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Texas, other GOP-led states sue over program to give immigrant spouses of US citizens legal status 08/23/2024 07:07pm • Sixteen Republican-led states are suing to end a federal program that could potentially give nearly half a million immigrants without legal status who are married to U.S. citizens a path to citizenship. The coalition filed suit Friday to halt the program launched by President Joe Biden in June, sayi Prominent civil rights lawyer represents slain US airman's family. A look at Ben Crump's past cases 08/23/2024 04:11pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The family of a Black U.S. Air Force airman gunned down by a sheriff's deputy in Florida is represented by a prominent civil rights lawyer dubbed “ Black America’s attorney general ” for his role in some of the most consequential cases of police brutality over the past decade 'Shopping cart killer' suspect won't use insanity defense, seeks to bar mention of Fairfax Co., DC cases 08/23/2024 04:55am • A long-awaited psychiatric evaluation showed "shopping cart killer" suspect Anthony Eugene Robinson wasn't criminally insane when he allegedly killed and disposed of the bodies of two women in Harrisonburg, Virginia, WTOP has learned. Robinson is also suspected in two deaths in Fairfax County and The Latest: Kamala Harris accepts the Democratic presidential nomination 08/23/2024 12:04am • The Democratic National Convention's fourth and final night Thursday is crescendoing with a speech from Vice President Kamala Harris. After a week of Democrats’ most prominent figures rallying the party faithful, Harris has accepted her party’s nomination for president during a speech where she Missouri Supreme Court blocks agreement that would have halted execution 08/22/2024 07:25pm • CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court blocked an agreement that would spare the life of a man on death row. Instead, Marcellus Williams must now proceed with a hearing on his innocence claim, with a little over a month to go before his scheduled execution. The ruling late Wednesday came h Husband of missing Manassas Park mother charged in connection to her disappearance 08/22/2024 04:50pm • The husband of a missing Manassas Park, Virginia, mother who was last seen more than three weeks ago, has been charged in connection to her disappearance. Naresh Bhatt, 37, was arrested Thursday morning, hours after being named as a person of interest in the disappearance of his wife, 28- Michigan girl, 14, and 17-year-old boyfriend charged as adults in plot to kill her mother 08/22/2024 03:27pm • EASTPOINTE, Mich. (AP) — A 14-year-old Detroit-area girl and her 17-year-old boyfriend have been charged as adults in a plot to kill the girl's mother. The 17-year-old is accused of of entering the family's Eastpointe home through an opened door in July and trying to strangle the mother while she US government indicts Guatemalan suspect on smuggling charges over deaths of 53 migrants in trailer 08/22/2024 03:05pm • A suspect arrested in Guatemala has been charged with helping coordinate the 2022 smuggling attempt that ended in the deaths of 53 migrants in Texas, the Justice Department announced Thursday, marking what U.S. officials called a significant expansion of their investigation into the horrific discove Ukraine ratifies the statute for joining the International Criminal Court 08/22/2024 09:17am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, taking a step toward membership that Kyiv says will increase chances of prosecuting war crimes by Russians and boost victims' chances of receiving compensation. Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, v The Latest: Walz accepts the party’s nomination for vice president at DNC Day 3 08/21/2024 11:56pm • Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and former President Bill Clinton headlined the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, the third day of the party’s choreographed rollout of a new candidate, Kamala Harris, and her pitch to voters. Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Transportation Secretary P Denmark and Sweden vow to hunt down gang leaders who hire minors to kill from abroad 08/21/2024 09:23am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Danish and Swedish justice ministers vowed Wednesday to go after organized crime leaders abroad, whom they say have been hiring teenagers in Sweden to carry out deadly shootings in Denmark. Denmark’s Peter Hummelgaard has said that gangs have hired young Swedes to India's top court creates task force on workplace safety after doctor was raped and killed 08/21/2024 08:32am • NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court on Tuesday set up a national task force of doctors who will make recommendations on safety of health care workers at their workplace, days after the rape and killing of a trainee doctor that sparked outrage and nationwide protests. The Supreme Court said the do Obamas close DNC's second night with rousing Harris endorsement and pointed warnings about Trump 08/21/2024 12:36am • CHICAGO (AP) — Warning of a difficult fight ahead, former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama on Tuesday called on the nation to embrace Kamala Harris in urgent messages to the Democratic National Convention that were at times both hopeful and ominous. “America, hope is making a comebac The Latest: Day 2 of the DNC features the Obamas and second gentleman Doug Emhoff 08/20/2024 11:36pm • Day two of the Democratic National Convention has begun. Former President Barack Obama, former first lady Michelle Obama and second gentleman Doug Emhoff spoke at the DNC, a day after the unofficial farewell for President Joe Biden, who served eight years as Obama’s vice president. Biden won’t b Trial date set for man accused of trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh 08/20/2024 05:07pm • GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A trial is scheduled to start in June 2025 for a California man charged with trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in a suburb of Washington, D.C. U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte set the trial date for Nicholas John Roske during a heari