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The biographer comes clean about her years as a literary con artist. Lee Israel was a pro at digging up letters by famous writers like Dorothy Parker and selling them for a good profit. It turns out that Israel was the one writing them. Kurt talks with Israel about her crimes, which she recounts in […]

Rio de Janeiro’s Olympics security force is gone — and robberies and violent crime are rising. Here’s how bad it is, in three charts.

Designed to more accurately test fingerprint scanners, the glove is a boon for law enforcement — when it’s on the right hands.

South Africa’s murder rate rose by 4.9 percent in the last year, official statistics showed Friday, with the police minister admitting the country was struggling with “a prevalent culture of violence.”

The Palace Mobile Home Park outside St. Petersburg, has been housing sex offenders for more than a decade and says no resident has ever been convicted of a new sex crime.