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An Israeli court on Monday extended the detention of six men connected with attacks on foreigners in the occupied West Bank to between three and four days. The ruling came hours after Israeli police released footage of a rare raid on…
2026-10-19 · 6 MIN READA young man faces imminent execution in Saudi Arabia for attending protests and funerals when he was aged 15 to 17, human rights groups say, after the kingdom's supreme court reportedly upheld his death sentence. Youssef al-Manasif was…
2026-10-16 · 4 MIN READThe Associated Press, citing a law enforcement official briefed on the shooting who spoke on the condition of anonymity, reported Friday that the 16-year-old who opened fire at Silver Rail elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday…
2026-10-16 · 3 MIN READThe State Law Enforcement Division on Wednesday charged Patrick Bryant, the former fiance of Nancy Mace, along with John Douglas Osborne and Eric Bernard Bowman, with sex crimes and voyeurism over an October 2018 assault that Mace…
2026-10-14 · 4 MIN READU.S. Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch called out a ‘constitutional absurdity’ in the case of Jesus Herrera-Salazar, a Mexican immigrant twice prosecuted for being ‘found in’ the United States. The court declined on…
2026-10-13 · 4 MIN READFederal prosecutors announced Sunday the arrest of Alvaro Pulido Vargas, a 62-year-old Colombian national with ties to jailed former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, on accusations of participating in multibillion-dollar bribery and…
2026-10-12 · 4 MIN READWestern officials are weighing whether to warn publicly that Iran now has US military targets in Europe on its mind, including the air force base at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, The Guardian reported in an analysis published Sunday. A…
2026-10-11 · 5 MIN READPresident Donald Trump said Saturday he is still deciding whether to livestream the Dec. 3 execution of former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, the first military firing-squad execution since 1945. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday the…
2026-10-10 · 3 MIN READThe woman known as Jane Doe in the Cornell seven case is receiving threats from people who have discovered her identity, according to her attorney, Thomas Giuffra. In a column published Oct. 10, Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi wrote that…
2026-10-10 · 4 MIN READA Philadelphia police officer was fatally shot and a second officer was wounded early Saturday in West Philadelphia after officers responded to a report of a man with a gun, authorities said. Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel identified the…
2026-10-10 · 3 MIN READThe Tennessee Department of Correction said it followed established protocol and that the drug used in the attempt to execute Christa Pike has been effective. Pike, 50, was discharged from the hospital and returned to Debra K. Johnson…
2026-10-10 · 5 MIN READThe United Kingdom, the United Nations, religious leaders and members of both US political parties have condemned the Pentagon's plan to livestream the December 3 firing-squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist…
2026-10-09 · 3 MIN READFormer House Speaker Dennis Hastert was sentenced in 2016 to 15 months in federal prison for evading banking laws in a hush-money scheme prosecutors tied to the alleged sexual abuse of teenage wrestlers he had coached in Yorkville,…
2026-10-05 · 4 MIN READGuardian Australia columnist Paul Daley condemned the Trump administration's plan to livestream the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan and called on Australian political leaders to condemn the move. Daley wrote in The Guardian that the…
2026-10-09 · 4 MIN READ
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told EU lawmakers on Tuesday that exporters would get an extra year to comply with incoming European Union methane-emission rules, citing high fuel costs, according to the Wall Street…
2026-10-07 · 4 MIN READTennessee's attempt to execute Christa Pike last week left the 50-year-old on a ventilator in a hospital, marking what legal experts describe as the first time a U.S. prisoner has survived two doses of a state's lethal-injection drugs. Her…
2026-10-06 · 3 MIN READA federal judge on Tuesday approved a plea agreement requiring David Rush, 49, a former CIA official, to pay nearly $200 million in restitution and forfeit luxury real estate, cars, watches and other assets after he pleaded guilty to wire…
2026-10-06 · 4 MIN READThe Pentagon criticised the release of all six suspects in the alleged RAF Fairford terror-plot investigation on bail, The Guardian reported. The newspaper examined the criticism and the U.S. withdrawal of B-1 bombers from the base on its…
2026-10-05 · 3 MIN READFederal officials have charged John Anthony Proia III, 41, of Massachusetts, with a single count of cyberstalking for allegedly harassing Katie Miller, the wife of White House aide Stephen Miller. The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force…
