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Oregon man sentenced for LGBTQ+ hate crimes in Idaho, including trying to hit people with car 11/02/2023 07:44pm • BOISE, Idaho. (AP) — An Oregon man who pleaded guilty in connection with LGBTQ+ hate crimes, including trying to hit people with a car in Idaho last year, has been sentenced to just over three years in prison. Matthew Lehigh was sentenced Thursday to 37 months followed by three years of supervise Former Memphis police officer pleads guilty to federal charges in Tyre Nichols’ death 11/02/2023 05:32pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former Memphis police officer pleaded guilty Thursday in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols in exchange for prosecutors recommending a 15-year sentence, becoming the first of five officers charged in the case to admit guilt. Desmond Mills Jr. entered his plea during a hearin US Marshals releases its first report on shootings by officers 11/02/2023 04:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Marshals have for the first time released data on shots fired by their officers or other police working with them. The report released this week examined a total of 147 shootings over the course of three years, from 2019 to 2021. Almost all of those happened as the feder UN votes overwhelmingly to condemn US economic embargo on Cuba for 31st year and urge its lifting 11/02/2023 03:02pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Thursday to condemn the American economic embargo of Cuba for a 31st year after its foreign minister urged, “Let Cuba live without the blockade!” The vote on the resolution in the 193-member General Assembly tied the record f Rights groups report widespread war crimes across Africa’s Sahel region with communities under siege 11/02/2023 10:16am • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Security forces and armed groups are committing war crimes against civilians in Africa's Sahel region, where extremists and rebels are increasingly fighting to exert dominance and control resources in communities, according to new reports from two rights groups. Civilians are Brazil to militarize key airports, ports and borders in a crackdown on organized crime 11/02/2023 02:04am • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Wednesday he is sending the armed forces to boost security at some of the country's most important airports, ports and international borders as part of a renewed effort to tackle organized crime in Latin America's largest nat Researchers hope tracking senior Myanmar army officers can ascertain blame for human rights abuses 11/02/2023 01:50am • BANGKOK (AP) — A group of human rights researchers officially launched a website Wednesday that they hope will help get justice for victims of state violence in Myanmar, where one of the world’s less-noticed but still brutal armed struggles is taking place. Since the army seized power in Februar Cornell University student accused of posting online threats about Jewish students appears in court 11/01/2023 07:19pm • SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A Cornell University junior accused of posting violently threatening statements against Jewish people on campus was held without bail after his first appearance in federal court Wednesday. Patrick Dai, from the Rochester, New York suburb of Pittsford, is charged with posting Former Memphis officer charged in Tyre Nichols death to change plea in federal court 11/01/2023 04:32pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former Memphis police officer who plans to change his not guilty plea to federal civil rights violations in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols will become the first of five officers charged in the case to break ranks with his former colleagues. A change of plea hearing has b Indiana high court finds state residents entitled to jury trial in government confiscation cases 11/01/2023 03:47pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana residents are entitled to a trial by jury when the government seeks to confiscate their money or property through the civil forfeiture process, the state’s high court ruled. In a 5-0 decision Tuesday, the Indiana Supreme Court found that the history of civil forfeitur Accountability, not punishment, is the goal at some Md. juvenile justice programs 11/01/2023 07:45am • People who work in the field of restorative justice say two things have to happen to make the practice of "community conferencing" work: all parties have to agree to the process, and everyone must agree to a resolution once it is decided upon. As the Montgomery County Council examines using the m Editorial Roundup: United States 10/31/2023 06:28pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Oct. 26 The Washington Post on the economic ideas presented by GOP candidates for POTUS Republican candidates are trying to capitalize on discontent with “Bidenomics.” Despite strong job gains, cooling inflation, blockbuster third- Senegal electoral commission says main opposition leader Sonko should be given sponsorship forms 10/31/2023 05:27pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's electoral commission on Tuesday asked that sponsorship forms be given to main opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, whose candidacy for the upcoming presidential election has been called into question over the past year amid a series of criminal charges. The move comes a Amnesty International says Israeli forces wounded Lebanese civilians with white phosphorus 10/31/2023 03:31pm • BEIRUT (AP) — The human rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday that civilians in southern Lebanon were injured this month when Israeli forces hit a border village with shells containing white phosphorus, a controversial incendiary munition. The organization said it verified three other in Youngkin issues order aiming to combat antisemitism, other anti-religious hatred 10/31/2023 12:09pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive directive Tuesday aimed at combatting antisemitism and other forms of anti-religious hatred in Virginia amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The governor's order instructs law enforcement to “increase information exchange and resource