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Supreme Court reinstates regulation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers 08/08/2023 06:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is reinstating a regulation aimed at reining in the proliferation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers that have been turning up at crime scenes across the nation in increasing numbers. The court on Tuesday voted 5-4 to put on hold a ruling from a fede Editorial Roundup: United States 08/08/2023 04:32pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Aug. 3 The Washington Post on a threat to PEPFAR President George W. Bush could not have foreseen how successful the outcome would be when he told aides in 2002 he wanted a “game changer” to fight the scourge of HIV/AIDS in Africa Once Colombia's most-wanted drug lord, the kingpin known as Otoniel gets 45 years in prison in US 08/08/2023 04:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) — For years, the man known as Otoniel was seen as one of the world's most dangerous drug lords, the elusive boss of a cartel and paramilitary group with a blood-drenched grip on much of northern Colombia. On Tuesday, Dairo Antonio Úsuga said he was “accepting responsibility for th Rwanda genocide survivors criticize UN court's call to permanently halt elderly suspect's trial 08/08/2023 11:08am • KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Survivors of Rwanda's 1994 genocide criticized Tuesday a call by appeals judges at a United Nations court to indefinitely halt the trial of an alleged financer and supporter of the massacre due to the suspect's ill health. The ruling Monday sends the matter back to the court West Virginia's capital officials reject abortion provider's proposal to start syringe service 08/08/2023 11:01am • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — City councilors in West Virginia's Democrat-controlled capital city voted against a proposal from the state's long-time abortion provider to start a syringe service program in one of the country's most opioid-devastated areas. The 17 to 9 vote on Monday came two years aft A judge called an FBI operative a 'villain.' Ruling comes too late for 2 convicted in terror sting 08/08/2023 09:37am • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — In a scathing ruling last month, a judge said the FBI had used a ”villain” of an informant to manipulate a group of Muslim men into going along with a fictitious plot to destroy military planes and synagogues in New York City's suburbs. She ordered three released from priso Today in History: August 8, Nixon announces his resignation 08/08/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Tuesday, Aug. 8, the 220th day of 2023. There are 145 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon, facing damaging new revelations in the Watergate scandal, announced he would resign the following day. On this date: I UN appeal judges toss out plan to set up procedure to hear evidence against Rwandan genocide suspect 08/07/2023 02:45pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Appeals judges on Monday threw out a decision by a United Nations court to set up a procedure to hear evidence against an elderly Rwandan genocide suspect who was declared unfit to face trial. The decision likely means that Félicien Kabuga's trial, which started last Justice Department helping Ukraine in war crimes investigations, Attorney General Garland says 08/07/2023 02:02pm • DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is cooperating with the International Criminal Court and supporting Ukrainian prosecutors carrying out war crime investigation s, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Monday as he reaffirmed his department's aid more than a year after the Russian invasion Another weekend of deadly shootings leaves DC officials calling for action 08/07/2023 05:29am • A D.C. Council member said the city could be doing more to curb crime after another deadly weekend of shootings. Ward 1 Council member Brianne Nadeau said multiple shootings on Saturday -- including incidents on U Street and Adams Morgan -- highlight ongoing public safety issues the District face Racist abuse by Mississippi officers reveals a culture of misconduct, residents say 08/06/2023 12:03am • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Monica Lee sat outside her parents' home, where a former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy pummeled her son, who died hours later in the hospital. It was a sweltering afternoon in Braxton — the same town where, in a separate episode, six white law enforcement officers tortured New York City high school student charged with hate-motivated murder in killing of gay dancer 08/05/2023 08:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Police have arrested a 17-year-old high school student on a hate-motivated murder charge in the fatal stabbing of a professional dancer during an altercation between two groups of friends at a New York City gas station last weekend. Police took the teenager into custody Friday in c Justice Department faces biggest test in its history with election conspiracy case against Trump 08/05/2023 04:23pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Justice Department was announcing the highest-profile prosecution in its history in Washington, Attorney General Merrick Garland was 100 miles away, meeting with local police in Philadelphia. He stepped outside briefly to speak about how the decision to indict Donald Tr Bowie man sentenced to 50 years for 2020 killing of woman shot in home while reading Bible 08/05/2023 11:10am • A Maryland man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the 2020 New Year’s Day killing of a woman in her home who was reading her Bible at the time. On Friday, Prince George's County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy announced that 27-year-old Sammie Warren was sentenced for the Jan. 1, 20 Florida woman sentenced for girlfriend's 2021 BW Parkway death 08/04/2023 10:43pm • A Florida woman has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for the death of her girlfriend, who police found dead on the side of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in November 2021. Janice Martina Mason, 30, of Melbourne, Florida, was convicted in May of this year for the 2021 voluntary man