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Brazil Supreme Court panel unanimously upholds judge's decision to block X nationwide 09/03/2024 12:05am • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court panel on Monday unanimously upheld the decision of one of its justices to block billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X nationwide, according to the court’s website. The broader support among justices undermines the effort by Musk and his District attorney's progressive policies face blowback from Louisiana's conservative Legislature 09/02/2024 11:16pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams promised to address the city's history of prosecutorial and police misconduct when he was elected four years ago, but now he's facing an investigation by Republican politicians who are concerned he is abusing his power. Williams, a Bl Venezuelan judge issues arrest warrant for opposition's former presidential candidate 09/02/2024 10:53pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A Venezuelan judge on Monday issued an arrest warrant for the opposition’s former presidential candidate Edmundo González as part of a criminal investigation into the results of the highly anticipated July election that both the ruling party and its opponents claim to US government seizes plane used by Venezuelan president, citing sanctions violations 09/02/2024 08:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has seized a luxury jet used by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro that officials say was illegally purchased through a shell company and smuggled out of the United States in violation of sanctions and export control laws. The Dassault Falcon 900EX was seiz Women behind bars are often survivors of abuse. A series of new laws aim to reduce their sentences 08/31/2024 12:03am • CHICAGO (AP) — Advocates for domestic violence survivors in Illinois celebrated earlier this month when Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill into law making it easier for those who are incarcerated to get reduced sentences. House bill sponsor Rep. Kelly Cassidy was among those cheering. First elected in Ex-DC police officer is sentenced to 5 years in prison for fatally shooting man in car 08/30/2024 10:00pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A former police officer in the nation's capital was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for fatally shooting a 27-year-old man who had been sleeping in the driver's seat of a car stopped at a traffic light. Former Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Enis Jevric, 42, ple Oregon law rolling back drug decriminalization set to take effect and make possession a crime again 08/30/2024 06:51pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s first-in-the-nation experiment with drug decriminalization is coming to an end Sunday, when possessing small amounts of hard drugs will once again become a crime. The Democratic-controlled Legislature passed the recriminalization law in March, overhauling a measure Adnan Syed's murder conviction still stands in ‘Serial’ case as court orders new hearing 08/30/2024 02:34pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Adnan Syed’s murder conviction still stands after Maryland’s highest court Friday ordered a redo of the hearing that freed him. The court ruled that the earlier proceeding violated the rights of the victim’s family, marking the latest development in a legal saga that ga Takeaways from the AP's report on Mexican mothers searching for their disappeared children 08/30/2024 02:18pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — According to official figures, at least 115,000 people have disappeared in Mexico since 1952, though the real number is believed to be higher. During the country’s “dirty war,” a conflict that lasted throughout the 1970s, disappearances were attributed to government repres One day, their children didn't make it back home. Faith helps these Mexican mothers' search for them 08/30/2024 09:10am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Each time the kidnapper hung up the phone, Veronica Rosas and her relatives did the only thing they could think of: kneel, grab each other’s hands and pray. “I told God: Please help me,” said Rosas, who has spent the past nine years searching for her son, Diego Maximiliano Presumed dead, the search continues: Manassas Park police chief focuses on finding missing mother 08/30/2024 04:22am • It's been almost a month since a Manassas Park, Virginia, mother went missing. Mamta Kafle Bhatt, 28, an immigrant from Nepal who worked as a nurse, was last seen on July 31. Her husband has been charged in connection with her disappearance, but her body still hasn't been found. WTOP spoke wit Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli military says it killed 5 more militants in West Bank operation 08/30/2024 01:44am • The Israeli military says it has killed five more militants in a large-scale operation in the occupied West Bank, including a well-known local commander. There was no immediate Palestinian confirmation on Thursday of the death of Mohammed Jaber, known as Abu Shujaa, a commander in the Islamic Jihad Idaho judge considers whether to hold quadruple murder trial in small university town or elsewhere 08/29/2024 08:59pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Attorneys for the man charged in the 2022 stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students asked a judge to move the trial to a larger city during a hearing Thursday, citing the widespread media coverage of the case and the impact that coverage can have on potential juror b Fall is bringing fantasy (and romantasy), literary fiction, politics and Taylor-ed book offerings 08/29/2024 04:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Brandon Sanderson, whose epic “Wind and Truth” is a highlight of the upcoming publishing season, sees nothing wrong with the idea of “escapism.” “It's just the ability to go to another world and relate to other people's problems, problems that aren't our problems. It's a Justice Department watchdog finds failures in FBI's handling of child sex abuse cases 08/29/2024 04:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has failed to report some child sexual abuse allegations to local law enforcement or social service agencies even after changes prompted by its handling of the case against former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, according to a Justice Department watchdog report r