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iStock/ChiccoDodiFC (BOISE, Idaho) — Two people were killed and four others, including a Boise police officer, were injured in a shooting at a mall in Boise, Idaho, police said. One person is in custody, Boise police said. Boise Police Chief Ryan Lee told reporters that police were working to notify the victims’ families. “I cannot stress enough how traumatic enough this event was for the community at large,” he said at a news conference. Police responded to reports of shots fired at the Boise Towne Square Mall on N. Milwaukee…

iStock/ChiccoDodiFC (BOISE, Idaho) — Six people, including a Boise police officer, have been injured in a shooting at a mall in Boise, Idaho, police said. One person is in custody, Boise police said. Police responded to reports of shots fired at the Boise Towne Square Mall on N. Milwaukee Street, authorities said. The roads leading to the mall were closed as the investigation continued. Officers were working to clear each business in the mall, police said, adding that there’s no information about additional threats. This is a developing story. Please…

iStock/nirat (NEW YORK) — Lawyers for the drug kingpin known as El Chapo argued Monday for a new trial, insisting “breathtaking jury misconduct” and an “unparalleled set of stifling defense restrictions” marred his conviction. Joaquin Guzman, 64, was sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty in February 2019 of running an industrial-sized drug trafficking operation, the Sinaloa cartel, one of the world’s largest, most profitable and most ruthless drug smuggling organizations. Guzman’s attorney, Marc Fernich, argued El Chapo did not get a fair trial because his solitary…

Chaz Bharj/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 4.9 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 735,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. Just 67.2% of Americans ages 12 and up are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Here’s how the news is developing. All times Eastern: Oct 25, 10:23 am Cases dropping across US but rising in some Midwest,…

Chaz Bharj/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 4.9 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 735,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. Just 67% of Americans ages 12 and up are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Here’s how the news is developing. All times Eastern: Oct 25, 10:23 am Cases dropping across US but rising in some Midwest,…

kali9/iStock (HOUSTON) — The remains of a 9-year-old boy have been discovered in a Houston home along with three abandoned children, authorities said. One of the children, a 15-year-old, said his 9-year-old brother had been dead for one year and his body was in the room next to his, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said Monday. The 15-year-old and the other two children — boys under the age of 10 — were found home alone on Sunday, the sheriff said. Both younger kids “appeared malnourished and showed signs of physical…

WPVI (PHILADELPHIA) — Joshua Corneilius, 17, should be enjoying his senior year of high school, but instead, he is constantly worried about the violence occurring both inside and outside of his North Philadelphia school. In the last year, nine kids at Simon Gratz High School were shot to death — three of them just last month, the school’s principal, Leyondo Dunn, told ABC News. “It’s a war zone, like with the drugs, with the guns, with the violence, it’s a real war zone. It’s a real dog-eat-dog world, like it’s…

Jon Rehg/iStock (CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) — A dark moment in U.S. history is set to be revisited when a federal civil trial begins in Charlottesville, Virginia, over a violent 2017 white nationalist rally that ended with an alleged neo-Nazi ramming his car into counterprotesters, killing one and injuring more than 30. Jury selection is scheduled to get underway on Monday in the high-profile civil case in the U.S. district court in Charlottesville against organizers and certain participants of the “Unite the Right” rally. Nine people injured over the two-day event are…

Wachiwit/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Hate crimes against people of Asian descent rose by 76% in 2020, according to newly republished data by the FBI. The FBI previously issued hate crime data in August, but due to an error in reporting Ohio’s statistics, the data was incomplete. The FBI has now corrected the technical problem in Ohio’s reporting system. In 2020, 279 hate crime incidents against individuals of Asian descent were reported, compared to 158 incidents reported in 2019. More than 60% of hate crimes in the United States were carried out…