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Colombia's government issues long awaited apology for extrajudicial killings during armed conflict 10/03/2023 10:31pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government issued a long awaited public apology on Tuesday for the extrajudicial killings of 19 civilians who were slain by the military and registered as rebel fighters during one of the most violent periods of the nation’s civil war. The apology comes as Co Gun evidence is focus at the trial of a man accused of killing New Hampshire couple on hiking trail 10/03/2023 05:49pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man charged with shooting a New Hampshire couple to death on a hiking trail last year spent months hiding from police — but over a probation violation from Utah, not the killings — and an analysis of shell casings and bullets found in the area could not conclude that his Suspect in police beating has ruptured kidney, headaches; his attorneys call for a federal probe 10/03/2023 05:07pm • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for a drug suspect who was repeatedly punched, elbowed and kneed by officers in northeast Florida during a traffic stop said Tuesday that they are petitioning the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the case. Le’Keian Woods suffered a ruptured kidney, th Editorial Roundup: United States 10/03/2023 03:18pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Oct. 2 The Washington Post on Donald Trump and the 14th Amendment If a constitutional provision disqualifying Donald Trump from the presidency sounds too good to be true, that’s because it probably is. A forthcoming law review articl Armenia's parliament votes to join the International Criminal Court, straining ties with ally Russia 10/03/2023 02:35pm • YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia's parliament voted Tuesday to join the International Criminal Court, a move that further strains the country's ties with its old ally Russia after the court issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin over events in Ukraine. Moscow last month called Yereva Poll: Biden, Moore ride approval bump; differing views on juvenile justice 10/03/2023 11:54am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The number of Marylanders who approve of the job performance of both President Joseph Biden and Gov. Wes Moore ticked up slightly, according Fuller picture emerges of the 13 federal executions at the end of Trump's presidency 10/03/2023 11:52am • CHICAGO (AP) — A day before the federal government executed a Texas man for the killing of an Iowa couple when he was 18, celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz pleaded with then-President Donald Trump — a former client — to call the execution off. During a Dec. 9, 2020, call to the White House, Der Swiss LGBTQ+ rights groups hail 60-day sentence for polemicist who called journalist a 'fat lesbian' 10/03/2023 11:37am • GENEVA (AP) — LGBTQ+ groups hailed the 60-day jail sentence a court in Switzerland gave to a writer and commentator for deriding a journalist as a “fat lesbian” and other critical remarks. The Lausanne court sentenced French-Swiss polemicist Alain Bonnet, who goes by Alain Soral, for the crime EU announces new aid package to Ethiopia, the first since the war in the Tigray region ended 10/03/2023 11:27am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The European Union has pledged assistance worth 650 million euros to Ethiopia, nearly three years after it cut direct aid to the East African country over atrocities committed in a bloody civil war. Jutta Urpilainen, the EU commissioner for international partnerships, announc New Baltimore police commissioner confirmed by City Council despite recent challenges 10/02/2023 07:23pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore City Council on Monday confirmed Richard Worley as the city’s new police commissioner, a leadership change that comes amid an ongoing push for reform of the embattled agency that began after Freddie Gray’s 2015 death. Mayor Brandon Scott nominated Worley to re Man shot in downtown DC park, just 2 blocks from White House 10/02/2023 06:45pm • A man was found shot to death Sunday on a park bench in McPherson Square, just two blocks from the grounds of the White House, according to D.C. police. Officers responded around 9:30 p.m. to a report of the sound of gunshots, police said, and found the victim at 15th and I Streets NW. A p Army officer pepper-sprayed during traffic stop asks for a new trial in his lawsuit against police 10/02/2023 06:33pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A U.S. Army lieutenant who was struck, pepper-sprayed and handcuffed during a traffic stop in Virginia asked a federal appeals court on Monday to overturn rulings by a trial judge after jurors found mostly in favor of the two police officers he sued. Video of the December 2 Prosecutors reveal a reason for Capitol rioter's secretive sentencing: His government cooperation 10/02/2023 05:48pm • A Pennsylvania man's guilty plea and prison sentence for attacking police during the U.S. Capitol riot has remained under seal for months, but a court filing on Monday reveals a reason for the unusual secrecy: He cooperated with federal authorities after the Jan, 2021, siege. Prosecutors want to kee Imprisoned YouTuber's high-end car collection to be auctioned off in Maryland 10/02/2023 03:30pm • The multimillion dollar car collection of an imprisoned YouTube star is set to be auctioned off in Maryland. Bill Omar Carrasquillo — the man behind the popular YouTube channel "Omi in a Hellcat" — was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for a scheme that involved piracy of cable TV, The Supreme Court opens its new term with a case about prison terms for drug dealers 10/02/2023 02:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court opened its new term Monday with a case about prison terms for drug dealers and rejections of hundreds of appeals, including one from an attorney who pushed a plan to keep former President Donald Trump in power. The court turned away attorney John Eastman's ef