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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: State Department launches unit to document alleged war crimes
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"No country – no matter how large, how potentially powerful, what types of weapons they may have in their arsenal – can escape accountability for the types of atrocities that we have seen Russia’s forces perpetrate a...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill creating new election police unit
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The new law, S.B. 524, creates an "Office of Election Crimes and Security" to investigate allegations of voter fraud. It increases the penalty for ballot harvesting from a first-degree misdemeanor to a third-degree f...
‘Hurricane Hunters’ Air Force unit investigating flight that landed at Martha’s Vineyard to pick up motorcycle
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The "Hurricane Hunters" Air Force unit that flies specially equipped aircraft directly into severe weather has opened an investigation after one of its training flights landed at Martha's Vineyard to pick up a motor...
NYPD’s new gun crimes teams, created to replace embattled plainclothes unit, make 31 arrests in first 6 days
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The New York Police Department’s (NYPD) new unit tasked with combating gun violence was deployed on Wednesday, when 90 officers took to the streets in 25 different precincts and commands citywide. On Monday, Mayor Er...
All-Black women’s World War II unit to be awarded Congressional Gold Medal
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An all-Black Women's Army Corps unit that sorted millions of pieces of mail in unheated warehouses during World War II will finally be awarded a Congressional Gold Medal decades after the fact. President Joe Biden s...
NYC building where fire killed 17 skipped inspection after officers were moved to COVID unit: report
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Oren Barzilay, president of Local 2507, the union that represents uniformed emergency medical technicians, paramedics and fire inspectors, testified last week before the City Council’s Fire and Emergency Management C...
NYPD deploys Neighborhood Safety Teams to battle gun violence, replacing controversial plainclothes unit
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A controversial unit within the New York Police Department that was revived to battle rising gun violence in the city is finally hitting the streets on Monday, promising significant training, and even new uniforms, ...
Washington D.C. police withhold key details about homicide unit amid murder surge
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The police department for the nation’s capital has withheld information about its homicide detectives that criminologists say could help indicate whether the city’s murder clearance rate will conti...
NYC Mayor Adams reinstates police unit de Blasio disbanded during defund police movement
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The New York Police Department is expected to launch the new units, renamed neighborhood safety teams, within the next three weeks to enhance uniformed public safety teams. Hundreds of candidates have been identified...
NYPD to replace disbanded anti-crime unit with ‘Neighborhood Safety Teams’: report
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The plainclothes anti-crime unit, which sought to prevent gun violence in the city, was disbanded in June 2020 after several high-profile police encounters — including the May 2020 death of George Floyd and the 2014 ...
US military’s hacking unit publicly acknowledges taking offensive action to disrupt ransomware operations
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Cyber Command, the US military's hacking unit, has taken offensive action to disrupt cybercriminal groups that have launched ransomware attacks on US companies, a spokesperson for the command confirmed to CNN Sunday...
Pentagon launching new UFO investigation unit, replacing Navy group: report
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The Defense Department is launching the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, a unit that will be charged with finding and identifying UFOs in restricted airspace, officials said Tuesda...
Patriots defense merits comparison to unit that began dynasty in 2001
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How this Patriots defense is on course to be as good and perhaps better than that fateful Patriots championship defense of two decades ago. That was a hard sentence to write because I witnessed that Patriots defense ...
Exclusive: Inside the Capitol Police intelligence unit overhaul that caused confusion ahead of January 6
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Programming note: A new CNN documentary, "Trumping Democracy: An American Coup," about former President Donald Trump's attempts to subvert the 2020 election, premieres at 9 p.m. ET on Friday, November 5. Washington A...
Ex-German soldiers arrested for trying to create paramilitary unit to fight in Yemen
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Berlin Two former German soldiers have been arrested on suspicion of attempting to create a paramilitary unit to fight in Yemen's civil war, prosecutors said Wednesday. The men -- identified as Arend-Adolf G. and Ach...
Laura Ingraham in L.A.: Special LAPD unit making impact on gang violence, crime
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She interviewed LAPD Sgt. Ronald Kingi, a 27-year veteran of the force, who shared how the special unit was able to help transform a Los Angeles park. "A couple of years ago, this park was overrun by Black and Hispan...