El Salvador’s government has moved thousands of suspected gang members to a newly opened “megaprison”, the latest step in a controversial crackdown on crime that has caused the Central American nation’s prison population to soar.
“This will be their new home, where they won’t be able to do any more harm to the population,” the president, Nayib Bukele, wrote on Twitter.
The home in Idaho where four university students were murdered last year will be torn down in an effort to help bring closure to the grieving community.
The move comes more than three months after the late-night stabbing spree.
University officials said the owner of the home where three of the students lived gave the building to the university.
Police have not released a motive for the suspect, who is awaiting trial, leaving many with unanswered questions.
Former billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of befallen crypto exchange FTX, has been charged with four new criminal counts including allegations of illegal political donations and bank fraud, an indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court revealed on Thursday—tacking on to the eight charges already facing the former wunderkind as he gears up for trial later this year.
These are some serious charges.
A Florida journalist and a 9-year-old girl were gunned down Wednesday afternoon by a suspect wanted in an earlier fatal shooting at the same scene, authorities said.
Two others were also wounded, including a second Spectrum News 13 journalist, in the 4 p.m. gunfire on Hialeah Street in Pine Hills, according to Orange County Sheriff John Mina.
Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame.
They’d come a long way together, from teenage mathletes to MIT frat brothers to crypto billionaires.
Now the feds were closing in on both — and one was going to turn on the other.
“We can make this work,” Sam Bankman-Fried said over Signal, an encrypted messaging app.
Gary Wang didn’t reply.
This says Bankman-Fried is toast. How long he actually remains in jail is something we just have to wait on.
His fatal torture was a tragic culmination—not of racism, but of the racism-in-policing narrative.
Is U.S. policing in a death spiral? Yes, as long as the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by five Memphis police officers is portrayed as a manifestation of racism. The problems underlying that horrifying episode—the recruitment crisis, lax hiring standards, and depolicing—will worsen, intensified by the very policies ostensibly adopted to prevent another such travesty. The vicious circle of rising crime and a flight from the profession will accelerate.
A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Catholic bishop who was found shot to death inside his Los Angeles home over the weekend.
Sheriff’s deputies responded to Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell’s Hacienda Heights home Saturday afternoon, where they found the clergyman with a gunshot wound to his upper torso in his bed. The 69-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.
The following day, deputies officially said they were investigating O’Connell’s death as a murder before announcing on Monday that they have made an arrest.
A Canadian couple recently learned that their home was sold by fraudsters without their consent while they were out of town. Experts say theft of this nature is rare, but there has been a notable rise of similar cases in the country’s most populous city.
Early this year, Toronto police said they wanted the public’s help in catching two people who were involved in a complex fraud scheme.
The individuals, police said, had used fake identities to pose as owners of a home in the city. They then successfully sold the home, handing over the keys to the unsuspecting new owners.
Two 17-year-old boys have been charged in Thursday’s “brazen” noon-hour, drive-by shooting of a 15-year-old student in the parking lot at Weston Collegiate Institute.
Toronto Police say the victim, who managed to make his way inside the school afterwards to get help, is currently in “critically stable” condition.
America’s worst shot! Gunman shoots NYC deli worker at point-blank range and then returns with AR-15 and shoots him multiple times AGAIN – yet he somehow survives and calls the cops!
This is the terrifying moment a masked gunman opens fire at a shopkeeper in a Queens deli with a handgun – before going back and shooting at him with an AR-15 rifle.
Donnie Hudson, 35, walked into the Express Deli in South Ozone Park, Queens, on Wednesday afternoon, where he shot the shopkeeper of the bodega multiple times.
He rained down bullets on the 47-year-old, who miraculously survived the attack despite being shot at repeatedly – and was hit in the eye.
Five former Memphis police officers charged with murder over the death of Tyre Nichols have pleaded not guilty in their first court appearance.
Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr, Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith were involved in the arrest of Mr Nichols on 7 January.
They were fired after an internal investigation by the Memphis Police Department.
Mr Nichols’ death sparked protests against police brutality in the US.
A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday suggested he’d lock disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried up pending trial if the accused fraudster continues to improperly use electronic devices while out on bail.
Judge Lewis Kaplan asked federal prosecutors and Bankman-Fried’s attorneys why he should allow the alleged crypto crook to return to his parents’ California house, where he’d be surrounded by unmonitored electronic devices.
He’s displayed enough arrogance to be stupid.
The best friend of one of the murdered University of Idaho students found his pal stabbed to death in bed then called 911, rather than one of the surviving two roommates in the house, according to a report.
NewsNation reported Wednesday that Ethan Chapin was found dead in bed with his girlfriend Xana Kernodle by a longtime buddy, who went as far to check his pulse before calling 911, according to their sources.
Chapin and Kernodle, both 20, were killed on Nov. 13 in a knife attack along with friends Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, at their off-campus home is Moscow, Idaho.
Odd, not sure it means anything that this was not corrected by anyone in the know.
A federal judge slapped a new bail restriction on Sam Bankman-Fried Tuesday, after finding out the disgraced FTX founder has been using a virtual private network (VPN) to watch football in recent weeks.
Prosecutors filed a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan Monday night, alerting him that they discovered Bankman-Fried used a VPN to access the internet on Jan. 29 and Feb. 12, raising concerns that his use of a private network prevents them from monitoring his behavior online.
Odd