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The Justice Department on Friday moved to dismiss its criminal case against two former Louisville police officers who were facing civil rights charges in connection with the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. In a court filing, lawyers from the Civil Rights Division sought to dismiss the pending case
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An Iranian man and an unidentified woman were arrested after attempting to enter HM Naval Base Clyde in Scotland. According to Police Scotland , the two individuals were apprehended at around 17:00 on Thursday, March 19, near Faslane, which is home to the UK's nuclear-armed submarines. The Royal
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Iran executed three men, including teenage wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, on Thursday morning local time for their alleged roles in killing police officers during anti-government protests in January. The executions took place in Qom province after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences. The jud
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Royer Perez-Jimenez, a 19-year-old Mexican national, died early Monday morning at Florida's Glades County Detention Center while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. The teenager was found unconscious by detention officers around 2:34 a.m. EST . Despite medical staff performing
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged three individuals associated with Super Micro Computer for their roles in an elaborate scheme to smuggle billions of dollars worth of advanced American AI chips, including those made by Nvidia , to China. According to multiple reports, the trio allege
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James 'Jimmy' Gracey, a 20-year-old University of Alabama student from Elmhurst, Illinois, was found dead in waters off Barceloneta Beach in Barcelona. Catalan police divers recovered his body near where he was last seen outside Shoko nightclub early Tuesday morning. Gracey had been vacationing in S
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Joseph Garrett Duggar, a former star of the reality TV show 19 Kids and Counting , was arrested on Wednesday in Tontitown, Arkansas. He faces multiple charges related to the alleged molestation of a 9-year-old girl during a family vacation to Panama City Beach, Florida. The victim, now 14 years old,
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Ángel Esteban Aguilar Morales, a leader of the Ecuadorian criminal gang Los Lobos , was arrested at Mexico City’s international airport on Wednesday. Known by his alias 'Lobo Menor,' Aguilar is wanted for the 2023 assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio . The arrest
Rapper Afroman, born Joseph Foreman, won a defamation lawsuit against seven Ohio sheriff's deputies who sued him over music videos mocking their raid of his home. According to CBS News , the jury ruled in favor of the rapper, defending his right to freedom of speech. The case stemmed from a 2022 rai
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Two Iranian men have been charged under the National Security Act for allegedly spying on the Jewish community in London, according to multiple reports from Daily Mail , The Guardian , and Sky News . Nematollah Shahsavani, 40, a dual Iranian and British national, and Alireza Farasati, 22, an Iranian
The Pulse Nightclub in Orlando began its demolition process on Wednesday, clearing the way for a $12 million permanent memorial dedicated to the 49 people killed and 53 wounded during the mass shooting nearly a decade ago. Construction workers started tearing down walls that still bore scars from bu
An Israeli journalist received death threats from users of the online prediction platform Polymarket after reporting on a minor missile strike near Jerusalem. Emanuel Fabian , a military correspondent for The Times of Israel , reported that the incident impacted bets worth over $23 million placed on
Brazilian psychologist Vitoria Figueiredo Barreto , 30, has been missing for 15 days after she was last seen on March 3 at the University of Essex in Colchester. Police are investigating numerous potential sightings and have found her laptop and tote bag in Brightlingsea. According to Essex Police ,
Prosecutors in the trial of Marius Borg Høiby , son of Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit , have requested a jail term of seven years and seven months, arguing he should be found guilty of 39 of the 40 charges against him. The 29-year-old denies four counts of rape but has admitted to lesser offen
Florida executed Michael Lee King on Tuesday for the abduction, rape, and murder of young mother Denise Amber Lee in January 2008. According to multiple reports, King was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. King, now 54 years old, was convic
Carlos Gonzalez-Del Hoyo, a 44-year-old Aurora resident, has been sentenced to 159 years in prison after being convicted on six felony counts related to large-scale drug distribution. The charges stem from his arrest in November 2024 when authorities pulled him over on Highway 34 in Greeley and disc
Joshua Martinez, 28, has been charged with murder in the disappearance of Victoria Marquina, his pregnant teenage girlfriend who vanished six years ago. According to prosecutors, Martinez and Marquina were in a brief relationship when she disappeared in October 2019 at age 16. Martinez was arraigned
Sergeant Fannie Nkosi testified before the Madlanga Commission , defending his decision to share Musa Khawula’s arrest warrant with controversial businessman Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala. According to multiple reports, Nkosi stated that police needed help apprehending the entertainment blogger. The commis
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Three separate fatal incidents were reported in Riverside County over the weekend, according to CBS News . The first involved a multi-car crash on Highway 74 in Lake Elsinore that left one person dead and two others critically injured. The second was a hit-and-run incident in Jurupa Valley that clai
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Michael David Coberg, a former Los Angeles County deputy, was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for his role in an extortion scheme involving cryptocurrency businessman Adam Iza. According to multiple reports, Coberg pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit extortion and
Kouri Richins, a Utah woman who authored books on grief after her husband's death, was convicted of aggravated murder on Monday. The jury deliberated for about three hours before finding her guilty of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022. The prosecution pr
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At least 23 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in suspected suicide bombings that targeted crowded locations in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri on Monday night, according to police. The explosions occurred at the entrance of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Post Offi
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Former California Highway Patrol officer Angelo Rodriguez has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with a fatal crash that occurred last summer on the 605 Freeway near Norwalk. According to prosecutors, Rodriguez allegedly crashed into a civilian vehicle while driving at dangerous sp
Carie Hallford, a former Colorado funeral home owner, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for her role in defrauding families and hiding nearly 200 decomposing bodies. The sentence, handed down by U.S. District Judge Nina Y. Wang, is nearly the maximum allowed under federal law. Hallford, 48, faced
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