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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 3 convicted of blocking access to DC reproductive health clinic 09/16/2023 02:46pm • Three people were convicted of federal civil rights violations Friday after blocking patient access to a D.C. reproductive health clinic in October 2020, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice. A jury found 41-year-old Jonathan Darnel of Arlington, Virginia, 73-year-old J DC man sentenced to 35 years for 'heinous murder,' without any body found 09/15/2023 06:02pm • A D.C. man was sentenced Friday to 35 years in prison and five years of supervised release for the murder of a woman whose body has never been found, according to the Department of Justice. Isaac Moye, 46, was convicted of second degree murder on June 23 for killing Unique Harris, who was 24 year As the nation fixates on a Pennsylvania manhunt, a DC murder suspect is on the run and off the radar 09/15/2023 05:47pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — While the nation has been transfixed by the two-week manhunt for escaped prisoner Danilo Souza Cavalcante in Pennsylvania, another fugitive drama has been playing out in the nation's capital with comparatively minimal attention. Christopher Haynes has been on the run for a week, As captured fugitive resumes sentence in the US, homicide in his native Brazil remains unsolved 09/15/2023 05:37pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When the Brazilian prosecutor in charge of a homicide case targeting Danilo Cavalcante saw footage of the 34 year-old crab-walk out of a U.S. prison last month, he thought the fugitive might try to head home, where he stood to receive a considerably lighter sentence. Cavalcan A Jan. 6 rioter was convicted and sentenced in secret. No one will say why 09/15/2023 03:44pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of rioters have been charged, convicted and sentenced for joining the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. Unlike their cases, Samuel Lazar's appears to have been resolved in secret — kept under seal with no explanation, even after his release from prison. Lazar, 37, of Ep A member of the secret panel studying Wisconsin Supreme Court justice's impeachment backed her rival 09/15/2023 01:27pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the former Wisconsin Supreme Court justices tapped to investigate impeaching newly elected Justice Janet Protasiewicz for taking Democratic Party money accepted donations from the state Republican Party when he was on the court. The former justice, Republican David Pro Trial begins in Elijah McClain death, which sparked outrage over racial injustice in policing 09/15/2023 12:13am • DENVER (AP) — Elijah McClain's fatal encounter with police began on a summer night in 2019 when a 911 caller reported that the young Black man looked “sketchy” as he walked down the street wearing a ski mask and raising his hands in the air in the Denver suburb of Aurora. In reality, McClain, Victim's family in fear as search for escaped murder suspect continues 09/15/2023 12:01am • Brent Hayward, the Gainesville man that Christopher Haynes is suspected of shooting to death. (Courtesy Sheila Jackson) Since escaping police at The George Washington University Hospital on Sept. 6, Christopher Haynes has been in the wind. That fact has left the mother of the Virginia man Haynes 5th former Memphis officer pleads not guilty to federal civil rights charges in Tyre Nichols' death 09/14/2023 05:30pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A fifth former Memphis police officer pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal civil rights charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop. Emmitt Martin made his first federal court appearance since he and four former collagues were charged Tuesday with usin Hunter Biden is indicted on federal firearm-purchasing charges after plea deal fails 09/14/2023 05:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday on federal firearms charges, the latest step in a long-running investigation into the president's son that puts the case on track toward a possible high-stakes trial as the 2024 election looms. Biden is accused of lying about his drug use whe Off-duty Pentagon police officer pleads guilty to 2nd-degree murder in 2021 double shooting 09/14/2023 05:07pm • An off-duty Pentagon police officer who fatally shot two men in the parking lot of his Takoma Park condo building in 2021 has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder charges. David Hall Dixon, 42, opened fire on a car in the parking lot of the Takoma Park Overlook Condominiums in the predawn h Brazil's top court imposes 17-year sentence, in first case against rioters who stormed the capital 09/14/2023 03:08pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday handed a 17-year prison sentence to a supporter of former President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed top government offices on Jan. 8 in an alleged bid to forcefully restore the right-wing leader to office. Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, 51, is the fir Americans sharply divided over whether Biden acted wrongly in son's businesses, AP-NORC poll shows 09/14/2023 03:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — About half of Americans say they have little or no confidence that the Justice Department is handling its investigation into Hunter Biden in a fair and nonpartisan way, and 1 in 3 are highly concerned about whether President Joe Biden may have committed wrongdoing related to his DC unanimously passed police reform in 2016. How has it worked? 09/14/2023 03:02pm • In 2016, the D.C. Council unanimously passed what came to be known as the NEAR Act, a police reform measure meant to increase data collection and transparency in the hopes of creating more accountability. The effort was about addressing violent crime at the root cause, similar to how matters