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Two ex-Proud Boys leaders get among the longest sentences in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack 09/01/2023 12:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group were sentenced to more than a decade each in prison Thursday for spearheading an attack on the U.S. Capitol to try to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential e Car bomb explosions and hostage-taking inside prisons underscore Ecuador's fragile security 09/01/2023 01:41am • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's fragile security situation was underscored Thursday by a series of car bombings and the hostage-taking of more than 50 law enforcement officers inside various prisons, just weeks after the country was shaken by the assassination of a presidential candidate. Ecuadorâ Election workers have gotten death threats and warnings they will be lynched, the US government says 08/31/2023 08:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a dozen people nationally have been charged with threatening election workers by a Justice Department unit trying to stem the tide of violent and graphic threats against people who count and secure the vote. Government employees are being bombarded with threats even in White man will stand trial for shooting Black teen Ralph Yarl, who went to wrong house, judge rules 08/31/2023 08:29pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge ruled Thursday that the 84-year-old white homeowner who shot a Black teenager after he mistakenly went to the man’s house must stand trial. Clay County Judge Louis Angles issued the ruling after a dozen witnesses spoke at a preliminary hearing, including Efforts to punish Fani Willis over Trump prosecution are 'political theater,' Georgia Gov. Kemp says 08/31/2023 05:40pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday offered his strongest denunciation to date of efforts by his fellow Republicans to go after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, dismissing the moves as “political theater that only inflames the emotions of the moment." Some Republicans Shotgun-wielding man reported outside a Black church in Pennsylvania arrested, police say 08/31/2023 05:01pm • AMBRIDGE, Pa. (AP) — A man is in custody on assault charges after a witness told police he pointed a shotgun at two women and attempted to enter a predominantly Black church in a small steel town just outside Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania. Jeffrey Harris, 38, was being held in Beaver County j 5 people shot and wounded, 2 critically, in Illinois city, as gun violence cancels school events 08/31/2023 05:00pm • PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — One man was killed and seven people were wounded in three separate shootings hours apart in Peoria, continuing a spate of gun violence that started in the central Illinois city last weekend. The man was killed Thursday morning about an hour after two other males were wounded in Pakistani man, on trial in Italy for murder of daughter who refused marriage, is being extradited 08/31/2023 02:11pm • ROME (AP) — Italian police on Thursday took into custody in Pakistan a Pakistani man who is on trial in Italy for the murder of his daughter after she refused family demands to marry a cousin in their homeland. The court case, in Reggio Emilia, northern Italy, is the most high-profile of several Wisconsin's new liberal Supreme Court justice hasn't heard a case but Republicans may impeach 08/31/2023 01:12pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Even before the newly elected justice who gave liberals a one-seat majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court has heard a case, Republican lawmakers are talking about taking the unprecedented step of impeaching and removing her from office. And they have the votes to do it. Repub Italy's Meloni visits Naples suburb where 2 girls were allegedly raped by youths, pledges crackdown 08/31/2023 12:11pm • ROME (AP) — Under heavy security, Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Thursday visited and pledged to improve safety at a Naples suburb where drug traffickers operate largely with impunity, organized crime wields influence and two girls were allegedly raped repeatedly by local youths. Meloni spent After Jacksonville shootings, historically Black colleges address security concerns, remain vigilant 08/31/2023 12:03am • Before the fatal shootings of three Black residents in Jacksonville, Florida, over the weekend, the gunman, a young white man with swastikas painted on his rifle, pulled into a parking lot at Edward Waters University and began putting on tactical gear. Students reported him, a campus police officer Judge's illness delays sentencing for ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio in Jan. 6 case 08/30/2023 06:38pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The sentencing for former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of orchestrating the far-right extremist group’s attack on the U.S. Capitol after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, has been delayed until next week because the judge hearing the case beca DC-based ring busted after string of armed robberies at Virginia and East Coast jewelry stores 08/30/2023 05:52pm • Several people from the D.C. area have been arrested in a string of offenses linked to robberies of jewelry stores in Virginia and along the East Coast. Of the 16 arrested, two of the people live in Maryland, one in Virginia, 12 in the District, and one from California; they range in age from 20 Former official under Belarus President Lukashenko to face Swiss trial over enforced disappearances 08/30/2023 12:36pm • GENEVA (AP) — A former member of Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko’s special security forces is to face trial in Switzerland next month for the forced disappearances of political opponents in the late 1990s, rights groups said Wednesday. Activists called it a “watershed moment" in intern Jury convicts 5 people of blocking access to DC reproductive health clinic 08/29/2023 08:55pm • Five people face years in prison and hefty fines after they were convicted of blocking people from entering a reproductive clinic in D.C. Lauren Handy, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia; John Hinshaw, 67, of New York; Heather Idoni, 61, of Michigan; William Goodman, 52, of New York; and Herb Geraghty,