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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Ryan Routh, the accused would-be assassin of President Donald Trump, has written an unusual letter to the judge asking why the death penalty isn’t on the table — and proposing that he be included in a prisoner swap with U.S. adversaries, even suggesting he be sent to freeze in Siberia in exchange for a Ukrainian soldier.Routh, who also said that he now wants to represent himself at trial, makes the outlandish requests in a letter to U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon who is overseeing the federal criminal case against him. Routh…

NEED TO KNOW The autopsy report for Jabari Peoples, the 18-year-old who was shot and killed by a police officer in Alabama, has been completed by the Jefferson County Coroner’s OfficeHowever, officials told PEOPLE that the autopsy report’s public release is delayed due to the ongoing investigationPolice maintain that the officer involved in the shooting had fired bullets to defend himself “in accordance with Alabama state law,” but Peoples’ family argued the teen “was not armed,” “was not aggressive” and “did not resist” The autopsy report for Jabari Peoples — the 18-year-old college student shot and killed by a police…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Bryan Kohberger, a painfully awkward, arrogant introvert and criminal justice student, believed he could have committed “the perfect murders,” James Patterson said.”One of the things that professor [Dr. Katherine Ramsland] said that with murderers like this, they get tunnel vision – they panic, and they miss things,” the award-winning author told Fox News Digital. “So here was Kohberger who almost committed the perfect murders – except [he had] that tunnel vision,” Patterson shared. “He left that knife sheath behind. And that’s what ultimately led to his arrest.”WATCH ‘SAVAGE INSTINCTS: THE MIND OF BRYAN…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As President Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week, the question of who could govern Gaza if Hamas loses power is one increasingly being discussed. Among the emerging options are local clans and militia leaders. One of those mentioned is Yaser Abu Shabab. Once jailed by Hamas on charges of theft and corruption, he now commands groups of armed men in Gaza’s Rafah who patrol and protect aid convoys while openly challenging Hamas’s power. “We are not a militia,” he insisted in an interview with Israeli outlet Ynet. “Call…

NEED TO KNOW Dr. Irene Gaw-Lai was a highly ranked and beloved doctor in California She was found in her burning home on Jan. 6She had filed for divorce from her husband a few months prior Authorities in California have arrested a man months after his wife was found slain in their home, which had been set on fire. Dr. Irene Gaw-Lai, 56, was found dead in her burning home on Jan. 6, in an upscale neighborhood in San Marino, Calif., the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement. More than six months later, authorities announced the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NPR public editor Kelly McBride argued in a recent media appearance that she thought accusations of “political bias” from President Donald Trump were just actual examples of “geographic bias.”While appearing on the “1A” radio show to discuss the Trump administration’s efforts to defund NPR, she heard from a caller who blamed NPR’s partisan coverage for Trump’s actions.”I really do lament the loss of funding for public radio, especially in, like you say, Native American communities,” Florida resident Kendra said. “But the only people you have to blame for that are the people…

NEED TO KNOW Michelle Carter encouraged her alleged boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, to die by suicide in 2014The infamous case ended in her conviction for involuntary manslaughter and sentencingNow, Carter and Roy’s story has set a legal precedent and inspired multiple TV shows Michelle Carter went from a grieving girlfriend to a convicted criminal in the 2014 death of her alleged boyfriend, Conrad Roy III — and the only evidence was thousands of text messages. Roy’s death initially looked like a tragic teen suicide: The Massachusetts teen died on July 12, 2014, from carbon monoxide poisoning. However, the 18-year-old’s untimely death…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! To curb rising youth violence, city leaders in Fayetteville, North Carolina, are implementing a new citywide curfew for minors.Fayetteville Mayor Mitch Colvin told Fox News Digital that the city recorded nearly 2,000 incidents of interaction or arrest involving minors over about a 16-month period.”We looked at the last couple of quarters of the previous year, and then the first two quarters of this year, and it was almost 1,900 incidents of arrest or crimes that had been committed by juveniles. And so… we know we have a problem there, and we want…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A New York Times guest essay this week said Superman’s “overwhelming all-American power” was disturbing, explaining the paradoxical identities associated with the iconic character as an immigrant.”In fact, I was something of the neighborhood anti-Superman,” MIT professor Junot Diaz wrote in the New York Times, reflecting on his childhood. “Always ready to inveigh against the Last Son of Krypton, always ready with long arguments laying out why he was dumb. What can I say?”Diaz, a native of the Dominican Republic who teaches creative writing, should have “fallen hard for Superman,” as someone in…

NEED TO KNOW Tiffany Valiante was an 18-year-old student athlete from Mays Landing, N.J.She disappeared on July 12, 2015, and she was struck by a New Jersey Transit trainAuthorities ruled it a suicide, but her family maintains foul play was involved It’s been 10 years since Tiffany Valiante’s disappearance, and her death remains unsolved. In 2015, Tiffany had just graduated from her New Jersey high school and earned a volleyball scholarship to attend Mercy College. The teenager was making plans for the future when she went missing on the evening of July 12, following an argument with her parents. Hours…