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Niger’s coup leaders say they will prosecute deposed President Mohamed Bazoum for 'high treason' 08/15/2023 04:50am • NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The military junta that seized power in Niger said it plans to prosecute deposed President Mohamed Bazoum for “high treason” and undermining state security, an announcement that came hours after the mutinous officers said they were open to dialogue with West African nation Hillary Clinton says 'justice is being pursued' in Trump Georgia case. Follow live updates 08/15/2023 01:23am • Follow along for live updates on the indictment of former President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the results of his 2020 presidential election loss in Georgia. The charges focus on alleged schemes by Trump and his allies to attempt illegally overturn his loss in the state. It’s the fo How Fani Willis oversaw what might be the most sprawling legal case against Donald Trump 08/15/2023 12:12am • ATLANTA (AP) — Long before the FBI began investigating Donald Trump 's hoarding of classified documents or Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special prosecutor to probe the former president, Fani Willis was at work. Just one month after Trump's infamous January 2021 phone call to sugges Six former Mississippi officers plead guilty to state charges for torturing two Black men 08/14/2023 07:26pm • BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — Six white former Mississippi law officers pleaded guilty on Monday to state charges for torturing two Black men in a racist assault. All six had recently admitted their guilt in a connected federal civil rights case. In the gruesome crimes committed by men tasked with enforci Chicago's newly selected top cop says reducing violence, officers' well being among top priorities 08/14/2023 04:22pm • CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago native pegged as the city's next police superintendent said Monday at his introductory news conference that his top priorities include finding ways to tamp down violent crime. Larry Snelling, 54, a former police patrolman-turned-head of the department counterterrorism divi Hunter Biden's lawyers say gun portion of plea deal remains valid after special counsel announcement 08/14/2023 04:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys for Hunter Biden are pushing to keep part of a plea deal they reached with the prosecutor whose new status as special counsel has intensified the tax investigation into the president’s son ahead of the 2024 election. As House Republicans continued their own investigat Italy marks 5th anniversary of Morandi bridge collapse with demands for justice for the 43 killed 08/14/2023 02:07pm • ROME (AP) — Italy marked the fifth anniversary Monday of the collapse of Genoa’s Morandi Bridge with a minute of silence and demands for justice for the 43 people who died in what authorities say was an example of greed-fueled negligence. Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini told relatives of Ecuador was calm and peaceful. Now hitmen, kidnappers and robbers walk the streets 08/14/2023 12:13am • GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Belen Diaz was walking home from college one evening when a motorcycle carrying two men made a menacing U-turn. Terrified that she was about to be robbed for the eighth time in three years, the teaching student banged on a cab window until the driver drove her home. Diaz Summit in Southeast DC calls on young people to help remedy juvenile crime 08/13/2023 09:10pm • As juvenile crime in the District continues to rise, the Ward 8 community in Southeast held a summit to engage young people in finding solutions on Sunday afternoon. Held at the Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC) on Mississippi Avenue, community leaders at the event spoke directl Rising political threats take US into uncharted territory as 2024 election looms 08/13/2023 06:24pm • DENVER (AP) — This week’s confrontation that ended with FBI agents fatally shooting a 74-year-old Utah man who threatened to assassinate President Joe Biden was just the latest example of how violent rhetoric has created a more perilous political environment across the U.S. Six days earlier, a 5 Polish government plans referendum asking if voters want 'thousands of illegal immigrants' 08/13/2023 01:45pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s ruling party wants to ask voters in a referendum whether they support accepting “thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa” as part of a European Union relocation plan, the prime minister said Sunday, as his conservative party seeks to hol Alabama riverfront brawl videos spark a cultural moment about race, solidarity and justice 08/13/2023 12:35am • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — As bystanders trained their smartphone cameras on the riverfront dock while several white boaters pummeled a Black riverboat co-captain, they couldn’t have known the footage would elicit a national conversation about racial solidarity. Yet, a week after multiple videos sh Maryland religion literacy course an eyeopener for educators 08/12/2023 11:24pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Maryland’s nearly 900,000 public school students will soon be heading back to school. Over the summer, teachers in every jurisdiction ha How Vivek Ramaswamy is pushing — delicately — to win over Trump supporters 08/12/2023 01:50pm • VAIL, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy was more than 40 minutes into a town hall in rural Iowa when a woman in the crowd posed a pointed question. Or perhaps it was a suggestion. “I know you want to be president," she said. "But would you consider being Trump’s vice Today in History: August 12, 520 die in Japan airlines crash 08/12/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Saturday, Aug. 12, the 224th day of 2023. There are 141 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 12, 1953, the Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb. On this date: In 1867, President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach h