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Court’s 6-3 decision is a major upheaval in US civil rights law and gives lawmakers permission to draw districting plans that weaken the influence of Black and other minority voters– key US politics stories from Wednesday 29 April at a glance
NSW Police should deploy the same security procedures for “high risk” Jewish festivals and events as used for Jewish High Holy days such as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the interim report from the royal commission into antisemitism has recommended.
Accused double killer Beau Lamarre-Condon's mother Coleen Lamarre will spend at least two weeks in custody as she awaits trial. (Supplied: Facebook)
The man accused of murdering a prominent California Institute of Technology astrophysicist showed little remorse for his alleged crime during a court appearance on Wednesday.
A grand jury on Wednesday indicted a Louisiana sheriff whose office came under investigation after 10 inmates broke out of a New Orleans jail in an audacious escape that happened on her watch.
Members of the public embraced outside the Christchurch High Court after the shooter was sentenced to life in prison in August 2020. Source: Getty / Kai Schwoerer
Community members clashed with police outside Alice Springs Hospital, where Jefferson Lewis was taken after being arrested. Source: AAP / Rhett Hammerton
On Monday, when Queens County Supreme Court Justice Michael Aloise sentenced the killer of NYPD Det. Jonathan Diller to 115 years to life in state prison, he made Diller’s wife Stephanie and son Ryan a solemn vow.
San Francisco Police are warning senior citizens in the Bay Area of jewelry robbery schemes after an elderly woman was viciously attacked and robbed in broad daylight of her necklace. The message from law enforcement follows the arrest of two suspects.
Rebel Wilson has returned for a third day in the Federal Court witness box as she defends a defamation case brought against her by a lead actor in her directorial debut.
A US government court filing on Wednesday raised questions about officials’ initial assertions that a gunman shot a Secret Service officer while allegedly attempting to assassinate US President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
The famed Dr. Martin Luther King once declared that he looked “to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
Hail to the Supreme Court for slapping down the obsessive use of race in drawing electoral lines — recognizing that it has nothing to do with boosting equality, but rather offends the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law.
New court document made public in case of singer charged with murder and sexual abuse of Celeste Rivas Hernandez
The Department of Justice seal is seen in Washington, Nov. 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Sheriff Susan Hutson speaks at a City Council meeting following the escape of 10 inmates from the Orleans Parish Justice Center, at City Hall in New Orleans, May 20, 2025. (Sophia Germer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File)
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the end of the German-Brazilian intergovernmental consultations at Herrenhausen Palace, in Hannover, northern Germany, Monday, April 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Ultra-Orthodox Jews have staged protests across Israel against military conscription, with police using stun grenades to disperse demonstrations in Jerusalem.
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A state Senators laptop displays a proposed Congressional Redistricting Plan during debate on SB 8-D, a redistricting bill, during a special session of the Florida Legislature, Wednesday, April 29, 2026, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
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Police have released bodycam footage showing officers detaining a suspect who allegedly stabbed two Jewish men on the streets of London on Wednesday.
Five-year-old Sharon has been missing for more than four days. (Supplied: NT Police Force)
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is seen following a media tour intended to show building damage, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Federal and state officials load evidence into a vehicle as they execute a search warrant at The Original Childcare Center in south Minneapolis, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (Ben Hovland/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
Court documents include these images of a selfie that Cole Tomas Allen took in his hotel room, according to prosecutors. (Supplied: US District Court for the District of Columbia)
Coverage of the Wang Fuk Court fire could affect most children, but how they display their feelings may differ depending on age, culture and other factors
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Disgusting new alleged details have emerged in laying out exactly how prosecutors were able to charge D4vd with the murder of Celeste Rivas.
The Metropolitan Police has released footage from the body-worn cameras of two responding officers who detained the man suspected of stabbing two people in Golders Green, north London.
In this courtroom sketch, David Anthony Burke, whose stage name is D4vd, is seen in court Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Los Angeles on charges of killing a 14-year-old girl whose dismembered body was found in his car. (Bill Robles via AP)
Two Jewish men have been stabbed in Golders Green, north London, in what has been declared a terrorist incident by police.
About 150 people protested close to where the stabbing happened in north London, following a spate of attacks targeting Jewish sites in the city. Source: Getty / Anadolu
Six California men have pleaded guilty to hurling fireworks, rocks and other flaming objects at California Highway Patrol officers during violent anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles last summer.
Elon Musk said he was a “fool” to trust Sam Altman with the future of OpenAI in his second day of testimony in the bombshell trial over the future of the artificial intelligence giant.
Newly released 911 dispatch audio reveals the moment police arrived to the scene after “Summer House” star West Wilson’s cousin allegedly shot their grandmother.
Vice President JD Vance criticized Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday for taking credit for the Trump administration’s sweeping fraud crackdown in the North Star State.
Two Jewish men have been stabbed in Golders Green, north London, an attack police have declared as a terrorist incident.
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A bombshell Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that struck down Louisiana’s congressional map and gutted the Voting Rights Act will have major ramifications for California’s gerrymandering fight over its own maps, multiple experts said in interviews with the California Post.
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An alleged Islamic State group militant from Afghanistan was convicted on Wednesday of aiding the terror organization that took credit for a deadly suicide bombing at a Kabul airport, but a jury couldn’t agree on whether he bears some responsibility for that attack during the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from …
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s bashing of migrants from “s—hole countries” and other fiery immigration rhetoric came back to haunt him during the Supreme Court’s oral arguments Wednesday.
Kemi Seba, right, gestures during an interview in Paris, June 28, 2006. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
OAKLAND, California — Elon Musk took the stand for the second day Wednesday in the landmark trial that pits the world's richest person against Sam Altman, a fellow OpenAI co-founder he accuses of betraying promises to keep the company as a nonprofit dedicated to humanity's benefit.
Authorities announced Wednesday that former Atlanta Hawks finance executive Lester T. Jones Jr. was sentenced to three years and five months in prison for embezzling approximately $3.7 million from the team through fraudulent expense reimbursement requests and misuse of corporate credit cards.
The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)