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BERKELEY, Calif. — Police have arrested the ex-wife of a University of California, Berkeley professor for allegedly arranging his murder earlier this month in Athens, Greece, according to the victim’s family. Przemyslaw Jeziorski, 43, was gunned down outside of his ex-wife’s home in what was described at the time as a gang-style killing. RELATED: UC Berkeley professor killed in Greece …

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man indicted Tuesday on charges he fatally shot the Democratic leader in the Minnesota state House and her husband, and wounded another lawmaker and his wife, confessed to the crimes in a rambling handwritten letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, but didn’t say why he targeted the couples, prosecutors said. Vance Boelter also wrote in the …

Facebook Tweet Email Link (CNN) — Vance Boelter was indicted Tuesday on federal charges related to the killing of a Minnesota lawmaker and her spouse, and seriously injuring another state lawmaker and his wife. Boelter is accused of killing former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and seriously injuring Minnesota State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife last …

President Donald Trump was “merely asking a question” when he asked the Ukrainian president whether the country could strike Moscow, the White House says. Citing anonymous sources, the Financial Times reported that Trump on 4 July had privately encouraged Ukraine to escalate strikes on Russia if the US provided long-range weapons. But Trump was “merely asking a question, not encouraging …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Calls to 911 reporting a fire at an assisted-living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, began coming in shortly after 9:30 p.m. Sunday, marking the start of a prolonged emergency response to rescue the roughly 70 people who lived there, many of whom were wheelchair-bound or dependent on oxygen tanks. Despite the efforts of scores of firefighters …

A California man accused of killing his wife and in-laws and dumping his wife’s remains in a trash bin has died by suicide in jail, according to his lawyer and law enforcement sources. Samuel Bond Haskell, 37, was arrested in November 2023 in connection with the killings of his wife, Mei Haskell, her mother, Yanxiang Wang, and her stepfather, Gaoshan …

Nicolae Ștefănuță, one of the sitting Vice Presidents of the European Parliament, posted a call to action on Instagram urging Europeans to sign the Stop Killing Games petition. The topic of games being shut down permanently has been a hotly contested one, with Video Games Europe and creators like Pirate Software voicing potential issues with legislature against sunsetting games. However, …

Video Games Europe has released a five-page document doubling down on its stance against the Stop Killing Games initiative, expanding on a previous statement they released days prior. Stop Killing Games is a consumer-focused movement that aims to prevent online games from becoming permanently unplayable after official support from developers has ended. First introduced by YouTuber Accursed Farms in April …