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NYC terror plot on Jewish center scuttled by Feds, DOJ says
A Pakistani national living in Canada has been charged with planning to cross the border into the U.S. to carry out a mass shooting at a Jewish center in New York City, federal officials said.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, know as Shahzeb Jadoon, was arrested earlier this week in Canada on U.S. charges of attempting to provide material support and ...Read more
Alleged white supremacist leader agrees to plead guilty to conspiracy to riot
Months after a federal appeals court revived charges against two alleged members of a white supremacy extremist group, one of the men this week agreed to plead guilty — potentially bringing to a close a case that's dragged on for nearly six years.
Robert Rundo on Wednesday agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to riot tied to his role in the ...Read more
Bryan Kohberger's defense aims to strike death penalty option in Idaho murder trial
BOISE, Idaho — Defense attorneys for Bryan Kohberger will attempt to remove the possibility he’d face the death penalty, a sentence prosecutors plan to pursue if a jury finds him guilty of murder in the deaths of four University of Idaho students in November 2022.
Kohberger’s defense team met a court deadline Thursday to file challenges ...Read more
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Trump lambastes women accusers in leadup to Harris debate
Donald Trump on Friday left a Manhattan courtroom and aired a laundry list of grievances about a range of topics, including being found guilty of sexual assault and his presidential rival Vice President Kamala Harris just days before their high-stakes debate.
Remarkably, in the midst of...Read more
Utah mom, 3 young kids found dead in murder-suicide
A Utah mother fatally shot her three young children before turning the gun on herself, authorities said Friday.
The bodies of Maribel Ibarra, 32, and her three children — a 4-year-old boy and two girls, ages 1 and 2 — were found inside a vehicle in West Haven, 40 miles north of Salt Lake City, late Tuesday night.
According to the Weber ...Read more
Brothers of top officials in NYC Mayor Adams' administration ensnared in federal corruption probe, sources say
NEW YORK — The brothers of three high ranking officials in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration have become ensnared in a corruption investigation that prompted federal authorities to execute search warrants on them and several top mayoral advisers this week, according to law enforcement sources and other individuals familiar with the matter.
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Even at night, SoCal sees little cool down from heat wave
LOS ANGELES — A sweltering heat wave that’s baked parts of Southern California with triple-digit temperatures during the day continues to punish the region with an unrelenting heat that continues after dark.
Temperatures in the Santa Monica Mountains didn’t drop below 95 degrees from Thursday night to Friday morning. At midnight Thursday,...Read more
Mexican opposition says it has votes to block AMLO's reform
Mexico’s opposition is pledging to block President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s controversial overhaul of the judicial system in the Senate, where the ruling coalition is within a hair of securing a two-thirds majority needed to change the Constitution.
Lopez Obrador’s Morena party and its allies are still one vote short of the 86 ...Read more
Convicted serial killer known as 'Hollywood Ripper' appearing in court for 1993 Pacaccio murder
CHICAGO — A convicted serial killer dubbed the “Hollywood ripper” is appearing in court in Skokie on Friday after authorities long sought to bring him to trial in the 1993 slaying of 18-year-old Tricia Pacaccio.
Michael Gargiulo was questioned by police after the Glenview teen was found by her father stabbed to death on the front porch of...Read more
Father's arrest in school shooting unprecedented in Georgia
ATLANTA — Colin Gray is the first parent of a mass school shooting suspect to be arrested and charged in Georgia in connection with the crime, prosecutors believe.
The 54-year-old appeared in court Friday charged with multiple counts of second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and child cruelty, accused of knowingly allowing his 14-year...Read more
Brothers of top officials in NYC Mayor Adams' administration ensnared in federal corruption probe, sources say
The brothers of three high ranking officials in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration have become ensnared in a corruption investigation that prompted federal authorities to execute search warrants on them and several top mayoral advisers this week, according to law enforcement sources and other individuals familiar with the matter.
The two ...Read more
Slain Georgia high school teacher tried to crawl back to students after he was shot
In the moments after he was shot, math teacher Richard Aspinwall was “trying to crawl back to” his students, even as sounds of gunfire continued to echo through the halls of Apalachee High School.
Stephanie Reyna and Bryan Maldonado, both 17 years old, were among the 18 students in Aspinwall’s class when the violence began on Wednesday ...Read more
Georgia Tech cuts ties with Chinese university under federal scrutiny
Georgia Tech is cutting ties with a Chinese university that’s faced increased federal scrutiny over its potential links to the Asian nation’s military.
The school said Friday that it is ending a partnership with Tianjin University after an extensive investigation. The school said the roughly 300 students in the Georgia Tech Shenzhen ...Read more
California to get first new national marine sanctuary in 32 years, banning offshore oil drilling along 116 miles of coast
A long-running effort by native tribes and environmentalists to establish the first new national marine sanctuary along California’s coastline in 32 years — the aquatic version of a new national park — where offshore oil drilling would be prohibited forever, reached a key milestone Friday.
The Biden administration published the final ...Read more
Nation watches as teenage suspect, father face charges in Georgia school shooting
WINDER, Ga. — Sheriff’s deputies on Friday led a 14-year-old high school freshman into a Georgia courtroom, where he learned he could face life in prison without parole for allegedly gunning down two of his classmates and two teachers. Shackled and wearing a green jail uniform, Colt Gray nodded silently as the judge explained the proceedings...Read more
Trump is back in a NYC courtroom to challenge finding that he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll
NEW YORK — Around an hour after former President Donald Trump appeared in a New York courtroom on Friday to challenge a civil jury’s findings that he sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll, the GOP presidential nominee appeared to defame her once again.
In comments to reporters at a Trump Tower press conference at which he did ...Read more
'My heart is in pain.' Grief courses through Winder after school shooting
An outpouring of grief and heartbreaking portraits washed over Winder on Thursday as hints remained elusive about what may have prompted a 14-year-old boy to allegedly open fire inside Apalachee High School, killing four people and injuring nine others.
In the wake of authorities identifying ninth-grader Colt Gray as a suspect in Wednesday’s ...Read more
As portions of US swelter, climate officials declare summer of 2024 the hottest on record
LOS ANGELES — While Southern California and the Southwest swelter under their most punishing heat wave of the year, international climate officials have confirmed that the summer of 2024 was Earth’s hottest on record.
The global average temperature in June, July and August — known as the boreal summer in the Northern hemisphere — was a ...Read more
Likely Maryland voters prefer 'strict' juvenile justice laws in recent poll, though some object to question's framing
BALTIMORE — A recent statewide poll found that a majority of likely Marylander voters, about 58%, prefer “strict” juvenile justice laws over “lenient” ones, which secured roughly 34% support.
That majority preference persisted among Democrats, Republicans, white respondents, Black respondents and each age group — and remain largely ...Read more
Maryland Supreme Court to hear argument over Child Victims Act: 'This is what it means'
BALTIMORE — A priest lured 9-year-old David Schappelle into a private area of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Gaithersburg decades ago under the guise of teaching him about confession.
Father Wayland Brown proceeded to masturbate under his “ceremonial robe,” withdraw his hand when he was finished and tell the boy that “God will be ...Read more
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