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Bolivia's opposition leader undergoes medical tests as his pre-trial detention drags on for months 09/06/2023 06:20pm • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The governor of Bolivia’s most populous and richest region was allowed to briefly leave his high-security prison cell Wednesday for medical tests, highlighting how the politician widely considered the country’s opposition leader has been governing from behind bars for mo Wisconsin Democrats combat threatened impeachment of court justice with $4M effort 09/06/2023 01:40pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Democratic Party on Wednesday launched a $4 million effort to pressure Republicans to back down from impeaching a new liberal state Supreme Court justice being targeted after she criticized GOP-drawn legislative electoral maps and spoke in favor of abortion right US lawmakers visiting The Hague say Russian President Putin is committing genocide in Ukraine 09/06/2023 11:36am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is committing genocide in Ukraine. Their comments came a day before they were scheduled to meet with the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. The Guatemala prosecutor seeks to strip electoral authorities of immunity after election 09/06/2023 12:09am • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s prosecutor for electoral crimes has asked the Supreme Court of Justice to strip five magistrates of the country’s top electoral authority of their immunity so they can be investigated on fraud allegations made by the loser of the Aug. 20 presidential election. Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy 09/06/2023 12:08am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison for orchestrating a failed plot to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 election, capping the case with the stiffest punishment that has been handed down yet for the U.S. Alex Murdaugh's lawyers want a new trial. They say the court clerk told jurors not to trust him 09/05/2023 05:49pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys for convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh want a new trial, accusing the court clerk of improperly influencing the jury and betraying her oath of office for money and fame. They've accused the court clerk at his double murder trial of telling jurors not to trust him when Timeline of events leading to the impeachment of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton 09/05/2023 12:01pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A timeline of events that led to the impeachment trial of three-term Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton in the state Senate. The trial started Tuesday. The overwhelming impeachment vote in May by the GOP-controlled Texas House of Representatives suspended the 60-year Protesters decry tribute for victims of leftist groups in Argentina's 1970s political violence 09/04/2023 09:16pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Human rights activists surrounded the Buenos Aires City Legislature on Monday to denounce an event honoring victims of armed leftist groups during the 1970s, when Argentina was engulfed by political violence. The tribute was arranged by Victoria Villaruel, the runnin Today in History: September 4, Mother Teresa is canonized by Pope Francis 09/04/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Monday, Sept. 4, the 247th day of 2023. There are 118 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 4, 2016, elevating the “saint of the gutters” to one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors, Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa, praising her ra Israel's Netanyahu says he wants Eritrean migrants involved in violent clashes to be deported 09/03/2023 01:02pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he wants Eritrean migrants involved in a violent clash in Tel Aviv to be deported immediately and has ordered a plan to remove all of the country's African migrants. The remarks came a day after bloody protests by rival Why Wisconsin Republicans are talking about impeaching a new state Supreme Court justice 09/03/2023 11:02am • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's Republican-controlled Legislature is talking about impeaching a newly elected liberal state Supreme Court justice even before she has heard a case. The unprecedented attempt to impeach and remove Justice Janet Protasiewicz from office comes as the court is being as 1 teenager dead, another hospitalized after 2 separate Southeast DC shootings 09/02/2023 08:10pm • One teenager is dead and another has been hospitalized after two shootings in Southeast D.C. Friday night and early Saturday morning. Police identified the teenager killed on Saturday as 15-year-old Zyion Turner, of Southeast D.C. On Friday, police responded to reports of a shooting near the W Howard County man pleads guilty to threatening LGBTQ+ advocacy group, admits sending threats to lawmakers 09/01/2023 11:09pm • A Howard County man admitted to sending threatening messages to Maryland and Virginia lawmakers and faces five years in prison after pleading guilty in federal court to threatening a group that advocates for LGBTQI+ people. Adam Michael Nettina, 34, of West Friendship, entered the plea in U.S. Di DC juvenile curfew enforcement starts Friday 09/01/2023 07:15pm • Enforcement of the juvenile curfew pilot program in D.C. starts on Friday at midnight. The youth curfew will be targeted in seven focus areas, including Chinatown and the U Street area. Under the program, D.C. police will be able to bring young people out after curfew to the Department of Youth a Mexican president's state of the union address suggests crime is not a problem 09/01/2023 05:47pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president on Friday delivered his second-to-last state of the union, and perhaps what was most striking of his roughly 1 1/2 hour speech was what he didn’t talk about: drugs, crime or drug cartels. Experts and residents agree that wide swaths of Mexico are under the