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At March on Washington's 60th anniversary, leaders seek energy of original movement for civil rights 08/23/2023 06:45pm • Sixty years ago, Andrew Young and his staff had just emerged from an exhausting campaign against racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. But they didn’t feel no ways tired, as the Black spiritual says. The foot soldiers were on a “freedom high,” Young recalls. “They wanted to keep on marc Founders of crypto mixer arrested, sanctioned after US cracks down on Tornado Cash 08/23/2023 06:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. government officials on Wednesday started cracking down on the co-founders of the virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash, just days after a federal judge decided that the government had the authority to sanction them. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Ru Argentina arrests dozens in looting attempts amid fear of growing violence ahead of October election 08/23/2023 04:49pm • LOMA HERMOSA; Argentina (AP) — Argentine authorities have reported a large number of arrests for lootings and attempted lootings in recent days, raising concerns about violence ahead of October presidential elections and prompting the president to appeal for calm. The arrests have prompted some b Justice Department announces charges against hundreds of alleged COVID-19 fraudsters 08/23/2023 04:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of people have been charged with the theft of more than $830 million in COVID-19 emergency aid following a nationwide operation conducted by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday. More than 60 of the defendants Senator Rubio urges Biden administration to reject a former warlord's extradition to Colombia 08/23/2023 03:08pm • MIAMI (AP) — Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is calling on the Biden administration to reject Colombia's request for extradition of a former warlord after he was named a peace envoy in the South American nation, a move that could see him avoid additional prison time for human rights abuses. Sa Jail where Trump will be booked in Georgia has long been plagued with violence 08/23/2023 10:03am • ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is expected to surrender on Thursday at the jail in Georgia's most populous county — an overcrowded facility with a reputation for violence and neglect that has prompted a federal investigation into conditions there. Trump will be released from Ful Biden names a new White House counsel as he seeks reelection and faces congressional probes 08/22/2023 10:22am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that the new White House counsel will be Ed Siskel, a former Obama administration attorney who helped craft the response to the congressional investigations into the 2012 Benghazi attack that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambas Trump says he will surrender Thursday on Georgia charges tied to efforts to overturn 2020 election 08/21/2023 09:30pm • Former President Donald Trump says he will surrender to authorities in Georgia on Thursday to face charges in the case accusing him of illegally scheming to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. “Can you believe it? I’ll be going to Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday to be ARRESTED,” Tru Dentist convicted of killing wife on African safari given life sentence and over $15M in penalties 08/21/2023 09:28pm • DENVER (AP) — As a wealthy dentist convicted of killing his wife at the end of an African safari listened in court, her brother vowed on Monday to move her remains to a place that Larry Rudolph would never discover. Shortly before a judge sentenced Rudolph to life in prison in the 2016 death of B British nurse Lucy Letby imprisoned for life in murders of 7 babies and attempted murders of 6 08/21/2023 08:28pm • LONDON (AP) — A former neonatal nurse convicted of murdering seven babies in her care and trying to kill six others at a hospital in northern England was sentenced Monday to life in prison with no chance of release by a judge who said she was cruel, cunning and callous, and acted with “malevolen U.N. calls unauthorized construction by Turkish Cypriots a violation of the status quo on Cyprus 08/21/2023 08:12pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Monday called unauthorized construction by Turkish Cypriots inside the U.N. buffer zone dividing Cyrus a violation of the status quo that is contrary to council resolutions and it condemned their assault on U.N. peacekeepers. The council statement Spanish singer Miguel Bosé robbed, bound along with children at Mexico City house 08/21/2023 06:04pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Spanish pop star Miguel Bosé said Monday that 10 armed assailants burst into his house in Mexico City and tied him up, his two children and household staff for more than two hours while they ransacked the premises. Bosé wrote in his Instagram account that he and his children a These men were convicted of a horrific DC murder. Will a presidential pardon clear their names? 08/21/2023 06:00pm • Police and prosecutors moved quick when the body of Catherine Fuller was found brutally murdered in an alley near the intersection of H and 8th streets in Northeast D.C. in 1984. Critics accused the investigation of being so quick; it was reckless. In all, 17 people were arrested — all of t Greece's leader pledges to keep up military support for Ukraine as Zelenskyy visits Athens 08/21/2023 05:37pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis pledged Monday to keep up military support for Ukraine for as long as it takes and to help with post-war reconstruction. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that might mean Greece could help train his country's fighter p Guatemala's pick of independent anti-corruption progressive as president may face challenge 08/21/2023 04:39pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalans overwhelmingly picked an independent progressive to be the country’s next president but his opponent remained silent Monday, leaving open the possibility of a challenge to landslide results that resoundingly rejected the country's elite. With 100% of votes coun