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HE TOLD detectives he stabbed his 14-year-old girlfriend’s mother to death after she caught the pair having sex in a car, according to prosecutors.

The events promote Snowden’s credentials as a whistleblower whose disclosures triggered significant changes in the U.S. surveillance laws.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the report will help provide a "road map" for changes already underway in the department.

THE family of a Muslim boy who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school has sued Texas school officials, saying they violated the 14-year-old boy’s civil rights.

Delta flights resuming

Frustrated travelers experienced long waits at airports worldwide today as Delta Air Lines grounded all flights because of a computer system outage.

Prosapio said the park was closed and would remain closed on Monday. She added that a full investigation would be conducted on the ride.

Police outside the US city of Baltimore shot and killed a woman holed up with a five-year-old boy.

A PILOT has been forced to tackle a passenger who allegedly shoved a flight attendant to the ground and threatened to break the captain’s jaw.

A Missouri police officer, though, told the AP that Nichols was arrested there in 2000 on a felony driving while intoxicated charge. The case was resolved two years later when he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor version of the charge.

At least one person has been killed, and four injured in Austin, Texas after two separate shootings in the downtown area of the city, emergency services and police stated.

Five people were detained by police, but it's unclear if any were believed to be a shooter.

Police said they have detained three adults in relation to the shooting.

PATROL car video shows a white Austin, Texas, police officer violently throwing a black woman to the ground during a traffic stop, followed by another white officer telling her black people have “violent tendencies” and whites are justifiably afraid.

As Trump prepared to close out the convention on Thursday, his remarks have been vetted via software that ferrets out plagiarism, seeking to avoid the kinds of problems that followed wife Melania Trump's speech on Monday.

Cellphone footage has surfaced of the moments leading up to the police shooting and arrest of an unarmed caretaker in Miami as he lay on the ground with his hands in the air.

Several shots have been fired at police officers in Brooklyn from a car that fled the scene of the shooting during which no one was hurt. An active search for the four suspects is underway.

A crane collapsed across the Tappan Zee Bridge on Tuesday, injuring at least two people and halting traffic in both directions, authorities said.

A JUDGE has cleared the highest-ranking police officer in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who was critically injured in a police transport van.

Three police officers were fatally shot in Baton Rouge and three others were wounded, according to officials, in what one witness described as a fusillade of dozens of shots shattering the calm of a Sunday morning.