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NEW YORK (AP) — Before a suspect was even publicly named, President Donald Trump declared that whoever gunned down 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue should "suffer the ultimate price" and that the death penalty should be brought back "into vogue." Trump has largely gotten his wish, at least on the federal level, with death penalty cases ticking back up under his Justice Department after a near-moratorium on such prosecutions in President Barack Obama's last term, when he directed a broad review of capital punishment and issues surrounding l...
NEW YORK (AP) — Defense attorneys for the man charged in the failed pipe bombing of the New York subway last year have asked a federal judge to quiz prospective jurors about their exposure to recent media coverage of pipe bombs mailed around the country. Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi immigrant, is scheduled to stand trial Monday in Manhattan on terrorism-related charges and using a weapon of mass destruction. He has pleaded not guilty. Ullah was the only person seriously hurt when the bomb went off Dec. 11 in a corridor linking subways under M...
NEW YORK (AP) — A bomb was found in a mailbox at the suburban New York home of George Soros, the liberal billionaire philanthropist who has been denounced by President Donald Trump and vilified by right-wing conspiracy theorists, authorities said Tuesday. Federal agents safely detonated the device after being summoned Monday by a security officer at the sprawling, wooded compound, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Manhattan. The 88-year-old Soros was not home at the time. Laura Silber, a spokeswoman for Soros' Open Society Foundations, b...
NEW ORLEANS (AP, posted Sept. 10, 2016) – For months after the early morning raid, the legal fate of Ender Darling remained as murky as a moonless night. The self-styled witch fled New Orleans in the wake of a controversy over collecting human bones and, in a defiant interview, accused law enforcement of overreacting to a Facebook post that had advertised the usefulness of "leftover" human remains. Darling, 25, was not taken into custody in January, even after authorities found nearly a dozen bones and four teeth at a Mid-City residence – spe...
