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Protesters back on the streets of Belgrade as president ignores calls to stand down 06/03/2023 03:35pm • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tens of thousands of people rallied in Serbia’s capital on Saturday for a fifth time in a month, following two mass shootings that shook the nation, even as the country’s populist president rejected any responsibility for the crisis and ignored the protesters' demands t ‘Particularly disturbing’ case leads to animal cruelty charges for 3 Loudoun County residents 06/03/2023 10:50am • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Three people have been charged with animal cruelty crimes following a months-long investigation into an animal rescue organization, L Oath Keepers convicted in Jan. 6 Capitol riot get prison in latest extremist sentencings 06/03/2023 01:34am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Florida men who stormed the U.S. Capitol with other members of the far-right Oath Keepers group were sentenced Friday to three years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other charges — the latest in a historic string of sentences in the Jan. 6. 2021 attack. David Moersch Community mourns teenager's death after gas station owner charged with murder 06/02/2023 10:01pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Elected officials met a South Carolina community mourning the death of a 14-year-old boy who authorities say was fatally shot in the back by a gas station owner with calls to channel their righteous anger into collective support and political action. Over 60 people gathered F US judge condemns Mississippi city's 'crime cancer' as he removes state justice from lawsuit 06/02/2023 03:58pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice cannot be sued over a state law that requires him to appoint some judges in the capital city of Jackson, a federal judge wrote Thursday in a ruling that also condemned violence in the city. U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate did not Prince George's Co. prosecutor says it may be time to hold parents accountable for some youth crime 06/02/2023 01:44pm • The rising number of car thefts and car jackings, as well as notorious crimes — such as the attempted murder of a student on a Prince George's County, Maryland, school bus last month — are all emblematic of failing support systems no longer working for kids, according to Prince George's County S In the Amazon region where pair was killed, neglect and allegations of harsh justice 06/02/2023 10:30am • LADARIO, Brazil (AP) — One year ago on a Friday afternoon, Bruno Pereira, an expert on Indigenous peoples, and Dom Phillips, a British journalist, motored along the Itaquai river in far western Brazil, to the settlement of Ladario. The line of wooden houses here marks a boundary — between the sp Denmark wants to probe whether Bandidos motorcycle club can be dissolved 06/02/2023 09:34am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s government said Friday that it will investigate whether the Danish arm of the Bandidos motorcycle club can be dissolved, saying "the criminal groups’ brutal violence and socially subversive activities create insecurity in the neighborhoods in which they liv US lawyer named chief prosecutor at office linked to Kosovo war crimes court 06/02/2023 04:35am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — American lawyer Kimberly West has been appointed as the chief prosecutor linked to a European Union-backed court prosecuting war crimes in Kosovo, the prosecutor's office announced Friday. West replaces Jack Smith, who stood down as head of the Specialist Prosecutor's 32 Mississippi school districts still under federal desegregation orders 06/01/2023 06:51pm • LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — There are 32 school districts in Mississippi still under federal desegregation orders, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division's assistant attorney general said Thursday. Enforcing the open desegregation orders fit into a broader body of civil rights work Store owner charged with killing a teen shot at people he suspected of shoplifting before 06/01/2023 04:24pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A store owner in South Carolina charged with murder this week after shooting a teen he wrongly thought stole water has shot at suspected shoplifters two other times in the past eight years and not faced charges, authorities said. In 2018, Rick Chow confronted a shoplifter at Publishers Weekly Best-Selling Books 06/01/2023 01:49pm • HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Identity” by Nora Roberts (St. Martin's Press) 2. “Happy Place” by Emily Henry (Berkley) 3. “The Covenant of Water” by Abraham Verghese (Grove) 4. “Fourth Wing” by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) 5. “The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece” by Tom Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 06/01/2023 01:23pm • 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 Lebanese army court charges 5 men allegedly linked to Hezbollah for Irish peacekeeper's death 06/01/2023 12:05pm • BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's military tribunal on Thursday charged five men with the killing of an Irish U.N. peacekeeper in December, a senior judicial official said. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, alleged all five are linked with Lebanese militant group Hez In the Amazon region where pair was killed, neglect and allegations of harsh justice 06/01/2023 08:39am • LADARIO, Brazil (AP) — One year ago on a Friday afternoon, Bruno Pereira, an expert on Indigenous affairs, and Dom Phillips, a British journalist, motored along the Itaquai river in far western Brazil, to the settlement of Ladario. The line of wooden houses here marks a boundary — between the Ja