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Law enforcement in Arizona are finally able to identify a woman found dead in 1971 after community members rallied together to help fund crucial DNA testing. The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office was notified on Jan. 23, 1971, of remains found in a desert area close to U.S. Highway 93 on Hackberry Road. The body was in a white cotton canvas sack with the words “Deer-Pak Ames Harris Neville Co.” printed on it in green, authorities said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.Investigators at the time were not able to identify the woman. It wasn’t until Monday — 52 years after…

Montreal police say they have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with the city’s first homicide of 2023 and he could appear in court as early as Thursday. The suspect was initially considered to be an important witness in the death of a 61-year-old woman and investigators met him Wednesday, police say.“There is a family connection between the victim and the suspect,” police said on Thursday, but did not provide more detailed information about how they were related. The arrest comes after authorities were asked to do a wellness check on a person around 7:20 a.m. Wednesday in the Ville-Marie…

Kylie Jenner at the Baby2Baby Gala, November 2022. Rob Latour/Shutterstock In on the joke. Kylie Jenner had the best response to a TikTok that poked fun at her son’s name. In the social media upload, the user dressed up as both Jenner, 25, and Travis Scott to recreate how the couple chose the moniker Aire. As audio from the opening scene of Avatar: The Last Airbender described the four elements, the fan imitated the rapper, 31, waving off the water, earth and fire options before agreeing on air. The reality star, for her part, left two crying-laughing emojis in the…

Hungary is ready to make a U-turn in its latest row with the European Union over university funding, according to the country’s minister responsible for EU funds.In early January, the European Commission warned that most Hungarian universities will lose funding from Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe – two EU programmes funding education and research respectively – because of the increased influence of the governing party and government members on university boards.Tibor Navracsics, Hungary’s Minister without portfolio for Land Development, told Euronews that removing government members from university boards will not be a problem.”From our side, it is not an obstacle if the European…

A Chinese national who enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves has been sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty of spying in a scheme “to obtain access to advanced aerospace and satellite technologies being developed by companies within the U.S.,” the Justice Department says. Ji Chaoqun, 31, was handed the punishment Wednesday after an Illinois jury convicted him last year on numerous counts, including acting as an agent of the People’s Republic of China without first notifying the Attorney General. The Justice Department says Ji, who lived in Chicago, provided biographical information on certain U.S.-based individuals to a Chinese…

U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) speaks at a press conference on committee assignments for the 118th U.S. Congress, at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 25, 2023 in Washington, DC.Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesRep. Adam Schiff, who led an impeachment effort against former President Donald Trump, is running for Senate in 2024 for the seat currently held by fellow California Democrat Dianne Feinstein.”I’m going to the U.S. Senate to fight for working people, not the rich or corporations who don’t need yet another voice in Congress,” Schiff said in a press release Thursday unveiling his Senate bid.Schiff’s announcement played up…

CNN  —  The US Treasury Department on Thursday designated the Wagner Group, a Russian private mercenary organization heavily involved in the war in Ukraine, as a significant transnational criminal organization, and imposed a slew of sanctions on a transnational network that supports it. The US Department of State concurrently announced a number of sanctions meant to “target a range of Wagner’s key infrastructure – including an aviation firm used by Wagner, a Wagner propaganda organization, and Wagner front companies,” according to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. In addition to the measures targeting the Wagner Group – which were previewed…

A Biden judicial nominee was unable to answer basic questions about the U.S. Constitution posed by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., during a Senate hearing on Wednesday.Judge Charnelle Bjelkengren, of Spokane County Superior Court in Washington State, was nominated by President Biden to serve on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. During her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bjelkengren could not answer Kennedy’s questions about what different parts of the U.S. Constitution do and how courts might interpret laws. “Tell me what Article V of the Constitution does,” Kennedy instructed Bjelkengren at the beginning of his question…

Pakistan has abandoned controls on its currency exchange rate as authorities attempt to revive an IMF bailout, sending the rupee to a record low as the crisis-hit economy risks collapse.Pakistan’s central bank has in recent months enforced an unofficial exchange rate for money changers that kept the rupee artificially high, analysts say, creating a black market for currency.But traders said authorities withdrew those curbs on Thursday in order to meet an IMF demand to liberalise the exchange rate. The official banking rate ended the day nearly 10 per cent lower at Rs255 to the dollar, the central bank said. Pakistan’s…

The air has leaked from Party City’s balloons, in more ways than one. Filing for bankruptcy this month, Party City cited the usual factors troubling US retailers such as higher expenses for freight and labour. But the purveyor of banners and festive paper plates has a unique challenge: commodity risk.Party City is best known for its helium balloons and the price of the gas has jumped. Worse, the company’s overall total debt load of $1.8bn far exceeds its current profitability. A plan by Party City’s bondholders to swap their debt for new equity will repair its balance sheet and help…