart from this, in Bhopal too, an appeal has been made to the people of Muslim community to offer Eid prayers by tying a black band on their arms. Maulana Khalid Rashid said that the Eid moon will be seen on March 19 and if the moon is seen on that day then it will be celebrated on March 20, otherwise Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated on March 21. He said that it will be announced at 7.30 pm.

Gerry Adams has denied being a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), telling a court he had “no involvement whatsoever” in bombings carried out by the paramilitary group.

In a witness statement to the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Tuesday, Mr Adams said he was “never a member of the IRA or its Army Council” and denied involvement in any bombings in the UK.

The former leader of Sinn Fein said the allegations brought against him in a civil claim, that he was responsible for three bombings in Britain during the 1970s and 1990s, were “untrue”.

Mr Adams, one of Northern Ireland‘s best-known political figures, has long been accused of having been a member of the Provisional IRA. He has always denied the allegation.

The 77-year-old wished the judge a “very happy ⁠St Patrick’s Day” as he entered the witness box.

“I was never the commanding officer, or OC of the 2nd Battalion of the IRA’s Belfast brigade,” Mr Adams said.

“Indeed, I have never held any rank or role within the IRA, including on the IRA’s Army Council.

“I have never held a command-and-control role in the IRA, and have never been a senior, let alone most senior figure, in the IRA.”

The legal case was brought by three people who were injured in three different bombings: one at London’s Old Bailey court in 1973, the Provisional IRA’s first such attack on the British mainland, and two 1996 blasts, targeting London’s Docklands and Manchester.

The claimants are seeking a finding on the balance of probabilities ⁠that Mr Adams is personally liable as a senior ​member of the IRA, and are claiming £1 in damages.

However, Mr Adams denied any role in the bombings, telling the court: “To be clear, I did not sanction any bombings in Britain in March 1973 – or in any other year.”

He added: “Sinn Fein is a political party that seeks a whole range of political objectives, including an end to partition and Irish unity.

“Throughout my life, opponents of Sinn Fein have repeatedly sought to conflate Sinn Fein with the IRA. As I have always stated, Sinn Fein and the IRA are separate organisations.”

Sir Max Hill KC, representing the bombing victims, said the Provisional IRA had caused 1,178 deaths, and asked Mr Adams: “The business of the IRA was deadly. We can agree on that, can’t we?”

Mr Adams replied: “Well, the business of the IRA was to resist armed British occupation and aggression in the part of Ireland that I lived in.”

He added: “Against them was the British Army; there were a number of armed groups who were deadly.”

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When asked if he stood by the actions of the IRA, Mr Adams said: “I do not stand by everything that they did, but these were my neighbours”.

Mr Adams said, though he was retired from front-line politics, he was committed to efforts to “cement the peace process, and to promote Irish unity”.

“My political work, from the late 1960s until today, is a matter of public record, and widely reported,” he said. “I worked with many others over many years to bring the conflict in the north of Ireland to an end.”

The court case continues.

EXCLUSIVE: A former high-ranking National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security official is warning that coordinated, technology-driven anti-ICE resistance is endangering operations through digital sabotage in cities across the United States.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Stewart Baker, a cybersecurity and national security expert, said that the use of new and emerging technology by agitators “has changed the atmosphere in which ICE is operating.”

“It’s already a game changer,” said Baker.

Following reports that anti-ICE agitators are using the encrypted messaging app known as Signal to track and impede agents, Baker said, “We’re going to see more of that, and it’s not easy to stop. Much of what’s being done there is perfectly lawful speech, but it is on the edge of causing serious harm.”

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A cybersecurity expert and former high-ranking NSA and DHS official warned that the use of technology by organized anti-ICE groups is making operations more dangerous. (iStock; Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Baker served as NSA general counsel under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and DHS assistant secretary for policy under President George W. Bush.  

Beyond Signal, there is chatter among activists about the use of sophisticated but cheap technology that serves as counter-surveillance measures.

Some of these methods are detailed in a thought piece titled “How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE” by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit digital civil liberties organization. Among the methods identified by EFF are a piece of hardware called “OUI-SPY” and a database called “DeFlock” that can be used by activists to detect and log the presence of law enforcement cameras and other technology that would otherwise be hidden.

EFF also describes an open-source app called WiGLE, which it says has the ability to alert the user when specific Wi-Fi or Bluetooth signals from federal law enforcement are detected.

The group notes that it is not affiliated with these projects and does not endorse them or make any statements about the legality of using them.

Cindy Cohn, EFF executive director, told Fox News Digital that the group, which she said “has been defending digital civil liberties and pushing back on overbroad surveillance since 1990, defends people’s indisputable constitutional right to observe and record law enforcement activities that occur in public places, so long as that recording does not interfere with those activities.”

