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New FBI data confirms previous indications that crime in the U.S. declined significantly in 2023, continuing a post-pandemic trend and belying widespread perceptions that crime is rising. The new fourth-quarter numbers showed a 13% decline in murder in 2023 from 2022, a 6% decline in reported violent crime and a 4% decline …

A U.S. missionary who’s been traveling back and forth to Haiti for more than a dozen years helping run a school and an orphanage says it was “frightening” being trapped in the country for three weeks. Miriam Cinotti was stuck in a remote village in the south of Haiti for …

WASHINGTON — When thousands of dollars’ worth of pure methamphetamine was found in a car driven by Delilah Guadalupe Diaz, she claimed she didn’t know about the illegal cargo. Diaz’s argument at trial failed, but her legal fight continued, with the Supreme Court on Tuesday considering whether prosecutors could submit …

JACKSON, Miss. — A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy who was part of a self-described “Goon Squad” was sentenced Tuesday to about 20 years in prison for his part in torturing two Black men last year, after a neighbor complained that the men were staying in a home with a white …

DAJABON, Dominican Republic — Human rights activists are calling on the Dominican Republic’s government for a temporary reprieve in deportations as neighboring Haiti’s crisis spirals and people attempt to flee over the closed border from a surge in deadly gang violence. Small trucks with customized cages are ferrying dozens of Haitians every …

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday reiterated plans to launch an offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, less than 24 hours after President Joe Biden warned against precisely such a move in a call with the Israeli leader.  Netanyahu’s defiant message came during the opening of the Foreign …

A 3-year-old child was behind the wheel of a truck that hit and killed a 2-year-old girl over the weekend in California, authorities say.  The 2-year-old girl was standing near a taco stand at the edge of a parking lot at a gas station in the 300 block of West …

Republican Nebraska state Sen. Steve Halloran is facing calls to resign after he inserted a colleague’s name into a passage he read during a floor debate from a book’s rape scene that included graphic detail. Halloran apologized on the Senate floor Tuesday morning, defending his decision to read the passage …

Investigators have named a second suspect in connection to the murder of a Maryland high school student more than 50 years ago. Donald Willard was identified using forensic genetic genealogy and traditional investigative methods in the 1970 murder of 16-year-old Pamela Lynn Conyers, the Anne Arundel County Police Department announced …

Due to a “big mistake” rocker Huey Lewis will probably never live down, the new Broadway musical based on his music won’t include one very notable song: a custom composition written by Bob Dylan. Lewis spoke to Jimmy Kimmel on Monday night to promote the jukebox musical “The Heart of …

MIAMI — Former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro, who was convicted of contempt of Congress last year, is set to surrender Tuesday at a federal Bureau of Prisons facility in Miami to begin serving his four-month sentence. Before turning himself in, Navarro held a press conference in a strip-mall parking …

Sydney Sweeney said in a recent interview with GQ UK that starring in Sony’s “Madame Web” was a “strategic business decision” that more or less paid off despite the film being one of the year’s most infamous box office flops. In Sweeney’s eyes, “Madame Web” got her in the door at Sony Pictures …

A fight involving numerous people left a Missouri girl hospitalized in critical condition after what officials are calling a “deranged display of violence.” Detectives with the St. Louis County Police Department are investigating the March 8 brawl, which was captured on video and posted to social media. The horrific video …

A Minnesota appeals court has sent the lawsuit brought by a transgender athlete back to a trial court to determine whether she was illegally denied entry into women’s competitions because of her gender identity. JayCee Cooper, a transgender woman, sued USA Powerlifting in 2021 after the organization denied her 2018 …

MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin took to the Red Square stage Monday for an election celebration that seemed to carry a grander message for the flag-waving crowd of thousands, and for the world: Having extended his rule over Russia, his focus would be tightening his grip on Ukrainian territory. “Together, hand …

LONDON — A shopping trip may never have received such scrutiny. After more than a week of speculation and rumor about the whereabouts and health of Kate, the Princess of Wales, a grainy video emerged appearing to show her out with her husband, Prince William. That might have been the …

OSSIPEE, N.H. — A New Hampshire man appeared in court Monday on charges that he killed a pregnant woman and her unborn child by means of multiple blunt force injuries, the first time the state has charged someone with murder in the death of a fetus. William Kelly, 28, appeared …

Former Olympic gold medal champion Caitlyn Jenner has come out in support of a New York county’s ban on girls’ and women’s sports teams that include transgender athletes from using the county’s public facilities, saying that transgender athletes should not be able to compete in women’s sports. “Trans women are …

An Oregon man has been found guilty of murdering a college student in 1980 after he was linked to the case decades later by DNA genetic genealogy and chewing gum he discarded.  Robert Plympton, 60, was found guilty of one count of first-degree murder in the death of Barbara Mae …

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Donald Trump’s name is not on the ballot Tuesday in Ohio’s Republican Senate primary.  But his clout is very much on the line. The former president and presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee endorsed Bernie Moreno, a former car dealer and blockchain entrepreneur, in a race that the …