#kidnappings

#kidnappings

Conventional thinking dictates that children should never be left alone -- even for a few minutes.But this is not only irrational, it increases anxiety in kids while needlessly stressing out parents.Getty Images
When everyone in a society shares a crazy belief, they don't know it's crazy.That's the problem.

Three men accused of being high-ranking leaders of the transnational criminal gang MS-13 were arrested in Mexico on Wednesday and will be sent to New York to face charges, the Justice Department announced on Thursday.The three were among 13 people named as suspected gang leaders in an indictment, unsealed in federal court in Suffolk County on Thursday, that detailed MS-13's vast criminal enterprise in El Salvador, Mexico and the United States.

It seems unnecessary to hire a babysitter just to head down to the corner pub for an impromptu bite with your wife.Then again, it also seems unnecessary to have a toddler crawl all over you while you try to have some conversation over a quick burger and beer, too.But there's a third way: the Danish way.

Quantifying the toll of Russia's war in Ukraine remains an elusive goal a year into the conflict.stimates of the casualties, refugees and economic fallout from the war produce an incomplete picture of the deaths and suffering.Precise figures may never emerge for some of the categories international organisations are attempting to track.

Fast forward and imagine it is January 5, 2025.Joe Biden was declared winner of the 2024 election in December, defeating Donald Trump once again.But Trump-loyal militias have mobilized, kidnapping election officials and demanding they confess to fraudulently manipulating vote totals.In Arizona, where the most kidnappings have occurred, the governor refuses to call in the National Guard.

Fast forward and imagine it is January 5, 2025.Joe Biden was declared winner of the 2024 election in December, defeating Donald Trump once again.But Trump-loyal militias have mobilized, kidnapping election officials and demanding they confess to fraudulently manipulating vote totals.In Arizona, where the most kidnappings have occurred, the governor refuses to call in the National Guard.

The crazed man who allegedly hijacked a packed MTA bus in Queens was indicted on a slew of charges Wednesday - as a judge refused to lower his bail despite the defense attorney's claim that his client could die on Rikers Island.Dwayne Gaddy, 44, will remain locked up on the $500,000 bail following his arraignment on the 11-count indictment charging him with kidnapping, assault and grand larceny for the Oct. 27 incident in Cambria Heights.

A convicted murderer who tried to kidnap an 8-year-old girl in front of her dad on a Bronx sidewalk was ordered held without bail Friday - as the victim remained "upset, traumatized, and fearful," prosecutors said.Parolee Juan Rivera, 52, is facing up to life in prison after he tried to snatch a terrified youngster Wednesday afternoon in the Woodstock neighborhood - just blocks from where he fatally shot a man in 2003, prosecutors said in Bronx Criminal Court.