WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has seized two sanctioned oil tankers linked to Venezuela in back-to-back actions in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean, officials said Wednesday. U.S. European Command announced the seizure of the merchant vessel Bella 1 for “violations of U.S. sanctions” in a social medial post. The …
Read More »Man identified as the Brown University, MIT shooter left video confession to killings, details on planning, DOJ says
BOSTON (AP) — The man identified by law enforcement as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor had been planning the attack for months and left behind videos in which he confessed to the murders, according to information released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of …
Read More »Maduro says ‘I was captured’ as he pleads not guilty to drug trafficking charges
NEW YORK (AP) — A defiant Nicolás Maduro declared himself “the president of my country” as he protested his capture and pleaded not guilty Monday to federal drug trafficking charges that the Trump administration used to justify removing him from power in Venezuela. “I was captured,” Maduro said in Spanish as translated …
Read More »Christmas Eve winner in Arkansas lands a $1.817 billion Powerball lottery jackpot
A Powerball ticket purchased at a gas station outside Little Rock, Arkansas, won a $1.817 billion jackpot in Wednesday’s Christmas Eve drawing, ending the lottery game’s three-month stretch without a top-prize winner. The winning numbers were 04, 25, 31, 52 and 59, with the Powerball number being 19. The winning ticket was …
Read More »Brown University police chief placed on leave after fatal shooting, feds launch investigation
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University’s president on Monday placed its campus police chief on leave as the Rhode Island university reviews its security policies after a gunman killed two students and injured nine others earlier this month. Questions surrounding Brown’s security policies have only intensified since the Dec. 13 shooting that rocked …
Read More »Man suspected in shooting at Brown University has been found dead in New Hampshire, AP source says
UPDATED: PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A man who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others at Brown University has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility, officials said. Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot …
Read More »Police are investigating link between Brown shooting and killing of MIT professor, AP sources say
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities said Thursday that they’re looking into a connection between last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and an attack two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That is according to three people familiar with the matter …
Read More »Authorities renew search for the Brown University shooter after releasing a person of interest
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Police renewed their search Monday for the gunman who killed two Brown University students and wounded nine others, a day after they released a person of interest after determining the evidence pointed “in a different direction.” Authorities announced the man’s release at news conference late Sunday, marking a …
Read More »Rob Reiner’s son Nick arrested after director and his wife found dead at their Los Angeles home
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rob Reiner’s younger son, Nick Reiner, was in police custody Monday for what investigators believe was the fatal stabbing of the director-actor and his wife at their Los Angeles home a day earlier, police said. Police Chief Jim McDonnell said Nick Reiner, 32, has been “booked for murder” …
Read More »The Latest: A person is in custody after deadly Brown University shooting leaves 2 dead, 9 wounded
Police in Rhode Island say they have a person of interest in custody after a shooting at Brown University killed two students and wounded nine others. The incident happened Saturday afternoon in a classroom during final exams. The shooting paralyzed the campus, with students sheltering in place for hours. Nine students with …
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