What explains US mass shootings? International comparisons suggest an answer ~life Article 1438 words, published Nov 7 2017 22 votes
Police believe they have found the bodies of fugitives Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky in northern Manitoba, ending a cross-Canada search for the men suspected of killing three people in BC ~news canada.mb canada.bc crime Article 328 words 6 votes
Dayton shooter had history of 'violence towards women,' an ex-girlfriend says ~news usa.oh.dayton crime Article 445 words 4 votes
USA Today's Virginia HQ was evacuated amid a heavy police response due to a mistaken report of a person with a weapon ~news usa.va crime Article 357 words 6 votes
Blast hits tax office in Copenhagen in attack late on Tuesday in what police said was a deliberate attack ~news denmark.copenhagen crime Article 148 words 9 votes
'If we don’t kill these people they will kill you': Policing Africa's largest slum ~life Article 1440 words 6 votes
Nine dead and twenty-six injured in mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio ~news usa.oh.dayton crime Link 39 votes
Trump speaks following El Paso and Dayton shootings ~news usa politics crime Article 304 words 14 votes
50% rise in suspected human trafficking victims in Finland – most are related to forced labour and forced marriages ~life Article 460 words 6 votes
Cesar Sayoc, who mailed explosive devices to Trump’s critics, sentenced to 20 years in prison ~news usa crime politics Article 687 words 12 votes
Eskilstuna in Sweden launches controversial £21 begging permit ~society politics Article 453 words 11 votes
Twenty-two killed, twenty-five wounded in El Paso, Texas mass shooting ~news usa.tx.el paso crime Article 34 votes
"I don't feel safe anywhere": People express a new kind of anxiety living in America after El Paso and Dayton mass shootings ~health.mental Article 651 words 18 votes
Eight crime writers who wrote other forms of literature, including literary novels, memoirs, and even works of history ~books literature fiction.crime Article 1284 words, published Jul 22 2019 7 votes
Ottawa city hall has been targeted by cyber attacks more than 8,000 times in the past year ~tech security.cyber Article 608 words 8 votes
Inside the broken case of David Ortiz's shooting in the Dominican Republic ~sports.baseball Article 4400 words, published Jul 23 2019 5 votes
Donald Trump sent the US special presidential envoy for hostage affairs to Stockholm to monitor the A$AP Rocky court proceedings ~music Article 605 words 16 votes
Multiple victims reported in shooting at Gilroy Garlic Festival ~news usa.ca.gilroy crime Article 329 words 20 votes
Woman arrested for threatening to blow up Swedish embassy in Washington DC over A$AP Rocky case ~music Article 277 words 8 votes
Passenger in clown suit prompted mass cruise ship brawl, say witnesses ~transport Article 533 words 12 votes
Pro-Donald Trump Republican aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar charged with felony theft ~news usa.mn politics crime Article 829 words 18 votes
Russian LGBTQ+ activist found dead after being named on ‘gay-hunting’ website ~lgbt lgbt rights activism Article 335 words 18 votes
In an apparent first, genetic genealogy aids a wrongful conviction case ~tech Article 1938 words, published Jul 16 2019 9 votes
Lawyer: Shooter wasn't trying to kill a mob boss. He was under 'QAnon' delusion ~news usa crime.organized Article 561 words 17 votes
AMBER Alerts were designed to recover children in the most serious abduction cases, but they might be ineffective at saving lives, and could carry hidden costs. ~science Link 9 votes
Men who ate raw, dead, squirrels outside vegan food stall are convicted in England ~life Article 280 words 16 votes
Extraordinary story of how the man who said he was the victim of a VIP paedophile ring ended up on the run in Sweden ~news sweden crime united kingdom Article 864 words 4 votes
I was sexually assaulted. And I believe incarcerating rapists doesn’t help victims like me ~life Article 901 words, published Jul 18 2019 7 votes
Jo Nesbø, master of Norway noir, returns with his creepiest yet ~books reviews fiction.crime Article 987 words 5 votes
Is it okay to laugh at Florida Man? What it’s like to go viral as one of the Internet’s biggest memes — and the moral complications of laughing along ~tech social media Article 6281 words, published Jul 15 2019 11 votes
A man who murdered his wife, three young children, and mother-in-law has become the first person in Western Australia ordered by a judge never to be released from prison. ~news australia.wa crime Article 449 words 11 votes
Former Microsoft software engineer charged with mail fraud for using test Microsoft Store accounts to steal more than $10 million in digital currency ~tech microsoft Article 430 words 10 votes
Bianca Devins and how livestreamed murder may be replacing the archetype of the serial killer, enabling people to vault to celebrity on the strength of a single, viral attack ~tech social media Article 1567 words 23 votes
Man arrested in murder of American biologist in Greece as grisly new details emerge ~news greece.crete crime usa Article 1007 words 7 votes
NYPD officer will not face federal criminal charges in Eric Garner's death ~news usa.ny.nyc crime Article 379 words 6 votes
Bianca Devins: Grisly photos of murdered 17-year-old circulated on Instagram, Discord, and 4chan by her suspected killer ~news usa.ny crime Article 2071 words 12 votes
James Alex Fields Jr. sentenced to life plus 419 years for killing one person and injuring dozens during the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017 ~news usa.va crime Article 20 votes
Man described as "anarchist and anti-fascist" killed while assaulting ICE detention facility in Tacoma ~news usa.wa.tacoma crime Article 502 words 23 votes
New Zealand starts gun buyback program in response to Christchurch mosque shootings ~news new zealand.christchurch crime Article 559 words 18 votes
Mother of Danish student suspected killed by jihadists in Morocco demands death penalty ~news denmark morocco crime Article 621 words 5 votes
Danish government will consider tabling a bill which would define sex without explicit consent as rape ~news denmark politics crime law Article 261 words 10 votes
In Spain, coverage of a sex crime opens debate about revealing identifying details in the press ~news spain journalism crime Article 1284 words 8 votes