A Palm Springs, Calif., fertility clinic was damaged on Saturday in what the mayor called “an apparent explosion.” Reports of a loud boom and images of broken glass and billowing smoke began to be shared on social media around 11 a.m. local time. The mayor, Ron deHarte, said there were still structures on fire in […]
Eight people in one small house in a South African township were found shot dead, the police said on Saturday, the latest such mass shooting in a country battling a wave of gun violence and gang turf wars. Six men and two women, ages 22 to 40, were found “lying in a pool of blood […]
A British man who served 38 years in prison for murder had his conviction overturned on Tuesday after forensic evidence from the crime scene was tested and found not to match his DNA. The man, Peter Sullivan, 68, is thought to be the victim of the country’s longest miscarriage of justice involving a living prisoner. […]
A 16-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of murder in Sweden, the authorities said on Wednesday, after three people were fatally shot the day before, in the latest blow to a country grappling with high levels of gun violence compared to its European peers. The three victims were found in a hair salon in the […]
A jury in Grand Rapids, Mich., began hearing testimony on Monday in the murder trial of a white former police officer who fatally shot a Black man as the two scuffled on the ground after a traffic stop in 2022. There is no dispute about the basic sequence of events that began as the officer, […]
Massacres have spread across once-quiet towns on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, in the deadliest outbreak of sectarian violence since rebels toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad. Christina Goldbaum, The New York Times’s bureau chief in Syria, traveled to the area to get a sense of who was responsible. Source link
