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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian charity worker who has been jailed in Iran for almost five years, has had her ankle monitor removed, but now faces another trial on separate charges, according to her husband. Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been under house arrest for almost a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Her five-year sentence was due to

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian charity worker who has been jailed in Iran for almost five years, has had her ankle monitor removed, according to a British lawmaker. Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been under house arrest because of the coronavirus pandemic. On Sunday, British MP Tulip Siddiq, who has been in touch with Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s family, said Zaghari-Ratcliffe had

Debra Barnes Wilson was 8 on “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Alabama. She and her grandmother, Julia Barnes, joined the voting rights marchers, filing in at the back of the column, but turned back because the elder, an asthmatic, grew short of breath. The girl’s grandmother, who raised her, lived in George Washington Carver Homes, across

The fridges are here but the shots are not. Doctor Sibylle Katzenstein spent thousands kitting out her Berlin practice so she could administer Covid-19 vaccines as fast as possible, but she is yet to receive a single dose. “It would have been nice if I had at least 10 vaccines in my fridge. It cost

They say a dog is a man’s best friend. For one New Jersey man, his rescue dog has become much more than that. Sadie, a 100-pound German Shepherd, had been turned away by three shelters by the time she arrived at the Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge in Oakland, New Jersey, in early 2020. Sadie was very

One person was shot to death Saturday night in Minneapolis at the same intersection where George Floyd died last year — an area that has since become a memorial site. “The victim and the suspect had a verbal disagreement, and the suspect shot the victim,” Minneapolis Police Department spokesman John Elder said. Police responded to

When Australia’s attorney general last week outed himself as the minister accused of raping a 16-year-old girl in 1988, his denial was emphatic. “The things that I have read did not happen, and to suggest that they could be forgotten is ridiculous,” said Christian Porter, who oversees legal affairs and national security, before starting a

The Police Accountability Board in Rochester, New York, is calling for fundamental changes in the city’s police department after police said a Black mother was pepper-sprayed during an arrest, which body camera footage showed took place in front of her 3-year-old child. The incident is the latest involving Rochester police officers that have prompted widespread

Newly-released police body camera footage shows a California man telling Fresno police officers, county sheriff’s deputies and paramedics that he can’t breathe as they restrain him in the moments before he died in 2017. In an introduction to the edited video released Friday, former Fresno Police Chief Andrew Hall said 41-year-old Joseph Perez was contacted

A 12-year-old boy was arrested Thursday evening after a series of attempted armed carjackings and one successful one in Washington, DC. All four incidents happened in the span of one hour, according to a Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) news release. The boy was arrested by the MPD on the same day and charged with four

Click here for updates on this story     HARTFORD, Connectitcut (WFSB) — A Hartford father lost his life after heroically saving his daughters from drowning. The tragedy happening on a family vacation to Puerto Rico. The family is now running into obstacles in bringing their father’s body back home. On Christmas, the Gonzalez family surprised their