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Right-wing influencer's fraud claim leads to threats for Somali daycare owners, DOJ's initial release of Epstein files left many questions unanswered, dozens killed in Swiss Alps bar fire....
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Right-wing influencer's fraud claim leads to threats for Somali daycare owners, DOJ's initial release of Epstein files left many questions unanswered, dozens killed in Swiss Alps bar fire....
Amazon settled with the FTC for $2.5 billion following an investigation by Business Insider. Leon Neal/Getty Images Amazon settled with the FTC for $2.5 billion last year over claims it mis-sold Prime...
A judge has ordered the government to explain why Lindsey Halligan is still using the title of U.S. attorney despite a judge ruling she is legally not in the position....
Thousands of households in Berlin might have to wait several days for power, amid freezing temperatures after an outage caused by possible arson. Mayor Kai Wegner called the attack "terrorism."...
Hacken says Web3 losses climbed to nearly $4 billion in 2025, with North Korea behind over half the damage, and regulators under pressure to turn security guidance into hard rules....
Police body camera video shows Santa Claus being pulled over for speeding in Ohio, with officers reminding him that even Kris Kringle has to follow the rules of the road....
The man had pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group and was allegedly planning a knife-and-hammer attack in North Carolina. Undercover agents foiled the terror plot, the FBI said....
In a sobering decision, one drunk thief apparently changed his tune and returned two mandolins that he had previously stolen, according to the owner of a New Jersey vintage guitar store....
Prosecutors cited sabotage and arson among the possible crimes in a suspected far-left attack on Berlin's power supply. A group claiming the attack said it was targeting "the fossil fuel economy."...
Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to "triple your crypto," according to a thr...
The clips are filmed from different angles. Some are zoomed in, making them indecipherably grainy, and others are slowed down. Some are 20 seconds while others are longer, sandwiched by commentary fro...
Character.AI and Google have reached settlements with several families whose teens harmed themselves or died by suicide after interacting with Character.AI 's chatbots, according to new court filings....
Newly obtained video by ABC News shows the moments leading up to the fatal shooting of Renee Good. Tensions continue to flare in Minneapolis ICE officer fatally shot the 37-year-old woman....
Turkish special police detained more than 100 suspected members of the "Islamic State" terrorist group that they said were planning on carrying out attacks during Christmas and New Year celebrations i...
Investigators have placed one of the owners of the bar where a blaze quickly spread at a New Year party in pretrial detention. Meanwhile, Switzerland held a ceremony to mourn the dozens of victims....
Iranian forces "behaved with savage brutality" when they recently stormed a hospital in Ilam province, said a nurse who works there. The latest bout of mass protests poses a serious challenge to the r...
Some 7,000 households in the German capital have electricity once more after an outage caused by possible arson. But tens of thousands more might have to wait several days for power, amid freezing tem...
Fed chief Jerome Powell. Li Yuanqing/Xinhua via Getty Images Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced grand jury subpoenas from the Department of Justice. Powell linked the subpoenas to the Trump...
A fire at the Le Constellation bar in the ski resort town of Crans-Montana killed 40 and injured 116 people on New Year's Eve. Swiss authorities have launched a criminal probe into the bar managers....
An ICE agent has shot a woman dead in Minneapolis. US President Donald Trump claims that she tried to run him over. DW Fact Check has analyzed two videos, and explains why Trump's assertion is clearly...