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Sen. Bob Menendez reveals his wife has breast cancer as his trial focuses on FBI raid of his home 05/16/2024 05:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Bob Menendez said Thursday that his wife will undergo a mastectomy after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, a revelation made just as the first evidence — pictures of 13 gold bars and over $480,000 in cash seized from the couple's home — was shown to jurors at his New Y The Latest | Judge is sorting out the final stretch of Trump's hush money trial 05/16/2024 04:38pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors' star witness in the hush money case against Donald Trump was back in the hot seat Thursday as defense lawyers tried to chip away at Michael Cohen’s crucial testimony implicating the former president. The trial resumed in Manhattan with the potentially explosive defen Takeaways from the AP's investigation into how US prisoners are hurt or killed on the job 05/16/2024 03:29pm • A sweeping Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that prisoners who are hurt or killed on the job are often being denied the rights and protections offered to other American workers. These prisoners are being placed in dangerous jobs, sometimes with little or no US prisoners are being assigned dangerous jobs. But what happens if they are hurt or killed? 05/16/2024 03:14pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Blas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when he was leased out to work at Hickman’s Family Farms, which sells eggs that have ended up in the supply chains of huge companies like McDonald’s, Target and Albertsons. While assigned to a machine tha Turkey sentences pro-Kurdish politicians to lengthy prison terms over deadly 2014 riots 05/16/2024 01:57pm • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced several pro-Kurdish politicians to between nine and 42 years in prison over deadly riots in 2014 by Kurds angered by what they perceived to be government inaction against Islamic State group militants who had besieged the Syrian border to Maryland governor signs bill to create statewide gun center 05/16/2024 12:03pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed a bill into law on Thursday to create a new statewide center to help prevent gun violence. The governor described the center as the first of its kind since the White House urged states to form their own centers to better focus efforts to stop Afro-Cuban drums, Muslim prayers, Buddhist mantras: Religious diversity blooms in once-atheist Cuba 05/16/2024 10:39am • HAVANA (AP) — The 1959 Castro-led revolution installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to replace the Catholic Church as the guiding force in the lives of Cubans. But 65 years later, religion seems omnipresent in Cuba, in dazzling diversity. The bells toll on Catholic churches and th Afro-Cuban drums, Muslim prayers, Buddhist mantras: Religious diversity blooms in once-atheist Cuba 05/16/2024 08:22am • HAVANA (AP) — The 1959 Castro-led revolution installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to replace the Catholic Church as the guiding force in the lives of Cubans. But 65 years later, religion seems omnipresent in Cuba, in dazzling diversity. The bells toll on Catholic churches and th Her father is serving a life sentence for raping her as a child. This Va. woman now says the crime never happened 05/16/2024 05:07am • The life sentence being served by a Virginia father was for a vile crime — raping and sexually battering his young daughter with the assistance of his wife and allowing other adults to do the same. Alfred "Rick" Alessi was sentenced to life in prison plus 40 years in October 2016, after a L 'The Fly’ has become notorious in France after a brazen escape. What's his criminal history? 05/15/2024 09:31pm • PARIS (AP) — A prisoner nicknamed “The Fly” has become notorious in France overnight after a daring and bloody escape from a prison convoy in Normandy in which two guards were killed. Mohamed Amra, 30, has a long and violent criminal history that has now culminated in a high-profile search. K Justice Department to investigate Kentucky's juvenile jails after use of force, isolation complaints 05/15/2024 07:09pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Federal investigators will examine conditions in Kentucky's youth detention centers and whether the state has done enough to protect juveniles housed there, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday. The federal investigation follows a Kentucky auditor's report that said the Another politically progressive prosecutor in the San Francisco Bay Area faces recall election 05/15/2024 03:58pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area voters will weigh in on the recall of another progressive district attorney who ran on a platform of offender rehabilitation and police accountability, and whose critics say is undermining public safety. Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price fa The US says Boeing violated a 2021 settlement. That doesn't mean the company will face charges 05/15/2024 03:14pm • The Justice Department's determination that Boeing violated corporate probation for deceiving federal regulators does not necessarily mean federal prosecutors will revive criminal charges against the giant aircraft manufacturer. But we should know within weeks whether Boeing will face another day in A Swiss court sentences a former Gambian interior minister to 20 years for crimes against humanity 05/15/2024 02:52pm • GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s top criminal court on Wednesday convicted a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 20 years over his role in murder, torture and other repression committed by the West African country’s security forces under its longtime Son-in-law of top opponent of Venezuela's president pleads guilty to US money laundering charges 05/15/2024 12:49pm • MIAMI (AP) — The son-in-law of a prominent Venezuelan opposition leader has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges for his role in a vast bribery conspiracy to siphon $1.2 billion from the state-owned oil company. As part of his plea agreement announced Tuesday in federal court in Miami, Fern