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Bill Gates pledged on Thursday to give away $200 billion US via his charitable foundation by 2045 and lashed out at Elon Musk, accusing the world’s richest man of “killing the world’s poorest children” through huge cuts to the U.S. foreign aid budget. The 69-year-old billionaire co-founder of Microsoft said he was speeding up his plans to divest …

WARNING: This article contains graphic details of violence. An Illinois landlord who killed a six-year-old Palestinian American boy and severely injured the boy’s mother in a vicious hate-crime attack days after the war in Gaza began was sentenced Friday to 53 years in prison. Joseph Czuba, 73, was found guilty in …

Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal charges of gunning down health insurance executive Brian Thompson, a day after prosecutors formally stated their intent to seek the death penalty. Mangione, 26, wore a tan jail-issued T-shirt as he was led into the packed lower Manhattan courtroom. He previously …

U.S. prosecutors formally told a court on Thursday that they plan to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing a UnitedHealth Group executive in New York last year. Mangione, 26, is due to appear in Manhattan federal court for an arraignment on Friday afternoon. He …

Nearly a month after the start of the trial into the killing of an Ontario Provincial Police constable, the Crown began its closing arguments, arguing Tuesday that Randall McKenzie shot and killed Greg Pierzchala and Brandi Stewart-Sperry helped him do it. McKenzie and Stewart-Sperry have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the December …

An Israeli probe into its soldiers’ deadly shooting of 15 emergency workers last month in Gaza says it has found evidence of “professional failures” and a deputy commander will be fired. Israel at first claimed the Palestinian medics’ vehicles did not have emergency signals on when troops opened fire but later backtracked. …

Luigi Mangione was indicted Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a required step as prosecutors work to make good on the Trump administration’s order to seek the death penalty for what it called a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.” Mangione’s indictment, …

WARNING: This story contains disturbing video and graphic descriptions of violence, as well as coarse language A crucial video has been shown at the trial of Alain Bellefeuille — who shot and killed an Ontario Provincial Police officer and wounded two others outside Ottawa in 2023 — that takes the jury to the …

4 hours ago News Duration 2:04 The Palestinian Red Crescent has released video clearly showing emergency vehicles with lights flashing before the Israeli military opened fire on them last month, killing 15 paramedics and aid workers later found in a mass grave. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) originally said the …

Grapevines across southern France’s famed wine region have barely begun to bud, but the season has already turned sour for many of Europe’s top producers. “We have one [worker] that left … because we couldn’t pay him anymore,” said Nadine Auray, who with her husband, Pierre Jauffret, and a small …