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Top DHS official warns of ‘absolute threat’ to public safety, economy from organized retail crime

Top DHS official warns of ‘absolute threat’ to public safety, economy from organized retail crime

The Home Depot (NEW YORK) — The surveillance video, from earlier this year, is startling: Four masked men march in a line through a Home Depot store in New York — two of them looking like menacing bodyguards — while the two others confidently push carts stacked with almost a […]

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Three teens charged after village’s swan killed, then eaten: Police

Three teens charged after village’s swan killed, then eaten: Police

James Warwick/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A beloved swan was reported missing from a New York state village’s pond on Monday. Three teenagers are now accused of killing the mother swan, who was then eaten, authorities said. The three teens face felony charges in connection with the death of Faye, […]

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Elderly man, passerby help save sleeping family from New Jersey house fire

Elderly man, passerby help save sleeping family from New Jersey house fire

WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — A father and his four children were saved from an early morning house fire by a neighbor and a passerby who saw smoke coming from the home’s garage and were able to alert the sleeping family, police said. The fire was reported around 5:35 a.m. Wednesday […]

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Inside the movement to ban caste discrimination across the US

Inside the movement to ban caste discrimination across the US

ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — Some South Asians, many miles away from their homes, say they are suffering from experiences with discrimination that dates back to thousands of years. From job rejections to unsupported marriages, they claim that severe harassment from the caste system crossed over into America and has gone […]

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Man with weapons arrested after allegedly spotted with gun near a California movie theater: Police

Man with weapons arrested after allegedly spotted with gun near a California movie theater: Police

Placer County Sheriff’s Office (TAHOE CITY, Calif.) — A man found with an arsenal of weapons was arrested after a person near a local California movie theater spotted him with a gun and called 911, authorities said. Police arrested 42-year-old Thomas Alexander of Oregon after conducting a traffic stop near the […]

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Lawyer arrested in over decade-old rapes after being identified by genetic genealogy

Lawyer arrested in over decade-old rapes after being identified by genetic genealogy

urbazon/Getty Images (BOSTON) — Police have arrested 35-year-old Matthew J. Nilo, a former Boston attorney, in connection with several decades-old rapes that took place in Boston. Officials said they were able to identify the suspect using forensic genetic genealogy. Nilo has been charged with three counts of aggravated rape, two counts […]

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The challenges to US security posed by ‘salad bar’ extremism

The challenges to US security posed by ‘salad bar’ extremism

Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A Hispanic man accused of shooting and killing eight people at an outlet mall in Texas earlier this month held a mix of views consistent with neo-Nazism and involuntary celibate extremist ideologies, authorities said. Though a motive for the suspect, who was shot and killed […]

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Wildfires in eastern Canada affecting air quality in major US cities

Wildfires in eastern Canada affecting air quality in major US cities

Gary Hershorn / Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Wildfires burning in Canada continue to create hazardous air quality conditions in several states in the northern U.S. Plumes of smoke from the fires blazing in Halifax, Nova Scotia, began drifting over New York City and the tri-state area on Tuesday, […]

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Son desperate for answers in wake of Iowa apartment collapse: ‘My dad’s in there and there’s nothing I can do’

Son desperate for answers in wake of Iowa apartment collapse: ‘My dad’s in there and there’s nothing I can do’

Branden Colvin, one of the residents still missing after a building collapsed in Davenport, Iowa, is shown in this undated photo. — Obtained by ABC News (DAVENPORT, Iowa) — It’s been nearly 72 hours since a Davenport, Iowa, apartment building partially collapsed, possibly trapping two men inside, including resident Branden […]

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Limo company operator sentenced to 5 to 15 years for manslaughter in crash that killed 20

(ALBANY, N.Y.) — A limousine company operator was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison Wednesday in connection to a 2018 crash in upstate New York that left 20 people dead. Nauman Hussain was found guilty of 20 counts of second-degree manslaughter earlier this month. Hussain was sentenced to […]

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