#organized-crime

#organized-crime

Malta is marking the fifth anniversary of the car bomb slaying of the investigative journalist.Rene' Rossignaud/AP VALLETTA, Malta  Malta on Sunday marked the fifth anniversary of the car bomb slaying of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, with calls for justice and praise for the courage of a woman whose death shocked Europe and exposed a culture of impunity on the Mediterranean island nation.

Vivek Ramaswamy, a 37-year-old entrepreneur and author running for president as a Republican, has never run for elective office before, but he has clearly picked up the art of the stump speech.Here are five of his most reliable applause lines over a few days on the trail in New Hampshire.It is a questionable assertion, because Ben Carson made ending affirmative action central to his 2016 campaign.

A South Side man wanted on two Texas arrest warrants backed his registered BMW sedan into a Chicago police officer in an attempt to flee an investigative stop on DuSable Lake Shore Drive, touching off the first of two dramatic flight attempts, prosecutors said Sunday.The first escape attempt occurred seconds after the 39-year-old officer fell to the ground with a broken left shinbone during the stop at a red light on the southbound outer drive near Roosevelt Road Friday around 8:15 p.m.

More than a month after a 63-year-old US citizen was kidnapped from her home in Mexico, the FBI has announced a $20,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts.Maria del Carmen Lopez was kidnapped February 9 in Pueblo Nuevo, a municipality in the southwestern Mexican state of Colima, the FBI's Los Angeles field office said in a release Thursday.

Two teenagers have been charged with attempted murder and a host of weapons-related charges after a 15-year-old student was shot outside a northwest Toronto high school Thursday, police say.At a news conference Friday afternoon, Toronto police Insp.Norm Proctor said two 17-year-olds had been arrested and charged.

Thursday's second division Mexico league match between Dorados and Correcaminos and Friday's Liga MX match between Mazatlan and Leon have been postponed due to violence in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, both leagues announced on Thursday.Organized crime paralyzed the western Mexico city of Culiacan, a stronghold of the Sinaloa drug cartel, as alleged cartel members carjacked residents and set vehicles ablaze on Thursday in apparent response to the arrest of cartel leader Ovidio Guzman, son of the imprisoned Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Andrew Tate (center) and his brother Tristan leave after appearing at the Court of Appeal, in Bucharest, Romania, on Tuesday.Alexandru Dobre/AP BUCHAREST, Romania A court in Romania's capital Bucharest has upheld the 30-day arrest of divisive social media personality and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate on charges of organized crime, human trafficking and rape, an official said late Tuesday.