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Moussa Sacko spent his birthday in Mali scrolling through messages from friends with whom he celebrated a year earlier on ...

Reading Notes to John, a new and much-discussed posthumous selection of Joan Didion’s writing, I thought over and over of ...

Such pronunciation overlap, particularly after sound changes deleting final vowels on words became widespread, created ...

A Gold Coast man with a history of drug abuse has admitted beating an associate black and blue with a metal baseball bat, ...

During Trump’s meeting with Bukele, the Salvadoran president balked at requests to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador’s notorious prison, after the Supreme ...

Kirimi, a 36-year-old inmate from Meru, is serving a sentence that will see him remain in jail until 2039. He narrated his ...

In the months that followed the crash, Franklin agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a 7½-year prison sentence, according to both defense and prosecution. Parise says he gave his word to the ...

A former businessman who callously "targeted" a 90-year-old woman for a cruel street robbery has narrowly avoided prison again after breaching a suspended sentence ... by a man whom she did ...

FILE - Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, left, Marcel Malanga and Tyler Thompson, all American citizens, attend a court verdict in Congo, Kinshasa, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, on charges of taking part in ...

The councilor was arrested in December on charges that she ran a kickback scheme with a family member whom she employed in ... The maximum sentence for aiding and abetting wire fraud is up to ...

"I couldn't work with male actors. I couldn't do any of the performances. I was scared. I was actually scared someone was going to abuse me." The abuse has also affected her ability to trust people.