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Judge rejects defense effort to throw out an Oath Keeper associate's Jan. 6 guilty verdict 09/19/2023 10:31am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday upheld an obstruction conviction against a Virginia man who stood trial with members of the Oath Keepers extremist group in one of the most serious cases brought in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected a defense effor Ukraine lawyers insist that UN's top court has jurisdiction to hear Kyiv's case against Russia 09/19/2023 07:39am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukraine insisted Tuesday that the United Nations' highest court has jurisdiction to hear a case alleging that Moscow abused the genocide convention to justify launching its devastating invasion last year. Kyiv wants judges at the International Court of Justice to orde Former Belarusian operative under Lukashenko goes on Swiss trial over enforced disappearances 09/19/2023 05:01am • GENEVA (AP) — A former member of Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko’s special security forces was going on trial Tuesday in Switzerland over the enforced disappearances of political opponents in the late 1990s — seen as a landmark case of international justice. Yuri Harauski, a former Canada expels an Indian diplomat as it investigates a Sikh's killing. India denies an alleged link 09/19/2023 12:00am • NEW DELHI (AP) — Canada expelled a top Indian diplomat as it investigates what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called credible allegations its government may have had links to the assassination in Canada of a Sikh activist, an accusation that India rejected as “absurd.” Trudeau said in Parliamen Crime center stage as DC Council returns to work 09/18/2023 07:05pm • The D.C. Council has returned from the summer recess, and during a hearing of the Judiciary and Public Safety Committee, the focus was on a bill aimed at combating crime and helping victims. The committee heard testimony from residents and government officials on four bills, two that focus on how UN experts say Ethiopia's conflict and Tigray fighting left over 10,000 survivors of sexual violence 09/18/2023 02:35pm • GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights experts say war crimes continue in Ethiopia despite a peace accord signed nearly a year ago to end a conflict that engulfed the country's northern Tigray region. The violence has left at least 10,000 people affected by rape and other sexual violence — mostl Russia urges UN's top court to toss out Ukrainian case that seeks to halt Moscow's invasion 09/18/2023 09:09am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Russia on Monday called a Ukrainian case alleging that Moscow abused the Genocide Convention to justify its invasion last year an “abuse of process,” as lawyers for Moscow sought to have judges at the United Nation’s highest court throw it out. As a series of la Human rights in Russia have 'significantly' worsened since Ukraine war began, UN-backed expert says 09/18/2023 06:32am • GENEVA (AP) — The rights situation in Russia has “significantly deteriorated” since President Vladimir Putin launched his war against Ukraine in February last year, an expert commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body said in her first report on the country on Monday. Mariana Katzarov 'Isn't that special?' Dana Carvey joins WTOP with 'Church Lady,' 'Wayne's World,' Trump and Biden 09/18/2023 04:05am • Hear our full chat on my podcast “Beyond the Fame with Jason Fraley.” His "Saturday Night Live" co-star Kevin Nealon "pumped us up" at the D.C. Comedy Loft over the weekend. Now, the Hans to his Franz keeps the "flabalanche" rolling as the inimitable Dana Carvey brings his comedy g As Slovakia's trust in democracy fades, its election frontrunner campaigns against aid to Ukraine 09/18/2023 01:35am • MICHALOVCE, Slovakia (AP) — A populist former prime minister whose party is favored to win Slovakia’s early parliamentary election plans to reverse the country’s military and political support for neighboring Ukraine, in a direct challenge to the European Union and NATO, if he returns to power As Slovakia's trust in democracy fades, its election frontrunner campaigns against aid to Ukraine 09/18/2023 01:34am • MICHALOVCE, Slovakia (AP) — A populist former prime minister whose party is favored to win Slovakia’s early parliamentary election plans to reverse the country’s military and political support for neighboring Ukraine, in a direct challenge to the European Union and NATO, if he returns to power Trump refuses to say in a TV interview how he watched the Jan. 6 attack unfold at the US Capitol 09/17/2023 10:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump repeatedly declined in an interview aired Sunday to answer questions about whether he watched the Capitol riot unfold on television, saying he would “tell people later at an appropriate time.” Trump, the current front-runner for the 2024 Republi Louisiana prisoner suit claims they’re forced to endure dangerous conditions at Angola prison farm 09/16/2023 05:38pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Men incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary filed a class-action lawsuit Saturday, contending they have been forced to work in the prison’s fields for little or no pay, even when temperatures soar past 100 degrees. They described the conditions as cruel, degrading an Timeline leading to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's acquittal in his impeachment trial 09/16/2023 05:19pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A timeline of events that led to the acquittal of three-term Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton during his impeachment trial in the state Senate. The trial started Sept. 5 and ended Sept. 16. The overwhelming impeachment vote in May by the GOP-controlled Texas House A look at notable impeachments in US history, including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton 09/16/2023 03:32pm • Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial— in which he was acquitted Saturday on corruption allegations — is among several such proceedings that have occurred in U.S. history. Impeachment is a political proceeding, not a court one. Typically in a U.S. legislative body, it is the H