Crime
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Authoritarianism advances as world battles the pandemic
Jul 15, 2021 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Here's some of what happened while the world was distracted by the coronavirus: Hungary banned the public depiction of homosexuality. China shut Hong Kong'...
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'Boogaloo' ex-convict gets home confinement for illegal gun
Jul 15, 2021 7:00 am - BALTIMORE (AP) - A Maryland man who belonged to an anti-government extremist movement was sentenced Thursday to six months of home confinement for illegally possessing a...
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DeSantis presses Biden to help keep internet flowing in Cuba
Jul 15, 2021 7:00 am - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials pressed the White House on Thursday to support efforts to preserve internet service to antigovernment protesters in Cuba, e...
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Microsoft says it blocked spying on rights activists, others
Jul 15, 2021 7:00 am - RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Microsoft said Thursday it has blocked tools developed by an Israeli hacker-for-hire company that were used to spy on more than 100 people around th...
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Israel arrests dozens of Hamas-linked students in West Bank
Jul 15, 2021 7:00 am - JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel says it arrested dozens of Palestinian students in the occupied West Bank who are linked to the Hamas militant group. The military said late Wedn...
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Cuomo to be questioned in sexual harassment investigation
Jul 15, 2021 7:00 am - ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to be interviewed Saturday as the state attorney general's office winds down its investigation into sexual har...
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Pritzker signs ban on deceptive interrogation of minors
Jul 15, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Terrill Swift spent 15 years in prison, convicted of a rape and murder which DNA evidence later proved he did not commit. On Thursday, he appeared alongsid...
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Husband charged with murder in strangulation of Elgin womanJul 15, 2021 1:00 am - A 36-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a woman found in her home Monday night by Elgin police. Victor Hugo Ayllon is accused of str...
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Highland Park man pleads not guilty to 18 child pornography chargesJul 15, 2021 1:00 am - A 47-year-old Highland Park man pleaded not guilty this week to 18 counts of child pornography and two counts of aggravated battery to a peace officer. Steven E. Habay, ...
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Police: Ingleside man pulled out a gun during road rage altercationJul 15, 2021 1:00 am - A 21-year-old from Ingleside faces one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after police said he pulled out a gun during an argument with another driver in V...