Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents alongside other law enforcement officers work the scene near MacArthur Park after federal authorities made arrests on charges related to selling illicit drugs on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
The suspect who allegedly opened fire in downtown DC Tuesday — as Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade was set to roll through — uttered “f–k the White House” on his way to the hospital, officials revealed as they unmasked the shooter.
An acupuncturist mother accused of killing her two young children at her Massachusetts home and fleeing to Vermont broke down in sobs as she was ordered held without bail.
A local Chinatown community leader ran a secret Chinese spy outpost out of a nondescript Manhattan office building — helping his communist handlers track a pro-democracy dissident, prosecutors charged Wednesday.
Federal agents from the FBI executed court-authorized search warrants Wednesday morning at the Portsmouth legislative office of longtime Democratic Virginia State Sen. L. Louise Lucas and at an adjacent cannabis retail business she co-owns, as part of an ongoing federal corruption probe tied to marijuana dispensary …
A seasoned fashion journalist and her elderly mother were among the three people who were killed when an inferno ripped through their Upper Manhattan apartment building on Monday, officials said.
NEW YORK (AP) — A 28-year-old woman impersonated a student at a New York City high school for two weeks until educators became suspicious and police arrested her, according to a criminal complaint.
Pakistani journalist and YouTuber Muhammad Saad bin Riaz has been sent to jail on judicial remand in Lahore after counterterrorism authorities accused him of promoting al-Qaida and possessing banned material, allegations his family, colleagues, and some analysts strongly dispute.
E. Jean Carroll exits the New York Federal Court after former President Donald Trump appeared in court, Sept. 6, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)
Athena Strand’s mother wore all black as the 7-year-old’s heartless killer was sentenced to death — one of the rare times during the disturbing case that she didn’t wear pink, her late daughter’s favorite color.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva delivers his speech during the Global Progressive Mobilization summit in Barcelona, Spain, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort, File)
Childcare workers in Wales have been told to call police on children as young as three if they are suspected of “racist” behavior, according to a new official guidance backed by the Labour government.
Childcare workers in Wales have been told to call police on children as young as three if they are suspected of “racist” behavior, according to a new official guidance backed by the Labour government.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Venezuela insisted Wednesday that a disputed mineral-rich region of Guyana was fraudulently taken in a 19th-century example of colonialism, arguing that a 1966 agreement and not the United Nations' highest court should finalize ownership of the territory.
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — Police announced Wednesday that an 18-year-old man has been arrested in a shooting that left one woman dead and 22 other people wounded last weekend during a nighttime party beside an Oklahoma lake.
The Mississippi Court of Appeals has reversed a judge’s ruling that Rankin County deputies bore no blame for the 2021 death of Damien Cameron after witnesses said one deputy sat on Cameron’s back while another kneeled on his neck.
Disney and director James Cameron have been sued in California federal court by an actor who alleges Cameron misused her likeness as the basis for the character Neytiri from the blockbuster “Avatar” films.
Fort Magistrate Pasan Amarasena yesterday (06) ordered the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) to immediately investigate and file a report in Court regarding the misdirection of nearly US$ 600,000, which the Postal Department had intended to pay the United States Postal Service, but has instead been …
The Supreme Court (SC) five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Preethi Padman Surasena yesterday decided to dismiss appeal petitions filed by four convicts who were sentenced to death for the abduction, gang rape, and murder of 18-year-old schoolgirl Sivaloganathan Vidya in Punguduthivu.
A case filed against former Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody for allegedly causing a loss of over Rs. 8.8 million to the Government by misappropriating funds belonging to Ceylon Fertilizer Company while serving as its Procurement Manager in 2016, was yesterday fixed for trial on June 17 by the Colombo High Court.
The Supreme Court yesterday ordered the Wildlife Conservation Director General to launch a re-plantation programme to restore forest areas cleared near the Nakolagane Purana Raja Maha Viharaya.
While working for the State Department, he delivered top secret information to his Cuban handlers for 30 years. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
In a new wave of attacks in Mali, an al-Qaeda-linked group has stormed a main prison housing fighters from the armed group and set fire to trucks with food supplies heading to the capital Bamako.
Bahrain’s interior ministry said authorities have arrested an unspecified number of people alleged to have “close links” to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, with some facing espionage-related accusations.
An 18-year-old man was charged with shooting at two Toronto-area synagogues in March; the Toronto Police Service and York Regional Police announced on Wednesday.
Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama ordered the Human Trafficking and Maritime Crime Investigation Division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to immediately investigate and submit a report to the Court regarding Immigration and Emigration Department officials involved in preparing and approvin…
It was revealed before the Colombo High Court that former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka was the driver of the vehicle that caused an accident that seriously injured a youth named Sandeep Sampath, in Rajagiriya in 2016.
Former Appeal Court President Justice Mohamed Lafar Thahir who was appointed Consul General of Saudi Arabia was felicitated at the Al Mubarak Muslim National School in Malwana on Saturday.
Custodial deaths are increasingly becoming the norm in this country. Yet another death of an inmate at the Welikada Prison has been reported in the media the other day. This follows the death of an inmate hardly two weeks ago while also in custody. Three suspects have been taken into custody in this connection. Hard…
An individual posing off as a doctor allegedly defrauded individuals of hundreds of thousands of rupees by promising them Government jobs in Australia, was arrested by a team of officers from the Polonnaruwa Divisional Criminal Investigation Division (PDCID) yesterday (06) morning in the Deepa Uyana area of Polonn…