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(WASHINGTON) -- For several years, as U.S. authorities have struggled to stop online extremist networks like "764" from pushing teens to livestream acts of violence or self-harm, including their own suicide, the Justice Department has faced what authorities and victims both say is a vexing challenge: Such coercion is not a federal crime.That could change if the Republican chairman and the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees the Justice […]

(NEW YORK) -- At least four rivers in Washington state are now at major flood stage -- the highest level -- and 11 others are forecast to reach the same level in the next day or two as an atmospheric river delivers heavy rain in the Pacific NorthwestThe multiday event from Washington to Oregon is swelling rivers to near-record levels.The event is forecast to bring up to 7 inches of […]

(NEW YORK) -- One year after his arrest on Dec. 9, 2024, the pretrial hearing in the case of accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione is in its fifth day in a lower Manhattan courtroom.Attorneys for Mangione, who is accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk last December, are seeking to exclude from trial critical evidence that they say was illegally seized from his backpack without a warrant after officers […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- Charges have been upgraded to murder against a man who allegedly attacked and repeatedly stabbed a social worker last week inside a San Francisco hospital after first allegedly threatening a doctor, according to prosecutors.The charges against Wilfredo Jose Tortolero Arriechi, 34, were amended from attempted murder to murder on Monday after the victim died on Saturday, two days after he was stabbed repeatedly inside Zuckerberg San Francisco […]