Floral tributes to Alexey Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe who reportedlydied Friday in a Russian penal colony, were removed overnight by groups of unidentified people while police watched, videos on Russian social media show. More than 401 people were detained in cities across Russia after they came to lay flowers in memory of Navalny, according to OVD-Info, a group …
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Floridalma Roque arrived at the Perfektima clinic in Guatemala City on the morning of June 13 for a scheduled plastic surgery. A day later, Roque, a U.S. citizen, had disappeared without a trace. Roque’s family has been searching for her since then, and the experience has left them feeling lonely and desperate as they try to navigate two criminal justice …
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Russia said its forces took complete control Saturday of a city in eastern Ukraine that was the focus of intense combat for months, a development that Moscow could use to boost morale as the second anniversary of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches with the war largely at a stalemate. The Russian Defense Ministry’s announcement came the same day Ukraine’s …
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Police are investigating a quadruple homicide in Birmingham, Alabama. On Friday afternoon, officers were dispatched to a report of multiple shots fired and found four victims lying unresponsive on the ground near an open lot, the Birmingham Police Department said in a news release. All four had apparent gunshot wounds. The four men were identified as Terrell Edwards, 38; Kevin …
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“You’re not allowed to give up.” That was the central message Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny wanted to stress to his supporters in the event of his death. He said it in an Oscar-winning 2022 documentary about his life by Canadian director Daniel Roher, in which Navalny spoke about his political ideals and surviving a purported poisoning attack. “If they …
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CHICAGO (CBS) — The cause of death has been determined for a 5-year-old boy who was living in a migrant shelter in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood back in December. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office reported Friday that Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero died of sepsis due to an infection with streptococcus pyogenes – the bacterium that causes strep throat. An infection …
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Kansas City, Missouri — Among those wounded in the shootingat the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade was 10-year-old Samuel Arellano, who had attended with his grandfather and worn his jersey of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Arellano on Friday showed CBS News where he was shot, near his upper ribcage. A woman was killed in Wednesday’s shooting and 22 others …
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Gold has been used as an investmentand a form of currency for hundreds of years — and it offers a number of other unique benefits, too. So, it’s hardly surprising that many investors choose toadd gold to their investment portfolios. However, it’s typically best to purchase assets when prices are low and sell them when prices are high. And, it …
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Australian police offered a $1 million award Friday for help solving the cold case of a mother who was murdered 45 years ago. Mary Anne Fagan, a homemaker with five young children, was found stabbed to death in 1978 at her Armadale home, Victoria police said. Detectives said in a statement they “believe that it is possible there are still …
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The chief medical officer for the Customs and Border Protection agency repeatedly asked staff members to order fentanyl lollipops for him to take on a helicopter mission to the United Nations in New York City in Sept. 2023, according to a whistleblower report by the Government Accountability Project. The report was shared with Congress on Friday morning, and stated that …
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