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Florida's attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into whether OpenAI's AI chatbot ChatGPT played a role in advising the gunman behind last year's Florida State University shooting. According to multiple reports, Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Tuesday that prosecutors are e
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Los Angeles Police Department has significantly increased patrols across the San Fernando Valley following a surge of home burglaries. Nine break-ins occurred in just ten days, prompting Mayor Karen Bass to direct additional police resources to combat the crime wave. The recent spike comes amid broa
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Opening statements began Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial in New York, marking the third time this case has gone to trial. The former Hollywood powerbroker faces allegations of raping actress Jessica Mann in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013. The prosecution argued that the case hinges on 'po
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A 29-year-old woman with over 365,000 Instagram followers , Gabrielle Precious Carrington of Manchester, appeared in court charged with attempted murder after a car hit pedestrians in central London on Sunday morning. The incident left one woman in life-threatening condition and two others injured.
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A woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a car hit pedestrians in central London early Sunday morning, according to multiple reports. The incident occurred around 4:30 AM BST on Argyll Street , near the busy intersection with Oxford Street and Great Marlborough Street. The dr
Kenneth Law, a Canadian chef dubbed the 'poison killer,' will avoid a murder trial after agreeing to plead guilty to lesser offenses. The 60-year-old had been facing 14 counts of first-degree murder for allegedly supplying lethal substances online to vulnerable individuals. According to multiple rep
A gunman killed a Canadian tourist and injured thirteen others, including six Americans, atop Mexico’s historic Pyramid of the Moon before taking his own life. The shooting occurred Monday at Teotihuacan's archaeological site. The perpetrator was identified as 27-year-old Julio Cesar Jasso Ramírez,
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Around 25 protesters were arrested on Saturday as approximately 1,000 animal welfare activists attempted to gain entry to a beagle breeding and research facility in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin. Authorities reported that officers used pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd at Ridglan Farms,
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A planned fight among young people escalated into a deadly mass shooting at Leinbach Park in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Monday morning. According to multiple reports, the incident resulted in two fatalities and several other injuries. The shooting occurred around 10 a.m. near Jefferson Middle
Four anti-nocotics agents were killed early Sunday morning when their vehicle skidded off a road in northern Mexico and plunged into a ravine. The crash occurred after a three-month investigation that led to the dismantling of six clandestine synthetic drug labs in Morelos, Chihuahua. The victims in
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French prosecutors have summoned Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino for voluntary interviews in Paris as part of an investigation into allegations that the social media platform spread child sexual abuse material and deepfakes. The probe, opened by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor
Five people were wounded early Sunday morning in a shooting near the campus of the University of Iowa in downtown Iowa City, according to authorities. The incident occurred around 1:46 a.m. , when police responded to reports of a large fight in the 100 block of East College Street and heard gunfire
UK authorities are investigating whether a series of arson attacks on Jewish sites in London may be the work of Iranian proxies. According to NPR , PBS , and The Los Angeles Times , counterterrorism officers from the Metropolitan Police are probing fires at synagogues, other Jewish community locatio
Federal authorities arrested Shamim Mafi , a 44-year-old Iranian national and lawful permanent resident of the United States since 2016, at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Saturday. Mafi is accused of brokering deals to sell drones, bombs, bomb fuses, and millions of rounds of ammunition
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Eight children between the ages of 3 and 11 were killed during a mass shooting across two homes in Shreveport, Louisiana on Sunday. The suspected gunman, Shamar Elkins , is believed to have acted out of domestic dispute after fatally shooting his wife Shaneiqua Pugh and another woman before fleeing
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Police in Trinidad and Tobago discovered the remains of at least 50 infants and six adults dumped at a cemetery in Cumuto, about 25 miles from the capital Port of Spain. The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) is investigating what may be an unlawful disposal of unclaimed corpses. The bodies w
Counter-terrorism police have arrested two teenagers, including a 17-year-old who pleaded guilty to arson not endangering life, in connection with an attempted firebombing at the Kenton United Synagogue in northwest London. The incident occurred overnight on Saturday, causing minor smoke damage to a
Alec Baldwin will face a civil trial over the fatal shooting on the set of his film Rust , after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that a lawsuit could proceed to trial. The lawsuit, filed by Serge Svetnoy, who worked as the lighting technician on the film, alleges that Baldwin was negligent
Seven people were killed, including one hostage, and at least 14 others injured in a mass shooting in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district on April 18. The suspect, identified as a Russian-born man with ties to the Donetsk region, took hostages inside a convenience store before being shot by police. The att
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Three individuals were sentenced this week for their roles in an elaborate insurance fraud scheme involving fake bear attacks on luxury cars. Alfiya Zuckerman, Ruben Tamrazian, and Vahe Muradkhanyan pleaded no contest to felony insurance fraud and were each sentenced to 180 days in jail with supervi
Tyler Robert Buchanan, a 24-year-old man from Dundee, Scotland, pleaded guilty in federal court to orchestrating a hacking scheme that stole $8 million in virtual currency from victims across the United States. According to multiple reports, Buchanan appeared in the Central District of California's
A fourth suspect has been charged in connection with an arson attack that destroyed four Jewish community ambulances in north-west London last month. Judex Atshatshi, 18, from Dagenham, east London, was remanded in custody after appearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday. He is charged
Daniel Kinahan, alleged leader of the Kinahan organized crime group , was arrested in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday. According to multiple reports, the arrest followed a warrant issued by Irish courts for alleged serious organized crime offenses. The gardai (Irish police) confirmed they were
Dr. Cerina Fairfax , a 49-year-old dentist, and her estranged husband, former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide at their home in Annandale, Virginia early Thursday morning. Police responded to a 911 call from the couple's 16-year-old son and discovered C
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