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Roman Polanski has settled an underage rape case that was set to go to trial next year.

The civil lawsuit was originally filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in June 2023, but the plaintiff's attorney Gloria Allred confirmed to USA TODAY on Wednesday that the case was settled over the summer with the director, now 91. The trial was set to begin in August 2025.

She said that "a settlement of claims was agreed to by the parties to their mutual satisfaction." The director's attorney Alexander Rufus-Isaacs gave a similar statement to the Agence France-Presse per The Guardian.

The accuser was seeking a combination of "non-economic" and "special" damages as compensation for her claims, to cover "past, present and future lost earnings, economic damages and others," according to the complaint.

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One of the last Navajo Code Talkers, who helped secure an Allied victory in World War II by sending crucial messages in a code based on the Navajo language, has died.

Tributes from family members and local and military officials poured in for John Kinsel Sr., who died Saturday at age 107 and was hailed as a brave and accomplished man.

“On behalf of the entire Navajo Nation, our Navajo veterans and service men and women, First Lady Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren and me, we extend our sincerest condolences and prayers to the family of Mr. Kinsel,” Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said on social media.

“Mr. Kinsel was a Marine who bravely and selflessly fought for all of us in the most terrifying circumstances with the greatest responsibility as a Navajo Code Talker. He fought alongside his brothers in arms, for the U.S. Marine Corps, for the United States and to protect the Navajo Nation in a time of war,” he added.

A juvenile suspect is in custody after five people were killed, including three children during a "possible domestic violence situation" in Washington state, authorities and school officials said.

Just before 5 a.m. Monday, deputies with the King County Sheriff's Office responded to reports of a possible suicide at a home in the Lake Alice Road neighborhood in Fall City, department spokesperson Brandyn Hull told USA TODAY in an email.

Fall City is about 25 miles east of Seattle.

This incident has turned into a homicide investigation and Hull confirmed that two adults and three children were killed. There is currently "no danger to the public," she added.

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A mass shooting during homecoming weekend at Georgia’s Albany State University left one person dead and five others wounded on Saturday night, according to school officials.

Earlier Saturday in Mississippi, authorities said three people were killed and eight others were injured near Lexington, Mississippi, when at least two people fired guns at a group of several hundred people who were at an outdoor trail celebrating a high school football team’s homecoming game victory.

Three people were killed and eight others were wounded in central Mississippi early Saturday when at least two people fired guns at a group of several hundred people who were celebrating a high school football team’s homecoming win at an outdoor trail several hours after the game had ended, authorities said.

The mass shooting near the community of Lexington was preceded by a fight among some of the men at the celebration, but deputies had not yet learned what sparked the fight, said Holmes county sheriff Willie March.

Anywhere from 200 to 300 people were on the trail celebrating, and the gunfire sent them fleeing, the sheriff said in a phone interview with the Associated Press.

“It was chaos, to tell you the truth,” March said. “The shooting just started and people started running.”

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