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Around 490 alleged members of the powerful Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), including several alleged leaders, went on trial collectively in El Salvador Monday, accused of thousands of murders.
SHREVEPORT, Louisiana — A stunned Louisiana city struggled to come to grips Monday with the massacre of eight children carried out by a father who was separating from his wife and used an assault-style weapon despite a 2019 felony firearms conviction.
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Satou Sabally and Sabrina Ionescu sat shoulder to shoulder in the hallway outside the Liberty’s practice court in the depths of Barclays Center.
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Sheriff’s deputies on Monday captured the man suspected of placing his penis on the face of a Whole Foods Market shopper in a twisted sexual assault caught on horrifying in-store video.
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Right-wing activists disrupted several joint Israeli-Palestinian ceremonies across the country on Monday's Remembrance Day, with people shouting and playing music outside the places where the ceremonies were being held.
Hungary's incoming prime minister Peter Magyar said Monday the country will execute International Criminal Court warrants against anyone, after inviting Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu — who is wanted under such a warrant — to Budapest later this year.
Clashes between union members and police continued late into Monday night after a truck struck protesters at a logistics center in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, killing one worker.
The Onion is seeking to take temporary control of Alex Jones’ Infowars and transform it into what its executives describe as a parody version of the conspiracy platform itself, under a new court-backed proposal tied to the broadcaster’s Sandy Hook defamation liabilities.
A disgraced high school teacher is on trial in the UK for allegedly repeatedly sexually and physically abusing a 13-month-old he was in the process of adopting before smothering the baby to death.
An Israeli drone strike targeting a police post northwest of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip killed two people, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.
Singer D4vd has been charged with the murder of a 14-year-old girl who authorities say was found dismembered in his Tesla last year. Los Angeles prosecutors said the 21-year-old singer whose legal name is David Burke was charged with first-degree murder. (AP Video: Eugene Garcia)
SEOUL, April 21 (Yonhap) -- More than 50 clinical trials were approved in the first quarter of this year, with over 80 percent led by overseas entities, data showed Tuesday.
Two teenagers were killed in a shooting on Monday morning in North Carolina, the police said, and five other teenagers were hurt. They had gathered at a community park to witness or participate in a fight that the authorities said was “pre-planned.”
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Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge, June 14, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Rapper D4vd’ charged with murder of 14-year-old girl
YouTubers have filmed inside the converted shipping container where fugitive gunman Dezi Freeman hid from police.
Unchecked police: Nonreferral without prosecutorial checks allows delays, cover-ups, vanishing cases
A fired staffer of former Mayor Eric Adams has rejoined city government — while also continuing to sue the city for alleged discrimination in his termination two years prior.
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Patrick Kolasinski, an immigration attorney representing Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, a man shot during an arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, talks to reporters Tuesday, April 14, 2026, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sophie Austin)
Singer D4vd, who is accused of murdering 14-year-old Celeste Rivas, remained silent while he mostly hid behind his team of lawyers as he pled to charges in the teen girl’s slaying.
Inside the rotunda at Donald Trump’s second inauguration the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, went down the line shaking hands with each tech billionaire who showed up to kiss the ring — all except Elon Musk.
SAURIMO, Angola — Pope Leo XIV condemned exploitation and corruption by the rich and powerful during a visit Monday to Angola's diamond-rich but impoverished northeast, returning to a theme of his 11-day tour of Africa.
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Four people have been arrested after eggs and beer cans were thrown during a protest in a Surrey town where police are investigating a reported rape.
FBI Director Kash Patel has filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and its reporter, Sarah Fitzpatrick, following the publication of an article on Friday alleging the director had a drinking problem that could pose a threat to United States national security.
Woolworths is facing court after Coles made its defence against the allegations earlier this year. Source: AAP / Joel Carrett
California state treasurer Fiona Ma took thousands in campaign donations from the founder of a Chinese boarding school at the center of a bombshell fraud probe — and reportedly promised to hook up the children of Chinese elites with jobs and internships during a secret visit in 2023.
A 51-year-old man arrested for fare evasion died of apparent drug withdrawal at a Brooklyn hospital Sunday – marking the second police-custody death in a week, cops and sources said.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — U.S. authorities “got the wrong man” when they charged an alleged Islamic State militant in a deadly suicide bombing at a Kabul airport during the American military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, a defense attorney said Monday at the start of the man’s trial in Virginia.
WASHINGTON — ActBlue employees invoked their Fifth Amendment right at least 146 times in depositions with congressional committees investigating alleged donor fraud on the fundraising platform, according to an explosive report released Monday.
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Rapper, jailed over Megan Thee Stallion shooting, alleges he was ‘knowingly’ housed with prisoner with violent history
Former Hawaii Gov. George Ariyoshi, left, and and Princess Abigail Kawananakoa, center, arrive before oral arguments at the Hawaii State Supreme Court in Honolulu, Aug. 27, 2015. (Craig T. Kojima/Honolulu Star-Advertiser via AP, Pool, File)
California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks at the 2026 California Democratic Party State Convention, Feb. 21, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
The Colombo Crime Division (CCD) informed Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama yesterday (20) that the suspect named Ishara Sewwandi, who was arrested and detained for questioning in connection with the assassination of Sanjeewa Kumara Samararatne, alias ‘Ganemulle Sanjeeva’, will be detained for a further …
Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodharagama yesterday (20) ordered the release of former Minister Piyasena Gamage on bail. The former Minister had been arrested by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) on suspicion of corruption and produced before in Court.
Washington: FBI director Kash Patel is suing The Atlantic magazine over an explosive article that portrayed him as “missing in action” and a problem drinker whose behaviour has alarmed those around him at the nation’s top crime-fighting agency.
Two foreign social media journalists who were trying to smuggle Kush worth Rs. 64 million into the country were arrested by a group of officers of the Katunayake Airport Police Narcotics Bureau in the early hours of yesterday.
Criminals paid on behalf of Iran are believed to be behind attacks against Jewish targets, say detectives
The Los Angeles courthouse where singer D4vd is set to be arraigned Monday afternoon was hit with a bomb threat, forcing authorities to evacuate the building.
Advocates expressed alarm as new project drills deeper into ocean bed, pointing to company’s failures at Deepwater Horizon spill
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Late mob boss John Gotti’s reality-TV-star grandson was sentenced Monday to 15 months in prison for pocketing $1.1 million in loans from a federal program meant to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Police in Salzburg said one of the 6 injured was the bus driver, who they were hoping to question