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Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (MAUI, Hawaii) — A Maui official defended not activating sirens during last week’s deadly wildfires, as the county’s emergency response has come under scrutiny over what more could have been done to possibly save lives. Maui Emergency Management Agency Administrator Herman Andaya said the protocol is to use the coastal sirens only […]

Jamestown Police Department (WARREN, Pa.) — As the manhunt for suspected murderer and “self-taught survivalist,” Michael Burham stretched into its seventh day Thursday in the northeast Pennsylvania woods, an official who viewed surveillance video of the jail escape said the fugitive “looked like a spider” as he quickly made his getaway from the lock-up’s rooftop recreational […]

The Home Depot (NEW YORK) — The surveillance video, from earlier this year, is startling: Four masked men march in a line through a Home Depot store in New York — two of them looking like menacing bodyguards — while the two others confidently push carts stacked with almost a hundred boxes of high-value items […]

Leigh Vogel/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Deputy Homeland Security Secretary John Tien, a 24-year Army vet, now finds himself with a new challenge, handed down by Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas specifically because of his background: defeating, disrupting and dismantling Mexican drug cartels. “These cartels are responsible for human smuggling, human trafficking, narcotics trafficking in particular, who […]