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Authorities in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia announced a two-day curfew and banned gatherings on Tuesday after violent unrest erupted in the capital of Noumea and other areas. In Paris, the French Interior Ministry announced that police reinforcements were being sent to island. The territory’s top French official, High Commissioner Louis Le Franc, said 46 security forces had …

Leaders in many cities have recently concluded that it was a bad idea to decriminalize hard drugs. Unless you get your news from NPR, you already knew that allowing people to buy fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine or heroin without consequences would end in pain and chaos for both drug users and their communities. Woke cities and states throughout the country are …

The family of a 36-year-old mother who was stabbed near Times Square in broad daylight is speaking out about the unprovoked attack. John Lohr, whose wife Amber was assaulted by a man with a knife while chaperoning a group of schoolgirls on a class trip, says the family has no plans to return to New York City. “We don’t feel …

An Ocala, Florida, private school principal has been arrested after allegedly attacking a student in a classroom for over an hour, according to authorities. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said 33-year-old Dontay “Donnie” Akeem Prophet, principal of the Destiny Leadership Academy, was arrested May 11, and charged with aggravated child abuse and false imprisonment of a child under the age …

Armed assailants killed two French prison officers and seriously wounded three others in an attack on a convoy in Normandy on Tuesday and an inmate escaped, officials said. A search was underway. The convoy was transporting prisoner Mohamed Amra to Évreux jail after a court hearing in Rouen when it was ambushed on the A154 freeway, which has been closed. …

A University of Delaware student who allegedly went on “an antisemitic tirade” while screaming “f— Jews” and destroying a symbolic memorial on campus now faces a hate crime charge, according to the arrest warrant. Jenna Kandeel, 23, spit on and destroyed the memorial’s color-coded flags, each representing 10,000 people from different groups who lost their lives during the Holocaust, the …

One man has been arrested and police in Philadelphia are still looking for a group of women allegedly involved in attacking an off-duty police officer and stealing his gun. The assault and robbery of the officer’s personal firearm happened around 7 a.m. Sunday in the 2100 block of West Oxford Street, police said. The officer had disarmed his assailant while …

A bus slammed into cars and motorbikes after its brakes apparently malfunctioned in Indonesia’s West Java province, killing at least 11 people, mostly students, and injuring dozens of others, officials said Sunday. The bus carrying 61 students and teachers was returning to a high school in Depok outside Jakarta, the capital, late Saturday from the hilly resort area of Bandung …

Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Monday declined to take the rare step of removing a sheriff accused of improprieties including the transfer of guns from an evidence locker to a gun dealer without proper documentation. Oxford County Sheriff Christopher Wainwright was also accused of failing to ensure proper certifications were in place for school resource officers and of urging a …

Anchorage police officers responding to a disturbance call shot and killed a man early Monday after he pointed a gun at them, police chief Bianca Cross said. “Four officers discharged their weapons, striking the adult male once in the upper body, at least once in the upper body,” Cross said at a news conference. The man was pronounced dead at …