#confrontation

#confrontation

A woman in Ocala, Fla., who confronted a neighbor who had thrown an object at her children, was shot and killed through the door of the residence, the local sheriff said, in a case that is complicated by the state's stand your ground law after days without a decision on possible charges.Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said his deputies had initially responded to a trespassing call on Friday at about 9 p.m., but by the time they had arrived, they found the victim suffering from a gunshot wound.

A 95-year-old Australian woman whom a police officer in Australia used a stun gun on last week has died in a hospital, the authorities said on Wednesday, not long after announcing charges against the officer, who used the stun gun to repel her when she approached him while holding a steak knife.The case provoked outrage around Australia as circumstances of the confrontation between the woman, Clare Nowland, and the police officer emerged.

L.A. police officers shot a man Tuesday near an East Hollywood Metro station.Before the confrontation, officials said Wednesday, the suspect assaulted a 74-year-old woman and stabbed a man while officers were giving chase.The suspect, identified in an LAPD statement as Mason Todd Swenor, 23, of Glendale, Ariz., survived the shooting.

The authorities identified the shooter as Audrey E. Hale.The police said they had found writings and detailed maps of the school and its security protocols.The assailant was prepared for a confrontation with law enforcement and prepared to do more harm before being killed, Chief Drake said.At least two of the guns used in the shooting appeared to have been purchased legally in the Nashville area, he said.

Abandoned cats and dogs roam vacant streets lined with blasted apartment buildings, rubble and crumpled cars in Shebekino, a Russian border town pounded by shelling from Ukraine.A hair salon still smoldered last week.Every window in the blackened carcass of the police headquarters was blown out.Almost all of the 40,000 inhabitants had fled, officials said.

The Russian government has put the British prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) on a wanted list in an act of retribution after the Hague-based court issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for allegedly overseeing the abduction of Ukrainian children.The arrest order said Russia's interior ministry was seeking to detain Karim Khan, who has served as the ICC prosecutor since 2021.

In the horrific shadow of a past nuclear holocaust, the leaders of the G7 group of wealthiest nations will meet in Hiroshima in Japan this weekend to discuss war; how to prosecute one in Ukraine and how to prevent one with China.Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, once described the G7 as the coordinating committee of the free world, and never has there been such a need for such coordination.

A top Russian official has urged all countries to make efforts to ensure that the threat of global confrontation, of a hot, full-scale World War III does not materialize.World tensions are white-hot indeed, he warned.Russian Official: Full-Scale World War III Should Not Materialize The deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, urged all countries to make efforts to avoid the outbreak of a new, full-scale global conflict Tuesday while addressing participants in the Znanie (Knowledge) educational marathon.

Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur and activist who is running against Donald J. Trump for the Republican nomination, told reporters outside the courthouse in Miami on Tuesday that he had reached out to other presidential candidates to urge them to commit to pardoning the former president if they win in 2024.

Donald Trump is still Donald Trump.His 70 minutes onstage in New Hampshire served as a vivid reminder that the former president has only one speed, and that his second act mirrors his first.He is, as ever, a celebrity performance artist and, even out of office, remains the center of gravity in American politics.

Nearly three weeks after he was captured on video choking Jordan Neely, a homeless man, to death on a New York City subway, Daniel Penny spoke publicly about the episode for the first time on Saturday in an interview with The New York Post.Mr. Penny, 24, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the killing of Mr. Neely, 30, on an F train on May 1.

Last year, on a spring evening, a 28-year-old man confronted a woman on a San Diego bus who was filming him with her cellphone, according to court documents.Edward Hilbert, 56, another rider, decided to intervene.He grabbed the man, Anthony J. McGaff, 28, put him in a chokehold and held him for eight minutes, Mr. McGaff's family said, until Mr. McGaff lost consciousness and died.