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Santa Fe County District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said it may take weeks "if not months" of follow-up investigation before charges, if any, are filed. The Santa Fe County district attorney said the investigation into the fatal shooting on the set of Rust could take weeks, if not months, and she would not rule out criminal charges. Speaking to The New York Times ahead of a planned press conference Wednesday, district attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said her office has not “ruled out anything” following last week’s shooting death of Rust’s director of photography, Halyna Hutchins. “Everything at this point, including criminal charges,...

Who shot bin Laden? Former SEALs fill in the blanks He is the unknown shooter. The nameless, faceless triggerman who put a bullet in the head of the world’s most notorious terrorist. Yet there are clues, and the beginnings of a portrait can be pieced together from scraps gleaned from U.S. officials. A trio of former Navy SEALs — Eric Greitens, Richard Marcinko and Stew Smith — helped us fill in the blanks, drawing from their experiences to develop a kind of composite sketch of an elusive historic figure in real time.

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CENTREVILLE, Va. — Evidence in the Washington-area sniper shootings case points to teenager John Lee Malvo as the triggerman in most if not all of the shootings, according to a published report Sunday. That could complicate prosecutors' efforts to get a death sentence for the older suspect, John Muhammad. "There is not much pointing to Muhammad, and that is going to make it really hard to show that he was the triggerman," one senior law enforcement official involved in the case told The New York Times. "There are other ways to attempt to obtain a death sentence, but this lack...