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NYC officials investigating stun gun arrest of migrant holding baby caught on tape

Tim Drivas Photography/GETTY Images(NEW YORK) -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams says NYPD officers took "appropriate action" during a violent altercation with a migrant in a city-operated shelter in the borough of Queens that was caught on camera.In a video obtained by The New York Times, officers can be seen repeatedly striking and using a stun gun on the man, identified by the NYPD as 47-year-old Yanny Cordero, while he’s holding his 1-year-old child.A police source described the deployment […]

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NTSB to hold investigative hearing on Alaska Airlines door plug incident

Image Source/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a two-day investigative hearing on the Alaska Air door plug incident, the agency announced Tuesday.The hearing will take place on Aug. 6 and 7, with the location and other details to be announced at a later date, the NTSB said.The door plug of Alaska Airlines flight 1282 fell off a few minutes after take off from Portland International Airport on Jan. 5. Passengers captured footage showing a hole […]

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Three women and a dog found dead in two separate apartments as suspect is shot and killed by police

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images(LAS VEGAS) -- Three women and a dog were found dead in two separate apartments in Las Vegas as police say they shot and killed a potential suspect in the case who confronted them with a firearm, authorities say.The incident began on Tuesday afternoon at approximately 3:15 p.m. when officers from the North Las Vegas Police Department (NLVPD) responded to an apartment complex in the 2200 block of E. Nelson Avenue after somebody reported shots being fired nearby […]

todayMarch 13, 2024

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Video shows James Crumbley told police where to find guns after son’s school shooting

Bill Pugliano/Getty Images(PONTIAC, Mich.) -- In a prosecution that has largely mirrored evidence from his wife's trial, previously unseen video was shown in court Tuesday of James Crumbley telling police where to find guns in their home before authorities executed a search warrant in the hours after Ethan Crumbley, the couple's son, killed four people in a school shooting in Michigan.James Crumbley is facing four counts of involuntary manslaughter in the November 2021 shooting at Oxford High School, when his […]

todayMarch 12, 2024

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Uvalde police chief announces his resignation after independent investigation

Brandon Bell/Getty Images(UVALDE, Texas.) -- Daniel Rodriguez, the police chief of Uvalde, Texas, announced his resignation on Tuesday. Rodriguez confirmed to ABC News that the resignation will take effect April 6.The news comes less than one week after the Uvalde City Council released the findings of the independent report it commissioned to investigate the actions of Uvalde police officers who responded to the May 24, 2022, mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. The investigation determined none of the initial five […]

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US troops en route to Gaza coast in deployment families say was a shock

Anne Falherty, ABC News(NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) -- Hundreds of U.S. troops are now en route to the Gaza coast to build a massive floating pier off the war-torn enclave that will open up a desperately needed route for humanitarian aid promised by President Joe Biden.The deployment order, delivered to the troops shortly before Biden announced the effort in his State of the Union address last Thursday, comes five months after the start of the war in Gaza and as Israel […]

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How the crime of counterfeiting is making a comeback

Getty Images - STOCK(MINNEAPOLIS) -- The U.S. dollar is perhaps the most recognized in the world, accepted nearly everywhere and viewed as one of the most reliable, stable currencies of any nation. Which is why, at a time when consumers swipe or tap a card to pay for most anything, the U.S. Secret Service reported that they seized nearly 22 million dollars in counterfeit cash last year.Counterfeiting is a crime that has existed for millennia, but it really came to […]

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Oregon’s drug decriminalization law rolled back as homelessness, overdoses on the rise

ABC News(Portland, Ore.) -- Three years ago, Oregon decriminalized small amounts of illicit drugs, from fentanyl to methamphetamine to crack.But some state leaders, local residents and others are having second thoughts about the law, which was passed following a 2020 voter-approved ballot initiative. Now cities like Portland have seen a surge in homeless people encamped in the streets using drugs."We're out here every day and we write the same ticket. Some people, sometimes multiple times a day," Portland Police Officer […]

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Universities, museums face new pressure to return Native American human remains

ABC News(HANOVER, N.H.) -- Founded as one of the first schools to educate Native Americans, Dartmouth College is now at the forefront of an effort to rectify what some tribes say has long been an atrocity in plain sight.The school last year revealed that dozens of Native American human remains and burial objects had been discovered in its private collection of art and artifacts. Some had been put on public display and even handled by students in classrooms -- all […]

todayMarch 12, 2024

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