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Authorities charge 9 current and former California police officers in corruption case 08/17/2023 10:30pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nine current or former Northern California police officers were charged Thursday in a federal corruption investigation that found evidence they committed civil rights violations and fraud in an effort to get a pay raise and lied on reports to cover up the use of excessive forc Mississippi judge declares mistrial for 2 white men charged in attack on Black FedEx driver 08/17/2023 07:50pm • BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — Citing errors by police, a Mississippi judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the case of two white men accused of chasing and shooting at a Black FedEx driver who was making a delivery. Brandon Case and his father, Gregory Case, are charged with attempted first-degree murd Ecuadorians vote Sunday for president after a campaign dominated by demands for safety 08/17/2023 06:17pm • GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorians will choose a new president Sunday, less than two weeks after the South American country was shaken by the assassination of one of the candidates — a crime that laid bare people's fears over unprecedented violence in their once-calm nation. The winner faces District attorney drops at least 30 cases that involved officers charged in death of Tyre Nichols 08/17/2023 05:31pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A district attorney in Tennessee said Thursday that his office has dropped 30 to 40 cases involving the five former officers who have been charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of Tyre Nichols. In a statement, Shelby County District Attorney Steven Mulroy's The fall of Rudy Giuliani: How ‘America’s mayor’ tied his fate to Donald Trump and got indicted 08/17/2023 05:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani glared across a Washington hearing room as a lawyer seeking his disbarment after the Jan. 6 insurrection asked: How did this man, celebrated as “America’s mayor” after 9/11, become a leader of an attempt to overturn a national election? “It’s like there are Guatemalans to choose between political veteran, surprise outsider in presidential runoff 08/17/2023 01:11pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — For much of Guatemala’s troubled electoral campaign, authorities seemed determined to limit voters’ options to a range of presidential hopefuls unlikely to shake up a corrupt political system, keeping several candidates seen as threats off the ballot. In part, the strateg Lawsuit against Maryland State Police claiming racial discrimination in State Fire Marshal's Office can continue 08/17/2023 10:25am • A judge has ruled there’s enough evidence to support a claim of racial discrimination by officials in the Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal for a lawsuit to move forward. The case was filed last February against Maryland State Police and the fire marshal's office, where Deputy Chief Der Election workers who face frequent harassment see accountability in the latest Georgia charges 08/16/2023 06:55pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Tonya Wichman has overseen elections in a rural Ohio county for eight years and hasn’t experienced any significant problems with voting or counting the ballots. But that doesn't mean no big worries at all. What does concern her is the frequent harassment, intimidation and e Buffalo shooting survivors say social media companies and a body armor maker enabled the killer 08/16/2023 05:14pm • YouTube, Reddit and a body armor manufacturer were among the businesses that helped enable the gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket, according to a pair of lawsuits announced Wednesday. The complementary lawsuits filed by Everytown Law in state cou House Oversight Committee member asks chairman to refer Dan Snyder to the DOJ for investigation 08/16/2023 04:22pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranking Democrat on the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform is asking the Republican chair in charge to refer former Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder to the Department of Justice for lying under oath. Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin wrote a letter Wednesday to Ke Ex-FBI counterintelligence official pleads guilty to conspiracy charge for helping Russian oligarch 08/16/2023 06:10am • NEW YORK (AP) — A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to violate sanctions on Russia by going to work, after he retired, for an oligarch he once investigated. Appearing before a federal judge in New York City, Charles McGonigal, 55, said he Prosecutors in the Hunter Biden case deny defense push to keep gun charge agreement in place 08/15/2023 08:28pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A legal showdown over the derailed plea deal for Hunter Biden continued Tuesday as prosecutors asserted that an agreement on a gun charge is dead along with the rest of the deal as the case makes a major shift into a special counsel investigation. While the agreement that was sup Georgia case against Trump presents problems from the start, from jury selection to a big courtroom 08/15/2023 07:34pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Putting 19 people on trial at the same time is a difficult assignment for any prosecutor — whether or not one of those defendants is a former president of the United States running to reclaim his old office. The sprawling racketeering indictment returned this week by a grand jury Editorial Roundup: United States 08/15/2023 04:04pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Aug. 12 The Washington Post on Hunter Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Friday his appointment of U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware as special counsel in the ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden, President Bide Argentine peso plunges after rightist who admires Trump comes first in primary vote 08/15/2023 07:01am • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The Argentine peso plunged Monday after an anti-establishment candidate who admires former President Donald Trump came first in primary elections that will help determine the country's next president. Javier Milei rocked Argentina’s political establishment by rece