crime
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If your podcast queue is overloaded with relentless news and true crime, let this be your breath of fresh country air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
He wrote a court opinion in 2005 ending executions for murderers who were under age 18 at the time of their crime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Commentators and analysts took to their podcasts and social media accounts to guess which cyber crime group or nation state hacker might be behind it.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Samson, who is studying to be a crime analyst, found that it was easy to get acquainted with the older residents.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
But the tale of the letters now involved disappearing ghosts, and Katherine taking cell phone pictures of secret documents with Jonah’s name on them, and witnesses, as if Jonah had been involved in some crime.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
He also believed that teenagers who commit crimes are not as culpable as adults.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
For Stephan Rapp, a former US ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, the process may have been imperfect but the probe was thorough.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
And she specifically worked on hundreds of cases involving defendants convicted of firearm-related crimes, fighting to get their convictions overturned or their sentences reduced.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
A spokesperson for the BBC said: "We are appalled by these crimes and our thoughts are with the victims in this case."
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
In 1937, when Lilya was sixteen, her father, Vladimir Litvyak, was arrested, for crimes he’d supposedly committed against the Communist Party.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
