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Calls grow for homeless man who led investigators to Brown mass shooter to receive $50,000 reward

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BOSTON — Public calls are growing for the FBI to give its promised $50,000 reward to a homeless man who provided information essential to leading authorities to the gunman they say killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor

Authorities say they received a tip from an anonymous source on Tuesday about a Reddit post on the ...Read more

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Amid surging ICE raids, Twin Cities protesters mobilize to document arrests

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MINNEAPOLIS — By now, it’s become a familiar scene across the Twin Cities. Federal agents descend on a home or stop a car to apprehend someone who appears to be a Latino or Somali immigrant.

Within minutes, activists surround the agents; blowing whistles, shouting down law enforcement and gathering vital bits of information that could help ...Read more

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Lawmakers weigh impeachment articles for Bondi over Epstein file omissions

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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers unhappy with Justice Department decisions to heavily redact or withhold documents from a legally mandated release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein threatened Saturday to launch impeachment proceedings against those responsible, including Pam Bondi, the U.S. attorney general.

Democrats and Republicans alike ...Read more

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Nick Reiner may remain in solitary confinement, on suicide watch for 'a long time'

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Nick Reiner may remain on suicide watch and in solitary confinement for the foreseeable future as he faces charges for the double murder of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner.

Nick was arrested last Sunday and later charged in the fatal stabbings of the beloved director, 78, and photographer, 70, whose daughter Romy discovered the grisly scene...Read more

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Will measles outbreak spread to Georgia? With holiday travel, it could

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ATLANTA — One of the biggest measles outbreaks of the past two decades is taking place less than 200 miles from Atlanta.

More than 130 people in South Carolina have contracted the infection in recent months — almost all of them children who were unvaccinated. Public health officials in the state said travel over the Thanksgiving holiday ...Read more

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U.S. Space Force awards $1.6 billion in contracts to South Bay satellite builders

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LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Space Force announced Friday it has awarded satellite contracts with a combined value of about $1.6 billion to Rocket Lab in Long Beach and to the Redondo Beach Space Park campus of Northrop Grumman.

The contracts by the Space Development Agency will fund the construction by each company of 18 satellites for a network ...Read more

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Newport News police officer shoots person, placed on administrative leave

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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A police officer is placed on administrative leave after shooting a person after a struggle over a gun, according to a news release.

At about 3:15 a.m. on Saturday, officers responded to call about an officer involved shooting in the 600 block of 79th street. This is off of Jefferson Avenue in Newport News.

According to ...Read more

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Ronald Reagan biographer, legendary California journalist Lou Cannon dies

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LOS ANGELES — Journalist and author Lou Cannon, who was widely considered the nation's leading authority on the life and career of President Ronald Reagan, died Friday in a Santa Barbara hospice. He was 92.

His death was caused by complications from a stroke, his son Carl M. Cannon told the Washington Post, where his father served for years ...Read more

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US says it intercepted second tanker in Venezuela blockade

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The U.S. Coast Guard stopped and boarded an oil tanker in the Caribbean early Saturday that was last docked in Venezuela, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, after President Donald Trump ordered a blockade.

The Centuries supertanker laden with up to 2 million barrels of Venezuelan crude was flying a Panamanian flag, according to ...Read more

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Pakistan's Imran Khan sentenced to 17 years in graft case

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A Pakistani court sentenced Imran Khan to 17 years in prison after finding him guilty of corruption when in office, another setback for the former prime minster who has been in jail since 2023.

Judge Shahrukh Arjumand of an anti-graft court handed Khan the maximum prison sentence for illegally undervaluing and then obtaining expensive gifts ...Read more

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Epstein files spotlight prior DOJ probes, but leave many questions unanswered

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MIAMI — After nearly two decades, the Justice Department on Friday finally released a small a portion of its voluminous criminal case files on the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

The DOJ, under pressure to comply with a law passed by Congress last month, released tens of thousands of pages by Saturday morning. The materials had been long...Read more

Southern California's Christmas weather forecast keeps getting worse. What you need to know

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LOS ANGELES — The Pineapple Express storm bearing down on Southern California could bring heavy rain and strong winds throughout Christmas week, potentially triggering mudslides, downing trees and flooding not only freeways but also homes and businesses.

If the forecasts are right, this could be one of the stormiest Christmases in recent ...Read more

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4 times as many: Shootings by LAPD officers far outpace LA County deputies

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LOS ANGELES — Shootings by Los Angeles police officers have increased dramatically this year, prompting Mayor Karen Bass to issue a statement Friday that said she is "deeply concerned" and seeking an explanation.

LAPD officers have fired their weapons in 46 incidents so far this year — killing 14 people and wounding 23 others — a roughly ...Read more

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The high-tech tools used to track down Nick Reiner after his parents' slayings

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LOS ANGELES — It didn’t take long for police to focus on Nick Reiner after his parents were found fatally stabbed in the master bedroom of their Brentwood home Sunday afternoon.

The challenge became finding him.

Reiner lived in Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner’s guesthouse but was not there when police arrived around 3:30 p.m. ...Read more

Europe stumbles in its attempt to bypass Trump's world order

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Ursula von der Leyen was supposed to sign the European Union’s largest free-trade agreement on Saturday, proving the bloc’s standing as a geoeconomic force.

Instead, the European Commission president will have to figure out a way to salvage the Mercosur pact by rallying last-minute support from countries including Italy that helped delay ...Read more

Blue Origin completes first space flight with wheelchair user

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin completed a suborbital joyride Saturday with a six-person crew, including the first wheelchair user to reach space and one of SpaceX’s first engineers.

The flight took off at about 9:15 a.m. ET, and the capsule landed roughly 11 minutes later in West Texas.

The mission was initially slated to occur on Dec. 18 ...Read more

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US offers joint talks with Ukraine, Russia, Zelenskyy says

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The U.S. offered to hold talks together with Ukrainian and Russian representatives in Florida as Donald Trump’s administration pushes for a peace deal, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Whether the trilateral talks will take place depends on the U.S.-Ukrainian negotiations that started Friday, Zelenskyy told journalists in Kyiv ...Read more

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Recipe for LA's fire disaster: Intense rains followed by unprecedented heat and dry conditions

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LOS ANGELES — One fire appears to have been caused by a spark from old power lines, the other allegedly started by an Uber driver with a fascination with flames.

In the end, the Eaton and Palisades fires destroyed more than 16,000 homes, businesses and other structures and left 31 people dead. They were the second and third most destructive ...Read more

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The fire took his sister and his lifelong home. He's been fighting to get back ever since

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LOS ANGELES — Shortly after his childhood home burned down in west Altadena, Zaire Calvin learned his mom's insurance carrier had dropped her months before. He handled her bills but said he hadn't received any email or notice from Allstate before the January wildfire.

For weeks, he tried to get answers, waiting on returned calls, asking for ...Read more

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Failed emergency alerts during LA firestorms eroded public trust. How to fix a broken system?

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LOS ANGELES — During the first days of the January firestorms, Los Angeles became a case study in what can go wrong with emergency alerts and evacuations.

In Pacific Palisades there was chaos Jan. 7 as people in the foothills tried to flee, only to hit traffic gridlock. Then when the Eaton fire erupted in Altadena, evacuation orders did not ...Read more