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Investigators have discovered the charred remains of a body in a Minneapolis pawn shop that was set ablaze in the riots after the death of George Floyd, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported on Tuesday. The building that housed the pawn shop, Max It Pawn, was burned to the ground on May 28. Agents from the Minneapolis Police …

Acting homeland security secretary Chad Wolf on Tuesday hit back at criticism of the department’s officers deployed in Portland, Ore., slamming media coverage of federal police activities in the city as well as local officials’ response to rioting. Portland has seen continuous rioting since the death of George Floyd, an African American man killed in …

Florida’s largest teachers union sued Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday to overturn an emergency order requiring schools to offer in-person instruction five days a week next month, even as cases of COVID-19 surge in the state. In the suit, filed in circuit court in Miami-Dade county, the Florida Education Association accuses the governor and several …

James Franco allegedly asked Amber Heard “what the f–k” happened to her face after she claims Johnny Depp chucked a phone at her — as disturbing, new photos emerged of the bruises Tuesday in a British court. The “Adderall Diaries” actor visited Heard at her Los Angeles penthouse on May 22, 2016, the day after …

St. Louis’ top prosecutor has charged Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple who pointed guns at protesters marching by their mansion last month, with felony unlawful use of a weapon. The McCloskeys, who are both personal injury attorneys in their 60s, also face a misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree assault, the Associated Press reported. Circuit Attorney …

The Los Angeles Times on Monday compared images of a naked woman protesting federal police in Portland, Ore., to the iconic picture of a Chinese man standing in front of a tank at the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989. The woman, whose name was not reported, sat nude in front of federal police during a demonstration …

The suspect in a shooting at the New Brunswick, N.J., home of federal judge Esther Salas has been found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to multiple reports. While Salas was in the basement of her home at the time, the gunman killed her 20-year-old son and injured her husband. Salas has presided over …

A recording that Johnny Depp secretly made after a fight with then-wife Amber Heard — in which she calls him “a f–king baby’’ and admits, “I hit you’’ — was introduced in British court Monday. Depp’s camp produced the tape, which was previously made public, to hammer Heard over her claims that she was never …

Amber Heard recalled in court Monday how then-beau Johnny Depp allegedly dangled their teacup Yorkshire terrier out the window of a moving car while “howling like a dog.” “We shared two small dogs at the time, Pistol and Boo,” the actress said in an explosive 39-page statement submitted to London court. “He took Boo and …

The son of New Jersey federal judge Esther Salas was killed and her husband critically injured by a gunman who attacked them at their home Sunday night, according to multiple reports. The judge herself was not injured but her son Daniel Anderl, 20, died after he was shot and her husband Mark Anderl, 63, is in critical …