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Maryland man charged with ISIS-inspired plot pleads guilty to planning separate airport attack 08/21/2023 03:22pm • SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A Maryland man charged in 2019 with planning an Islamic State-inspired attack at a Washington, D.C., area shopping and entertainment complex pleaded guilty on Monday to engaging in a separate plot to drive a stolen van into a crowd of people at a nearby airport. Rondel Viewpoint: The 'metaversity' is here — and you shouldn't ignore it 08/21/2023 11:49am • Later this school year, a group of students at University of Maryland Global Campus will enter a crime scene as part of a course in criminal justice. They will be briefed beforehand by a criminal justice expert and use a “crime scene kit” to investigate evidence. In their personalized scene, the A decade after a sarin gas attack in a Damascus suburb, Syrian survivors lose hope for justice 08/21/2023 08:45am • AFRIN, Syria (AP) — One summer night a decade ago, the al-Shami family was woken up by a roaring sound or rockets but it wasn't followed by the usual explosions. Instead, the family members started having difficulty breathing. Ghiad al-Shami, 26, remembers how everyone tried to run to the rooftop Progressive Arévalo is 'virtual winner' of Guatemala election after corruption angered voters 08/21/2023 12:27am • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Outsider Bernardo Arévalo appeared to be the “virtual winner” of Sunday's election to be Guatemala’s next president after voters angry at widespread corruption and leaders’ failure to tackle it made a decisive choice for change. A potential victory by the progressive Trump and his allies double down on election lies after indictments for trying to undo 2020 results 08/21/2023 12:07am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal indictment and one in Georgia charging Donald Trump with lying about the 2020 election to overturn President Joe Biden’s win have done nothing to slow the geyser of election falsehoods flowing from the former president and his supporters. Just two days after the Georg Tech executive's brutal kidnapping caught on surveillance video 08/19/2023 10:02pm • ▶ Watch Video: Who Shot the Tech Exec? This story originally aired on April 2, 2022. It was updated on Aug. 19, 2023.Tushar Atre, a successful tech-executive-turned-cannabis-entrepreneur had a multimillion-dollar home on the California coast, where he spent his A raid on a Kansas newspaper likely broke the law, experts say. But which one? 08/19/2023 11:52am • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A central Kansas police chief was not only on legally shaky ground when he ordered the raid of a weekly newspaper, experts said, but it may have been a criminal violation of civil rights, a former federal prosecutor added, saying: “I'd probably have the FBI starting to look.� Court tosses Jan. 6 sentence in ruling that could impact other low-level Capitol riot cases 08/18/2023 04:35pm • A federal appeals court on Friday ordered a new sentence for a North Carolina man who pleaded guilty to a petty offense in the Capitol riot — a ruling that could impact dozens of low-level cases in the massive Jan. 6, 2021 prosecution. The appeals court in Washington said James Little was wrongly Mississippi grand jury cites shoddy investigations by police department at center of mistrial 08/18/2023 04:18pm • BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi grand jury issued a report last month sharply criticizing a police department whose errors prompted a mistrial this week in the case of two white men charged in an attack on a Black FedEx driver. Officers in the Brookhaven Police Department “poorly investig Justice Department seeks 33 years in prison for ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio in Jan. 6 case 08/18/2023 03:33pm • The Justice Department is seeking 33 years in prison for Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in one of the most serious cases to emerge from attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents. The sentence, if imposed, would be by far the longest puni 3 of 5 former Memphis officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death want separate trials 08/18/2023 12:39pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge on Friday set a September court hearing to discuss requests by three of five former Memphis police officers charged in the death of Tyre Nichols to face separate trials. Lawyers for Tadarrius Bean, Desmond Mills and Justin Smith have filed motions asking Jud 18-year-old arrested on 55 charges in mass shooting at a Baltimore block party 08/18/2023 11:07am • A Baltimore 18-year-old has been arrested on 55 charges related to a mass shooting that killed two people and injured 28 others at a block party in July, the Baltimore Police Department announced Thursday. Tristan Brian Jackson was arrested Thursday and charged with seven counts of conspiracy to Did a former DC deputy mayor break the law? DC's attorney general, feds investigating 08/18/2023 05:04am • D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb's office and federal investigators are looking into John Falcicchio, a former aide to the city’s mayor, a source close to the investigation tells WTOP. The source said D.C.'s Office of The Attorney General probe aims to see if Falcicchio may have broken the l Today in History: August 18, 19th Amendment is ratified, guaranteeing women right to vote 08/18/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Friday, Aug. 18, the 230th day of 2023. There are 135 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 18, 1587, Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born in present-day America, on what is now Roanoke Island in North Carolina. On thi Trump lawyers seek April 2026 trial date in federal election subversion case 08/17/2023 10:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a federal judge Thursday to put off until 2026 a trial in Washington on charges that the former president plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The suggested April 2026 date is a counterproposal to the Justice Department's recommenda