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Police arrested two Florida pastors on Friday after they were accused of trying to block crews from covering a “Black History Matters” street mural. 

President Donald Trump nudged Russia on Friday to “get moving” toward a ceasefire with Ukraine, as Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg.

Police say a missing 16-year-old girl in Gulfport, Florida, was found dismembered after meeting a 35-year-old man online.

City officials in St. Petersburg, Russia, announced on Thursday that the city’s closed-circuit TV (CCTV) surveillance cameras will be upgraded with “ethnic recognition software” to “prevent social tension” by monitoring “the formation of ethnic enclaves.”

Over 400 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to Putin critic Alexei Navalny, who died at an Arctic penal colony this week.

Hundreds of mourners gathered at monuments in cities across Russia on Friday to pay their respects to Alexei Navalny.

Police in St. Petersburg, Russia on Tuesday announced they have returned about $111 million worth of rubles, U.S. dollars, and gold bars seized in raids on June 24 to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the billionaire owner of the Wagner Group mercenary company who led a very brief “mutiny” against the Russian military command on that day.

A Florida man is accused of killing a mother and their toddler son after the child’s body was found in the mouth of an alligator on Friday.

A missing child’s body was found inside an alligator’s mouth on Friday at Lake Maggiore in Florida.

An off-duty Chicago police officer was arrested Monday after he allegedly urinated in an ice machine at a  Florida bar.

A Florida driver was stopped from potentially mowing down joggers during the Coffee Pot Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving, the St. Petersburg Police Department said.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Sunday signed a military document that declared the United States is the primary threat to Russian security.

A Florida family recently discovered that replacing the battery for their electric vehicle costs more than what they paid for the car.

NEW YORK (AP) – A Russian general whose troops have been besieging the Ukrainian port of Mariupol was buried on Saturday in St Petersburg after dying in battle, the governor said.

Russia detained at least 4,600 people at protests against the war in Ukraine on Sunday, 1,700 of them in Moscow. Protesters used social media to accuse the police of using excessive force to make the arrests, including shots of detainees beaten bloody with police batons.

Multiple reports published Thursday documented anti-war protests in over 50 cities throughout Russia that night, following violent crackdowns in response to strongman Vladimir Putin’s military assault of neighboring Ukraine.

Police found a Russian scientist working on a vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus dead this weekend, concluding that he fell out of a building in St. Petersburg, local media have confirmed.

A 67-year-old man from St. Petersburg, Florida, got an early holiday surprise this year when he won a million dollars on a scratch-off ticket.

Demonstrators took to the streets in Florida on Saturday marching through sidewalks crowded with children and diners. The protesters chanted “No justice no peace.”

A man set himself on fire in a crowded street in central St. Petersburg on President Vladimir Putin’s 68th birthday Wednesday, The Moscow Times reported Thursday, the second self-immolation to take place in Russia this week. 

The government of Russia said its new flagship nuclear-powered icebreaker, described by the state as the world’s “largest and most powerful,” left a St. Petersburg shipyard on Tuesday headed for the Arctic.

At least Russian five patients on ventilators in an intensive care unit (ICU) because of the Chinese coronavirus were killed during a fire at a hospital in St. Petersburg on Tuesday, as the country continues to struggle with its response to the global pandemic. 

A St. Petersburg, Florida, man spat in a police officer’s face and said he has the Chinese coronavirus during his arrest on Saturday, according to law enforcement.

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MOSCOW (AP) – A man was arrested Saturday in connection with a St. Petersburg supermarket bombing that wounded 18 people, Russia’s main domestic security agency said.

An explosive device described by Russian media as containing about seven ounces of TNT detonated at a supermarket in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, injuring at least ten people. One of the victims is said to be in critical condition.

A Florida mother was arrested after she urged her teenage daughter to beat up a girl who was six months pregnant, police said.

NBC’s Megyn Kelly got trolled by Twitter users after she asked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi if he is on Twitter.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish security official says the suicide bomber accused of the deadly attack on the subway in the Russian city of St. Petersburg was deported from Turkey in 2016.

Russian nationals make up the largest number of jihadists from non-predominantly Muslim countries fighting on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), according to data from a U.S.-based intelligence consulting firm.

In a strong appeal, Pope Francis said he was “horrified” by Tuesday’s slaughter of men, women and children in a chemical weapons attack in Idlib, Syria.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian law enforcement agencies are checking a suspicious object at an apartment building in St. Petersburg following a suicide bombing on the city’s subway earlier in the week.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Investigators say they have searched the home of the suspected suicide bomber behind Monday’s deadly explosion on the St. Petersburg subway.

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The suspected perpetrator of a suicide bombing in a St Petersburg subway station Monday had ties to radical Islamist groups, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. The Interfax report drew on a law enforcement source who also said that

The U.S. State Department has filed a complaint with the Kremlin, alleging that two American diplomats, a man and a woman, were given date-rape drugs at a U.N. convention in St. Petersburg last November. It was, ironically, an anti-corruption convention.