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Trump hush money trial enters new phase after defense rests without testimony from former president 05/21/2024 06:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's hush money trial moved into a new phase Tuesday, drawing closer to the moment when the jury will begin deciding his fate after testimony concluded without the former president taking the stand in his own defense. “Your honor, the defense rests,” Trump lawyer Todd A Canadian serial killer who brought victims to his pig farm is hospitalized after a prison assault 05/21/2024 06:12pm • MONTREAL (AP) — Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who brought female victims to his pig farm during a crime spree near Vancouver in the 1990s and early 2000s, was assaulted in prison and has been hospitalized in life-threatening condition, authorities said Tuesday. A 51-year-old inm DOJ adds Oklahoma to the list of states it's suing to block their immigration laws 05/21/2024 05:49pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice sued Oklahoma on Tuesday seeking to block a law that seeks to impose criminal penalties on those living in the state illegally. The lawsuit in federal court in Oklahoma City challenges a law that makes it a state crime — punishable by up to two The Latest | Prosecution and defense debate jury instructions in Trump's criminal trial 05/21/2024 05:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The defense rested its case in Donald Trump's hush money trial on Tuesday morning without the former president taking the witness stand to testify, bringing proceedings one step closer to closing arguments. After more than four weeks of testimony, jurors were sent home with Judge J Landmark Paris trial of Syrian officials accused of torturing, killing a father and his son starts 05/21/2024 05:10pm • PARIS (AP) — The landmark trial of three former Syrian intelligence officials began Tuesday at a Paris court for the alleged torture and killing of a French-Syrian father and son who were arrested over a decade ago, during the height of Arab Spring-inspired anti-government protests. International Germany's foreign minister says in Kyiv that air defenses are an 'absolute priority' for Ukraine 05/21/2024 10:37am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Sending air defense systems to Ukraine to help protect it from Russian cruise missiles, rockets and drones is an “absolute priority,” Germany’s foreign minister said in Kyiv on Tuesday after visiting a local power plant that was largely reduced to ruins by a recent barra 'Justice demands' new trial for death row inmate, Alabama district attorney says 05/20/2024 10:39pm • An Alabama district attorney on Monday asked a judge to order a new trial for a death row inmate, saying that a review found that the 1998 conviction was flawed and “cannot be justified or allowed to stand.” Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr filed a brief expressing his support for T Family of Black teen wrongly executed in 1931 seeks damages after 2022 exoneration 05/20/2024 09:32pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The family of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania — a Black 16-year-old sent to the electric chair in 1931 and exonerated by the governor in 2022 — is suing the county that prosecuted him. Alexander McClay Williams was convicted of murder in the O Amal Clooney is one of the legal experts who recommended war crimes charges in Israel-Hamas war 05/20/2024 04:16pm • Amal Clooney is one of the legal experts who recommended that the chief prosecutor of the world's top war crimes court seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and leaders of the militant Hamas group. The human rights lawyer and wife of actor George Clooney wrote of her par WikiLeaks founder Assange wins right to appeal against an extradition order to the US 05/20/2024 01:37pm • LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal an extradition order to the United States on espionage charges, a London court ruled Monday — a decision likely to further drag out an already long legal saga. High Court judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson ruled for Assange after hi Supreme Court rejects an appeal from a Canadian man once held at Guantanamo 05/20/2024 10:24am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by a Canadian-born former Guantanamo detainee who was seeking to wipe away his war crimes convictions, including for killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. Omar Khadr had waived his right to appeal when he pleaded guilty in 2010 to c Biden tells Morehouse graduates that scenes in Gaza from the Israel-Hamas war break his heart, too 05/20/2024 02:26am • ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday offered his most direct recognition of U.S. students' anguish over the Israel-Hamas war, telling graduates of historically Black Morehouse College that he heard their voices of protest and that scenes from the conflict in Gaza break his heart, too. “I San Diego deputy who pleaded guilty to manslaughter now faces federal charges 05/19/2024 04:48pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) — A former San Diego sheriff’s deputy who already pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for the 2020 fatal shooting of an unarmed suspect has been indicted on two federal charges that could bring a life sentence, federal prosecutors said. A federal grand jury returned a two-co A mayoral candidate and 5 other people killed in gunfire at a campaign rally in southern Mexico 05/17/2024 09:12pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — A mayoral candidate and five other people were killed when gunmen opened fire at a campaign rally in the violence-wracked southern Mexico state of Chiapas, officials said. State prosecutors said a young girl was among the six people killed in the gunfire late Thursday, along wit Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gave few pardons before rushing to clear Army officer who killed a protester 05/17/2024 08:56pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — In issuing a full pardon to a former Army sergeant convicted of murder in the shooting death of an armed Black Lives Matter protestor, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pushed a limited executive power to its absolute limit to get a desired outcome in a politically charged cas