2026-10-02 · 3 MIN READBrazil holds the first round of presidential elections Sunday with Flávio Bolsonaro, son of jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro, carrying genuine hopes of victory, according to Tom Phillips, The Guardian's Latin America correspondent.…
2026-10-02 · 3 MIN READJagtar Singh Johal, a 39-year-old Scottish Sikh activist, was released from an Indian prison on Thursday after nearly nine years of detention without a conviction, according to United Press International. The release followed a Sept. 18…
2026-10-01 · 3 MIN READChrista Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, was reportedly still alive Wednesday night after receiving two injections, each of which were expected to be lethal, according to her lawyers and media witnesses, who said the…
2026-10-01 · 4 MIN READJudge William Sullivan on Thursday denied a defense motion to declare Lindsay Clancy not guilty of murder, ruling that prosecutors presented adequate evidence for a jury to decide the case. The ruling came nearly a month after Clancy's…
2026-10-01 · 4 MIN READA woman who has accused several men of raping her at Cornell University in 2024 was failed by the school's health system, her lawyer said. Jane Doe, as she is known in court filings, said she told a university doctor two days after the…
2026-10-01 · 5 MIN READNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday announced the city's first-ever municipal strategy to address antisemitism, a 33-page plan that expands security measures for synagogues and increases the focus on Jewish history in public…
2026-10-01 · 4 MIN READJournalists who witnessed the attempted execution of Christa Pike, a Tennessee woman on death row, reported she said her arm felt like it was about to "burst open" and smiled "really big" during the procedure. The state had not attempted…
2026-10-01 · 3 MIN READVista Grande Villa, a Michigan memory care facility, asked Marjorie Tingley's five sons in December 2024 for permission to sedate the 85-year-old Alzheimer's patient with antipsychotic medications after Vista Grande behavior logs recorded…
2026-09-30 · 7 MIN READFive British nationals arrested on suspicion of a terrorist plot near RAF Fairford were released on bail yesterday, a decision that US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed concern and surprise over. UK Labour…
2026-09-29 · 3 MIN READThe U.N. Security Council voted 12-0 with three abstentions Tuesday to extend the mandate of the Gang Suppression Force in Haiti through March 31, 2027. The U.S.- and Panama-sponsored resolution keeps the mission operating as Haiti…
2026-09-29 · 3 MIN READIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited the presidents of Paraguay, Panama and Bolivia to join a U.S.-backed initiative urging member countries to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, raising the proposal during a…
2026-09-28 · 3 MIN READUK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday that Britain "will not tolerate intimidation, threats or hostile activity on UK soil," the Foreign…
2026-09-25 · 4 MIN READA federal grand jury has indicted a former U.S. Postal Service worker from Payson, Utah, on charges he allegedly discarded about 300 mail-in ballots ahead of the state's June 23 primary election. The Justice Department unsealed the…
2026-09-22 · 4 MIN READPresident Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met for one hour at Gracie Mansion on Monday in their third sit-down. The two discussed the New York Police Department, housing construction, and immigration enforcement while…
2026-09-21 · 3 MIN READArbitration documents released Thursday by the family of Emily Normandin-Parker, 23, name Luna Moore as the friend riding with her that night. The documents also identify the 73 freeway in Orange County as the location where…
2026-09-18 · 3 MIN READAustralia's federal government announced plans Thursday to reopen immigration detention centres for people whose visas have lapsed, hiring 100 new compliance officers and freeing 250 additional beds. Greens Senator David Shoebridge called…
2026-09-18 · 4 MIN READMohammad Sharifullah, 28, was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in federal prison for providing material support to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), the affiliate that took credit for the 26 August 2021 suicide bombing at Kabul's…
2026-09-17 · 4 MIN READUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained veteran Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano in Florida on Monday morning shortly after he began his second job driving Lyft, according to his wife, Daykel Santamaría. As of Wednesday,…
2026-09-16 · 3 MIN READA Russian oligarch with longstanding ties to Vladimir Putin paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Donald Trump Jr's wedding to Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson in the Bahamas in May, according to a ProPublica investigation…
2026-09-14 · 3 MIN READUmar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin and head of the International Boxing Association, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for expenses at Donald Trump Jr.'s three-day Bahamas wedding in May, according to…
2026-09-14 · 4 MIN READAlaska prosecutors are dropping voter-misconduct cases against 11 American Samoan residents who checked the "US citizen" box on voter registration forms, the state's Department of Law announced Friday, after a state appeals court ruled a…
