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Ecuador files complaint against Mexico at top UN court in spat over embassy raid 04/29/2024 02:47pm • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador filed a complaint Monday at the top U.N. court over what it called Mexico’s illegal move to grant political asylum to a former Ecuadorian vice president, which led to Ecuador’s highly criticized raid on a Mexican embassy earlier this month. The Ecuadorian complain Police officer hiring in US increases in 2023 after years of decline, survey shows 04/28/2024 10:48am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police departments across the United States are reporting an increase in their ranks for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 killing of George Floyd, which led to a historic exodus of officers, a survey shows. More sworn officers were hired in 2023 than in Chants of ‘shame on you’ greet guests at White House correspondents’ dinner shadowed by war in Gaza 04/28/2024 04:37am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The war in Gaza spurred large protests outside a glitzy roast with President Joe Biden, journalists, politicians and celebrities Saturday but went all but unmentioned by participants inside, with Biden instead using the annual White House correspondents’ dinner to make both Renowned Peruvian investigative reporter battles criminalized smear campaign — and cancer 04/28/2024 01:25am • LIMA, Peru (AP) — At age 75, one of Latin America’s most storied journalists had been looking forward to weaving into books the fragmented threads of more than four decades of investigative reporting that exposed high-level abuse of power in Peru and abroad. In an illustrious career, Gustavo Gor Retrial of Harvey Weinstein unlikely to occur soon, if ever, experts say 04/27/2024 04:06pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A retrial in New York of disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein won’t be coming to a courtroom anytime soon, if ever, legal experts said on a day when one of two women considered crucial to his rape trial said she wasn't sure she would testify again. A ruling Thursday by t Harvey Weinstein due back in court, while a key witness weighs whether to testify at a retrial 04/26/2024 07:58pm • Harvey Weinstein will appear in a New York City court next week, the first step in potentially retrying the film mogul after his 2020 rape conviction was overturned. New York’s highest court on Thursday threw out Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, ordering a new trial. The Manhattan district atto #MeToo advocates vow the reckoning will continue after Weinstein's conviction is overturned 04/26/2024 05:48pm • NEW YORK (AP) — #MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there’s a legal setback, the movement is declared dead in the water. A legal success, and presto, it’s alive again. So Burke, who nearly two decades ago coined the phrase “Me too” from her work with sexual assault They say don't leave valuables in parked cars in San Francisco. Rep. Adam Schiff didn't listen 04/26/2024 05:31pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — San Francisco has earned an unwelcome national reputation for car burglaries that U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff was reminded of the hard way: The Democratic congressman had his luggage swiped from his car while it was parked in a downtown garage. With his formal clothing gone, Schiff en Orbán challenger leads protest calling for child protection after sexual abuse scandal in Hungary 04/26/2024 02:51pm • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — An aspiring challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán renewed his calls for change Friday as he led a protest of several thousand people demanding a more robust child protection system and the resignation of Orbán's government. The demonstrators gathered outsi Supreme Court seems skeptical of Trump's claim of absolute immunity but decision's timing is unclear 04/25/2024 08:52pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday appeared likely to reject former President Donald Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from prosecution over election interference, but several justices signaled reservations about the charges that could cause a lengthy delay, possibly beyond Novembe What Are Privileged Communications in Court? 04/25/2024 08:00pm • Some conversations are protected even within courtrooms. Privileged communications are conversations between two people within a relationship that the law protects from being disclosed on the witness stand. Privileged communications can include things that a client tells an attorney and even extend 21 senior members of DC police to be dismissed — more than half due to 'serious misconduct' 04/25/2024 07:01pm • More than 20 senior members of D.C.'s police department are on the way out. A total of 21 senior police officers or senior sergeants will be leaving the department on April 30, according to D.C. supervisory public affairs specialist Thomas Lynch. Senior officers are those who've retired from the First with Trump, now with Kamala Harris: Kim Kardashian is advocating for criminal justice reform 04/25/2024 06:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Kim Kardashian marshaled her celebrity in one administration to spotlight criminal justice reform — and she's doing it again in the next. The reality TV star and entrepreneur joined Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday for a roundtable highlighting the administration’s Burkina Faso's army massacred over 200 civilians in a village raid, Human Rights Watch says 04/25/2024 05:29pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Thursday. The mass killings took place on Feb. 25 in the country's norther The Latest: Supreme Court arguments conclude in Trump immunity case 04/25/2024 12:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday took up Donald Trump's bid to avoid prosecution over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump’s lawyers argue that former presidents are entitled to absolute immunity for their official acts. Otherwise, they