Crime

Opening statements began Tuesday in the robbery trial of an Arizona man accused of targeting exotic dancers in 2020, three years before he is alleged to have participated in a horrific plot to kidnap and murder one of the women.

Russia on Tuesday conducted a test of a new intercontinental ballistic missile as part of efforts to modernize the country’s nuclear forces, a launch praised by President Vladimir Putin just days after his assertion that the conflict in Ukraine is approaching its conclusion.

A Texas couple whose son died of an overdose in 2025 after using OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool to obtain information about drugs sued the technology company on Tuesday, holding the AI platform responsible for his death.

The operator of the container ship, which lost power and crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge over two years ago, resulting in the deaths of six people and causing the bridge to collapse, is now facing federal charges.

The head of a group associated with a notorious cartel operating near the U.S. border has been apprehended in Mexico, officials announced Monday. Authorities reported that they seized weapons, drugs, cash, and seven tigers during the arrest.

A gunman who started shooting at cars on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Monday afternoon was shot by a responding State Police trooper and a civilian. Two men in different cars were shot and are suffering from life-threatening injuries.

U.S. and Chinese authorities jointly arrested five suspects in a cross-border smuggling and trafficking operation, Beijing announced on Monday, highlighting the cooperation ahead of President Donald Trump’s state visit this week.

OpenAI faces a lawsuit from the family of a victim who was killed in the April 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University, which resulted in two fatalities. The lawsuit claims that OpenAI’s ChatGPT facilitated the attack.

Seattle police are searching for a suspect linked to the Sunday evening murder of a University of Washington student, discovered inside a school-affiliated apartment building, officials reported.

A weeks-long operation to impede drug trafficking routes from Latin America to Europe has successfully disrupted what authorities referred to as "a major cocaine highway" in the Atlantic Ocean.

Sri Lankan authorities arrested a high-ranking Buddhist monk on Saturday for the alleged sexual abuse of an underage girl, police said, marking the most high-profile case involving clergy in the country.

When Beverly Hills Police Detective Mark Schwartz received the call about an unattended death at the home of 67-year-old widow Violet Yacobi, he was uncertain about what he would discover.

The sailboat used by Brian and Lynette Hooker in their travels around the Bahamas—named "Soulmate"—has been seized by U.S. Coast Guard investigators, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation.

Six people were discovered dead Sunday in a Union Pacific Railroad boxcar in Laredo, Texas, a city on the Mexican border, according to police there.

Sean Gardner, a gymnastics coach who trained elite young female athletes, will appear in federal court in Mississippi on Monday for a change of plea hearing after being charged with 12 felony counts of child sexual exploitation. He initially entered a plea of not guilty.

Cole Allen, the alleged shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, pleaded not guilty to all charges against him through his attorney on Monday.

Stavros Demosthenos, der in einigen Berichten als „Al Capone Zyperns“ bezeichnet wird, soll russischen Geschäftsleuten bei der Geldwäsche illegaler Gelder geholfen und gleichzeitig selbst von diesen Aktivitäten profitiert haben.

On the morning of October 17, 2025, the entire territory of Cyprus was abuzz with the news of the assassination in Limassol of one of the local mafia leaders, Stavros Demosthenos.

Three women from Australia were denied bail on Friday when they appeared in court, charged with slavery and terrorism offenses after returning from Syria with another 10 individuals who, according to police, are connected to the Islamic State group.

The sole individual ever charged in connection with the unresolved 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay, whose case became emblematic of the national crisis of violence against Native Americans, is set to be sentenced in federal court on Friday.

Federal prosecutors are attempting to revoke former U.S. diplomat Victor Manuel Rocha’s American citizenship, claiming he fraudulently acquired naturalization decades ago while covertly serving as an agent for Cuba.

Kirk Moore, the principal from Oklahoma who confronted a gunman inside Pauls Valley High School last month, says, "I don’t know what I was thinking."

A former sheriff’s deputy was convicted of reckless homicide at trial on Thursday for shooting a Black man who was delivering sandwiches to his grandmother’s house.