Cohn said, “We also defend people’s legal and constitutional right to share that information with others. The Constitution and Supreme Court case law are crystal clear on these rights” and “we also support and defend people’s rights to detect, map, and share information about surveillance technology deployed in their communities, as a matter of transparency and accountability.”

She added that “the predominant danger today to both federal officers and protestors, bystanders, immigrants and U.S. citizens derives from the violent tactics being used by federal forces in U.S. cities, rather than from the tools observers are using to document this behavior.”

Baker told Fox News Digital that though he is “pretty skeptical of most of the technology that these groups are thinking they can use,” it does show that “they are remarkably organized.”

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A person holds an anti-ICE sign as demonstrators rally during a general strike protesting U.S. President Donald Trump’s deployment of immigration enforcement officers in Minneapolis, Minn., on Jan. 23, 2026. (Tim Evans/Reuters)

He said that for the last 30 years technology has been “moving to a place where anonymity is just impossible,” even in a law enforcement context.

“You can identify [people] from the signals that their tires send to the dashboard to say you’re flat. You can identify them by their Bluetooth signals, by their Wi-Fi signals … there are so many signals that we put off that increasingly trying to keep them all from being read by the rest of the world is just going to fail,” he explained. “And that means for law enforcement, they’re much more trackable at a very individual level.”

The result is that law enforcement operations are much more hazardous for not only agents, but also protesters, bystanders and even the illegal immigrants being targeted. The fatal shootings of activists Alex Pretti and Renee Good at the start of the year are evidence of this, Baker said.

“The people who are protesting ICE have set up a network for getting hostile people at the scene of ICE operations and [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] operations as quickly as possible and in as large numbers as possible,” Baker went on. “That is setting up more confrontations that are also going to end badly for the people who go there.”

Fox News Digital reported that the anti-ICE mobilization that unfolded around the killing of Pretti in Minneapolis mirrored the methods used to overthrow governments and spark bloody revolutions around the globe.

Encrypted Signal chats, command-and-control centers, rapid-response propaganda, and orchestrated tear-gas clashes with law enforcement have served to mobilize forces and shape public opinion in the ongoing conflict. Close analysis of guidelines distributed online by anti-ICE groups and the minute-by-minute events surrounding Pretti’s death reveal tactics and strategies well known to military and intelligence analysts as elements of global insurgencies.

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A card with images of Renée Good and Alex Pretti lies among flowers and other mementos at a memorial in Minneapolis, Minn., on Jan. 27, 2026.  (Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images)

What does this all boil down to? Baker believes that this means that “everybody is going to be doxed.”

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“We’re all going to be living in a world where we are doxed by people who don’t like us. And ICE agents are there first, but plenty of other people are going to end up there and tracked.”

“There are people who are willing to use violence against agents, and that fear of violence is going to drive hair-trigger responses by the agents. It’s a very dangerous situation,” said Baker. “It’s dangerous for everybody. And I understand why people are enthusiastic about having discovered this technology … but it carries with it risks for the people who are running those networks.”

Fox News Digital’s Asra Nomani and Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi contributed to this report.

Voices of opposition are emerging within America regarding the ongoing war with Iran. Joe Kent, head of the US Counter Terrorism Center, resigned from his post on Tuesday (March 17). He cited the ongoing war with Iran as the reason for his resignation. He said that he cannot support a war against his conscience. Earlier on March 16, White House Religious Freedom Commission advisor Sameera Munshi had also resigned due to this reason.

‘Can’t support war’

Joe Kent said, he has decided to resign after much consideration. He clearly said that the ongoing war with Iran is not beneficial for the American people in any way. Besides, Israel’s pressure was also cited as a major reason behind the outbreak of war. Kent said, he cannot support war at any cost.

Letter written to Donald Trump

US Joe Kent, director of the Counter Terrorism Center, wrote a letter to US President Donald Trump. He expressed disappointment over the ongoing war between America, Israel and Iran. He said, I cannot support the ongoing war with Iran at all. Iran poses no immediate threat to our country. Kent also said that the war started due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American supporters. He described the ongoing war with Iran as against the interests of the American people.

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Let us tell you that at one time Joe Kent was the American President. donald trump Was used among staunch supporters of. He openly praised Trump and his foreign policies during the US presidential elections.

Sameera Munshi has also resigned

Let us tell you that before this, Sameera Munshi, the only Muslim woman who served in the Religious Freedom Committee of US President Donald Trump, has also resigned from her post. He also cited the ongoing war with Iran as the reason for this. She posted on X that she was appointed by the President and was working as an advisor to the White House Religious Freedom Commission. He described the war with Iran as illegal, arguing that it was launched without explicit constitutional or parliamentary authorization.

He claimed that people of faith are being stripped of their freedom of expression and their lives are being put in danger because of their deeply held beliefs about Palestine and all this is being done to further a Zionist political agenda.