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A suspect who defrauded over one million rupees by creating a fake website that resembled the official website of a private bank has been arrested by the North Western Province Unit of the Computer Crime Investigation Division.
Anna Kepner’s 16-year-old stepbrother is set to dodge his court appearance Wednesday, letting his lawyers instead enter his plea of not guilty to charges he raped and killed her while they were on a cruise.
OpenAI is facing a criminal investigation in the US over whether its ChatGPT technology played a part in the murder of two people during a mass shooting at Florida State University last year.
Theresa Garcia, left, aunt of Stephen Martinez and Martinez’s attorney Jeanne Segil speak to members of the media at the Lindsey Flanigan Courthouse in Denver, Colo., on Tuesday, April Tuesday, 21, 2026. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via AP)
Alex Jones is vowing to wage war on a stunning court-backed deal that would hand control of his embattled media empire to satirical outlet The Onion — blasting the move as an attempt to “steal his identity” as the conspiracy king fights to keep his platform alive.
Russian police have raided the country’s top publishing house on suspicion that it has been disseminating “homosexual propaganda”, local media report.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier speaks during a news conference at Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth, Fla., Aug. 20, 2025. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, File)
The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
WASHINGTON — Iran's judiciary denied on Tuesday that eight women arrested over protests that shook the Islamic republic this year were at risk of execution, after US President Donald Trump urged Tehran to release them to help negotiations.
Authorities have launched a criminal probe into whether the artificial-intelligence platform ChatGPT helped a man plan a deadly mass shooting at Florida State University last year.
The Hollywood mogul took advantage of Jessica Mann by enticing her with a film role she had no chance of getting, prosecutors say
The Hollywood mogul took advantage of Jessica Mann by enticing her with a film role she had no chance of getting, prosecutors say
A 30-year-old man has been arrested in the brutal stabbings of a 25-year-old mental health activist and her mother.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche holds a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, April 7, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
A progressive Los Angeles mayoral candidate has a three-point plan for how she’ll tear apart the Los Angeles Police Department, she said in a social media video Monday.
Police officers patrol at a cordon near Kenton United Synagogue in Harrow, a suburb of London, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (Jamie Lashmar/PA via AP)
NEW YORK — A Bangladeshi immigrant is rightly serving a life prison sentence for a fizzled 2017 subway bombing attack beneath New York City’s Times Square, a federal appeals panel said Tuesday while reversing his conviction for providing material support to the Islamic State extremist group.
Irving police department announced bust in pun-filled social media post about alleged $34,000 Lego looting
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during her daily morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Nov. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
Mayor Bass has unveiled a $14.9 billion pre-election budget that avoids layoffs, boosts police hiring and trims her signature homelessness program, but leaves the Los Angeles Fire Department with little new funding.
A woman has been charged with her husband’s 2002 murder after the case went cold for decades, police announced.
A lone gunman has killed a Canadian tourist and wounded several others, including a Russian national, at the Pyramid of the Moon in Teotihuacan, Mexico. The assailant took his own life after being injured and surrounded by security forces, according to the Mexican authorities.
Anti-Iranian regime dissidents have been exposing regime-backed professors across the US, but recently the progressive Change.org platform has been deleting petitions they set up to call for them to face justice, they claim.
Two Palestinians, including a teenage boy, have been killed in an attack involving Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers in a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian officials.
Police stand guard inside the Port Authority Bus Terminal following an explosion near Times Square, Dec. 11, 2017 in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing growing criticism from civil rights leaders over his response to a viral video showing NYPD officers beating a man during a mistaken identity arrest.
Divorced men in Egypt who fail to pay court‑ordered alimony or child support will be barred from travel and placed on watch lists in the most forceful action against defaulters yet.
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Homeland Security Investigations has arrested a maniac in San Francisco who was so outraged about ICE enforcing immigration law that he sent a violent death threat to Acting Director Todd Lyons calling for agents to be summarily executed in the street.
A grieving mother is suing the Los Angeles Unified School District alleging officials failed to stop repeated bullying before her 12-year-old daughter was fatally struck during a fight.
The European Union’s top court has ruled that anti-LGBTQ legislation implemented by the Hungarian government in 2021 breaches the bloc’s law.
A Forbes article about the recent mass shooting that left eight children dead invited readers to play the odds on whether the tragedy would lead to new gun control laws — igniting a firestorm online.
A former high school teacher accused of the sexual abuse and murder of an adopted baby boy told a friend he had "dark thoughts" about the child, a court has heard.
President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani of Mauritania addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
The COVID-19 pandemic killed millions of people around the world and forever changed life as we know it — and its origins remain a point of controversy and fertile ground for conspiracy theories.
Israel’s military has sentenced two soldiers to 30 days in jail and removed them from combat duty after they smashed a crucifix in southern Lebanon.
The gunman who killed a tourist and wounded several others at Mexico’s famous Teotihuacan ruins on Monday may have purposefully planned the date of the horrific terror attack for sickening reasons.
My neighbor’s child was rescued from an alleged human trafficker. At the police station, the suspect argued that the child voluntarily agreed to be trafficked in exchange for a large sum of money for the child’s parents. The suspect further claimed that he did not threaten, force, nor coerce the child to go with him…
D4vd has been transferred to a new jail and segregated from other inmates due to his high profile after being accused of murdering and sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl.
An armed man standing atop one of the historic Teotihuacán pyramids opened fire on tourists Monday, killing one Canadian and leaving at least 13 people injured at the archaeological site north of Mexico’s capital, authorities said. (Produced by Elaine Carroll)
A college student from China has been charged with illegally taking photos of U.S. military planes in Nebraska during a multistate road trip that included a stop at an Air Force base in South Dakota.
Jarred Shaw's globe-trotting basketball career has taken him to 20 different teams across the world, but a stint in Indonesia has resulted in the American languishing in jail with deteriorating health after falling foul of the country's notoriously tough anti-narcotics laws.
A wave of “fill up and flee” crime is sweeping petrol stations across the UK, while American drivers are waking up to drilled-through tanks and drained fuel as the US-Israeli war on Iran has sparked a spike in oil and gas prices across the globe, according to media reports and industry watchdogs.
Russia has taken down two decades’ worth of judicial statistics from public access, removing data that had been widely used by journalists and rights groups to track prosecutions and broader legal trends.
Joseph Savarino’s deadly DWI crash Saturday came after his victim enjoyed one “last perfect day,” according to the teen’s heartbroken mother.
An Alabama woman, her pregnant teenage daughter and her 12-year-old son were found brutally murdered in their home, authorities said.
Jose Ramos-Horta urged by opposition to explain diplomatic passport given to businessman behind resort project, who denies any involvement with organised crime
Two US Embassy officials killed in a car crash in Mexico following a daring raid on a secret drug lab were working for the CIA at the time, according to security officials.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has ordered an investigation into the role played by two US officials in a counter-narcotics operation in the northern state of Chihuahua.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir informed Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara on Tuesday that he has accepted the Jerusalem District Court’s recommendation to promote senior police officer Ruti Hauslich to head of the Investigations Department.