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US hit with mass shootings and fatal accidents on Fourth of July holiday

Violence and shootings tend to surge during the summer, especially on one of the deadliest days of the year

Friday’s US Independence Day holiday was marked by multiple shootings across the US, including one in Indianapolis that left at least two dead and five wounded as a police chief voiced frustration over the latest acts of violence in his city.

Indianapolis metropolitan police chief Chris Bailey told reporters early Saturday morning that the Fourth of July mayhem a day earlier was “completely unacceptable and unnecessary” – and that parents and guardians needed to better control their children.

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© Photograph: Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces growing wave of civil suits as criminal trial ends

3 juillet 2025 à 18:36

Combs remains jailed awaiting sentencing as more than 50 civil cases alleging abuse and assault move forward

After two months, the federal sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs came to a close on Wednesday with a mixed verdict. The jury acquitted the 55-year-old music mogul of the most serious charges – racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking – but found him guilty on the two lesser counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.

Still, this verdict marks only one chapter in Combs’s mounting legal battles. Combs, who remains incarcerated at the Metropolitan detention center in Brooklyn, is now awaiting sentencing and faces a growing number of civil lawsuits against him alleging sexual assault and abuse.

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© Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

© Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

Four dead and 14 injured in shooting at Chicago party for rapper Mello Buckzz

3 juillet 2025 à 21:41

Album launch party was ending when three people in an SUV began firing on a crowd outside a nightclub

Four people were killed by gunfire and 14 others hospitalized overnight after a drive-by shooting outside a private nightclub event in Chicago, police said on Thursday.

At least three were in critical condition. City news outlets reported that the incident happened after a launch party for the new album by the local rap star Mello Buckzz and that her boyfriend was one of those shot.

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© Photograph: Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/AP

© Photograph: Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/AP

Idaho student stabbings suspect pleads guilty to murder to avoid death penalty

2 juillet 2025 à 20:36

Ex-criminal justice student Bryan Kohberger admits to killing four University of Idaho students in 2022

Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to murder on Wednesday in the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in 2022 that stunned and terrified the campus and set off a nationwide search, which ended weeks later when he was arrested in Pennsylvania.

Kohberger, who was a criminal justice graduate student at nearby Washington State University, admitted to the slayings before entering a formal guilty plea in a deal with prosecutors that will allow him to avoid the death penalty. He was set to go to trial in August.

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© Photograph: Lindsey Wasson/Reuters

© Photograph: Lindsey Wasson/Reuters

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