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●  Evidence From Britain: A trove of evidence from Britain that became public only after the FBI closed its 9/11 investigation raises questions about a Saudi man who assisted two of the hijackers.

●  Suspicions: Material seized in 2001 from Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi student who had lived in San Diego, intensified suspicions about what he knew before the attacks.

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Over the “strongest possible” objections from the federal prosecutor handling the case, leaders at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it. 

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The shutdown operation involved peer list manipulation and Sality payload URL takedown.

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A new study by researchers at UC Berkeley’s Center for Global Healthy Cities published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that the California city of Richmond’s Office of Neighborhood Safety (ONS) was responsible for a 61% reduction in that city’s firearm homicides and inju

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The Foundation Operation Jackal INTERPOL has been spearheading a continuing, multi-year international law enforcement effort known as Operation Jackal to destroy West African organized crime syndicates, including the worldwide network...

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The operation focused on a group named QTFY, which offers hacking services to the Chinese government and others.

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We all know they’re watching us. But we don’t know who they are, nor why nor how they are doing it.

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Scientists have crossed an important line in biological engineering. In a recent study, researchers used artificial intelligence to design complete sets of genetic instructions for bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria. Some of those computer-generated designs produced working viruses when they were built and tested in the laboratory.

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ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) Center to Combat Antisemitism in Education, with support from the ADL Center on Extremism, today launched “When Antisemitism Comes to Class,” a new initiative designed to help colleges and universities address antisemitism where it increasingly takes root: inside classrooms, faculty governance and organized academic networks.

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Jewish advocacy group and antisemitism tracker the Anti-Defamation League launched a new initiative Wednesday aimed at helping university students, faculty and staff combat antisemitism on their campuses.

The initiative includes two reports tracking “less visible” forms of antisemitism at universities, a confidential reporting mechanism for those encountering antisemitism on their campuses and guidance for how to respond.

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Target Foreign Networks On August 12, 2026, President Donald J. Trump signed a new National Security Presidential Memorandum aimed at giving federal agencies more leeway to push back against foreign...

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For more than two decades, Charis E. Kubrin has followed the data wherever it leads. As UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, she has built a career studying one of America’s most politically charged questions: does immigration drive crime?

Now, in one of the most geographically detailed studies of its kind ever conducted, Kubrin and colleagues have an answer.

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A New York Times investigation published this week has pulled back the curtain on one of the most violent and well-connected human-smuggling networks operating between Cuba, Mexico, and the United States: a group Mexican authorities call La Mafia Cubana en Quintana Roo, the Cuban Mafia in Quintana Roo. The report is notable not just for the brutality it documents, but for where its threads lead — allegedly all the way to the inner circle of the Castro family itself.

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Latin America’s most powerful criminal groups have expanded beyond the drug trade – and have become more resilient as a result. That’s what my colleagues and I discovered while researching for a new study on the structural transformation of organized crime across Latin America and the Caribbean.

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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin last weekend implored states and cities to cooperate with federal immigration officials, which he said would lead to safer and lower-profile arrests and deportations.

Speaking to a group of Democratic and Republican governors gathered for the National Governors Association summer meeting, Mullin called on local governments to help focus on removing the “worst of the worst” offenders, particularly targeting people without legal citizenship status who have criminal court convictions.

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On his first day in office for his second term as president, Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders and proclamations. One proclamation declared a “national emergency” on the US-Mexico border.

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A new study has found that mass shootings and deaths by suicide in the United States share seasonal patterns, reaching their highest levels during summer months.

Analyzing national data spanning 2014 to 2021, researchers observed consistent summertime peaks in both mass shootings and suicide deaths, suggesting that common environmental, behavioral, or biological factors may contribute to seasonal fluctuations in these forms of violence.

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