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Court case over fatal car crash raises issues of mental health and criminal liability 05/01/2024 12:16pm • ATLANTA (AP) — No one disputes that Michelle Wierson crashed her SUV into a car stopped at a traffic light, causing the death of a young boy. But while prosecutors say she needs to be held accountable for her actions, her lawyers say her mental state at the time absolves her of criminal liability Saudi Arabia confirms a fitness influencer received an 11-year sentence over 'terrorist offenses' 05/01/2024 05:48am • JERUSALEM (AP) — Saudi Arabia confirmed in a letter to the United Nations that a female fitness instruction who was popular online received an 11-year prison sentence but did not specify any of her alleged “terrorism offenses.” Though the kingdom insisted the case had nothing to do with the in The top UN court rejects Nicaragua's request for Germany to halt aid to Israel 04/30/2024 11:01pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top U.N. court rejected on Tuesday a request by Nicaragua to order Germany to halt military and other aid to Israel and renew funding to the U.N. aid agency in Gaza. The International Court of Justice said that legal conditions for making such an order weren't met Court in the Central African Republic seeks arrest of ex-President Bozizé for human rights abuses 04/30/2024 09:21pm • BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — An internationally backed court in the Central African Republic issued an international arrest warrant Tuesday for the country’s exiled former President François Bozizé for human rights abuses from 2009 to 2013, a spokesperson said. The Special Criminal The Latest | Blinken says Israel will open a major aid crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza 04/30/2024 08:49pm • Israel plans on opening a major humanitarian aid crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza, said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday. Israel's war against Hamas has flattened huge swaths of Gaza's north, and famine is imminent for the hundreds of thousands of civilians who remain. Blinken Binance founder Changpeng Zhao sentenced to 4 months for allowing money laundering 04/30/2024 08:24pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Changpeng Zhao, founder of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, was sentenced Tuesday to four months in prison for looking the other way as criminals used the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism. U.S. District Judge Richard A. How Republican-led states far from the US-Mexico border are rushing to pass tough immigration laws 04/30/2024 07:55pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican-led states are rushing to give broader powers to local police and impose criminal penalties for those living in the U.S. illegally as the issue of immigration enforcement remains central to the 2024 elections. Oklahoma's Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill on The body of a Mississippi man will remain in state hands as police investigate his death, judge says 04/30/2024 06:03pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The body of a Mississippi man who was found dead after vanishing under mysterious circumstances will not be released to family members until law enforcement agencies finish investigating the case, a state judge said Tuesday. At a hearing in Jackson, Mississippi, Hinds County Fugitive task forces face dangerous scenarios every day. Here's what to know about how they operate. 04/30/2024 04:27pm • WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — A fugitive task force attempting to serve a warrant Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, ended in the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement in a single incident since 2016. Four officers were killed and four more were wounded after the suspect began firing from an upstairs North Carolina bill compelling sheriffs to aid ICE advances as first major bill this year 04/30/2024 03:08pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A bill that would require North Carolina sheriffs to comply with requests by federal agents interested in picking up jail inmates believed to be in the country illegally passed a Senate committee Tuesday, making it the first major legislation to advance in this year's work ses The Georgia Supreme Court has thrown out an indictment charging an ex-police chief with misconduct 04/30/2024 02:12pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia's highest court on Tuesday threw out an indictment that charged a former police chief and a top aide with felonies for failing to investigate allegations of misconduct within their department. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that the 2021 indictment against former Glyn Editorial Roundup: United States 04/30/2024 10:27am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 26 The Wall Street Journal on a potential Trump-Biden debate Is President Biden going to debate Donald Trump as the November election nears? “I am. Somewhere. I don’t know when,” Mr. Biden said Friday in an interview with H Ahead of visit to Israel, US's Blinken presses Hamas to accept new proposal for Gaza cease-fire 04/30/2024 12:56am • CAIRO (AP) — The United States stepped up pressure Monday for a cease-fire deal in Gaza as the secretary of state said a new proposal had been put to Hamas, whose officials were in Cairo talking to Egyptian mediators. Israeli airstrikes killed 26 people in Gaza’s southernmost town of Rafah, acco The Latest | Israeli airstrikes on Rafah kill at least 22 people 04/29/2024 07:43pm • Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22 people, including six women and five children, Palestinian health officials said. One of the children killed in the strikes overnight into Monday was just 5 days old. Israel has regularly carried out airstrikes on Rafah si Two teens arrested in Greenbelt 'senior skip day' shooting that wounded 5 04/29/2024 07:02pm • Two teenage boys have been arrested in connection with a shooting at a "senior skip day" gathering at a Greenbelt, Maryland, park that left five young people injured earlier this month. The boys, aged 14 and 16, are charged as adults with attempted first-degree murder and weapons charges, Pri