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HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston city ordinance that limited police officers’ cooperation with federal immigration agents was amended on Wednesday after Texas’ governor threatened to take away millions of dollars in public safety grants.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An appeals court has blocked a California law passed in 2025 requiring federal immigration agents to wear a badge or some form of identification.
Vladimir Plahotniuc, a Moldovan oligarch, is escorted by police, after being extradited from Greece, at the Eugen Doga International Airport in Chisinau, Moldova, on Sept. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
State legislators are taking aim at California’s parole system after two high profile sex offenders were granted opportunities for release from prison last year.
Puka Nacua submitted an answer on Tuesday to the lawsuit that alleged he bit a woman on New Year’s Eve, and in the new court filing, the Rams star made some surprising allegations against his accuser, Madison Atiabi.
Israeli civilians called the Israel Police after locating a large missile fragment in an open area near Ramat Hasharon, central Israel, on Wednesday.
More than 200 people were arrested at Coachella over the two weekends of partying in the desert, cops have revealed.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Six people have been charged with plotting to steal at least 20 cars from the Washington, D.C., area and sell them to buyers in the United States and Ghana in West Africa, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.
Six people, including a retired major general and a serving police inspector, have pleaded not guilty to plotting a coup to overthrow Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu.
Four people have been arrested during a dawn raid on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud following an investigation into the government's botched home insulation scheme.
The US Justice Department has charged the anti-racist Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with wire fraud over its funneling of more than $3 million to white supremacist and extremist groups, including the organizers of the deadly ‘Unite the Right’ Charlottesville rally in 2017.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday that he’s trying to arrange a meeting with the family of slain 15-year-old Queens boy Jaden Pierre — after facing blowback over his silence on the teenager’s senseless shooting death.
MANILA, Philippines — Yeng Guiao knows one of these days, his league-leading Rain or Shine squad will encounter a bad, shooting night.
Wigmaker Miriam Yarimi — who claimed the “devil” was in her eyes after she fatally mowed down a mom and her two young daughters — is now blaming a “medical emergency” for the horrific Brooklyn crash.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appears for an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Vlad Plahotniuc, once Moldova's richest man, has been sentenced to 19 years in jail in a banking fraud case known in the country as the "theft of the century".
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has refused to release former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte, ruling that it has jurisdiction over his case despite his country’s withdrawal from the tribunal. The 81‑year‑old will remain in custody in The Hague.
DALLAS (AP) — Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools, a US appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more religion into classrooms.
Police catch woman, 28, climbing colossal 16th-century statue of Neptune to touch its genitals as a dare
Calvin Duncan is sworn in as Clerk of Criminal Court at Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in New Orleans, Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (Christiana Botic/Verite News and Catchlight Local/Report for America via AP)
The mother of three of the eight children massacred by deranged Army veteran dad Shamar Elkins in Louisiana still has a bullet lodged in her head and is struggling with her memory — sometimes believing her kids are still alive, according to a relative.
Application for judicial review seeks to quash coroner’s findings that missing watertight door on ferry was a deliberate design choice
Application for judicial review seeks to quash coroner’s findings that missing watertight door on ferry was a deliberate design choice
Palestine Action defendants facing charges in connection with a raid on an Israeli-owned factory wanted to “destroy as many weapons as possible” and “shut the site down”, an English court heard on Wednesday.
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The IDF conducted an operation in southern Lebanon before the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon came into effect, the military announced on Wednesday.
A middle school teacher in Netanya discovered that 8th-grade students had distributed an AI-generated pornographic video in which her face had been inserted.
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Celeste Rivas could have been as young as 12 when she allegedly began communicating D4vd, the 21-year-old pop star charged for her murder, prosecutors claimed Monday. Internet sleuths and former fans took a deep dive into possible online interactions between the two, with the first alleged clue surfacing in 2022.“Ce…
Black children are eight times more likely to be strip searched by police than their white peers in England and Wales, a new report by the Children's Commissioner says.
A six-month-old girl was found alone in a stroller at a busy intersection in the famed Manhattan sightseeing area
Families of those killed in a Chinook helicopter crash in Scotland more than 30 years ago have welcomed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's agreement to meet them.
Australian jockey kicks off late-season contract with victory on his third ride, booting home heavily-backed galloper at city circuit
Australian jockey kicks off late-season contract with victory on his third ride, booting home heavily-backed galloper at city circuit
Florida has launched a criminal probe into OpenAI and ChatGPT over a shooting spree at Florida State University, which the perpetrator planned with the help of the AI chatbot.
The Olympic Committee of Israel is once again honoring the memory of fallen soldier and swimmer Eden Nimri, who was killed in battle at the Nahal Oz outpost on October 7, by incorporating her handwritten script into its official logo as part of the “Ot Zikaron” memorial initiative.
The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Israel has released footage of the military destroying a home in southern Lebanon "in memory" of a soldier who was killed in fighting in the country.
The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Israel has released footage of the military destroying a home in southern Lebanon "in memory" of a soldier who was killed in fighting in the country.
Approximately 40 Israeli civilians gathered in the Golan Heights and attempted to sneak over the Syrian border, the IDF confirmed on Wednesday.
MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Imee Marcos expressed disappointed with the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) asserting jurisdiction over the case of former president Rodrigo Duterte.
TOKYO (AP) — A South Korean national holding a banner carrying political messages was arrested Wednesday for allegedly obstructing an annual spring festival at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, Japanese police said.
A sick California teen has been charged with the murder and sexual assault of his two-year-old cousin and foster brother.
MANILA, Philippines — The Sandiganbayan Seventh Division issued a precautionary Hold Departure Order (HDO) against former speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez.
Josh Duggar’s prison release date has been pushed back by over a month as he continues to fight to appeal his child pornography conviction.
An Emmy Award-winning photojournalist posed for a wild, bug-eyed mugshot as he was arrested for secretly filming people getting undressed at an Oklahoma TV station, according to police.
Algerian-French novelist Kamel Daoud holds his book Houris after being awarded with the Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)
It’s official: Elon Musk will not take a dime if he is successful in his upcoming court case against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman.
O Serviço Nacional de Investigação Criminal (Sernic) realizou a operação na noite de terça-feira (21.04), no seguimento do caso de três detidos, dois mexicanos e um moçambicano, com passagem por Portugal, suspeitos de integrarem o Cartel de Sinaloa, um dos maiores grupos de crime organizado do mundo, que alegadament…