Time magazine named German Chancellor Angela Merkel its 2015 “Person of the Year” on Wednesday, noting her resilience and leadership when faced with the refugee crisis and turmoil in the European Union.
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Prosecutors have rested their case against Baltimore Police Officer William Porter, the first of six officers to stand trial in the April death of Freddie Gray. Porter has pleaded not guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment.
For 13 months, the Chicago Police Department had dashcam video showing one of its officers shooting Laquan McDonald but didn’t release it. That finally did happen, though only after a court mandate.
After presenting an insanity defense, the defense team in the Massachusetts murder trial of Philip Chism rested on Tuesday.
The mother of a newborn baby that was found buried alive under a block of asphalt near a Los Angeles walking path, had hidden her pregnancy for months from friends and family, the Washington Post reported.
Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were radicalized, with the latter pledging allegiance to ISIS while the pair killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California.
Maryland prosecutors on Tuesday rested their case against a Baltimore police officer charged in the April death of a black man, Freddie Gray, from an spinal injury in police custody.
The owner of four pitbulls is facing a murder charge after his dogs mauled to death a 4-year-old boy in Detroit, Michigan.
A bloody crime or performance art? That’s what visitors to Art Basel in Miami Beach were left wondering after an altercation between two women attending the art fair turned violent.
A bloody crime or performance art? That’s what visitors to Art Basel in Miami Beach were left wondering after an altercation between two women attending the art fair turned violent.
Both killers in last week’s San Bernardino, California, shooting “were radicalized and have been for quite some time,” said David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office.
The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether the Chicago police engaged in “a pattern or practice of violations of the Constitution or federal law,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Monday.
A man who allegedly stabbed two people at a London subway station Saturday has been charged with attempted murder for the attack that prosecutors say was an act of terror.
Police have arrested the mother of a newborn after the girl was found buried alive alongside a Los Angeles-area walking path. The infant girl was found late last month when two women passing by heard her cries and called 911. She was pulled out from under pieces of asphalt and debris inside a crevice.
Republican presidential candidates roundly criticized President Barack Obama’s Sunday night address to the nation about the U.S. response to the threat of terror, arguing that he lacked a vision and was not aggressive enough.
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