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Jason Russell, director of the “Kony 2012” viral video against Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army’s use of children soldiers otherwise known as the Invisible Children, was arrested on Thursday in San Diego for reportedly masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and public drunkenness, reported TMZ.

A U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians is being represented by attorney John Henry Browne. Browne has a history of controversial and media-hyped cases, including serial killer Ted Bundy.

Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell, who was part of the group behind the viral Kony 2012 video and the Stop Kony campaign, was detained yesterday in California for allegedly drunkenly masturbating in public, according to the San Diego Police Department.

In a sign of progress towards reforming America's immigrant detention system, officials have launched an innovative new facility in Texas.

KONY 2012 CEO Ben Keesey has recorded a video responding to accusations that the charity is a scam and that its videos are misleading, and thanking all of Invisible Children's supporters for donating to help stop the brutal reign of Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony.

The 30-minute Kony 2012 video by San Diego-based charity Invisible Children went viral last week promoted further by social media endorsements and campaigns by celebrities like Oprah Winfrey.

Since it exploded into the American consciousness earlier this week, Invisible Children's methodology has been much scrutinized, but ICC chief Louis Moreno Ocampo has defended has defended the campaign.

A video calling for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the fugitive leader of the Lord's Resistance Army militia group in Uganda, swept across the Internet this week, attracting a wave of support on Twitter and Facebook along with a skeptical backlash against a little-known team of filmmakers based in San Diego.

Is Kony 2012 a scam? The Invisible Children charity has come under heavy fire this week as it has drawn sudden and massive attention to its cause of ending the violent reign of Uganda's rebel warlord Joseph Kony with a viral video seeking donations.

The Stop Kony mission and the Kony 2012 video both achieved viral status this week after celebrities joined the campaign to stop Joseph Kony, found of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Now, the founder of the Kony 2012 mission, Invisible Children, has come under scrutiny for its practices and goals.

Annie George, the owner of a lavish 34-room mansion in upstate Rexford, N.Y., stands accused of keeping an Indian woman, V.M., in forced labor as a domestic worker in her home. V.M.'s circumstances, and the unanswered questions surrounding her time in the U.S., combine human trafficking and modern-day slavery laws with a tangled web of immigration laws, compounding the suffering that result from the modern-day struggles that plague domestic workers, regardless of citizenship, as they ...

Friday marks the final day for North Texas residents with outstanding warrants to make their payments, before police officers come pounding on doors.

California law enforcement officers can continue collecting DNA samples from adults arrested for felonies, a federal appeals court ruled.

U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, accused of the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history, deferred a plea in a military court arraignment Thursday, marking the first step in a court-martial that could land him in prison for life.

U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, accused of the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history, deferred a plea in a military court arraignment on Thursday, marking the first step in a court-martial that could land him in prison for life.

After learning her boyfriend had turned into a rat for the FBI, Kim Juliano requested to get out of the bond she put on the Columbian mob boss.

Police on Sunday detained two members of the Italian navy accused of killing two Indian fisherman they mistook for pirates off the coast of Kerala, officials said.

Italian police said on Friday they had seized about $6 trillion of fake U.S. Treasury bonds in Switzerland, and issued arrest warrants for eight people accused of international fraud and other financial crimes.

Hank Morris, who was convicted for his role in an extensive pay-to-play pension scam, will face at least another year in prison after being denied bail.

Amanda Knox has signed a book deal with HarperCollins, the publisher revealed on Thursday.

Federal prosecutors have presented evidence to a grand jury against U.S. executives of cosmetics company Avon Products , in a case that probes whether those executives broke foreign bribery laws, the Wall Street Journal said.