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…
A jury convicted a Florida man of first-degree murder Wednesday in the 2018 strangling and beating death of his wife after she refused to appear on a home renovation reality TV show, prosecutors said. David Tronnes, 55, killed his wife, Shanti Cooper-Tronnes, on April 24, 2018, in the couple’s home in the Orlando neighborhood of…
Focus France won’t apologize to Algeria for war. Enter the French people. | View caption Hide caption Since then, he has been giving his annual €800 (about $844) stipend to 4ACG (Anciens Appelés en Algérie et leurs Amis Contre la Guerre), which goes toward education programs for youth and women in the former French colony.…
First Look Settlement in ACLU lawsuit to end Trump-era family separation tactics A settlement filed in federal court in San Diego will halt for eight years a Trump-era rule, aimed to deter undocumented migrants, that separates children from families at the border. The lawsuit was filed by the ACLU, which represents separated families. | View…
A North Carolina family is demanding answers after their loved one’s body was found facedown on the lawn of an empty home where a groundskeeper saw it, mistook it for a prop dummy and mowed the grass around it. The body of Robert Paul Owens, 34, was found Oct. 10 at an abandoned log cabin…
Joran van der Sloot has finally admitted to killing Natalee Holloway after nearly 20 years of questions, speculation, and a true crime drama that spanned the globe. is reporting that the 36-year-old Dutch citizen finally confessed the truth of Natalee’s murder to her heartbroken parents in a federal court in the United States on Wednesday…
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…
DNA evidence linked a suspect this week to a fatal beating of a woman whose body was found in northern California four decades ago, authorities said. On Monday, Alfredo Carretero Jr. of Lakeport, California, was arrested. He was charged with murder in the death of Noelle Russo, according to the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office.…
