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High school student who sat in Pence’s chair during Capitol riot is sentenced to 1 year in prison 07/26/2023 03:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A high school student who stormed the U.S. Capitol, assaulted a police officer and sat in a Senate floor chair reserved for the vice president was sentenced on Wednesday to one year in prison. Georgia resident Bruno Joseph Cua was 18 when he attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Forensic scientist Henry Lee defends work after being found liable for falsifying evidence 07/26/2023 03:06pm • Famed forensic scientist Henry Lee defended his work and reputation Wednesday after a federal judge found him liable last week in a lawsuit for fabricating evidence in a murder trial that sent two innocent men to prison for decades. Ralph “Ricky” Birch and Shawn Henning were convicted in the De British man who served 17 years in prison for rape has conviction quashed thanks to new DNA evidence 07/26/2023 01:33pm • LONDON (AP) — A British man who served 17 years for rape had his conviction quashed Wednesday by the country’s Court of Appeal after recently obtained DNA evidence linked another suspect to the crime. Andrew Malkinson, 57, was found guilty of the brutal 2003 attack on a 33-year-old woman in Grea Store owner charged with murder in Black teen's killing fights warrant over business records 07/26/2023 01:25pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A lawyer for a store owner in South Carolina facing a murder charge after police said he chased and shot a Black 14-year-old who he had falsely accused of stealing water has asked a judge to stop a search warrant for his business records. Cyrus Carmack-Belton was fatally shot Singapore hangs a man for drug trafficking. It will hang a woman on Friday — the first in 19 years 07/26/2023 07:25am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore executed a man Wednesday for drug trafficking and is set to hang a woman Friday — the first in 19 years — prompting renewed calls for a halt to capital punishment. Mohammed Aziz Hussain, 56, was hanged at Singapore's Changi Prison and has been buried, sa For Emmett Till's family, national monument proclamation cements his inclusion in the American story 07/25/2023 10:01pm • When President Joe Biden signed a proclamation Tuesday establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it marked the fulfillment of a promise Till’s relatives made after his death 68 years ago. The Black teenager from Chicago, whose abduction, torture and k Jury finds 6 people guilty of terrorist murder in 2016 Brussels extremist attacks that killed 32 07/25/2023 03:30pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — A jury on Tuesday found six people guilty of terrorist murder for extremist attacks at the Brussels airport and a busy subway station that killed 32 people in Belgium’s deadliest peacetime violence, part of a wave of attacks in Europe linked to the Islamic State group. Among thos Women in Poland protest alleged police hostility against patient who took abortion pill 07/25/2023 02:42pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds of women in Poland protested outside police stations Tuesday to oppose the allegedly ruthless way officers treated a woman who had taken an abortion pill. The protests in Krakow, Warsaw and some other cities were intended to show solidarity with the woman and to con Takeaways from AP's report on financial hurdles in state crime victim compensation programs 07/25/2023 01:35pm • Thousands of crime victims each year are confronted with the difficult financial reality of state compensation programs that are billed as safety nets to offset costs like funerals, medical care, relocation and other needs. Many programs require victims to pay for those expenses first and exhaust a Nigeria's suspended Central Bank governor appears in court more than a month after his arrest 07/25/2023 12:18pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s suspended Central Bank governor appeared in court on Tuesday in the economic hub of Lagos on charges of illegal possession of a firearm and live ammunition. Godwin Emefiele was suspended in early June by Nigeria’s new President Bola Tinubu and subsequently deta Drugs, car chase and dog bite: New York man arrested in Loudoun Co. 07/25/2023 10:23am • A Rochester, New York, man was arrested in Loudoun County, Virginia, over the weekend after a law enforcement pursuit that left four people injured, authorities said. The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to a report of two adults, who were passed out inside a vehicle at a S Safety net with holes? Programs to help crime victims can leave them fronting bills 07/25/2023 07:16am • Pamela White stared at the silver tree with twinkling lights while she cleaned out her son’s apartment, wondering how in a matter of days she went from celebrating Christmas to having to think about headstones and burial plots. Her son, Dararius Evans, was an Army reservist and veteran who had sur Retired Georgia minister charged with murder in 1975 slaying of girl, 8, in Pennsylvania 07/24/2023 05:31pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A retired minister in Georgia has been charged with murder in the slaying of an 8-year-old girl whose remains were found in southeastern Pennsylvania almost a half-century ago. David Zandstra, 83, of the Atlanta suburb of Marietta is charged with criminal homicide, first--, sec Texas is using disaster declarations to install buoys and razor wire on the US-Mexico border 07/24/2023 04:37pm • EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Wrecking ball-sized buoys on the Rio Grande. Razor wire strung across private property without permission. Bulldozers changing the very terrain of America's southern border. For more than two years, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants Police: Six slain, 27 wounded by gunfire over a violent weekend in Chicago 07/24/2023 12:26pm • CHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago has experienced another bloody and violent weekend as six people were fatally shot and 27 others were wounded by gunfire. Officers responded to two dozen separate shooting incidents from 6 p.m. Friday to 11:59 p.m. Sunday, according to major incident notification