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A mountain lion that attacked a 5-year-old boy in Calabasas was shot and killed by a wildlife officer, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed Saturday.

Police Saturday said a man was taken into custody, with the assistance of the U.S. Marshal Service, as one of the primary suspects who allegedly assaulted several Jewish men Tuesday outside a restaurant in the Beverly Grove area of Los Angeles.

After she endured a brutal attack in front of a luxury apartment building in Times Square in New York City, which drew widespread outrage after video of the assault went viral, Vilma Kari, the Filipino American victim, and her daughter, Elizabeth, are making their story heard.

An Uber driver in San Francisco was attacked by three women Sunday after he refused them a ride for not wearing masks, police said.

Authorities are “dramatically increasing” patrols and offering a $5,000 reward for information about the serial attacker in Waltham, the city’s police chief said Tuesday. “There is definitely a fear factor in our city right now. We’ve never experienced anything like this,” said Detective Sgt. Steve McCarthy, who has been leading the investigation into at least 10 unprovoked attacks since Nov….

Two New Yorkers are now charged for an attack that broke the jaw of a teenage Sesame Place worker in a coronavirus face mask dispute earlier this month at the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, theme park. The “unwarranted brutal assault” left the teen hospitalized for almost a week, police said.

A man and woman punched a 17-year-old Sesame Place employee in the face after the teen reminded them to wear masks, police said.

The Stonington Police Department announced Friday new charges against two suspects in an assault on a Mystic hotel worker. Police are searching for two suspects in an attack against Crystal Caldwell, a 59-year-old hotel worker. Philip Sarner and Emily Orbay are accused of attacking Caldwell. Caldwell told NBC Connecticut they also called her a racial slur. The state’s attorney...

The Stonington Police Department released the audio recordings of two 911 calls that they received about an assault at a Mystic hotel nearly two weeks ago. Police are still searching for the two people accused of attacking Crystal Caldwell, a 59-year-old hotel worker. According to the recordings, the first call came from a colleague of Crystal Caldwell at the Quality…

A hotel clerk says she was assaulted and the victim of a racial slur after receiving a complaint from two guests about hot water.

A Georgia man accused of plotting to attack the White House and other landmarks pleaded guilty Wednesday, according to federal prosecutors and court documents.

Iraqi security officials say at least three rockets struck Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone near the American Embassy

South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired three unidentified projectiles off its eastern coast.

The U.S. has carried out military strikes in Iraq and Syria targeting a militia blamed for a rocket attack that killed an American contractor, a Defense Department spokesman said Sunday.

New video shows the moment the Jersey City shooters stormed into the Kosher market, before blasting at the helpless victims inside. The surveillance video obtained by NBC News is shot from above the entrance to the JC Kosher Supermarket on Martin Luther King Drive. The U-Haul truck shooters David Anderson and Francine Graham were driving in, which New Jersey Attorney…

The deadly shooting rampage at a New Jersey kosher market has cast a spotlight on a fringe movement known for its anti-Semitic strain of street preaching and its role in a viral-video confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial this year. Investigators believe that the man and woman who killed three people at the Jersey City grocery Tuesday in addition to gunning…

The president of the West African nation of Burkina Faso has confirmed that 14 people were killed in an attack on a Protestant church in the country’s east. Going on Twitter, President Roch Marc Christian Kabore said Sunday that he condemned “the barbaric attack” in the town of Hantoukoura. He said several people also were wounded. Kabore offered his “deepest...

A man attacked a woman in a parking lot in Hamden on Thursday night, shoved her to the ground and tried to steal her purse, police said, and they are trying to identify him.

A mom dragged an 81-year-old woman to the ground by her hair after the two got into an argument as they were waiting to see “Dumbo” at a movie theater, police and the victim said.

Westport police have arrested a woman and a man who are accused of attacking two men as they arrived to meet a woman they were in contact with through an app.