QUITO, Ecuador—Gunmen attacked a group of people in Ecuador’s coastal city of Guayaquil killing nine and injuring 10 others, police said Sunday, the latest in a string of violent incidents in the South American country. The attack took place around 7 p.m. local time Saturday in the southern neighborhood of Guasmo. According to police, the […]
A second State Department-sponsored flight evacuating Americans from Haiti landed in Miami on March 21 amid increasing unrest and violence in the Caribbean nation, according to multiple reports. The flight, carrying more than 80 U.S. citizens, departed from Cap-Haitien, a port city on the north coast of Haiti, and landed at Miami International Airport, Florida […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—A crowd of about 100 people tried to shove through a metal gate in Haiti’s capital as a guard with a baton pushed them back, threatening to hit them. Undeterred, children and adults alike, some of them carrying babies, kept elbowing each other trying to enter. “Let us in! We’re hungry!” they shouted on […]
MEXICO CITY—Two federal detectives have been found unharmed after they went missing in Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Guerrero while investigating the disappearances of 43 students almost 10 years ago. Officials did not say Tuesday how the man and woman were found or whether they had been freed from captivity. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador […]
Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry has announced that he will resign as head of the Caribbean nation once a transitional presidential council has been established and an interim prime minister named. Mr. Henry made the announcement on March 11 following weeks of international pressure to step down amid rising violence in the country, which has […]
MEXICO CITY—Mexican soldiers killed 12 gunmen in a shootout near the Texas border, authorities said. The security department of the northern border state of Tamaulipas said late Sunday the confrontation took place in the township of Miguel Aleman, across the border from Roma, Texas. The department wrote on its social media accounts that soldiers came […]
An annual study conducted by the British Retail Consortium further highlighted a significant increase in violence and abuse directed at retail staff in 2023. Mike Neville, former detective chief inspector, shared his insights with NTD.
Americans are being warned that terrorist groups may view the Israel–Hamas war as an opportunity to carry out acts of violence—or to call on others to do so. At the same time, many European countries have been on heightened alert due to the risk of terror attacks on Christmas markets and busy pedestrian streets filled […]
The idea of employing the military to suppress widespread violence in specific regions of the country is something former President Donald Trump hinted at during a recent campaign event in Iowa. He indicated that although he was unable to implement this strategy during his presidency, he intends to pursue it if reelected. This approach would […]
Members of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) hold a press conference at 10:00 a.m. ET on Dec. 12 with China human rights advocates to discuss the violence and harassment by pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) groups during the APEC Leaders’ Summit in San Francisco. Representative Christopher Smith (R-N.J.), the CECC chair, joined […]
CANBERRA, Australia—A U.S. citizen has been charged in Arizona over online comments that allegedly incited what police describe as a “religiously motivated terrorist attack” in Australia a year ago in which six people died, officials said Wednesday. Queensland state police officers Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold and innocent bystander Alan Dare were fatally shot by […]
MEXICO CITY—The bodies of five university students were found stuffed in a vehicle on a dirt road in north-central Mexico, authorities said Monday. Diego Sinhue Rodríguez, the governor of the state of Guanajuato, pledged an “exhaustive” investigation into the killings. The car and the bodies of the victims, all young men, were found Sunday in […]
Eight high school students in Las Vegas, Nevada have been arrested on murder charges in the fatal beating of a young man during a brawl over a pair of stolen headphones, police announced on Nov. 14. Jonathan Lewis Jr., a 17-year-old student of Rancho High School, was put on life support with “non-survivable head trauma” […]
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Nov. 7 in United States v. Rahimi. People on both sides of the Second Amendment debate expect this to be a landmark test of the limits of the June 2022 decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, which fundamentally changed how courts view gun […]
Coming up on America’s Hope. Two dynamic women, making a change not only for their communities but for the world. We’ll meet Miss NTD, Cynthia Sun and successful attorney, Elizabeth Yang, who is championing the cause for mental health awareness. All that and more, on America’s Hope.
Kelly Wright talks to Bobby Kipper, founder and executive director of the National Center for Prevention of Community Violence. A law enforcement veteran explains why police and communities must adopt the behavioral science strategy of actively caring for each other in order to disrupt the process of violence.
BALTIMORE—Baltimore police have asked for the public’s help identifying a group of people seen in the area of a shooting at Morgan State University that left five people injured. Police released a surveillance video late Wednesday that shows several people walking in a grassy area. They are seeking the identities of “persons of interest” in […]
America’s Hope continues to focus on community violence prevention. In this episode, Kelly Wright talks to Amanda Price, the CEO of the Florida Partnership to End Domestic Violence. Ms. Price discusses how frontline workers are helping survivors to prevent abuse and triumph over fear.
The U.N. Security Council on Monday approved the deployment of an international security force to assist Haiti’s national police in curbing escalating gang violence and restoring stability across the “strife-torn Caribbean nation.” The Haitian government and various leaders in the nation requested the U.N. support, facing months of chaos during which over 3,000 homicides and […]
Violence in America is out of control. Yet there are people who are working hard to prevent community violence. In this episode, Kelly Wright sits down with actress and producer Patricia McKenzie to discuss her campaign against bullying and violence. Also, Kelly talks to Rev. J.R. Thicklin, who leads Destiny By Choice—a faith-based organization raising […]
