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Prosecutors in the state of Washington have charged 15 current and former members of the Alpha Tau Omega (ATO) fraternity at Washington State University (WSU) in connection with the death of a WSU student in 2019, according to authorities. Sam Martinez, 19, a pledge at the fraternity, died in November 2019 from alcohol poisoning at

After the 2019 elections, Naftali Bennett’s right-wing party failed to cross the electoral threshold and had no seats in Israel’s parliament. Two years later, he’s on the verge of becoming the country’s next prime minister. A former chief of staff to then-opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, Bennett could now unseat his former boss, bringing an end

Climate change doesn’t just threaten the environment. It could ignite serious financial crises, an IMF official says, due to things like widespread damage and economic instability caused by natural disasters. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to

The head of the Catholic Church in Germany has offered to resign as the Archbishop of Munich, saying he shared “responsibility for the catastrophe of sexual abuse” by church officials. “In essence, it is important to me to share the responsibility for the catastrophe of the sexual abuse by Church officials over the past decades,”

Washington state police on Thursday shot a driver after a high-speed chase that began when the suspect allegedly fled from a traffic stop, authorities said. A trooper saw a car matching the “description of a vehicle that fled from a recent traffic stop” by the Kelso Police Department that was speeding on Interstate 5, Washington

A person was shot and killed by authorities in Minneapolis and another person was injured, the US Marshals Service said in a statement Thursday, which led to a protest forming later in the evening. On Thursday afternoon, “task force members were attempting to apprehend an individual wanted on a state arrest warrant for possession of

Police excavations at a cafe in the quiet English city of Gloucester revived a half-century-old puzzle: What happened to Mary Bastholm, a carefree 15-year-old girl who went missing in 1968. The teenager has long been feared to be among the victims murdered by Fred West, but her body has never been found. West and his

The reward for information in the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old boy in a suspected road rage shooting in California has now risen to $450,000, thanks to another donation from the Costa Mesa City Council. The council unanimously voted on Tuesday to provide an additional $50,000 to the reward, according to a news release from

A Utah man who admitted to beating his wife to death aboard a cruise ship in Alaska in 2017 was sentenced on Thursday to 30 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release. Kenneth Manzanares, 43, pleaded guilty in February 2020 to to second-degree murder in the death of Kristy Manzanares aboard the