TOLUCA, Mexico—A violent drug cartel is suspected of leaving a severed human leg found hanging from a pedestrian bridge Wednesday in Toluca, just west of Mexico City. Before the day was out, parts of at least two bodies had turned up around the city. At the bridge, the trunk of the body was left on…

Human remains found inside two burnt-out cars in Sydney’s west and south overnight are being treated as suspicious deaths. A body slumped in the driver’s seat of a partially burnt-out Ford Fiesta was discovered just after 2.15 a.m. on Tuesday. Police were called to North Parramatta and found the vehicle alight. After extinguishing the blaze, firefighters…

“Most of the blue states are not having the problem that California is having. This homelessness problem, the drug addiction problem, the theft problem … Why are they becoming a crisis here in California? It is a handful of really bad policy decisions.” Siyamak sits down with Vern Pierson, district attorney of El Dorado County,…

Republican Larry Householder, the former speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in a major racketeering conspiracy that rocked the Buckeye State. The punishment, meted out by U.S. district judge Timothy Black, is the maximum penalty allowed under the law. “The court and the…

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has vetoed a criminal justice reform bill that received almost unanimous support from both houses of the Florida state Legislature. The veto was issued without an explanation from the governor’s office. The bill in question, House Bill 605, aimed to modify the Florida statute related to the expungement of criminal…

Tragedy struck a Home Depot store in the San Francisco Bay Area in April as a 26-year-old employee was fatally shot while confronting an alleged shoplifter who was armed with a handgun, authorities said. Just a few months before, an Antioch gas station cashier was shot to death during an armed robbery, according to local…

Stop-and-search police powers are not “too controversial” and should be ramped up to crackdown on violence, Home Secretary Suella Braverman has told MPs. Speaking in the House of Commons on Monday, Braverman said that the stop-and-search tactic can be used effectively with sensible safeguards. Stop and search typically refers to the statutory police powers to…

Roughly one in four U.S. children are living in fatherless homes, causing undeniable negative effects on the children’s behavior and mental health, according to a report published by the America First Policy Institute (AFPI). Comparing several dozen studies conducted from 1987 up to 2022, the AFPI—a non-partisan research institute working “to advance policies that put…

In February 2022, I wrote this in my article “What If San Francisco Doesn’t Recover:” “If you go downtown during the day, you can see the difference. The office buildings are empty. Vehicle and pedestrian traffic aren’t half of what they used to be. But what other effect does that have on the city? “Well,…

History was made Tuesday. Former President Donald Trump showed up in federal court to face criminal charges. He allegedly violated 31 counts under the Espionage Act, then allegedly committed six process crimes including a conspiracy charge. But what’s important is the legalities of the case, and the “novel” legal theory it is built upon. …