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Capitol rioter who trained for a 'firefight' with paintball gets over four years in prison 09/26/2023 09:21pm • A California man whom prosecutors say was fixated on arresting Democratic leaders and training for combat with paintball fights after the 2020 presidential election was sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years in prison for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot. Edward Badalian planned for weeks bef Teen fatally shot near Dunbar High School; District surpasses 200 homicides 09/26/2023 08:31pm • A teen was shot to death near Dunbar High School in Northwest D.C., marking the city's 200th homicide of the year. And Acting Police Chief Pamela Smith said during a news conference that the teen's killing was not the only ongoing homicide investigation Tuesday afternoon. Smith said 16-year-old M California man who spent 28 years in prison is found innocent of 1995 rape, robbery and kidnapping 09/26/2023 07:53pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who spent nearly 30 years in prison for kidnapping, robbery and rape has been declared innocent and freed, Los Angeles County prosecutors announced Tuesday. DNA testing helped exonerate Gerardo Cabanillas in a 1995 attack on a couple sitting in a parked car in the city of California governor signs law raising taxes on guns and ammunition to pay for school safety 09/26/2023 06:59pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will ban people from carrying firearms in most public places while doubling the taxes on guns and ammunition sold in the state under two new laws Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Tuesday that will test the limits of the U.S. Supreme Court's new standard for interpretin Tech CEO honored by Forbes was fatally attacked at a Baltimore apartment complex, police say 09/26/2023 06:30pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — The founder of a Baltimore tech startup, whose professional accomplishments earned her a spot on a Forbes 30 under 30 list earlier this year, was found dead after being reported missing late Monday morning, according to city police. Pava LaPere, 26, had suffered from blunt force Suspect Jason Billingsley wanted in murder of Baltimore tech CEO Pava LaPere, police say 09/26/2023 06:19pm • ▶ Watch Video: Police: Arrest warrant issued for murder of Baltimore tech CEO Pava LaPere BALTIMORE -- An arrest warrant has been issued in the murder of 26-year-old Baltimore tech CEO Pava LaPere.Baltimore Acting Police Commissioner Richard Worley said 32 Sister Helen Prejean's 'Dead Man Walking' arrives at Met in Jake Heggie's operatic version 09/26/2023 01:03pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Sister Helen Prejean remembered when she first spoke with Jake Heggie about adapting her book “Dead Man Walking.” “I don’t know boo-scat about opera,” she told him. “I just got two requests. One, you’re not going to do that atonal thing, are you? Are we going to be ab JPMorgan to pay $75 million on claims that it enabled Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operations 09/26/2023 12:28pm • NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase agreed Tuesday to pay $75 million to the U.S. Virgin Islands to settle claims that the bank enabled the sex trafficking acts committed by financier Jeffrey Epstein. JPMorgan said that $55 million of the settlement will go toward local charities that provide assistanc European court rules Turkish teacher's rights were violated by conviction based on phone app use 09/26/2023 12:22pm • ISTANBUL (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled that the rights of a Turkish teacher convicted of what prosecutors called terrorism offences had been violated because the case was largely based on his use of a phone app. The court said its ruling could apply to thousands of peo Hunter Biden sues Rudy Giuliani and another lawyer over accessing and sharing of his personal data 09/26/2023 12:07pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden sued Rudy Giuliani and another attorney Tuesday, saying the two wrongly accessed and shared his personal data after obtaining it from the owner of a Delaware computer repair shop. The lawsuit was the latest in a new strategy by Hunter Biden to strike back against Re In Sweden, 2 explosions rip through dwellings and at least 1 is reportedly connected to a gang feud 09/26/2023 08:41am • STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two powerful explosions ripped through dwellings in central Sweden overnight, injuring at least three people and damaging buildings, with bricks and window sections left spread outside. Late on Monday, an explosion occurred in Hasselby, a suburb of the capital, Stockholm. In the South Korea's Constitutional Court strikes down law banning anti-Pyongyang leafleting 09/26/2023 06:46am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday struck down a 2020 law that criminalized the sending of anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets to North Korea, calling it an excessive restriction on free speech. The ruling came in response to a complaint filed by North Korean Texas Walmart shooter agrees to pay more than $5M to families over 2019 racist attack 09/25/2023 06:37pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A white Texas gunman who killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019 after ranting about Hispanics taking over the government and economy has agreed to pay more than $5 million to victims of the racist attack, according to an order signed by a judge Monday. Patrick Crusius was sent Kosovar police surround a village after Serb gunmen storm a monastery in violence that has killed 4 09/24/2023 03:45pm • PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Dozens of Serb gunmen dressed in combat uniforms killed a Kosovar Albanian police officer then stormed an Orthodox monastery in Kosovo near its border with Serbia, setting off gunbattles that left three assailants dead and further raised tensions between the two former wart The Supreme Court will hear a case with a lot of 'buts' & 'ifs' over the meaning of 'and' 09/24/2023 07:46am • WASHINGTON (AP) — It's hard to imagine a less contentious or more innocent word than “and.” But how to interpret that simple conjunction has prompted a complicated legal fight that lands in the Supreme Court on Oct. 2, the first day of its new term. What the justices decide could affect thous