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DETROIT — A man who spent nearly 21 years in prison for the deaths of two Michigan hunters agreed to a $5.25 million settlement after accusing police of failing to turn over evidence that could have helped him at trial, a lawyer said Monday. Jeff Titus was released in 2023 and his murder convictions were erased at the request of prosecutors. The Innocence Clinic at University of Michigan law school and two investigators got authorities to acknowledge that an Ohio serial killer might have been the person who killed the hunters in 1990. Titus had long declared his innocence. “It’s…

“What is the biggest issue for you in your life?” “Cost of living.” “At the grocery store, at the gas pump.” “I can’t afford my insurance.” “It’s outrageous.” “We’re not going to have a middle class.” I’m in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District. It’s one of a handful in the entire country that could decide control of Congress in November. And I’m talking to people here about their lives and what they want the candidates to be focused on. “Hi — I’m a reporter. My name is Sabrina. Can I talk to you?” “OK, so this was $106.” “For like four…

NEW YORK — And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming. Or … maybe not? More than three weeks after the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was thrown into chaos and panic when a man stormed the Washington Hilton lobby and opened fire in what prosecutors say was an attempt to kill President Donald Trump, the event has yet to be rescheduled. The association “continues to weigh options for rescheduling the event,” its president, Weijia Jiang of CBS News, said from China last week where she was covering Trump – alongside whom she hit the floor that night as shots…

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Supporters of Bolivia’s influential ex-President Evo Morales clashed with police on Monday in the capital city as they called on the president to resign, joining a nationwide protest movement fueled by the worst economic crisis in a generation. Thousands of Morales’ followers converged on the plaza outside the government headquarters as Bolivia remains paralyzed by road blockades that have strangled cities and triggered food and fuel shortages in the last two weeks. The unrest presents the biggest challenge yet for President Rodrigo Paz, a business-friendly centrist who came to power six months ago as a wave…

BOISE, Idaho — Former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, who was convicted of lying during testimony at the OJ Simpson murder trial, has died. Fuhrman was one of the first two police detectives sent to investigate the 1994 killings of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles. He reported finding a bloody glove at Simpson’s home but his credibility came under withering attack during the trial as the defense raised the prospect of racial bias. Under cross-examination, Fuhrman testified that he had never made anti-Black racial slurs over the previous 10 years, but…

A white police officer in Connecticut who fatally shot a Black man suffering a mental health crisis has been charged with manslaughter after a state investigation found he failed to de-escalate the confrontation. The officer, Joseph Magnano, was fired by the Hartford Police Department following the Feb. 27 shooting of Steven Jones, a 55-year-old man with a history of mental illness who had been walking through the street holding a large knife. Magnano was charged Monday by the Connecticut Inspector General after he turned himself into law enforcement, according to Hartford Police Union President James Rutkauski. Information about his attorney…

Statistically, attending a weekly worship service is a remarkably safe thing to do. Global annual attendance totals many billions; the number of people killed in attacks on individual houses of worship in any given year is generally less than a few hundred. Killings in the U.S. are even more rare. But an attack on Monday targeting a mosque in San Diego – the latest in a spate of recent attacks targeting religious buildings – has intensified fear among clergy and worshippers. Here are some of the notable attacks on U.S. houses of worship in the past 15 years: May 18,…

SAN DIEGO — Three men were killed in a shooting at a San Diego mosque Monday and both suspects are dead, police said. Both suspects are believed to be teens and the case is considered to be a hate crime, San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said at a news conference. The shooting happened at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest mosque in San Diego County. The Islamic Center is about 9 miles (14 km) north of downtown San Diego. The Islamic Center is the largest mosque in San Diego County, according to its website. The campus includes…

The trial of a former elementary school assistant principal began Monday in Virginia, with the ex-administrator accused of disregarding warnings in 2023 about a 6-year-old having a gun on campus that he later fired at a teacher. Ebony Parker faces eight counts of felony child neglect, one for each bullet in the boy’s gun, in the shooting at Richneck Elementary in Newport News that left first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner with gunshot wounds to her chest and hand. Ms. Zwerner survived the shooting, and Ms. Parker resigned two weeks after the January 2023 incident that stunned the nation. The boy told…

NEW YORK — Commuters in New York City’s suburbs navigated a gauntlet of car, bus and subway routes to get to work Monday after a strike on the Long Island Rail Road that shut down the nation’s busiest commuter rail system entered its third day. Unions representing rail workers and the Metropolitan Transportation Agency, which runs the railroad, negotiated for much of Sunday, wrapping their talks around 1 a.m., but failed to reach an agreement, despite pressure from the National Mediation Board and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. A spokesperson for union workers said negotiators returned to the bargaining table…