FBI searches the homes of at least three top deputies to New York City's mayor
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Evening StandardEyewitness describes 'insane' moment Donald Trump shooting suspect was arrested
Law enforcement officers swooped on the car shortly after the apparent attack
- Malay Mail
Act now: King orders cops to conduct thorough probe into alleged child abuse, crimes at Global Ikhwan-linked charity homes
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 — Expressing serious concern, His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, has directed the Royal...
- The Independent
Ryan Routh: What we know about Trump shooting suspect caught with an AK-47 and a GoPro
A past armed stand-off with police, anti-Trump social media posts, and pledges to fight in the war in Ukraine: what we know about suspect Ryan Routh
- The Independent
Husband accused of horrifying mass rape of wife tells French trial: ‘I’m a rapist like all the others here’
Dominique Pelicot, 71, was speaking for the first time at his trial where he is accused of drugging his wife, Gisele, and allowing strangers to rape her
- People
She Killed Her Husband and Impersonated Him on Facebook. It Was How She Hid the Body That Led to Arrest
Laurie Leigh Shaver, 41, of Fla., was found guilty of second-degree murder with a firearm for killing her husband, Michael Douglas Shaver, 36, in 2015, authorities said
- Associated Press
DEA closing 2 offices in China even as the agency struggles to stem flow of fentanyl chemicals
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is shutting down two of its hard-won offices in China, The Associated Press has learned, a move that comes even as the agency struggles to disrupt the flow of precursor chemicals from the country that have fueled a fentanyl epidemic blamed for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. “These closings reflect the need to harness DEA’s limited and strained resources to target where we can make the biggest impact in saving American lives,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram told agents in an email last week that also included plans to close a dozen other offices worldwide to trim DEA’s current footprint of 93 offices in 69 countries. DEA said only that the move followed a data-driven process intended to maximize the agency's impact.
- The Independent
Former employee of Trump shooting suspect recalls police standoff and penchant for ‘stupid’ behavior
EXCLUSIVE: ‘I don’t know what he was thinking,’ Tina Cooper tells The Independent of her former employer Ryan Wesley Routh, who is accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump. She’d worked for Routh in 2002 when he’d been arrested after a three-hour long police standoff
- The Guardian
Woman tells court she ‘zoned out’ during alleged rape by high-profile Sydney man
The man, who cannot be named, has pleaded not guilty to 12 charges including six counts of rape
- Variety
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Arrested in New York After Grand Jury Indictment
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been arrested in Manhattan after a grand jury indicted the music mogul, Variety has confirmed. Combs’ attorney Marc Agnifilo shared a statement with Variety regarding the rapper’s arrest in New York on Monday evening. The charges were not immediately clear. “We are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe …
- People
Who Was 'Asian Doe?' Police Release Sketches of Possible Victim of Alleged Long Island Serial Killer
Suffolk County authorities say the victim, determined to be of southern Chinese descent, was between the ages of 17 and 23
- Reuters
Russian national arrested in US for illegal export of drone technology to Russia, DOJ says
The indictment alleges that following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Denis Postovoy, 44, procured and illicitly exported to Russia microelectronic components with military applications that could be used in drones, the DOJ said in a statement on its website. "According to the indictment, this defendant illegally exported dual-use technology to Russia that could bolster its capabilities to wage its unprovoked war against Ukraine," U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves said in the statement.
- Associated Press
Mother of Colorado supermarket guman says he is 'sick' and denies knowing about plan
The last time Khadija Ahidid saw her son, he came to breakfast in 2021 looking “homeless” with big hair so she offered to give him $20 so he could go get a shave or a haircut that day. When one of Alissa’s lawyers, Kathryn Herold, was introducing her to the jury, Herold asked how she knew Alissa. Alissa, who emigrated from Syria with his family as a child, began acting strangely in 2019, believing he was being followed by the FBI, talking to himself and isolating from the rest of the family, Ahidid said.
- The Telegraph
Huw Edwards ‘robbed young children of their innocence’, says mother of teenager in sex scandal
Huw Edwards has been accused of “robbing children of innocence” by the mother of a teenager who he shared explicit messages with.
- Malay Mail
IGP: Nearly 100 bank accounts linked to Global Ikhwan frozen, worth over RM581,000 in total
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 — A total of 96 bank accounts linked to Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings (GISB) worth...
- The Daily Beast
How Ukraine Turned Putin’s Own Trick Against Him
KHARKIV, Ukraine—Stuck in a crowded prison cell in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, 45-year-old Viktor faces a choice. He can stay where he is, serving out his sentence in the knowledge that a Russian bomb could hit the jail any day, or he can swap his cell for the dangers of the front lines, as a volunteer defending his country.“Better to go fight with weapons, than sit here,” he tells the Daily Beast.In a tactic borrowed from Vladimir Putin’s playbook, Ukraine has started releasing prisoners for
- The Independent
Shocking moment police pepper-spray Sex Education star and ‘throw’ him down despite being innocent bystander
‘That feeling of helplessness will never leave me’: Actor Reece Richards hits out at ‘racial profiling’
- INSIDER
How a thief replaced a famous Winston Churchill portrait with a forgery that went unnoticed for months
Police recovered a stolen Winston Churchill portrait that had been swapped out with a forgery and gone unnoticed for months.
- The Independent
Australian couple acquitted in murder of teen mother Amber Haigh
Robert and Anne Geeves, both 64, were accused of killing Haigh to take her five-month-old baby
- The Telegraph
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs charged with sex trafficking
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been charged with sex trafficking and racketeering and accused of presiding over an empire of sexual crimes.
- AFP News
France probes online threats against Afghan taekwondo fighter
Paris prosecutors said Monday they were investigating online threats against female Afghan taekwondo fighter Marzieh Hamidi, who fled to France in 2021 after the Taliban seized power in Kabul.They added that a specialist online hate unit was investigating.