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Following major backlash about the scheduled release of a serial child molester through California’s elderly parole program, the 64-year-old is now facing new charges that could keep him behind bars. News that David Allen Funston was set to be freed was met by outrage among victims, politicians and others. (snip) Funston, granted parole earlier this month, was set to be released on Thursday from state prison — but was rearrested that same day on new charges from a decades-old, untried case. The charges he’s facing are from a 1996 case in which he is accused of sexually assaulting a child in Roseville, according to the Placer County district attorney’s office.

Pakistan bombed Afghanistan's capital Kabul as well as two other provinces on Friday, after the Afghan Taliban announced a major offensive against Pakistani military posts near the border on Thursday night. Friday's events escalated a long-running conflict that has had the UN, China, Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia calling on both sides to stop fighting. Here's a rundown of what happened today: Pakistani forces struck Kabul and the provinces of Kandahar and Paktika but the casualty count remains unclear Iran has offered to mediate, China has called for dialogue while foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Turkey have called for an end to hostilities in phone calls with their Pakistani counterpart