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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County on Monday agreed to pay $2.7 million to a teenager who was attacked by at least six other young people at a juvenile detention center in so-called “gladiator fights” that were allegedly facilitated by probation officers. The boy’s beating in 2023 at Los Padrinos …

It has been nearly 10 days since the convict depicted in an HBO documentary as the “Devil in the Ozarks” escaped from an Arkansas prison, long enough for his appearance to possibly change. On Tuesday, the Arkansas Department of Corrections distributed a photo illustration of Grant Hardin, 56, with a …

BOULDER, Colo. — The 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who was burned during an attack by a man armed with a “makeshift flamethrower” had a message on Tuesday for the rest of America: “We are better than this.” In her first words spoken publicly since Sunday’s gruesome attack on a group of …

This is a free article for Diddy on Trial newsletter subscribers. Sign up to get exclusive reporting and analysis throughout Sean Combs’ federal trial. Much of today’s testimony was spent revisiting Diddy’s March 2016 assault on Casandra Ventura, an incident at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles that was captured …

NEW YORK — Final results from a long-running U.S.-based experiment announced Tuesday show a tiny particle continues to act strangely — but that’s still good news for the laws of physics as we know them. “This experiment is a huge feat in precision,” said Tova Holmes, an experimental physicist at …

Dubbed operation “Spiderweb,” Ukraine’s audacious drone attack Sunday on four Russian air bases — one of them deep inside Siberia — has brought the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in modern warfare sharply into focus. While accounts differ on the extent of the damage caused by the drones, which were …

The president of World Boxing has apologized after Olympic champion Imane Khelif was singled out in the governing body’s announcement to make sex testing mandatory. Algerian boxer Khelif, who won gold at the Paris Games last summer amid scrutiny over her eligibility, was specifically mentioned when World Boxing released its …

Citigroup on Tuesday ended a seven-year-old policy restricting how it provides banking services to firearm manufacturers, sellers and resellers. The bank launched the policy in March 2018 after a teenage gunman killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School …

A Wisconsin man has been charged with forging letters seeking to frame and deport another man who was a potential witness against him in a criminal robbery case. Demetric D. Scott, 52, allegedly sent letters claiming to be from Ramón Morales Reyes that threatened to kill Donald Trump and bashed …

She’s a runner, she’s a track star…she’s somersaulting over the finish line? High school athlete Brooklyn Anderson was running hurdles in a track and field championship in Eugene, Oregon, and seconds away from the finish line when she tripped. Video from the event shows Anderson hopping a hurdle and knocking …