The U.S. government is aware of the kidnapping of an American Christian missionary in the West African nation of Niger, U.S. official sources told Fox News. The sources told Fox News that they suspect that the missionary has been taken north to Islamic State-controlled areas where an offshoot of ISIS …
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A teenager in New Jersey has filed a major lawsuit against the company behind an artificial intelligence (AI) “clothes removal” tool that allegedly created a fake nude image of her. The case has drawn national attention because it shows how AI can invade privacy in harmful ways. The lawsuit was …
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A body has been found during the search for a missing Vermont college student who was last seen on campus about a week ago. Lia Smith, 21, was last seen on Middlebury College’s campus on the night of Oct. 17 and was reported missing that Sunday, the school announced. Smith, …
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A riot in a prison northeast of Nashville was contained overnight, officials say, and all prisoners returned to their cells after officers deployed chemical agents into the prison yard. The Trousdale County Sheriff’s Department says it got word just after 10 p.m. Sunday of the trouble at the Trousdale Turner …
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Police in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and federal forces killed four suspected criminals on Sunday during a chase in an area bordering Guatemala, the local government said. The incident unfolded just days after five police officers were killed in an ambush by an armed group in the same …
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At least 10 people were wounded in a shooting in the South Carolina beach town of Little River that appeared to stem from an altercation during a Memorial Day weekend gathering, police said Monday. At least one additional person reported sustaining what police described as a “non-gunfire-related injury.” The people …
Read More »A 66-year-old suspect in the 1977 slaying of a Hawaii teenager agreed on Wednesday to be extradited from Utah to face a murder charge. Gideon Castro waived the right to challenge his extradition during a hearing before a judge in Salt Lake City. Castro, who is ill, appeared by video …
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A southeast Georgia man was arrested and charged in the 1985 killing of a couple at a Black church after the original suspect — who spent 20 years behind bars — was exonerated on DNA evidence, authorities said. Erik Kristensen Sparre, 61, was jailed on charges of felony murder and …
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A judge presiding over Scott Peterson’s latest bid for a new trial on Wednesday afternoon ruled that only one piece of evidence will be allowed a new round of DNA testing. Peterson attended court in Redwood City via Zoom from Mule Creek State Prison in Amador County where he is …
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A man living in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon, has been found guilty in the 1980 cold case murder of a 19-year-old college student after DNA from a piece of chewing gum linked him to the crime. Multnomah County Circuit Judge Amy Baggio on Friday found Robert Plympton, 60, guilty …
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