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Three Venezuelan men will spend the next two decades in federal prison for a Denver kidnapping and torture plot directed by the Tren de Aragua gang. Darwin Veliz-Gonzalez, Jefferson Balza-Delfin and Yender Enrique Campos-Malave, all Venezuelan nationals, received 20-year sentences…

Army Secretary Adam Telle revealed Tuesday night that convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan will face a firing squad at the same Texas base where he carried out his 2009 attack. Telle, 50, announced in an X post that…

Cornell University has brought in former acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates to investigate how the Ivy League school handles sexual assault claims. Yates, who was fired by President Trump in 2020 after refusing to defend his travel ban, will…

The Department of Education has opened a federal investigation into allegations that New York City public school employees sexually abused students on a massive scale, with a top Trump administration official warning the district could lose federal funding if it…

Ben Affleck is speaking out about losing both parents within months of each other. The actor, 54, told GQ in an interview published Tuesday that his father Timothy died in April at 76 and his mother Chris died in June…

Danbury Mayor Roberto Alves has publicly condemned a white supremacist rally that unfolded outside the city’s police headquarters over the weekend. The demonstration, staged by roughly a dozen masked individuals on Saturday night, targeted a new city policy permitting certain…

Daniel Wiesenfeld has defied New York Attorney General Letitia James’ demand that he destroy records he took from her office, firing back in a blistering email that her threats will not compel him to erase evidence of alleged anti-Trump political…

A potential hurricane is threatening to disrupt the high-profile Alabama-Georgia football game that former President Donald Trump has announced he will attend. The storm, which developed into a tropical depression in the Gulf on Tuesday, could strengthen into Category 2…

Estefanía Valladares is warning parents about playground dangers after her 13-year-old son was strangled by his own shirt on a loose slide screw. The Miami mother, whose youngest child Olvin Daniel Cabrera Valladares died Oct. 1, told Local 10 that…

The fathers of three Mississippi friends have filed a federal defamation lawsuit against Terrell Owens after the NFL Hall of Famer demanded their arrest on social media. The suit, filed Monday on behalf of the young men — all under…

Dennis Haskins’ cause of death has been confirmed as Parkinson’s disease. The actor, 75, who spent over a decade playing Principal Richard Belding on “Saved by the Bell,” died Sept. 27 at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California,…

Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after Tennessee’s botched execution attempt, her lawyers said in a statement. Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason, Pike’s attorneys, revealed the update in an emailed statement shared with The Tennessean. The condemned woman had been…

Amir Eftekhar’s cause of death has been confirmed by the Orange County Coroner two days after the 18-year-old was found in his UC Irvine dorm room. The coroner ruled Tuesday that Eftekhar, a sophomore math major, died by ligature hanging…

The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary findings Tuesday in the Chatsworth news helicopter crash. The September NBC LA helicopter crash killed news reporter Eliana Moreno, pilot George Marciniw, and a bystander, devastating a local news community that had…

Two planes collided on the ground at Los Angeles International Airport Tuesday morning. The incident involved a Delta aircraft and an Air Canada jet, and appeared to be minor, according to footage and witness accounts from the scene. The…

A 26-year-old Santa Monica man facing felony charges for kidnapping a UCLA student and raping a Culver City woman was found dead the evening before his court date. Alexander Schecter had been scheduled to appear at Airport Courthouse on Oct.…