2026-09-13 · 4 MIN READA San Jose police officer was fired for using the department's Flock license plate tracking system to share a woman's location with the suspect in a domestic abuse case — identified by the San Jose Mercury News as his cousin — Police Chief…
2026-09-13 · 3 MIN READSix Nigerian nationals alleged to belong to the Black Axe organized crime network arrived in the United States on Friday after being extradited from South Africa, where they had been held since their 2021 arrest in Cape Town. South African…
2026-09-12 · 3 MIN READMaryland political leaders are calling for investigations after video showed federal immigration officers using batons on protesters and driving vehicles on sidewalks toward people during a two-day operation in Frederick that drew an…
2026-09-12 · 3 MIN READThe Brookwood Church in Simpsonville, South Carolina, a Southern Baptist congregation of about 5,000, has disqualified registered sex offender Jerry Sidell from all participation, ending a tenure in the church's ministry that began when he…
2026-09-12 · 4 MIN READVicky Kyung Mi Kim, 65, has been arrested on suspicion of murder after allegedly fatally wounding her husband with a flagpole at the couple's Palm Desert home on September 4, according to SF Gate. Her bail was set at $10 million, according…
2026-09-12 · 3 MIN READJackson, Mississippi police arrested Jacques Ratliff on Friday in connection with the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree behind a vacant house last month. The state medical examiner's office ruled…
2026-09-12 · 3 MIN READThe Central Intelligence Agency on September 11, 2026 released 71 intelligence documents commemorating the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, including previously secret warnings about Osama bin Laden that were delivered…
2026-09-11 · 3 MIN READNew South Wales police have settled a civil trespass lawsuit brought by two Aboriginal mothers whose children were the subject of repeated bail compliance checks, with officers visiting one of the homes more than 150 times over 20 months —…
2026-09-11 · 4 MIN READFormer Carlton Football Club president Luke Sayers has apologized "unreservedly" to his former wife Cate Sayers in the Victorian Supreme Court as her defamation case against him over an alleged lewd-photo posting settled on Friday. Justice…
2026-09-11 · 3 MIN READThe company hired to renovate the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool acknowledged in internal documents that "human oversight" and flaws in the repair plan caused the pool's newly installed blue liner to peel and tear, the Guardian reported…
2026-09-11 · 5 MIN READDavid Rush, the Central Intelligence Agency official accused of stealing $40 million in gold bars from a covert program, has reached a tentative plea agreement with federal prosecutors that would resolve the case before he is formally…
2026-09-11 · 4 MIN READA blockchain-forensics firm has identified 19 connected accounts on the prediction-market platform Polymarket that placed near-perfect bets on the quarterly earnings of companies audited by KPMG, according to an analysis reported by The…
2026-09-11 · 4 MIN READDaniel Owen Conahan Jr, 72, was scheduled for execution by lethal injection in Florida on Thursday for the 1996 kidnapping and strangling of Richard Allen Montgomery. A final appeal remained pending before the US Supreme Court after the…
2026-09-10 · 3 MIN READThe Justice Department made findings public Wednesday accusing UC Berkeley School of Law of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by discriminating against White and Asian applicants in its 2024 and 2025 admissions cycles. UC Berkeley…
2026-09-10 · 3 MIN READSecretary of State Marco Rubio said in Quito that the Trump administration is prioritizing cooperation with allied countries against drug trafficking in Latin American waters while retaining the option of unilateral military strikes. Late…
2026-09-10 · 4 MIN READSixteen former University of Michigan men's ice hockey players sued the university Wednesday in federal court in Detroit, alleging their coach Red Berenson and other staff were aware of decades of sexual hazing by teammates — including…
2026-09-10 · 3 MIN READRyanair chief executive Michael O'Leary said Thursday that the airline will dispute claims that any part of passenger Ljubisa Karović's body was sucked outside when a window shattered during a July flight from Greece to Germany. Karović's…
2026-09-10 · 4 MIN READBritish authorities have until Sept. 16 to file a formal request to extradite Andrew and Tristan Tate, who face 59 criminal charges including rape, human trafficking and sexual exploitation. The deadline falls 60 days after the brothers…
2026-09-10 · 3 MIN READA Hong Kong court convicted Dow Jones Publishing, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, of deterring reporter Selina Cheng from exercising trade union rights but acquitted the company of dismissing or discriminating against her…
