Met Police officers are keen to hear from a small group who were congregated nearby when the incident happened

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Brown University allegedly failed to prevent a campus murder due to outdated security systems, says former student who exposed administrative waste.

Data obtained from police forces in England and Wales show the scale of sexual convictions for police officers, figures the Home Office describes as ‘shameful’

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Manhunt underway after masked gunmen kill nine people at South African tavern in Bekkersdal township. At least 10 others hospitalized in the attack.

Alex Murdaugh's defense team says they're "cautiously optimistic" about getting a new trial as the Supreme Court prepares to hear appeals in February.

Tate and his brother Tristan are facing a series of 21 charges in the UK

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Australia proposes new hate speech laws and gun buyback program after Bondi Beach attack, sparking a heated debate over the government's response.

Attackers wound 10 others in Bekkersdal after opening fire at people in a bar and ‘randomly’ shooting in the street, police say

Nine people have been killed after gunmen opened fire at a bar near Johannesburg in the second mass shooting in South Africa this month.

Ten more were wounded in the early morning attack at the tavern in the impoverished Bekkersdal township in a gold mining area about 25 miles (40km) south-west of Johannesburg.

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The Brentwood home where Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner were murdered has a storied Hollywood history. It was originally built by Henry Fonda in 1936.

Steps to help combat fraud in which criminals use AI-generated replica of a person’s voice to deceive victims

The voicemail from your son is alarming. He has just been in a car accident and is highly stressed. He needs money urgently, although it is not clear why, and he gives you some bank details for a transfer.

You consider yourself wise to other scams, and have ignored texts claiming to be from him and asking for cash. But you can hear his voice and he is clearly in trouble.

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Attackers wound 10 others in Bekkersdal after opening fire at tavern patrons and ‘randomly’ shooting in the street, police say

Gunmen killed nine people and wounded 10 others in an attack at a township outside Johannesburg, police said on Sunday, in the second mass shooting in South Africa in December.

Police initially said 10 people were killed but later revised the toll.

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Wild bodycam footage shows a shoplifting suspect allegedly attempting to shoot an Ohio police officer at Walmart, but the gun malfunctioned during the incident.

Metropolitan Police said at the early stage of the investigation, no arrests have been made

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Lawyers also attempting to throw out two federal charges, saying US attorney general has ties to UnitedHealth Group

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione are attempting to avoid the death penalty and throw out two federal charges in the justice department’s case against him, arguing that attorney general Pam Bondi is biased because she used to work at a lobbying firm that represents UnitedHealth Group.

In court documents filed on Friday, Mangione’s lawyers said that Bondi has a “profound conflict of interest” because her former employer, Ballard Partners, a DC-based lobbying firm founded by the Trump donor Brian Ballard, counts UnitedHealth Group as one of its clients.

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Suspect killed himself after allegedly killing an MIT professor and two Brown University students

An autopsy report on the suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor in Massachusetts has shown that he died by suicide two days before he was found in a storage locker on Thursday.

The New Hampshire attorney general’s report estimates that Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national who had been living in the US, died on 16 December, the same day that his fellow countryman, MIT nuclear physics professor Nuno Loureiro died at a hospital in Massachusetts.

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Met police believe it was a case of mistaken identity and want to speak to two people in connection with the incident

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Interview from 2019 reveals specific preferences for recruitment, including age and race

• US justice department releases heavily redacted cache of Jeffrey Epstein files

Investigative notes describing Jeffrey Epstein’s detailed demands of the people he sent to procure children for his sexual predation are among the documents released by the Department of Justice on Friday.

They cast a grim spotlight on the actions of Epstein and those around him amid their efforts to procure young women and underage girls for the late disgraced financier. They were part of a long-awaited release of documents from Donald Trump’s justice department, which has been slammed for being only a partial release and heavily redacted.

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A 26-year-old Toronto man has been arrested and charged with ISIS-linked terrorism offences and two other men are charged for alleged hate-motivated extremism targeting women and members of the Jewish community. Read More

Aria was found dead in Weston-super-Mare on Monday night

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