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The Victim: 10-year-old Shani "Kaidra" Coke, a student at Troy Primary School, was sent to a shop by her grandmother on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, and was later found dead in the bushes with her throat slashed.

The Suspect: Identified as Delroy Coke (also referred to in reports as Delroy Ko), who, according to local reports and records, was a repeat sex offender previously convicted of offenses including a 2019 buggery charge, for which he served time before his release from prison in August 2025.

A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, shaking the South American nation and neighboring Ecuador and prompting people to evacuate homes and buildings.

The Jackson Police Department says there's "an active death investigation" underway after the 29-year-old mother of four was found dead hanging from a tree behind a vacant house

The family of a 14-year-old Rochester boy who had been missing for nearly a week says he has been found dead.

Zane Johnson was reported missing on July 6 after he was last seen on El Camino Trail near Conkey Avenue. His mother, Chassidy Johnson, said his body was recovered from the Genesee River on Friday.

"He is always with me, in my heart, in my soul, in my mind," said Johnson.

Family members, friends and volunteers spent days searching for Zane across the city, including near the Driving Park Bridge, where his mother said he was found.

The US military said on Sunday that another service member was killed in action during a controlled detonation of a downed Iranian drone. The death comes a day after the Pentagon announced the deaths of two service members in Jordan.

CNN's Kevin Liptak reports from the White House on the first American casualties resulting from Iranian strikes since March. CNN national security analyst Alex Plitsas and CNN military analyst Cedric Leighton also break down the current risk level to US troops in the Middle East. 

Nolan Wells’ body was found on Horn Island, Miss., on July 6, two days after he traveled there by boat with friends to celebrate the Fourth of July.

The teen’s mother, Christine Wonsley, has been receiving hate mail amid her unanswered questions about the circumstances surrounding his death.

“Whoever sent this to my home, may the good Lord have mercy on your soul,” she wrote on social media.

Nolan Wells‘ mother has a message for the individual who sent her family hate mail following the death of her son. 

Almost two weeks after the 18-year-old college student’s body was found, following his disappearance on Horn Island amid a Fourth of July celebration, Christine Wonsley has responded to an email from an anonymous sender.

“Whoever sent this to my home, may the good Lord have mercy on your soul,” Wonsley wrote on Facebook, alongside a photo of the message. “Bold enough to send this crap but not bold enough to list your return address,” she continued.

Javeayah Harris was reported missing on Tuesday, June 30, from her home near Hillsboro Street and Ridgecrest Road in Aiken. According to Aiken County Sheriff Marty Sawyer, the parents of a 4-year-old girl "poured" her remains into a lake in South Carolina after dissolving them with chemicals.

Although some of Javeayah Harris's remains were discovered, the sheriff stated that it is doubtful that all of her remains will ever be recovered.

On Thursday, Sawyer said an inquiry revealed that the girl's parents, Michilae Herring and Johnmarea Harris, reportedly dissolved her body using "corrosive chemicals and other tools."

Sawyer claimed that after the two dumped what was left of her remains into Fairfield County's Cedar Creek Reservoir, some of them were found.

Another powerful earthquake, magnitude 4.8, has struck near Venezuela, just days after the country's devastating twin earthquakes. The latest tremor has renewed fears among residents as rescue and relief operations continue in the quake-hit nation. The fresh seismic activity comes amid ongoing aftershocks following the deadly earthquakes that caused widespread destruction across northern Venezuela.

Rescuers pulled a man from under the rubble of a nine-story building in Venezuela during a “miraculous” operation eight days after the devastating earthquakes that struck the country.

Hernán Alberto Gil Flores, 44, who was buried under 29 feet of wreckage from a collapsed shopping mall parking lot in La Guaira, was rescued on Thursday after a delicate, days-long effort by local and international rescue teams.

1-year-old Kohen Wiley was shot and killed by police responding to a theft report at a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi. Calls for justice are intensifying.

According to reports, police opened fire on a shoplifter's vehicle. At the moment of the fatal shooting, the officer said the car was speeding toward him. Following his passing, the toddler's family is requesting an independent autopsy.

"They were called over a box of diapers, and a family now has to bury their baby," said their lawyer, Benjamin Crump, casting doubt on the police response. It is not reasonable for policing to place those two objects adjacent to each other.

Vellesiya Wiley, Kohen's mother, was a passenger in the car. According to her, the vehicle was stationary.

An eyewitness captures a terrifying moment as the airport roof collapses during a 7.5-magnitude earthquake that hits Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday (24 June) evening.

