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Bank of America has reached a $72.5 million settlement in a lawsuit alleging the bank helped facilitate Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operation, according to court documents filed Friday. The proposed class-action lawsuit was brought on behalf of victims who claim Bank of America provided bankin
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Hong "Grace" Peng, a former Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) technical project manager, and Gautham Sampath, owner of the tech firm Innive, have been charged with felony counts of money laundering and illegally holding a financial interest in government contracts. According to prosecutors
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A U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to former First Lady Jill Biden accidentally shot himself in the leg near Philadelphia International Airport on Friday morning, according to multiple reports. The incident occurred around 8:30 a.m. EST while the agent was traveling in an unmarked SUV, as reported
Two siblings, Alen Zheng and Ann Mary Zheng, have been charged in connection with an improvised explosive device (IED) found at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. According to multiple reports, Alen Zheng allegedly planted the bomb on March 10 and fled to China, while his sister was arrested
Rex Heuermann, a 62-year-old architect , is set to change his plea to guilty for the murders of seven women along Gilgo Beach on Long Island between 1993 and 2011. According to multiple reports, Heuermann will appear before a judge on April 8, where he is expected to plead guilty after previously ma
Matvei Rumiantsev, a 23-year-old Russian man, was sentenced to four years in prison by Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London for assaulting a woman while Barron Trump witnessed the attack on a video call. The incident occurred on January 18, 2025, when Rumiantsev became jealous of the victim's frie
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Police have questioned a man in his 60s over allegations of human trafficking and facilitating rape in connection with the late former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed. According to The Guardian , this follows reports from 154 people alleging sexual abuse by Al Fayed, who died in 2023 at age 94. The s
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Christopher Trybus, a 43-year-old software consultant from Swindon, Wiltshire, is on trial at Winchester Crown Court for the manslaughter of his wife Tarryn Baird. The prosecution alleges that Trybus subjected Baird to a campaign of physical and sexual violence that led her to take her own life by h
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FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email account was breached by an Iran-linked hacking group known as the Handala Hack Team. According to multiple reports, the group posted old photos and documents from Patel's email online, including images of him at various locations with cigars and rum, dating f
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Federal officials arrested Alexander Heifler , 26, for plotting to firebomb the Brooklyn home of Palestinian activist Nerdeen Kiswani . According to multiple reports, the FBI and NYPD conducted an undercover operation that led to Heifler's arrest. The suspect allegedly constructed Molotov cocktails
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Alexander Schecter, a 24-year-old Santa Monica resident, was arrested on Friday, March 20, by UCLA Police Department detectives. He faces multiple charges including rape by force, forcible oral copulation, robbery, extortion, and battery. The arrest stems from an incident that occurred on March 8
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating how Hertfordshire Constabulary handled sexual abuse allegations made against social media influencer Andrew Tate by three women. The case was closed in 2019 after a four-year investigation due to insufficient evidence, as reported by
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Former Massachusetts police officer Kelsey Fitzsimmons , 29, was acquitted of assault charges after testifying she attempted to shoot herself during an incident involving colleagues serving a restraining order from her fiancé. According to multiple reports, Fitzsimmons claimed she never intended to
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Ivanna Lisette Ortiz , a 35-year-old woman from Orlando, Florida, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to the attempted murder of singer Rihanna . According to multiple reports, Ortiz also pleaded not guilty through her attorney to more than a dozen other felony counts in Los Angeles Superior Court. The
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An 18-year-old man from Prestatyn, Wales, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his mother with a hammer. Tristan Roberts received a minimum sentence of 22 years and six months after pleading guilty to the murder of Angela Shellis, according to The Guardian . The court heard that Roberts had
A private nursery in Dudley has admitted corporate manslaughter and health and safety offenses following the death of a 14-month-old toddler who suffocated during nap time. Fairytales Day Nursery, along with its owner Deborah Latewood, pleaded guilty at Wolverhampton Crown Court for failing to ensur
A third man has been arrested and charged in the alleged kidnapping and murder of Chris Baghsarian , an 85-year-old grandfather from North Ryde, Sydney. According to multiple reports, police described the suspect as a 'major player' in the case. The 23-year-old man, identified by Daily Mail as Dekla
An XL bully dog named Toretto attacked an 84-year-old man, John McColl, on a driveway in Warrington, leading to his death a month later. The trial of Sean Garner, who admits owning banned dogs without exemption certificates but denies responsibility for the attack, is underway at Liverpool Crown Cou
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Mohammed Durnion, 42, was found guilty at Warwick Crown Court on Tuesday of the manslaughter of Reanne Coulson. The labourer strangled Coulson, a mother-of-two and sex worker known to take drugs, after she visited his flat in Coventry on May 21 last year. According to multiple reports, Durnion faked
Dayton Webber, a 27-year-old professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee, was charged with first-degree murder after allegedly shooting his passenger in La Plata, Maryland. According to multiple reports from Daily Mail , BBC , NPR , and The Guardian , Webber shot Bradrick Wells twice in the h
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Sheridan Gorman , an 18-year-old student at Loyola University Chicago , was shot and killed early on March 19 near Tobey Prinz Beach Park in Rogers Park. The suspect, José Medina-Medina , a 25-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela, is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated use of a fire
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Nathan Newby, a patient at St James' Hospital in Leeds, prevented what could have been a devastating bombing by calmly talking down Mohammad Farooq, who had planned to detonate a pressure cooker bomb with 10kg of explosives. According to BBC , Newby spent two hours persuading Farooq to abandon his p
Four Jewish charity-run ambulances were deliberately set on fire outside a synagogue in London's Golders Green neighborhood early Monday morning. The attack occurred around 1:45 AM at the Machzike Hadath Synagogue, where Hatzola Northwest operates its volunteer emergency medical service. The inciden
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Alan Ritchson, star of Amazon Prime Video's Reacher , was involved in a physical altercation with his neighbor Ronnie Taylor in Brentwood, Tennessee over the weekend. According to multiple outlets including Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and Fox News, video obtained by TMZ shows Ritchson throwing
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