Oklahoma judge grants bond to Richard Glossip after nearly three decades on death row
An Oklahoma judge on Thursday ordered Richard Glossip released on $500,000 bond while he awaits retrial for a 1997 killing, ending what may be one of the longest stretches of wrongful incarceration in modern American death-penalty history, if his defense team's claims hold up before a jury. Judge Na...
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Stabbed teenager died in handcuffs after police believed his attacker's racism claim, court hears
An 18-year-old university student bled to death in the street, handcuffed by the officers who were supposed to help him, after the man accused of stabbing him told police he was the real victim of a racist attack, a British court heard Thursday. Henry Nowak, an Anglo-Polish accountancy and finance u...
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Body camera footage shows Michigan State student charging officers with knife before fatal shooting
East Lansing police released body camera video Friday showing the final seconds of 21-year-old Michigan State senior Isaiah Kirby's life, footage that captured him running toward officers in the middle of the road, apparently brandishing a knife, before four officers opened fire in three separate vo...
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Gunfire erupts in Philippine Senate as senator wanted by ICC flees arrest
At least fifteen shots rang out inside the Philippine Senate on Wednesday as law enforcement agents and marines moved to arrest Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa on an International Criminal Court warrant charging him with crimes against humanity. Dela Rosa escaped the building amid the chaos, and by ...
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FBI posts $200,000 bounty for former Air Force intelligence agent who allegedly defected to Iran
The FBI is offering $200,000 for information leading to the capture and prosecution of Monica Elfriede Witt, a former Air Force counterintelligence specialist who allegedly defected to Iran more than a decade ago and handed classified national defense secrets to the regime in Tehran. Witt, now 47, r...
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House Oversight Committee launches probe into birth tourism companies accused of visa fraud
The House Oversight Committee is demanding records from four companies it says have built profitable businesses helping foreign nationals exploit U.S. visitor visas to give birth on American soil, a practice the State Department declared improper five years ago and that President Trump moved to outl...
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Convicted serial rapist sentenced to life after discarded chewing gum cracked two cold case murders
A 68-year-old convicted serial rapist will spend the rest of his life behind bars after admitting he raped and killed two women in Everett, Washington, in the early 1980s, crimes that went unsolved for more than four decades until three undercover detectives showed up at his door pretending to promo...
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LAPD now testing fingerprints of suspect linked to Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings
Nearly eight decades after 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was found murdered in a Los Angeles neighborhood, the LAPD has obtained fingerprints of a newly identified suspect and is comparing them against evidence from one of America's most notorious unsolved cases. Detective Martin Mojarro, one of two d...
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Pennsylvania man charged after alleged 'hit list' of 20 Democratic officials posted on X
Pennsylvania State Police arrested a Lebanon, Pa., man this week after he allegedly posted violent threats against 20 elected Democrats on the social media platform X, including a list of targets and references to a planned shooting, authorities said. Adam G. Berryhill, 42, faces charges of making t...
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San Leandro police chief faces misdemeanor hit-and-run charge after alleged freeway collision
The Alameda County District Attorney's office charged San Leandro Police Chief Angela Averiett with misdemeanor hit-and-run after she allegedly sideswiped a family's Jeep on Interstate 580 while driving an unmarked police vehicle, then kept going. Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickso...
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