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Missing 79-year-old Herndon man found dead 12/21/2025 12:02am • A 79-year-old Herndon, Virginia, man who had been missing since Monday was found dead on Saturday. Authorities said that they found the body of Leonard Hugh Thompson in Troutville.  He had been missing since Monday evening, where surveillance video captured him pumping gas at an Exxon on Paci Prince George’s County fire and police departments team up for Toys for Tots 12/20/2025 08:23pm • One of the country’s largest annual Toys for Tots distribution events took place in Landover, Maryland, on Saturday, a couple of days before Christmas. A line of people stretching out more than a half mile waited for their turn to collect toys for their children, grandchildren, nieces and n South Dakota hotel owner found liable for discrimination against Native Americans 12/20/2025 04:14pm • SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The owner of a South Dakota hotel who said Native Americans were banned from the establishment was found liable for discrimination against Native Americans on Friday. A federal jury decided the owner of the Grand Gateway Hotel in Rapid City will pay tens of thousands of do How a violent police academy drill has been tied to deaths and injuries across the country 12/20/2025 12:07pm • When recruits were repeatedly punched and tackled during a role-playing exercise at the Texas game wardens academy last year, they were taking part in a longstanding police training tradition that critics say should be retired. By the end of the day, at least 13 of the cadets reported injuries. At l Australian state plans tougher laws against displaying extremist flags after Bondi shooting 12/20/2025 11:00am • SYDNEY (AP) — The Australian state of New South Wales is proposing to ban public displays of Islamic State group flags or extremist symbols after a mass shooting driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Sydney's Bondi Beach. Under draft laws to be debated by the state Parliament, publicly displa PHOTO ESSAY: Invisible infrared surveillance technology and those caught in its digital cage 12/20/2025 10:34am • When you unlock a phone, step into view of a security camera or drive past a license plate reader at night, beams of infrared light - invisible to the naked eye — shine onto the unique contours of your face, your body, your license plate lettering. Those infrared beams allow cameras to pick out an Chair of leading Turkish sports club Fenerbahce questioned in a drugs probe 12/20/2025 10:14am • ISTANBUL (AP) — The chair of Fenerbahce, one of Turkey’s leading sports clubs, was called to give testimony Saturday as part of an ongoing drug investigation involving high-profile entertainment and media figures. Sadettin Saran, who holds dual Turkish and U.S. citizenship, gave a statement in I Combat training is a rite of passage for police recruits. It's left a trail of deaths and injuries 12/20/2025 10:06am • Heather Sterling stepped into the ring at the Texas Game Warden Training Center, ready to face an ambush by instructors acting as violent assailants. The four-on-one drill is a rite of passage for those training to be game wardens, sworn officers who enforce state conservation laws. Nationwide, thou Knife-wielding man shot dead by police in Corsica after threatening bystanders 12/20/2025 09:37am • AJACCIO, France (AP) — A man armed with a knife who threatened bystanders and shopkeepers was shot dead in Corsica on Saturday, police said, as French authorities reinforced security measures during the festive season. Police said they received a call around noon about an individual threatening a 3 officers wounded, suspect killed and another man wounded after New York domestic dispute call 12/20/2025 08:50am • ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Three police officers were hospitalized with gunshot wounds Saturday, the gunman was dead and another man was wounded after a domestic dispute turned into a volatile confrontation across multiple blocks in Rochester, New York, police said. One officer was in critical condit How surveillance technology and the 'Reddit Detective Agency' helped search for a killer 12/20/2025 08:48am • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — More than a decade ago, a frenzied 5-day search for the Boston Marathon bombers left some lessons in its aftermath. One was that increasingly pervasive surveillance technology could help catch the culprits. Another was that amateur online sleuths on Reddit could not. But th Bangladesh mourns slain activist as tensions rise ahead of elections 12/20/2025 08:21am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people attended the funeral Saturday of a leading Bangladeshi activist who died of gunshot wounds sustained in an attack in Dhaka earlier this month, as political tensions gripped the country ahead of elections. Sharif Osman Hadi, who took part in Fairfax Co. police warn holiday shoppers of potential credit card skimming scam 12/20/2025 05:04am • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, are warning holiday shoppers to monitor a potential credit card scam as they pay at the register. Detectives from the department’s financial crimes unit, along with members of the U.S. Secret Service, found 20 credit card skimming devices during a countywide Luigi Mangione‘s lawyers say Bondi’s death penalty decision was tainted by conflict of interest 12/20/2025 01:46am • NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione’s lawyers contend that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to seek the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted by her prior work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer’s parent company. Bondi w Taiwan attacker planned assault that killed 3 and injured 11, authorities say 12/20/2025 01:44am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese authorities said Saturday the suspect who killed three people and injured 11 others in knife and smoke-grenade attacks in the island's capital had planned the assaults and set fires at other locations earlier in the day. The suspect, identified as a 27-year-old man