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A mom was arrested after she got so plastered and belligerent on an international flight that she punched and bit a flight attendant, a court in the UK has heard.
Former Philadelphia Eagles defensive lineman Kevin Johnson was killed inside a homeless encampment earlier this year in a gruesome and horrific manner, officials revealed.
One of the country’s most buzzy murder cases of the decade has resurfaced.
The Philippine Senate was locked down with military personnel seen entering the building where a senator wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) had sought refuge.
When Palestinian-Syrian journalist Qusai Amameh published a report on the redevelopment of Damascus’ Mount Qasioun - a project involving plans for a five-star hotel and luxury commercial complex overlooking the capital - he expected debate over corruption, transparency, and reconstruction priorities.
A man involved in the overdose death of Friends star Matthew Perry has been sentenced to two years in prison, US media report.
A creep who tried to rape a Central Park sunbather was slapped with a 13-year prison sentence Wednesday as the resilient victim recalled how the attack tore her “from spaces in the city I used to love.”
Erik Fleming was sentenced in Los Angeles court after previously pleading guilty over the Friends actor’s 2023 death
The drug addiction counselor who delivered fatal doses of ketamine to actor Matthew Perry was sentenced to two years in prison Wednesday over the beloved “Friends” star’s death.
The Metropolitan Police has warned that it is preparing for potential violence and hate speech crimes across two protests in London this Saturday.
A disgraced former Brooklyn Supreme Court justice and a shady real estate developer scammed investors in a $6.5 million scheme and pocketed nearly all the cash, federal prosecutors claim.
A Florida Highway Patrol car guards the entrance to the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center Monday, May 11, 2026, in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
At least a dozen gunshots rang out inside the Philippine Senate building in Manila earlier on Wednesday as police and marines moved to arrest Senator Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa on an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged crimes against humanity linked to former President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal war on drugs…
Utah children’s book author Kouri Richins pulled incredulous faces as her relatives – including her young sons – begged a judge at her sentencing to keep her locked up for the rest of her life for fatally poisoning husband Eric Richins.
Alex Murdaugh, convicted of killing his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, in June 2021, listens during a hearing on the motion for a retrial, Jan. 16, 2024, at the Richland County Judicial Center in Columbia, S.C. (Gavin McIntyre/The Post and Courier via AP, Pool, File)
The state Supreme Court in South Carolina has overturned the murder conviction against lawyer Alex Murdaugh, whose case has become a source of public fascination in the United States.
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Providence forward Duncan Powell (31) defends against St. John during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Jan. 3, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File)
French prosecutors have requested a seven‑year prison sentence for former president Nicolas Sarkozy in his appeal trial over allegations that his 2007 presidential campaign received illegal funding from Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya — a case that has become one of the most explosive political‑financial scandals of France’…
NYU Langone Health has been slapped with a federal grand jury subpoena from the Justice Department, which is attempting to collect information about the extent of the hospital network’s involvement in providing transgender surgeries for minor patients since 2020.
FILE- Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the appeals courthouse in Paris, France, Monday, March 16, 2026, for his trial over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
Rwanda's former first lady Agathe Habyarimana will appeal last week's court ruling that overturned a 2025 decision to dismiss an investigation into her role in the 1994 genocide.
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Patriots rookie Quintayvious Hutchins was arraigned Wednesday morning in Newton District Court (Mass.) on charges of assault and battery on a family/household member, per court documents cited by masslive.com.
Billionaire Stephen Cloobeck’s arrest is in relation to his Penthouse Pet fiancée, the California Post can confirm.
Authorities in Minnesota have filed criminal charges against a man accused of a food stamp fraud scheme that defrauded taxpayers out of over $1 million.
NEW YORK (AP) — Decades after the last “Godfather” movie and more than 10 years since the last “Godfather” novel, the story of the Corleone crime family has a new chapter, presented for the first time from a woman’s point of view.
Members from the National Guard working as part of the Memphis Safe Task Force conduct a community safety patrol at Tom Lee Park, Oct. 12, 2025, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)
A SOCO team arrives at the Senate. A PNP officer said they were called to investigate the "crime scene." He did not elaborate.
Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions were sensationally overturned by the South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday — but he will not be released from prison any time soon.
Kouri Richins was convicted for lacing her husband’s cocktail with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl
Neighbours have described a man who died after a police shooting as "harmless" and "polite".
Former Ukrainian president’s chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, right, is seen during a court hearing in a city court room in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)
LAPU-LAPU CITY — As security forces flooded Cebu for the 48th Asean Leaders’ Summit, the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) arrested 351 individuals during a weeklong anti-criminality campaign that started on May 3.
President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday again pressed for negotiations toward an agreed resolution in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s criminal trial, saying that Israel’s deepest internal crises should, where possible, be handled through dialogue rather than further rupture.
The families and lawyers of five pro-Palestine activist defendants facing trial in a German court have denounced the proceedings as a “sham trial” and called for the recusal of the presiding judge.
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Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, in New York. (Steven Hirsch /New York Post via AP, Pool)
Gunshots rang out at the Philippine Senate on Wednesday as security forces entered the building where a politician wanted by the International Criminal Court was taking refuge.
He is in an appeal trial on charges that he sought Libyan financing for his 2007 election
He is in an appeal trial on charges that he sought Libyan financing for his 2007 election
Prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi in a hospital in Tehran, Iran on May 10, 2026. (Narges Foundation Archive via AP)
Russia’s Interior Ministry has issued an arrest warrant for former British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace on charges of “justifying terrorism,” the exiled news outlet Mediazona reported Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON— Vice President JD Vance is preparing to announce an ultimatum threatening to withhold federal reimbursement of Medicaid expenses to all 50 states if they fail to comply with anti-fraud safeguards.
One of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims testified that she was raped by the late sex offender when he was under house arrest in Florida after dodging prison time for prior sex crimes.
A burst of gunfire rang out Wednesday night in the Philippine Senate, where authorities have tried to arrest a senator who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for a charge of crime against humanity, an Associated Press journalist and other witnesses said.
Rihanna had to shove her husband A$AP Rocky to the floor after shots were fired at her home in March, bombshell new court documents reveal.
The Beersheba District Court sentenced 31-year-old Beersheba resident Eliran Tzur to five years in prison after he admitted and was convicted, as part of a plea agreement, of a series of sexual offenses against 16 minors whom he contacted through WhatsApp groups.