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FILE - Police Community Support Officers stand near the fire damage in the doorway of a house belonging to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Kentish Town, London, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

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The Manhattan architect who lived a secret life as the Gilgo Beach serial killer has spent the past three years alone in a segregated cell. Rex Heuermann has been reading crime novels and gets an occasional visit from his lawyers or family. He also struck up a brief correspondence with Keith Jesperson, the infamous “Happy Face Killer” of the 1990s. That’s according to Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon, who oversees the Long Island jail where Heuermann has been held. He faces life without parole in a state prison when he's sentenced Wednesday. Heuermann pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and since admitted to killing yet another woman.

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A woman has been critically injured by a shark off a popular Sydney beach. The attack happened Saturday morning at Coogee Beach. Lifeguard Charlie Verco was nearby on his paddleboard and rescued the 35-year-old woman who suffered serious leg and arm injuries. Bystanders, including an off-duty doctor, helped apply tourniquets. She was flown to a hospital in critical condition. The attack involved an 11-foot white shark. It follows three fatal shark attacks on spearfishing divers in Australia since May. Shark attacks have become more common in Australia as the population and water activities increase.

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President Donald Trump says a “swift and lethal kinetic” U.S. strike has killed Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, whom he called “the infamous leader” of the Tren de Aragua gang. Tren de Aragua has been labeled by the United States as a terrorist organization. Guerrero Flores has been charged in a New York federal court with racketeering conspiracy and other crimes, including lending support to terrorists in crimes that stretched more than a decade, authorities announced in December. Trump wrote on his social media site Friday that “Tren de Aragua terrorists no longer have safe haven in Venezuela or anywhere else."

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FILE - Alleged Gilgo serial killer Rex Heuermann is led into courtroom for a Frye hearing at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, N.Y., April 3, 2025. (James Carbone/Newsday via AP, File)

Authorities in Texas say a man who opened fire in a shooting that left one dead and 10 injured had shot at police just days earlier during a chase. Texas officials say the suspect began firing shots at officers and bystanders in Midland, Texas, on Friday morning before barricading himself inside an abandoned veterinary clinic. The Texas Department of Public Safety identified him as 45-year-old Victor Mata Villarreal. Police say he was found dead a few hours after the shooting began. Police have not said how he died. No officers were hurt.