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Catfish killer Alexander McCartney jailed for minimum of 20 years

October 26, 2024 World Justice News 0

It was a phone call from a 13-year-old girl in Scotland in 2019 that eventually led to the capture of a social media predator described as one of the world’s most prolific child sex abusers. […]

Couple who tried to sell US nuclear submarine secrets to foreign country are jailed

November 10, 2022 World Justice News 0

A US Navy engineer and his wife who sold secrets about nuclear submarines to an undercover FBI agent posing as a representative of a foreign government have been jailed. Citing the “great danger” the couple […]

James ‘Whitey’ Bulger: Three men charged in mob boss murder

August 18, 2022 World Justice News 0

Three men have been charged over the prison killing of infamous Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger. The 89-year-old Bulger was discovered unresponsive in October 2018 at a maximum-security facility in West Virginia. Fotios Geas, 55, […]

Maryland couple plead guilty in nuclear secrets plot

February 19, 2022 World Justice News 0

A US Navy engineer’s wife has pleaded guilty to helping her husband try to sell secrets about nuclear-powered submarines to a foreign country. Diana Toebbe, 46, acted as a lookout while her husband left information […]

US couple accused of selling nuclear submarine secrets

October 10, 2021 World Justice News 0

A US navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with trying to sell nuclear secrets to what they thought was a foreign state. Jonathan Toebbe and his wife Diana were arrested in West […]

Gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger killed in jail

October 30, 2018 World Justice News 0

Notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger has been killed in a US federal prison in West Virginia, according to US media. The 89-year-old was found dead in his cell at the maximum security facility shortly […]

US news anchor’s skull fractured in fracas with colleague

August 31, 2018 World Justice News 0

A local US TV weather presenter has been arrested after a row that left a news anchor with a fractured skull. WSAZ-TV’s Chelsea Ambriz, 26, is charged with misdemeanour battery. She allegedly shoved station host […]

Impeached West Virginia Supreme Court Judges

West Virginia votes to impeach state Supreme Court justices

August 15, 2018 World Justice News 0

Lawmakers in West Virginia have voted to impeach all four justices on the state’s Supreme Court for failing to carry out their duties. Three justices now face an impeachment trial in the Senate while a […]

Human Rights

US plans to start checking all tourists’ social media

December 10, 2025 0

All tourists – including those from Britain – will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country’s border force. At the […]

Australia

Children locked out of social media apps after Australia’s world-first ban

December 10, 2025 0

Australia’s world-first social media ban for children has taken effect, with throngs of teenagers waking up to find their accounts have gone dark. Others tell BBC they have already snuck past barriers and will continue […]

Human Rights

Sudan militia chief sentenced to 20 years for war crimes during Darfur conflict

December 10, 2025 0

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced a Sudanese militia leader to 20 years in prison for atrocities committed during a civil war more than two decades ago. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman had been convicted […]