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The interim New York City Police Department (NYPD) commissioner said in a statement posted Saturday to the social platform X that federal agents searched his homes and seized materials.

“On Friday, September 20, federal authorities executed search warrants at my residences,” Thomas G. Donlon said in the statement posted to the NYPD’s X account. “They took materials that came into my possession approximately 20 years ago and are unrelated to my work with the New York City Police Department.”

“This is not a department matter, and the department will not be commenting,” the statement continued.

Earlier this month, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said New York Police Commissioner Edward Caban had resigned, shortly after the FBI seized Caban’s devices in a federal investigation.

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At least four people were killed, more than a dozen were wounded and a search was underway Sunday in Birmingham, Alabama, after a shooting rampage in a crowded entertainment district Saturday night.

Officer Truman Fitzgerald said two men and a woman died at the scene and a fourth died a short time later at a local hospital. First responders rushed some wounded people to hospitals while others began arriving at hospitals around the city on their own, he said.

Fitzgerald said it appeared multiple shooters fired into a crowd but that it was not clear whether they were on foot or in cars. He said the shooting did not appear random and that officers were trying to determine who was targeted. No suspects were in custody.

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The mother of the 14-year-old Georgia student charged in the Apalachee High School shooting that killed four people has been indicted in a domestic violence case involving her mother in 2023, according to reports.

On Monday, a grand jury indicted Marcee Gray, 43, on charges of exploiting and intimidating a disabled person or elderly adult, false imprisonment, criminal damage to property and theft, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Saturday.

The charges are unrelated to the mass shooting her son, Colt, is accused of committing on Sept. 4 that killed teachers Cristina Irimie, 53, and Richard Aspinwall, 39, and students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14. Nine other students were injured in the incident.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation also arrested the teen's father, Colin Gray, on Sept. 5, and prosecutors have charged him with two counts of murder, four counts of involuntary manslaughter and eight counts of child cruelty.

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Sending two kids to day care is about 40 percent more expensive than rent across the nation’s 100 largest metros, according to a new study from LendingTree.

The analysis determined that the average monthly cost of full-time center-based child care for an infant and a 4-year-old is $2,182. That’s 39.4 percent higher than the average rent for a two-bedroom unit, which is $1,566.

In some cities, families can expect to pay more than double the average rent for child care.

Springfield, Mass., had the highest child-care-to-rent ratio, with families paying 136 percent more per month for two kids in day care ($3,241) compared to rent ($1,375).

Syracuse (131 percent) and Buffalo, N.Y. (125 percent), had the next highest differences, followed by Spokane, Wash. (116 percent), and Bakersfield, Calif. (109 percent).

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An Ohio pastor who authorities say used a bullhorn to incite the Jan. 6, 2021, mob at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Thursday after being found guilty of multiple offenses.

William Dunfee, 59, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison and three years of supervised release, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), which added that he was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and $2,000 restitution.

“His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election,” the DOJ said in a statement.

Prestigious US universities are raking in millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests, raising concerns about conflicts of interest. And one university even appears to have owned a petroleum company from which it has earned millions of dollars, according to a spate of new reports produced by student organizers.

The six analyses, released Wednesday, focus on American University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Princeton University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and University of California, San Diego. They were written by campus organizers at each respective institution and released by Campus Climate Network, an international student-led coalition that is pushing colleges to cut ties with big oil.

“Fossil fuel companies are hijacking our universities to perpetuate their own toxic industry, and we students are not having it anymore,” Will Kattrup, a research lead at Campus Climate Network, said on Wednesday.

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