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Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 06/27/2023 01:36pm • Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Victims confront Colorado Springs gay nightclub killer, calling shooter a monster and a coward 06/27/2023 11:20am • COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — One-by-one, nearly two dozen victims stood in a courtroom to confront the person who pleaded guilty to murdering five people and injuring 17 others in an attack last year on a nightclub that served as a sanctuary for the LGBTQ+ community in Colorado Springs. Some cri A Wagner ex-convict returned from war and a Russian village lived in fear. Then he killed again 06/27/2023 10:49am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When Ivan Rossomakhin returned home from the war in Ukraine three months ago, his neighbors in the village east of Moscow were terrified. Three years ago, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to a long prison term but was freed after volunteering to fight with the Wagne International Criminal Court authorizes reopening probe into Venezuela security forces 06/27/2023 10:44am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International prosecutors should resume investigating alleged crimes against humanity in Venezuela by security forces under President Nicolás Maduro because the country’s own probe has fallen short, the International Criminal Court ruled Tuesday. The court had susp Conditions for Guantanamo detainees are cruel, inhuman and degrading, UN investigator says 06/27/2023 07:55am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The first U.N. independent investigator to visit the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay said Monday the 30 men held there are subject “to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law.” The investigator, Irish law professor Fionnuala Ní Aol Guatemala voters send 2 presidential candidates on opposite sides of political spectrum to a runoff 06/26/2023 10:17pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala voters sent two presidential candidates from opposite sides of the political spectrum to an Aug. 20 runoff, giving hope to many disenchanted citizens that change might be possible, according to preliminary results Monday. With 98% of the votes counted from Sunday's Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ club mass killer gets life in prison, victim says 'devil awaits' defendant 06/26/2023 07:12pm • COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The person who killed five people at a Colorado Springs nightclub in 2022 was sentenced to life in prison on Monday, after victims called the shooter a “monster” and “coward” who hunted down revelers in a calculated attack on a sanctuary for the LGBTQ+ commun Hollywood mogul acknowledges gifts to Netanyahu may have been 'excessive' in 2nd day of testimony 06/26/2023 07:36am • JERUSALEM (AP) — A billionaire Hollywood mogul took the stand for a second day on Monday in Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial, acknowledging that the long list of champagne, cigars and jewelry he systematically gave to the Israeli prime minister may have been excessive. Arnon Milchan, whose pr Netherlands and Belgium join international probe into crimes against Yazidis in Syria and Iraq 06/26/2023 07:24am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands and Belgium have joined an international investigation into atrocities committed against the Yazidi minority in Syria and Iraq, the European Union's judicial cooperation agency said Monday. The Joint Investigation Team was established by France and Swe Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan testifies at Netanyahu corruption trial over 'supply line' of gifts 06/25/2023 04:48pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli producer of Hollywood blockbuster films took the stand in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial Sunday, describing how he routinely delivered tens of thousands of dollars of Champagne, cigars and other gifts requested by the Israeli leader. Arnon Milcha Argentine dictatorship’s ‘death flight’ plane returned home for a historical reckoning 06/24/2023 07:40pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Flying from Florida to Buenos Aires usually takes about 10 hours, but the turboprop landing in Argentina on Saturday was no normal plane. It had been en route for 20 days, and many Argentines eagerly refreshed flight tracking software to keep tabs on its progress. Th Nearly 13 years later, DC man found guilty of killing missing woman that's never been found 06/24/2023 06:41am • A D.C. man was convicted Friday in connection to the 2010 murder of Unique Harris, a 24-year-old mother that disappeared from her home and was never found, according to the Department of Justice. Isaac Moye, 46, was arrested in December 2020 for Harris' killing after police had interviewed him mu Man who fired shots at Tysons mall sentenced to 3 years in prison 06/23/2023 10:31pm • The D.C. man who opened fire inside Tysons Corner Center Mall last summer, sparking fear among shoppers, has been sentenced to three years in prison. Noah Settles, 23, faced up to 33 years in prison after he entered an Alford plea on four felony counts in February. He was sentenced by a Fairfax DC man given 16 year prison sentence for fentanyl sale that caused overdose 06/23/2023 08:22pm • A D.C. man was sentenced to 16 years in prison for distributing fentanyl out of his Ivy City residence and selling the drug to a Virginia man who later overdosed, according to the Department of Justice. The U.S. Attorney's Office said Andrew Cooper, 47, admitted to selling fentanyl five times to Police in California aren't immune from certain misconduct lawsuits, high court rules 06/23/2023 07:23pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Police in California are not immune from civil lawsuits for misconduct that happens while they investigate crimes, the state Supreme Court ruled this week, overruling a precedent made by lower courts that had helped protect law enforcement from litigation for decades. The