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A suspect accused of killing four people in a Georgia suburb just south of Atlanta on Saturday was killed following a manhunt, officials said. “The monster is dead,” Henry County Sheriff Reginald B. Scandrett said at a news conference Sunday afternoon. Law enforcement tracked the suspect to a location in the …

Police departments across the country have been struggling to recruit and retain officers over the past several years. The Police Executive Research Forum, a law enforcement policy group, has attributed the decrease in staffing to “extreme stresses” caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and a decline in police officers’ morale, as well …

When Akorn Pharmaceuticals shut its doors in February, hospitals across the country felt it. The Lake Forest, Illinois-based drugmaker was responsible for producing 75 generic drugs, all of which were pulled from the market when the company closed down. In some cases, the company was the sole supplier of particular …

An American abducted in Mexico and held by captors for eight months was released Friday night and is safe, FBI officials said Saturday. Monica De Leon Barba, from San Mateo County, California, just south of San Francisco, was abducted while walking home from work with her dog in Tepatitlán, Mexico, …

At least four people have been killed in a mass shooting in Hampton, a small city in western Georgia, on Saturday morning. Law enforcement identified Andre Longmore of Hampton as a suspect in the killings in a news conference Saturday evening. At around 10:45 am, Longmore shot and killed four …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was hospitalized Saturday, his office confirmed. Netanyahu, 73, “is well and is undergoing a medical evaluation,” his office said in a statement. He was at Sheba Medical Center, it said. Israeli news outlet Ynet reported that Netanyahu went to the hospital after feeling ill. Ynet …

DES MOINES, Iowa — When a group of 18 evangelical Christian voters gathered here pondered whether they thought Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election, 15 of them raised their hands. But that doesn’t mean they’ll be caucusing for the former president in January. That was one of the headline …

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood filmmakers are calling “cut.” The film capital’s major studios put several high-profile projects on hold this week after more than 160,000 screen performers represented by the labor union SAG-AFTRA went on strike for the first time since 1980. Hollywood’s assembly line of movies and television shows …

The suspect charged Friday in connection with a string of long-unsolved slayings of women on Long Island, New York, lived in a cozy South Shore suburb not far from the beach highway where human remains were first found more than a decade ago. The suspect was identified in court documents …

A suspect in custody in the Gilgo Beach murders, a case that captured national attention and confounded investigators on Long Island for more than a decade, was identified Friday as Rex Heuermann, sources said. He was expected to be arraigned Friday after his arrest Thursday night in Manhattan, said Suffolk …