Berlin Pride attack suspect had been released from prison despite ISIS ties

CBS News has learned that the 21-year-old man accused of plowing his vehicle through Berlin’s Pride celebration on Saturday night had previously received a suspended sentence for charges related to his attempt to join ISIS. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay has the latest from Berlin. Source link

Berlin Pride attack suspect raised red flags, group says, amid questions about prior release from prison despite ISIS ties

The suspect in the Berlin LGBTQ+ Pride parade attack, who officials said was known to have ties to ISIS, was about to be disqualified from a deradicalization program after staff saw red flags, one of the program’s leaders told CBS News on Monday. Officials said Abdul Ballout, a 21-year-old German-born citizen with Lebanese roots, plowed a … Read more

A California teen is strangled and buried alive. Inside her family’s fight to keep her killers in prison.

This story originally aired on Feb. 15, 2025. It was updated on July 25, 2026. It was Sept. 18, 2003 when Justine Vanderschoot’s remains were discovered in a remote location more than two weeks after she disappeared. But it’s in the garden outside her bedroom window where her parents Don and Lynnette still come to … Read more

Supreme Court litigator gets prison for tax evasion case after gambling on poker

WASHINGTON — A prominent Supreme Court litigator was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for evading a multimillion-dollar IRS tax debt and engaging in mortgage fraud, a case that cast a spotlight on his secretive lifestyle as a high-stakes poker player and featured trial testimony from a Hollywood movie star. Thomas Goldstein, who … Read more

Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, co-founder of El Chapo’s drug cartel, sentenced to life in U.S. prison

NEW YORK — Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a founder of the Sinaloa cartel, was sentenced to life in prison in Brooklyn federal court, where he took responsibility in leading one of the world’s largest and most violent drug trafficking organizations. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. … Read more

Cuban artist and dissident exiled from country after 5 years in prison arrives in U.S.

MIAMI — A famous Cuban dissident artist and musician, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, arrived in Miami on Saturday after being released from a five-year prison sentence on the condition that he leave his country. Alcántara, 38, was greeted at the airport by a crowd that was cheering, singing and holding their phones high in the … Read more

Son of couple on hunger strike in Iran prison “desperately worried” as stepdad’s sentence extended

London — A British man jailed in Iran on espionage charges that officials call baseless has had his decade-long prison sentence extended by a further two years, his family said Wednesday, as he and his partner grow weak from an ongoing two-month hunger strike. Craig Foreman, 52, was arrested in Iran with his wife Lindsay, … Read more

Man gets prison in deadly shooting of ex-girlfriend as she pushed baby’s stroller

NEW YORK — A New York man who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend as she pushed their baby in a stroller was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years to life in prison, prosecutors said. A jury convicted Isaac Argro in May of murder in the 2022 death of Azsia Johnson. Prosecutors said Argro gunned her … Read more