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Dallas Shooting Suspect Had Extensive Online Footprint but Little on Politics

On social media accounts, the suspect, Joshua Jahn, talked about video games, cars, “South Park” and marijuana — but not so much about politics.

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Members of the F.B.I. outside of the Abogado de Inmigración Manuel Solis building in Dallas, where the suspect was located when shots were fired on Wednesday.
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Boston to Pay $150,000 to 2 Wrongly Accused Black Men in White Woman’s Killing

Boston’s mayor, Michelle Wu, apologized in 2023 to Alan Swanson and Willie Bennett for the actions of police after the 1989 killing of Carol Stuart.

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Alan Swanson, center, was presented with a formal apology by Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston in 2023.
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Woman Is Convicted of Killing Her Children and Leaving Them in Suitcases

Years after Hakyung Lee left New Zealand for her native South Korea, the bodies of her children were found in Auckland. She faces life in prison.

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South Korean police arrested Hakyung Lee in 2022 after the New Zealand police asked for assistance under the terms of an extradition treaty.
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N.C. Senate Republicans Pass Sweeping Crime Bill After Stabbing

The measure would keep more defendants in jail before trial and increase oversight of judicial officials. But it is unclear if it would have made a difference in the August attack.

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Phil Berger, the North Carolina Senate leader, left, with Destin Hall, the State House speaker, during a news conference about the stabbing this month.
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New Hampshire Shooting Suspect Is Arraigned on Murder Charge

Patrons at a country club’s restaurant intervened to stop the gunman, the authorities said. The mother of the man who was killed said he died trying to protect his family.

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A nearby hotel served as a reunification center for restaurant patrons and wedding guests who were hastily evacuated from the country club in Nashua, N.H., after the shooting Saturday.
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Man Is Charged in Shooting at Sky Meadow Country Club in New Hampshire

A 23-year-old was arrested and charged with murder after one person was killed and two more were wounded by gunfire. Officials said people dining at the club intervened to stop the shooter.

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A road leading to the Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua, N.H., after a shooting on Saturday.
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Travis Decker’s Remains Believed to Be Found in Forest, Sheriff Says

A search team recovered remains believed to be those of Travis Decker in a forest about 120 miles east of Seattle, the authorities said.

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Law enforcement officers searching last month for Travis Decker near Leavenworth, Wash. Remains believed to be his have been found, they said Thursday.
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High School Student Is Fatally Shot During F.B.I. and A.T.F. Operation in Pennsylvania

The state police said Kendric Curtis Jr. 18, “discharged a firearm towards them” on Thursday, before being shot by the police.

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Kendrick Curtis Jr., 18, was shot and killed during a joint operation by A.T.F. and F.B.I. agents.
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A Missing Woman, an N.B.A. Hopeful and an Arrest That Shocked a Team

In 2023, Chance Comanche was playing some of the best basketball of his life. His teammates thought he was on his way to the N.B.A. Instead, he was accused of murder.

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Chance Comanche is expected to stand trial next year on murder and kidnapping charges.
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A Domestic Violence Case in Rural Pennsylvania Ended in a Deadly Ambush

Three police officers were killed and two others were injured in York County after encountering a man who was suspected of stalking a former girlfriend.

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Community members gathered for a vigil for the police officers who were killed at the Spring Grove Alliance church in Spring Grove, Pa.
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California Judge Gets 35 Years to Life for Fatally Shooting His Wife

Jeffrey Ferguson, 74, said at his sentencing hearing that the shooting was an accident. “I wish God had taken me instead,” he said.

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Jeffrey Ferguson during his trial in February in Santa Ana, Calif. He has served as a Superior Court judge in Orange County, Calif., since 2015.
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A Note, a Gun and a Mother’s Conscience Led to an Arrest in Kirk’s Killing

The man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk left a trail of evidence and had no way to outrun his parents’ recognition, court documents showed.

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F.B.I. officials last week outside the home of the parents of the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Judge Rejects Bid by Menendez Brothers for New Trial

Erik and Lyle Menendez, who were recently denied parole, have now been blocked from another once-promising path to freedom.

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The Menendez brothers, whose first trial took place in 1990, were each denied parole in August.
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Suspect in Madeleine McCann Disappearance Refuses Interview With UK Police

Christian Brückner, the main suspect in the 2007 case, rejected an interview request ahead of his release this week from a German prison for a separate crime, the British police said.

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Christian Brückner, the main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann in Portugal, at his trial on unrelated sexual assault charges in Braunschweig, Germany, in 2024.
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How Law Enforcement Got the Man Suspected of Killing Charlie Kirk

F.B.I. leaders touted the immense federal deployment assigned to find the assassin. But their big break came with a single tip — from the suspect’s own family.

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Law enforcement officers on Thursday searched a residential area close to Utah Valley University in Orem.
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Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect, Went From Scholarship Winner to Wanted Man

Tyler Robinson, the man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk, was a stellar student in high school, raised in a Republican home in Southwest Utah and training to be an electrician.

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An officer entering the crime scene outside the apartment of Tyler Robinson, on Friday.
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Hopes for Fast Capture of Charlie Kirk’s Shooter Fade as F.B.I. Holds No Suspect

Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, said that the agency’s investigation was continuing, reversing his earlier announcement that someone had been apprehended.

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Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah speaking at a news conference in Orem, Utah, on Wednesday.
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What We Know About the Charlie Kirk Shooting and Search for a Suspect

Mr. Kirk, 31, the founder of a right-wing youth movement, was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

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The tent in which Charlie Kirk was sitting when he was fatally shot on Wednesday while giving a speech at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
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After 20 Years, an Arrest Is Made in Pregnant Texas Woman’s Murder

Advances in DNA testing led to a suspect’s arrest in the killing of Valerie Laguna, 26, who was found beaten to death in a cemetery in Cotulla, Texas, in 2005, the authorities said.

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Valerie Laguna, whose 2005 murder in Cotulla, Texas, went unsolved for two decades, in an undated family photograph. Her father said she was known for “that big beautiful smile she had all the time.”
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California Man Killed 2 Men He Met on Dating App, Authorities Say

Prosecutors said Rockim Prowell, 34, also stole their cars and tried to kill a third man. He was being held without bail.

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Rockim Prowell, 34, was charged with murder on Monday and accused of killing two men he met on dating apps and attempting to kill another,
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Man Accused in Brutal N.C. Rail Slaying Faces Federal Charge

A conviction would make the man, who is accused of killing a Ukrainian refugee on a light rail train in Charlotte, eligible for the federal death penalty.

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The light rail system in Charlotte, N.C., has been a major driver of development south of the city’s downtown area.
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Ukrainian Refugee Stabbing in North Carolina Ignites a Firestorm on the Right

Security footage capturing the unprovoked stabbing in Charlotte became an accelerant for conservative arguments about the perceived failings of Democratic policies.
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Man Killed Retired Auburn Professor at Alabama Dog Park, Police Say

Harold Rashad Dabney III was arrested Sunday on two counts of capital murder in the death of Dr. Julie Schnuelle, 59, a veterinarian and mother whose body was found in a dog park on Saturday.
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Australian Woman, Erin Patterson, Gets Life in Mushroom Murder Case

Erin Patterson was found guilty of murdering three of her husband’s relatives and trying to kill a fourth by serving them deadly mushrooms.

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Erin Patterson being brought to court in Melbourne, Australia, last month.
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