The Illinois State Police have launched an investigation into the death of Silverio Villegas-González, a 38-year-old Mexican man shot and killed by a federal immigration agent in September 2025 in Franklin Park — a case that has been mired in conflicting accounts and criticism over the use of force from the very beginning.
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When Giulia Immaculata was 13, her parents — members of the Coluccio clan — forced her to break up with her boyfriend so she could marry Cosimo Commisso, nephew of Vincenzo Macrì, who in 2014 was the leader of one of the most prominent clans of the ’Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia. The case, extreme as it is, illustrates how, within this organization, marriages go far beyond love; they are a family affair. Now, an analysis of hundreds of marital ties within the group shows that the most powerful families occupy the center of the network. The study, published in the scientific journal PLOS One, also reveals that these marriages strengthen this criminal syndicate and make it more resilient.
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TikTok’s survival in the United States was at stake in 2024. Then-president Joe Biden had passed a law requiring TikTok to separate from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, if it wanted to continue operating in the U.S. After Donald Trump won the election, the U.S. reached an agreement with TikTok. Today, the platform remains in the country, and Trump is capitalizing on it: “I like TikTok. It helped get me elected,” Trump said after winning the election.
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Against the backdrop of Abidjan’s skyscrapers, the magnetic rhythm of zouglou fills the air. Two dancers weave multi-rhythmic choreography on stage, the brilliant voices of three women accompany the singer, and the percussion sets your heartbeat. Spotlights, grilled fish, fried plantains, and the reflections of the lights on the Ébrié Lagoon, which borders Ivory Coast’s economic capital, complete the spectacle at one of the nights of the 14th edition of the Abidjan African Performing Arts Markets (MASA), a biennial event that has attracted more than 570,000 visitors and this year broke records with the presence of 320 programmers from 72 countries; in 2024, there were 115 from 40 countries.
Pedro Alonso, 54, woke up this Monday with renewed energy. He had slept well. He went out for a coffee in the streets of A Coruña, where he is filming his new movie, and walked through the Old Town. It was then that he began to realize this wouldn’t be just any ordinary week.
The Salvadoran government has launched a mass trial against 486 alleged gang leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha‑13 (MS-13), including 22 supposed members of the group’s top echelon, known as the Ranfla Nacional, whom authorities accuse of ordering 29,000 homicides committed between 2012 and 2022.
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Twenty‑three passengers from the MV Hondius have been on land for more than two weeks. They disembarked on April 21 on the island of Saint Helena, 10 days after the first death on board, and began their journeys home. That is what a Spanish passenger still on the ship told EL PAÍS. “Twenty‑three people got off in Saint Helena. There are 23 people wandering around there, and until three days ago, no one had contacted them,” said the passenger, who asked to remain anonymous.
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The arrival in the Canary Islands in the coming days of the ship where a Hantavirus outbreak occurred has quickly sparked a political battle in Spain. The premier of Spain’s Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, from the Canary Coalition, sparked tension Wednesday morning during a series of interviews with various media outlets. He stated that his government has not received detailed information on how the operation will be carried out and speculated that it might be a highly contagious variant.
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José Perozo, a 24-year-old Venezuelan, is behind bars again. In 2024, he was arrested during the crackdown on protests against the presidential election results. This time, he had gone out to fill some water jugs at a reservoir near his home in Mariara, Carabobo state, when a patrol car pulled up beside him. They arrested him, put a hood over his head, and took him away. His mother has searched every police station in town without finding him. “How long will this go on? We can’t even go out on the street!” pleads Yuraima Piñero.
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Sabrina Carpenter directs the heist. The Espresso singer, along with actresses Margaret Qualley and Madelyn Cline, breaks into a Hollywood mansion to steal jewelry, clothes, and even a Grammy. This is the plot of the music video for House Tour, one of the tracks from Carpenter’s latest album Man’s Best Friend. Music videos produced by the pop singer have become popular for including actresses and movie references: in Taste, featuring Jenna Ortega, she hides clues to Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Kill Bill; Tears features Colman Domingo and is inspired by The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And in her latest video, which she released in early April, she references Sofia Coppola’s film The Bling Ring. The latter is based on a true story popularized by a Vanity Fair article titled “The Suspects Wore Louboutins”: between 2008 and 2009, a group of wealthy, fame-obsessed young people burglarized the homes of celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Rachel Bilson, Brian Austin Green, Megan Fox, and Orlando Bloom.
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The allegations that Mexican politician Rubén Rocha Moya collaborated with the Sinaloa Cartel — an unprecedented case involving a sitting governor that is straining relations between the two countries to an as-yet-unknown degree — stems directly from the criminal case against Los Chapitos. This faction of the criminal organization, comprised of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s sons and their loyalists, has been on trial in the United States since April 2023. The 10 individuals indicted last week — Rocha Moya, Senator Enrique Inzunza Cázerez, and a significant portion of Sinaloa’s security apparatus — share the case with brothers Iván Archivaldo and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, who remain at large, and 24 other individuals linked to the group, who are accused of providing political protection in exchange for money and electoral victories.
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In recent years, Saudi Arabia has established itself as one of the world’s most active and ambitious investors. From financing the futuristic city of Neom on coast of the Red Sea to signing Cristiano Ronaldo for Al-Nassr and hosting a Formula 1 Grand Prix in Jeddah, not forgetting its investments in Western companies like SoftBank, Uber and Telefónica, Riyadh’s financial resources have left virtually no sector unexplored.
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