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Keith Smith, along with his daughter Valeria Smith, talks with the media in the area where his wife Jacquelyn Smith was killed in Baltimore, in December 2018. A Baltimore jury found Keith Smith guilty Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021 of first-degree murder for stabbing his wife to death three years ago. (Kevin Richardson/The Baltimore Sun/TNS)

Jury Finds Man Guilty of Murdering His Wife and Blaming Panhandlers in Case That Sparked National Outrage

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore jury found Keith Tyrone Smith guilty Thursday of first-degree murder for stabbing his wife to death three years ago while they drove through East Baltimore and blaming … more

Tim Prudente / The Baltimore Sun (TNS) | 12/9/21

Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Audrey Strauss speaks to the media at a press conference to announce the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime girlfriend and accused accomplice of deceased accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, on July 2, 2020, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/TNS)

New Photos Show Ghislaine Maxwell Massaging Jeffrey Epstein’s Feet on Private Plane; Feds Prepare to Rest Case Against Dead Financier’s British Accomplice

NEW YORK — Never-before-published photos introduced Wednesday in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial show the British publishing heiress grinning as she massages Jeffrey … more

Molly Crane-Newman / New York Daily News (TNS) | 12/9/21

Workers remove burned Christmas decorations from a burned tree outside the Fox News building on Sixth Avenue and 48th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/TNS)

Homeless Man Sets Christmas Tree on Fire Outside Fox News Headquarters in NYC, Police Say

NEW YORK — The war on Christmas has reached Fox News’ doorstep. A 49-year-old homeless man was arrested early Wednesday for setting fire to a 50-foot Christmas tree in front of Fox … more

Rocco Parascandola and Thomas Tracy / New York Daily News (TNS) | 12/9/21

The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is administered at a pop-up clinic offering vaccines and booster shots in Rosemead, California on Nov. 29, 2021. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Pfizer, BioNTech Say Third Dose Neutralizes Omicron Variant

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE said initial lab studies show a third dose of their COVID-19 vaccine neutralizes the omicron variant, results that will accelerate booster shot drives around the … more

Naomi Kresge / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 12/8/21

'This Is Insanity': Alarming Week of Gun Violence Across KC Tied to Public Health Failures

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Over the last week, the Kansas City metro area has been plagued by a high pace of violence that has even caused the mayor to publicly criticize the city's current approach to … more

Kaitlin Washburn and Humera Lodhi / The Kansas City Star (TNS) | 12/8/21

This photo made during an escorted visit and reviewed by the US military, shows the razor wire-topped fence and a watch tower at the abandoned "Camp X-Ray" detention facility at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, April 9, 2014. (Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Afghanistan Complicates New Push to Close Guantanamo Bay

WASHINGTON — A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday made clear the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan this year has further complicated the political, legal and legislative quandary … more

Todd Ruger / CQ-Roll Call (TNS) | 12/8/21

Ghislaine Maxwell attends a gala in New York in 2014. (Rob Kim/Getty Images/TNS)

Ghislaine Maxwell Groped 14-Year-Old, Said Victim Had ‘a Great Body for Mr. Epstein,’ Accuser Testifies

NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell groped a 14-year-old girl’s bare breast and declared the teen “had a great body for Mr. Epstein,” a Manhattan jury heard Tuesday. The third … more

Molly Crane-Newman / New York Daily News (TNS) | 12/8/21

Rohingya refugee Saida Bibi (8, left) sits before her relative Bodu Zzaman (77, right), at the Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar on Aug. 11, 2018. - According to her daughter, ZZaman, who is unable to talk, continues to suffer from a broken hip sustained when she fell fleeing bullets fired by Myanmar soldiers who attacked her village in September 2017. (Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Facebook Facing Mounting Legal Fights Over Myanmar Genocide

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is facing mounting legal challenges by Rohingya refugees who blame the social media company for inciting genocidal violence in 2017 against the Muslim minority in … more

Naomi Nix / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 12/8/21

In this file photo, a marksman sights a target during a class he was taking to qualify for an Illinois concealed carry permit on Feb. 14, 2014, in Posen, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/TNS)

No Permit, No Problem: More States Allow Residents to Carry a Hidden Gun

Six more states no longer require residents to hold a permit to carry a concealed firearm. Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, Tennessee, Texas and Utah this year enacted what gun rights advocates often … more

Matt Vasilogambros / Stateline.org (TNS) | 12/7/21

In this Jan. 9, 2021, file photo, black-clad counterprotesters fight with a woman on the boardwalk south of Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach in San Diego, California during a pro-Trump “Patriot March.” (Nelvin C. Cepeda/San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS)

DA Charges 'Antifa' Groups With Violently Countering 'Patriot March'

SAN DIEGO — Prosecutors on Monday charged at least seven people, whom they described as self-identified anti-fascists, in connection with eight alleged assaults that occurred in January during … more

Alex Riggins / The San Diego Union-Tribune (TNS) | 12/7/21

Stephen Cease, 88, holds a model of the USS New Orleans, 1939, in his St. Petersburg home Wednesday, November 17, 2021. Cease was 8 years old when he witnessed the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The USS New Orleans was one of the ships at Pearl Harbor at the time.

