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Daniel Penny pleads not guilty to revised charges in chokehold death of Jordan Neely on NYC subway 06/28/2023 05:42pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. Marine veteran who placed a homeless man in a fatal chokehold aboard a New York City subway train last month pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to revised charges. Daniel Penny, 24, pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the May 1 US commits more lawyers to address Native American disappearances and killings 06/28/2023 05:31pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced it will be funneling more resources toward addressing the alarming rate of disappearances and killings among Native Americans. As part of a new outreach program, the agency will dispatch five attorneys and five coordina Exonerated member of 'Central Park Five' takes lead in New York City Council primary 06/28/2023 02:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Yusef Salaam, who as a child was part of a group of teenagers wrongly accused, convicted and imprisoned for the rape of a woman jogging in Central Park, took a commanding lead Tuesday in a Democratic primary for a City Council seat in New York. Salaam faces two veteran politicians, Man convicted of driving into fundraiser crowd, then killing mother gets 2 life terms 06/28/2023 01:43pm • BLOOMSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man convicted of driving into a fundraiser crowd in Pennsylvania last summer, killing one and injuring 19 others, then going home and bludgeoning his mother to death has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. President Judge Gary Norton told Adrian 5 takeaways from AP's reporting on Pell Grants for prisoners getting college degrees 06/28/2023 12:01pm • The Associated Press visited a California prison for a graduation ceremony last month, as dozens of prisoners received college degrees, high school diplomas and vocational certificates earned while they served time. Thousands of prisoners throughout the United States get their college degrees behind Editorial Roundup: United States 06/28/2023 08:56am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: June 27 Washington Post on retired U.S. military officers working for foreign governments A bipartisan bill introduced by Sens. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) would close several loopholes identified by The Threats of impeachment and censure used to be rare. In this Congress, they're becoming routine 06/28/2023 08:02am • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have held it over Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for months. Attorney General Merrick Garland is facing it too. And President Joe Biden seemingly isn’t far behind. Driven by the demands of hard-right members, Republicans in the House are threat Former Laurel police chief sentenced to 8 full life terms on arson charges 06/27/2023 10:18pm • The former police chief of Laurel, Maryland, will spend the rest of his life behind bars for setting fire to several homes and a car, all of which belonged to people he believed slighted him. A judge in Howard County sentenced David Crawford, 71, of Ellicott City, to eight life terms in prison pl Woman loses bid to sue prosecutor over sexual abuser's light sentence 06/27/2023 08:13pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana woman who watched a man who coerced her into a sex act when she was 16 walk free in a plea deal has lost a legal battle to sue the prosecutor in the case. Louisiana’s Supreme Court had ruled earlier this year that the assistant district attorney in the case was im Judge, rejecting Trump arguments, signals he'll let New York criminal case stay in state court 06/27/2023 07:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The hush money case against former President Donald Trump appears headed back to a New York court after a federal judge showed little inclination Tuesday to let Trump move the history-making prosecution to federal court. Changing courts could give Trump a new avenue to try to get Hate crimes rose 20.2% in California in 2022 06/27/2023 04:55pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Reported hate crimes increased in California in 2022, including instances of violence motivated by bias, according to state data released Tuesday. Hate crimes involving racism against Black people, as well as homophobia and anti-Semitism, all rose last year, compared with 2021 d Kansas City teenager Ralph Yarl recounts being shot after he rang the wrong doorbell 06/27/2023 04:20pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — There was no way, Ralph Yarl thought, that the white man pointing the gun at him through the glass door would shoot him. But the Black teenager, who had gone to the wrong house in Kansas City looking for his younger brothers, was wrong a second time. Yarl's brothers were ac Missouri attorney general seeks reversal of former detective's conviction in Black man's death 06/27/2023 03:23pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — In an unusual legal move, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is asking a state appeals court to reverse the conviction of a white former Kansas City police detective who shot and killed a Black man three years ago. In a brief filed Monday, Bailey said the evidence pres Parliamentary inquest into 'Vatican Girl' mystery moves forward as pope acknowledges family's pain 06/27/2023 02:45pm • ROME (AP) — Italy’s Parliament is poised to open a bicameral commission of inquiry into the disappearance of the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee, the third new investigation launched in the four decades since Emanuela Orlandi vanished on the streets of Rome. The Senate’s Constitutional Misconduct by federal jail guards led to Jeffrey Epstein's suicide, Justice Department watchdog says 06/27/2023 02:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein was left alone in his jail cell with a surplus of bed linens the night he killed himself. Nearly all the surveillance cameras on his unit didn’t record. One worker was on duty for 24 hours straight. And, despite his high profile and a suicide attempt two weeks e