First Look Russia detains U.S. journalist Alsu Kurmasheva. Why she faces jail. Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist working for a U.S. government-funded media company, has been detained in Russia. Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty editor Alsu Kurmasheva is the second American journalist to be held in Russia this year. | View caption Hide caption A Russian-American journalist…
The Explainer Rules of war: What are they? Will they matter in Israel-Gaza conflict? | View caption Hide caption More than 1,000 miles to the north, it’s clear that some Russian units invading Ukraine made a practice of summarily executing and raping civilians, and that officials in Moscow – allegedly including President Vladimir Putin – masterminded the deportation…
Russia’s children’s rights commissioner has spoken for the first time about accusations that the country abducted and brainwashed thousands of Ukrainian children. Maria Lvova-Belova, 38, who has “adopted” a teenage boy from Mariupol herself, insisted that Russia is just trying to “help” them. An unknown number of orphans and children have been taken from occupied…
In the late summer of 2020, four months after Emily Noble was reported missing, her badly decomposed remains were discovered in a wooded area near her home in Westerville, Ohio, a town just outside Columbus. A USB cord was wrapped around her neck. Authorities turned to a well-known strangulation expert, Dr. Bill Smock, who concluded…
A man charged in the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur was calm during his arrest last week, criticizing a police officer’s driving and asking why officers hadn’t brought the media, body camera video released Thursday by Las Vegas police shows. Duane Keith Davis, 60, was arrested in Las Vegas on Sept. 29 on a murder…
Israeli police on Wednesday arrested five people suspected of spitting toward Christians or churches in the Old City of Jerusalem and formed a special investigative team to deal with growing complaints of hostile gestures against Christians. “Unfortunately, we witness the continued disgraceful acts of hatred towards Christians in the Old City of Jerusalem, primarily through…
Focus In Eagle Pass, the border crisis is complicated | View caption Hide caption In an unprecedented venture into immigration enforcement by a state government, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, launched Operation Lone Star in 2021. The $4.4 billion border security initiative has seen state police and National Guard members – reinforced by National…
Norwegian police have arrested a former commander of the Wagner mercenary group on suspicion that he tried to illegally cross the border back into Russia after seeking asylum in Norway earlier this year, the man’s lawyer said on Saturday. Andrei Medvedev, who escaped Russia in January via its Arctic border with Norway, has described running…
A son of jailed drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera was extradited to the United States on Friday, nine months after his arrest in Mexico, a senior U.S. law enforcement official said. Ovidio Guzman Lopez was in federal custody in Chicago and has been linked to violence and the drug trade, the official said.…