Florida Man Witnessed Pearl Harbor and 9/11

PETERSBURG — The two deadliest foreign attacks on United States soil are 9/11 and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Stephen Cease was a witness to both, as a child living near the U.S. naval base … more

Paul Guzzo / Tampa Bay Times (TNS) | 12/7/21

Carmelo Milia, 93, of Troy retired as a colonel after a career in the U.S. Army, following graduation from West Point Academy. But when news broke of the Pearl Harbor attack, Milia had no notion of serving in the military. "Our whole life rotated around that war and it was a given that that when you turned to be 17 years-old that you were going into the military some way or another. I just accepted that and when I turned 17 I went into the military," said Milia, who would go on to be an Lieutenant Tank Platoon leader in the Korean War from 1950-1952 and a Tank Battalion Commander in Vietnam from 1968-1969.

Sailors Who Died Still 'Coming Home' 80 Years After Pearl Harbor Attack

Eight decades have passed since the Japanese military attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. Since then, Michiganders lived through countless other calamities including many far closer … more

Bill Laitner / Detroit Free Press (TNS) | 12/7/21

Demonstrators rally in solidarity with the Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell survivors in New York on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to six counts of enticing and transporting minors for sex in connection with convicted sex offender Epstein, who died in 2019. (Yuki Iwamura/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

At Ghislaine Maxwell Trial, a Fight Over Huge Cache of Photos of Naked or Semi-Naked Women

NEW YORK — FBI agents found a cache of thick black binders — all labeled with names — that contain hundreds of naked or semi-naked photographs on CDs that Epstein stored in various … more

Julie K. Brown and Ben Wieder / Miami Herald (TNS) | 12/6/21

Jussie Smollett arrives with family members at the Leighton Criminal Court Building for his trial on disorderly conduct charges on Dec. 6, 2021, in Chicago. The former "Empire" star is accused of making false reports to authorities that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in 2019. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

‘Like Something Out of Looney Tune Adventures’: Jussie Smollett Testifies He Was Jumped on Chicago Street by 2 Men

CHICAGO — At first, when someone yelled out at actor Jussie Smollett on the street one frigid night in January 2019, he thought nothing of it. All they shouted was the name of his show: … more

Megan Crepeau and Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune (TNS) | 12/6/21

Armed police ride in the back of a truck after the streets of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince were deserted following a call for a general strike launched by several professional associations and companies to denounce insecurity in Port-au-Prince on Oct. 18, 2021. (Richard Pierrin/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Three More Christian Missionaries Kidnapped in Haiti for Over a Month Have Been Released

Three more Christian missionaries who have been held hostage in Haiti for more than seven weeks have been released, Christian Aid Ministries said Monday. The group, released Sunday evening, were … more

Jacqueline Charles / Miami Herald / (TNS) | 12/6/21

A newspaper clipping from the front page of the Akron Beacon Journal on Feb. 17, 1942, marks the military notification to family of the death of Navy seaman Buford Dyer of Barberton, who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Remains Will Return Home for World War II Sailor Who Died in Pearl Harbor Attack

Almost 80 years after he died in the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Barberton, Ohio, sailor is finally coming home. Navy Seaman 1st Class Buford H. Dyer, 19, died with 428 crewmen in the Dec. 7, 1941, … more

By Alan Ashworth / Akron Beacon Journal | 12/6/21

The USS California on fire in Pearl Harbour after the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941. (Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/TNS)

Shock Then Resolve After the Attack on Pearl Harbor: ‘We’ll Whip ’em, But It’ll Take a Few Months’

CHICAGO — Charles Collins thought he’d do a little Christmas shopping on Dec. 7, 1941. It was a Sunday, and he’d already filed the next installment of “A Line … more

By Ron Grossman / Chicago Tribune | 12/6/21

Republican challenger Bob Dole, left, waves to the crowd alongside President Bill Clinton at the conclusion of their first debate on Oct. 6, 1996, in Hartford, Connecticut. (Jon Levy/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Bob Dole, Former U.S. Senate Leader and GOP Presidential Nominee, Dies at 98

Bob Dole, the World War II veteran who recovered from near-fatal wounds to become the U.S. Senate Republican leader and a three-time presidential candidate, has died. He was 98. Dole died Sunday … more

Laurence Arnold and Bill Arthur / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 12/6/21

An anti-coup protester holds up a placard featuring de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi on March 2, 2021, in Yangon, Myanmar. (Hkun Lat/Getty Images/TNS)

Myanmar Sentences Aung San Suu Kyi to Four Years in Prison; More Verdicts Expected

SINGAPORE — A court in Myanmar sentenced civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in prison on charges of inciting violence and violating COVID-19 rules, dealing another blow to democracy … more

David Pierson / Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 12/6/21

Doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. (Brad Horrigan/The Hartford Courant/TNS)

How a Database of Vaccine Side Effects Sowed Doubt in Vaccinations

Midway into the pandemic, University of Alabama epidemiologist Bertha Hidalgo realized her COVID-19 communication strategy needed a makeover. She was skipping basic biology lessons in favor of … more

Kristen V Brown / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 12/6/21