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'Justice demands' new trial for death row inmate, Alabama district attorney says 05/20/2024 10:39pm • An Alabama district attorney on Monday asked a judge to order a new trial for a death row inmate, saying that a review found that the 1998 conviction was flawed and “cannot be justified or allowed to stand.” Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr filed a brief expressing his support for T Family of Black teen wrongly executed in 1931 seeks damages after 2022 exoneration 05/20/2024 09:32pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The family of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania — a Black 16-year-old sent to the electric chair in 1931 and exonerated by the governor in 2022 — is suing the county that prosecuted him. Alexander McClay Williams was convicted of murder in the O Amal Clooney is one of the legal experts who recommended war crimes charges in Israel-Hamas war 05/20/2024 04:16pm • Amal Clooney is one of the legal experts who recommended that the chief prosecutor of the world's top war crimes court seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and leaders of the militant Hamas group. The human rights lawyer and wife of actor George Clooney wrote of her par WikiLeaks founder Assange wins right to appeal against an extradition order to the US 05/20/2024 01:37pm • LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal an extradition order to the United States on espionage charges, a London court ruled Monday — a decision likely to further drag out an already long legal saga. High Court judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson ruled for Assange after hi Supreme Court rejects an appeal from a Canadian man once held at Guantanamo 05/20/2024 10:24am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by a Canadian-born former Guantanamo detainee who was seeking to wipe away his war crimes convictions, including for killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. Omar Khadr had waived his right to appeal when he pleaded guilty in 2010 to c Biden tells Morehouse graduates that scenes in Gaza from the Israel-Hamas war break his heart, too 05/20/2024 02:26am • ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday offered his most direct recognition of U.S. students' anguish over the Israel-Hamas war, telling graduates of historically Black Morehouse College that he heard their voices of protest and that scenes from the conflict in Gaza break his heart, too. “I San Diego deputy who pleaded guilty to manslaughter now faces federal charges 05/19/2024 04:48pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) — A former San Diego sheriff’s deputy who already pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for the 2020 fatal shooting of an unarmed suspect has been indicted on two federal charges that could bring a life sentence, federal prosecutors said. A federal grand jury returned a two-co A mayoral candidate and 5 other people killed in gunfire at a campaign rally in southern Mexico 05/17/2024 09:12pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — A mayoral candidate and five other people were killed when gunmen opened fire at a campaign rally in the violence-wracked southern Mexico state of Chiapas, officials said. State prosecutors said a young girl was among the six people killed in the gunfire late Thursday, along wit Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gave few pardons before rushing to clear Army officer who killed a protester 05/17/2024 08:56pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — In issuing a full pardon to a former Army sergeant convicted of murder in the shooting death of an armed Black Lives Matter protestor, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pushed a limited executive power to its absolute limit to get a desired outcome in a politically charged cas Man who sought revenge for a stolen phone pleads guilty to fire that killed a Senegalese family of 5 05/17/2024 06:42pm • DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man pleaded guilty to murder charges on Friday for starting a 2020 house fire that killed five members of a Senegalese family out of misplaced revenge for a stolen iPhone that he mistakenly tracked to the house. Kevin Bui, now 20, was a teenager at the time of the fire but Witness at Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial says meat-export monopoly made costs soar 05/17/2024 03:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A witness at Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial testified Friday that the cost of certifying that meat sent to Egypt followed Islamic dietary requirements skyrocketed after a single U.S. company was given a monopoly in a cozy deal prosecutors say the Democrat arranged in return for Conservative activist's son sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison for 'relentless' attack on Capitol 05/17/2024 02:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent conservative activist's son was sentenced on Friday to nearly four years in prison for what prosecutors said was his “relentless” assault on the U.S. Capitol, where he smashed a window, chased a police officer and invaded the Senate floor. Leo Brent Bozell IV, Arrests of US tourists in Turks and Caicos for carrying ammunition prompt plea from three governors 05/17/2024 10:33am • Five Americans are facing prison sentences of up to 12 years in the Turks and Caicos Islands on charges they illegally carried ammunition during recent trips to the popular, upscale tourist destination about 600 miles (965 km) southeast of Miami. Three of the arrests have prompted pleas for mercy Today in History: May 17, Brown v Board of Education ruling strikes down legal segregation 05/17/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Friday, May 17, the 138th day of 2024. There are 228 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 17, 1954, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision which held that racially segregated public schools were UN resolution to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia sparks opposition from Serbs 05/16/2024 10:58pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. resolution sponsored by Germany and Rwanda to establish an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs has sparked protests and a strong lobbying campaign against its adoption by Serbia’s president and the Bosnian S