2026-09-10 · 3 MIN READA federal magistrate in Miami denied bail Wednesday to social-media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate as the brothers fight potential extradition to the U.K. on charges of rape and sex trafficking. U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis…
2026-09-09 · 3 MIN READSpringfield, Ohio, police are investigating as a possible suicide the death of Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old Haitian college student who walked into Interstate-70 traffic on Monday morning while wearing an electronic ankle bracelet…
2026-09-09 · 6 MIN READUCLA's Safeguarding Democracy Project released a guide on Wednesday advising judges how to evaluate search warrant requests for ballots and election materials, as voting officials and legal groups prepare for the possibility that federal…
2026-09-09 · 4 MIN READHuawei Technologies, the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker, faces a criminal racketeering trial in New York beginning Tuesday with jury selection. The indictment charges Huawei and some subsidiaries with stealing technology,…
2026-09-08 · 3 MIN READGuy Campanile, the former managing editor of 60 Minutes who was fired in May with several other top correspondents, said in a private Facebook post obtained by The Guardian on Tuesday that he and his colleagues were dismissed because they…
2026-09-08 · 3 MIN READFormer Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is scheduled to appear remotely in a State College, Pennsylvania, courtroom Tuesday for a hearing on an accuser's bid to recant his testimony in the 2012 sexual-abuse case against…
2026-09-08 · 3 MIN READJeriah Mast, 45, of Millersburg, Ohio, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Cleveland to federal charges that he sexually abused two boys in Haiti, reaching an agreement with prosecutors that could send him to prison for at least 25…
2026-09-08 · 3 MIN READAlamosa County District Judge Amanda Hopkins on Tuesday raised bond to $10 million for Barry Morphew, charged with killing his wife, after prosecutors argued that an Aug. 26 crash in Denver showed he was a flight risk. Morphew, who had…
2026-09-08 · 3 MIN READA 109-page audit released Wednesday by Illinois Auditor General Christopher Meister found that the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has made progress but still fails to comply with Ta'Naja's Law nearly six years after…
2026-09-08 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Justice Department is issuing new grand jury subpoenas in a Florida-based investigation that aims to establish an alleged conspiracy against President Donald Trump by members of the U.S. intelligence community, according to…
2026-09-08 · 3 MIN READThe Guardian reported that it reviewed a dozen previously unreported US law enforcement memos showing police agencies are increasingly concerned that Meta's camera-equipped smart glasses could be used to covertly record officers or to aid…
2026-09-08 · 3 MIN READA small plane carrying four family members en route from the Bahamas to Florida went missing on Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard and authorities in the Bahamas said. The aircraft departed Great Harbour Cay and was heading to Miami Executive…
2026-09-08 · 3 MIN READCorey Lewandowski, the longtime Trump adviser who served at the Department of Homeland Security last year, allegedly pitched government services to Qatari and U.A.E. officials for personal gain, according to people familiar with the…
2026-09-08 · 4 MIN READA Mooney M20F four-seater propeller plane crashed near Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville, Florida, on Monday, the National Transportation Safety Board said. Video of the incident showed a fiery crash on a road that Titusville…
2026-09-07 · 3 MIN READCorie Walsh, 40, faces three counts of first-degree murder in the Sept. 1 death of her 2-year-old son, Barrett, who was found in the basement of the family's suburban Chicago home, according to prosecutors.
2026-09-07 · 3 MIN READMalone Lam, a 22-year-old from Singapore, has a plea agreement hearing set for Tuesday in federal court over the alleged theft of bitcoin worth more than $240 million from a Washington, D.C., resident. Lam, an eighth-grade dropout, faces…
2026-09-07 · 3 MIN READThe murder trial of Lindsay Clancy ended in a mistrial after a jury deadlocked 11-1, with the majority favoring a finding that she could not be held legally responsible under a postpartum-psychosis defense, according to a Guardian opinion…
2026-09-07 · 4 MIN READFour House Democrats on Friday demanded that DHS turn over records to local prosecutors investigating the February death of Rohingya refugee Nurul Amin Shah Alam, whose body was found in Buffalo after border patrol agents left him outside…
2026-09-04 · 5 MIN READU.S. District Judge David A. Bragdon ruled Friday that former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema can be sued in North Carolina under the state's alienation-of-affection law over her romantic relationship with a member of her security detail,…
2026-09-04 · 3 MIN READFive immigration attorneys told NPR that immigrants scheduled to appear in coming months at courts in Maryland and Virginia are being notified within days — or not at all — about new in-person hearings at undisclosed buildings in…
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