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Judge strikes down North Carolina law on prosecuting ex-felons who voted before 2024 04/23/2024 02:30pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has halted the enforcement of a North Carolina law that made it a serious crime for someone to vote while still on probation or parole for a felony conviction when they had simply violated the voting law by mistake. The ruling was celebrated by groups represent US government agrees to $138.7M settlement over FBI's botching of Larry Nassar assault allegations 04/23/2024 02:22pm • DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department announced a $138.7 million settlement Tuesday with more than 100 people who accused the FBI of grossly mishandling allegations of sexual assault against Larry Nassar in 2015 and 2016, a critical time gap that allowed the sports doctor to continue to prey Maryland man charged in rowdy Fairfax County 'street takeover' 04/23/2024 02:12pm • A Maryland man has been charged in connection with a chaotic "street takeover" incident last month, involving a large outdoor gathering of people partying and driving recklessly, who police say eventually surrounded the car of a responding officer in Fairfax County, Virginia. Brandon Extecoc Sant Man who attacked police after storming US Capitol with Confederate flag gets over 2 years in prison 04/23/2024 08:15am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A Kentucky man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while carrying a Confederate battle flag was sentenced on Monday to more than two years in prison for pepper spraying two police officers in the face, partially blinding them for hours during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. Isreal Easterday Mississippi lawmakers move toward restoring voting rights to 32 felons as broader suffrage bill dies 04/23/2024 12:30am • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators advanced bills Monday to give voting rights back to 32 people convicted of felonies, weeks after a Senate leader killed a broader bill that would have restored suffrage to many more people with criminal records. The move is necessary due to Mississippi Trial opens for former Virginia hospital medical director accused of sexual abuse of ex-patients 04/22/2024 09:12pm • NEW KENT, Va. (AP) — The former longtime medical director of a Virginia hospital that serves vulnerable children used physical examinations as a “ruse” to sexually abuse two teenage patients, a prosecutor said Monday, while the physician's attorney “adamantly” denied any inappropriate cond Venezuela's president meets with accuser in ongoing criminal probe into human rights abuse 04/22/2024 07:40pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro met with the head of the International Criminal Court as he faces an ongoing investigation by the tribunal into crimes against humanity for his crackdown on anti-government protests. ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan's fourth visit to Ve Trump tried to 'corrupt' the 2016 election, prosecutor alleges as hush money trial gets underway 04/22/2024 06:52pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the start of the former president's historic hush money trial. "This was a planned, coordinated, Editorial Roundup: United States 04/22/2024 03:11pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 18 The Los Angeles Times on Mike Johnson's Ukraine aid bill Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has been maddeningly slow in pushing the House to approve badly needed aid for Ukraine as it resists Russian aggression. But this week he sa The Latest | Lawyers in Trump hush money case paint competing portraits of him in opening statements 04/22/2024 03:04pm • NEW YORK (AP) — In opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial, prosecutors said Monday that the former president “orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt” the 2016 presidential election. Defense attorneys countered, calling Trump “innocent” and saying the Manhattan di British climate protester won't be charged for sign telling jurors to vote their conscience 04/22/2024 02:30pm • LONDON (AP) — A climate protester who could have faced up to two years in prison for holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants cannot be charged with contempt of court, a London judge ruled Monday. Trudi Warner had been arrested last March and accused Iowa lawmakers address immigration, religious freedom and taxes in 2024 session 04/22/2024 02:26pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — After a marathon day that stretched into Saturday's early hours, Iowa lawmakers wrapped up a four-month legislative session that focused on reforming the way special education is managed and speeding up tax cuts. The Republican-led General Assembly also waded into issues li Supreme Court will take up the legal fight over ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers 04/22/2024 10:31am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns that had been struck down by lower courts. The justices by a 5-4 vote had previously intervened to keep the regulation in effect during the legal fight In race for his Senate seat, Joe Manchin endorses West Virginia Democratic Mayor Glenn Elliott 04/22/2024 10:23am • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Outgoing U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin endorsed the mayor of Wheeling on Monday in the Democratic primary race for his seat representing deep-red West Virginia, where Manchin is the only Democrat holding statewide office. In a video released by Democrat Glenn Elliott's campaign, M The US is expected to block aid to an Israeli military unit. What is Leahy law that it would cite? 04/22/2024 09:59am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel expects its top ally, the United States, to announce as soon as Monday that it's blocking military aid to an Israeli army unit over gross human rights abuses in the Israeli-occupied West Bank before the war in Gaza began six months ago. The move would mark the first time