Two earthquakes of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 struck within 39 seconds of each other, causing widespread damage in the capital.

On June 10, 2026, 71 schoolgirls from Monsey, New York, were rescued after wandering into a dark stormwater drainage tunnel in Nyack, New York. The students explored about half a mile underground before becoming disoriented, but all were safely located without serious injury. 

Incident Overview

•Date: June 10, 2026

•Location: Nyack Memorial Park and the underground culverts beneath the Village of Nyack, New York

Group: 71 students and accompanying adults from a religious school based in Monsey, NY 

What Happened

The students were on a field trip at Nyack Memorial Park when they noticed a large drainage culvert connected to the creek and decided to explore it.

•The group walked about a quarter to half a mile underground over uneven terrain in pitch darkness.

•They eventually became disoriented and split up, unable to find their way back out.

The "764" group is a decentralized, global network of online nihilistic violent extremists that the U.S. Department of Justice and other authorities classify as an ideologically driven terrorist organization. Rather than pursuing traditional political goals, the group seeks to destroy civilized society by orchestrating mass chaos, sadism, and severe psychological and sexual exploitation of children.

Core Details of the Group:

Ideology: Their beliefs are rooted in nihilism, misanthropy, and accelerationism. Members glorify violence, gore, and indiscriminate destruction, often drawing on Satanic neo-Nazi ideologies such as the Order of Nine Angles (O9A).

• Modus Operandi: 764 members actively target vulnerable children and teenagers (typically ages 10 to 17) on social media, messaging apps, and online gaming platforms. They befriend their victims, obtain explicit photos, and then use those images to blackmail and coerce the minors into self-harm, animal cruelty, and the production of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

• Other Criminal Activities: In addition to sadistic online exploitation, the network engages in swatting (making false emergency calls to dispatch armed police to a target's home), SIM swapping, doxing, and firebombing victims' homes.

• Origin: The network emerged in 2021 from an earlier illicit hacking community known as "The Community". It has since evolved into an umbrella term encompassing thousands of members and offshoot groups worldwide.

• Law Enforcement Response: Identifying, tracking, and stopping 764 is an urgent, top-tier priority for the FBI and international agencies. Dozens of individuals—both domestic and international—have been indicted, arrested, or sentenced to lengthy federal prison terms for terrorism, RICO, and child exploitation charges related to the 764 enterprise.

 A South Carolina jury on Monday found a store owner not guilty of murder in the 2023 shooting of a Black 14-year-old.

The jury returned the verdict for Chikei Rick Chow. Chow, 61, who is Asian, shot Cyrus Carmack-Belton in the back after chasing him from his convenience store in Columbia, but maintained he acted to defend his son. The killing sent waves of anguish and grief through the African American community in Richland County, where nearly half the population is Black.

After the verdict was read, sobs and cries of distress came from Carmack-Belton’s family, seated in the gallery. Chow sat silently, frozen, then slowly bowed his head onto his interlocked hands.

In closing arguments, prosecutors and a defense lawyer painted different pictures of the 2023 shooting. Prosecutors said Chow acted in anger because he wrongly believed the teen had stolen four bottles of water from the store. A defense lawyer said Chow fired to defend his son only after the teen pointed a gun at him.

Following a massive Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's second-largest city on Saturday morning, residents of St. Petersburg were warned not to leave their homes, highlighting Kyiv's increasing capacity to strike deep within Russia.

Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, turned down an invitation to meet with his Ukrainian colleague the day before the attack.

According to Alexander Beglov, the governor of St. Petersburg, three people were slightly hurt in the assault. While regional governor Alexander Drozdenko said that 141 drones were shot down over the surrounding Leningrad region in what he dubbed an "unprecedented attack," he cautioned locals not to go outside and warned of potential disruptions to mobile internet connections. According to Russia's Defense Ministry, 376 Ukrainian drones were shot down by its air defenses. Our drones traveled roughly 1,000 miles last night.

According to their devastated family, the mother of three sisters who were found dead in the sea near Brighton Beach also drowned. On May 13, three people from Uxbridge in west London—Jane Adetoro, 36; Christina Walter, 32; and Rebecca Walter, 31—were rescued from the sea. 

Before emergency services were notified, it was thought they had entered the water near where they were discovered. The women were "the closest sisters and best friends who did everything together," according to their aunt Ajike Adetoro.

Ms. Adetoro condemned the conspiracy theories that have spread since the tragedy, saying the family does not know why the siblings made the 70-mile journey from their home to the southern coast.

But she suggested they may have been paying tribute to their mother, who died by drowning in Birmingham in 2010.