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Police in Jackson, Mississippi, testified that the death of Tasia Fortune , a 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree last month, was staged after her murder. According to testimony by Jackson Police Detective Samuel Dukes at a municipal hearing on Friday, an initial investigation determin
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Alleigha Botner concluded two days of testimony in the trial of former 'American Idol' contestant Caleb Flynn, who is accused of murdering his wife, Ashley. The 24-year-old woman testified about an affair with Flynn and read aloud text messages exchanged between them before Ashley's death on Februar
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Marcelino Castro, a 28-year-old California resident, was arrested on Saturday after he confessed to killing two people in separate incidents. According to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office and multiple reports, Castro first killed a friend on September 13 by strangling him and slitti
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Jane Doe, who previously accused rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old, has formally recanted her allegations. In a declaration filed in Manhattan federal court on Thursday, Jane Doe stated that all claims against Shawn 'Jay-Z' Carter were false and that
Nicholas Brandram, the 44-year-old banker arrested in connection with the infamous 'Putney Pusher' case, was found dead at his home in Chiswick on September 15. According to multiple reports, an inquest into his death has been suspended while the Metropolitan Police conducts a review ordered by the
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James Copenhaver, one of three attendees wounded during the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt on then-candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has died from complications related to his injuries. The 76-year-old veteran passed away Wednesday at Allegheny Health Network’s
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Evanston, Illinois, allegedly mistook a U.S. citizen for a fugitive during an attempted arrest Sunday morning, leaving him with head, neck, and facial injuries according to multiple reports. The man was walking to pick up a prescription when ICE ag
Far-right activist Daniel Thomas, 37, was charged Thursday after allegedly slashing an inflatable dinghy in the English Channel on Tuesday while a French coastguard official remained onboard. The incident occurred amid escalating tensions over migrant crossings and followed two so-called 'uncontroll
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A federal judge has ordered Texas to install air conditioning in all state prisons by the end of 2029, ruling that current conditions violate inmates' constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman issued a 150-page order requiring the Texas Department
Idaho police have identified the 'Unknown Wanderer,' a man found dead in a Boise church in 1982, as Dr. Mathew Francis Betkouski and believe he may be linked to the infamous Chicago Tylenol murders of the same year. The man was discovered on December 4, 1982, inside Sacred Heart Catholic Church with
Police in Mississippi have made a second arrest in connection with the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned home in Jackson on August 3. According to multiple reports, authorities arrested Earnest Lloyd Jr., 25 , late Tuesday and issued a wa
At least 31 people were killed and over 100 injured on September 18, 2026, when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a mosque inside a police complex in Kohat, Pakistan. The attack was followed by a 20-hour standoff between gunmen and law enforcement officials. The militant group Itt
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Ker'Sean Ramey, 41, was executed by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, on Wednesday. He became the sixth person put to death this year in Texas, which has three more executions scheduled. A week earlier, LeJames Norman, Ramey's co-defendant in the case, was also execute
The International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted former Seleka militia leader Mahamat Said Abdel Kani of four counts of crimes against humanity, including torture and persecution. Judges found him responsible for overseeing the beating and torture of prisoners at a detention facility in Bangui durin
Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced former Hollywood producer, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for sexually assaulting Miriam Haley, a one-time TV production assistant. The conviction stems from an incident that occurred at his Manhattan apartment in 2006. The sentencing follows a lengt
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A Vermont jury convicted Jason Eaton , 51, of attempted murder in the November 2023 shooting of three Palestinian college students near his home in Burlington. The attack left Hisham Awartani paralyzed from the waist down and wounded his friends, Tahseen Aliahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid , all then 20
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A 29-year-old man armed with a shotgun opened fire on a police officer stationed outside an Ontario synagogue during Yom Kippur, triggering a shootout involving as many as 30 shots. The gunfire left the man with life-threatening injuries and seriously wounded a veteran of the Belleville Police Servi
Vincent Brown, a former Rwandan official also known as Vincent Bajinya, appeared in Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday facing charges related to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The 65-year-old doctor is accused of one count of conduct ancillary to genocide and six offences of conduct ancillary to
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Former BBC DJ Tim Westwood, aged 68, has been charged with two additional sexual offences by the Metropolitan Police. The new charges include indecently assaulting a teenage girl in Hammersmith and Fulham in 1991 and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in Wandsworth in May 2004. The former Radi
Braden Peters, a 20-year-old social media influencer known as 'Clavicular,' faces criminal charges for rape and other offenses in connection with an alleged incident involving a minor. According to court records obtained by NPR , Peters has been charged with one count of rape, one count of drugging
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A Mississippi grand jury has determined there is no evidence to warrant criminal charges in the July death of Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old Black college student. The body of Wells was found after a boating party on Horn Island off the Gulf Coast. District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath announced the f
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Wilber Rafael Garces Perez , a 28-year-old Venezuelan man, was shot by an ICE officer in Austin, Texas , on Sunday while making a DoorDash delivery. The shooting occurred after unmarked ICE vehicles sideswiped his car twice before he was fired upon. According to multiple reports, Perez is now detain
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A Sri Lankan court convicted 15 men on Tuesday for their roles in organizing the 2019 Easter bombings , sentencing each to at least 200 years in prison . The attacks, which were inspired by the Islamic State group and targeted three churches and three hotels during Easter services, killed 267 people
Three people were killed, including the suspected gunman, and four others were injured in a shooting Wednesday afternoon at an apartment complex near 15 East Grant Street in downtown Minneapolis. According to authorities, two of those wounded were police officers who are expected to recover. The Min
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