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Dado Ruvic / Reuters A Foiled New Year’s Eve Terrorist Plot in Turkey
Officials said Wednesday they have detained two suspected Islamic State militants who had planned attacks on New Year celebrations.
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Wasif Malik / Flickr The Storm That Will Unfreeze the North Pole
It caps off a month—and year—of weird weather.
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Charles Rex Arbogast / AP Jason Van Dyke's Not-Guilty Plea
The officer in the Laquan McDonald case is charged with murder.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters The Laws and Rules That Protect Police Who Kill
Despite the political pressure to prosecute cops in cases like Tamir Rice’s, the current system grants enormous leeway to officers who employ lethal force.
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U.S. Marshals Service / AP The Arrest of the Teen With 'Affluenza'
Ethan Couch was arrested in Mexico, along with his mother, after allegedly violating the terms of his probation.
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Debbie Hill / AP A Reduced Prison Sentence for Ehud Olmert
The former Israeli prime minister, who was convicted in a bribery scandal, will spend 18 months—instead of six years—in prison.
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Hernán Piñera / Flickr Arrests in Belgium
The federal prosecutor’s office said two people were arrested in connection with a plot to stage attacks around the New Year’s celebration.
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Dave Weaver / AP The Iowa Caucus Gets an Upgrade
Both parties are hoping a new app for tallying votes will smooth an election plagued by errors in 2012.
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Jim Ross / Invision / AP RIP, Lemmy
The Motörhead frontman had been battling an aggressive form of cancer. He was 70 years old.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP No Indictment in the Tamir Rice Shooting
A grand jury has declined to charge two Cleveland police officers for their role in the shooting last year of the 12-year-old black boy who was holding a pellet gun.
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Reuters Japan Says Sorry for Its Crimes Against Wartime ‘Comfort Women’
The government will also pay about $8.3 million as compensation for forcing the women to work in Japanese brothels during World War II.
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Rex C. Curry / AP The Rising Death Toll From Severe Weather
At least 43 people are dead as a result of storms in different parts of the United States.
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AP Ramadi Is ‘Fully Liberated’
Iraqi government forces, backed by Sunni tribesman and U.S. airstrikes, recaptured the city from ISIS.
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Don Wright / AP Peyton Manning Accused
The Denver Broncos quarterback is dismissing as “garbage” claims made in an Al Jazeera documentary that he was supplied with human growth hormone in 2011.
