Polish police briefly detained an opposition Polish lawmaker on Tuesday, violating her parliamentary immunity, after she interrupted a campaign speech by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Critics of Morawiecki’s right-wing government denounced the behavior of police, calling it an example of the deterioration of rule of law. The lawmaker, Kinga Gajewska […]

A video showing a mayor in South Sudan slapping a female street vendor has gone viral. Now he has been sacked. In the video, Emmanuel Khamis Richard, the acting mayor of the African nation’s capital, is seen wielding a pistol and walking up to where a policeman and a woman […]

A Washington mayor said she’s being harassed after audio from her 911 call to report a group of “far right-wing” petition signature gatherers at Walmart surfaced online. “There’s some far right-wing petitioners at Walmart and they don’t—they’re not leaving,” Yakima Mayor Janice Deccio can be heard saying in a 911 […]

The family of a department store worker whose body remained in a locked bathroom for days after she died is suing the company, saying her body was so decomposed they couldn’t even hold an open casket funeral. Cleaning worker Bessie Durham went to the family bathroom at the Belk store […]

Los Angeles serial killer Ramon Escobar was recently charged with murder after allegedly killing his cellmate earlier this year, officials say. Inmate Juan Villanueva, 53, was pronounced dead Feb. 24. Escobar, who was charged with first-degree murder Monday, was serving multiple life sentences at North Kern State Prison at the […]

Despite Mel Tucker denying all claims that he sexually harassed a rape survivor and assault awareness speaker, Michigan State University (MSU) says it intends to fire him for cause. However, the football coach says that “other motives are at play,” and he is “disappointed — but not surprised” by the […]

The family of the man accused of killing a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy in what authorities have described as a targeted “ambush” said he suffered from mental health issues.  Jessica Salazar, the sister of Kevin Salazar, told Fox Los Angeles that her brother was not in the right mental […]

A procedural vote to advance the House GOP’s defense spending bill failed 212-214 on the chamber floor on Tuesday after Republican lawmakers butted heads over how to avoid a government shutdown. The result is a blow to Speaker Kevin McCarthy given that the party in power traditionally does as ordered […]

Aiming to curb the hundreds of deaths caused by police chases in the U.S. each year, a new report calls for police not to start a pursuit unless a violent crime has been committed and the suspect poses an imminent threat. The study released Tuesday by the Police Executive Research […]

Israel on Tuesday sentenced an army commander in the occupied West Bank to 10 days in military prison after an investigation into his shooting last week of a Palestinian motorist who was found to be innocent. The Israeli military said that security forces stationed at the Israeli settlement of Rimonim, […]