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EU data authority launches probe into Frontex migrant interview breaches 06/01/2023 08:17am • BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s border and coast guard agency is collecting information from migrants that could end up identifying vulnerable people seeking sanctuary from persecution in their homelands, according to a report by the EU’s data protection watchdog. The European Data Protec Decorated Australian war veteran unlawfully killed prisoners in Afghanistan, judge says 06/01/2023 07:13am • SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s most decorated living war veteran unlawfully killed prisoners and committed other war crimes in Afghanistan, a judge ruled Thursday in dismissing the claims by Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith that he was defamed by media. Federal Court Justice Anthony Besanko Former Metro official sentenced in $1.3 million contract-rigging scheme 05/31/2023 09:46pm • Metro's former senior program manager has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after nearly a decade of manipulating the agency's contract process to the tune of $1.3 million. Officials said 61-year-old Scottie Borders, of Arlington, Virginia, will pay over $430,000 in restitution and spend two GOP walkout in Oregon Senate now in 5th week; uncertain if boycotters will be sanctioned 05/31/2023 06:31pm • SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The longest-ever walkout in the Oregon Legislature completed its fourth week on Wednesday as the enforceability of a ballot measure that would disqualify the boycotters from immediate reelection appeared in doubt. By all appearances, Oregon’s 2023 legislative session has crash Oklahoma high court strikes down 2 abortion bans; procedure remains illegal in most cases 05/31/2023 06:13pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that two state laws banning abortion are unconstitutional, but the procedure remains illegal in the state in nearly all cases except life-threatening situations. In a 6-3 ruling, the high court said the two bans are unconstitutiona Texas governor appoints John Scott as interim attorney general after Paxton impeached 05/31/2023 04:41pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday picked a longtime ally who oversaw Texas' elections in 2022 to temporarily serve as attorney general following Republican Ken Paxton's historic impeachment on allegations of misconduct and crimes. John Scott, who stepped down as Texas Secretary Kidnapping charge tossed out against ex-mayor in case of missing Mexican students 05/31/2023 02:45pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — The former mayor of a southern Mexico town where 43 students were abducted and disappeared in 2014 has been cleared of a kidnapping charge in the case, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed Wednesday. José Luis Abarca, who will remain in prison for other crimes, had Former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin takes new job, won't run for office 05/31/2023 01:42pm • BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco's polarizing former top prosecutor announced Wednesday he will not run for his old job, choosing instead to serve as executive director of a new criminal law research and advocacy center at University of California, Berkeley's law school. Chesa Boudin was oust Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 05/31/2023 01:18pm • 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 Pain and terror felt by passengers before Boeing Max crashed can be considered, judge rules 05/31/2023 12:48pm • Families of passengers who died in the crash of a Boeing 737 Max in Ethiopia can seek damages for the pain and terror suffered by victims in the minutes before the plane flew nose-down into the ground, a federal judge has ruled. The ruling means that lawyers for the families will be able to call exp UN appeals court increases sentences for 2 Serbs convicted of crimes in Balkan wars 05/31/2023 09:11am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — U.N. appeals judges on Wednesday significantly expanded the convictions of two allies of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, holding them responsible for involvement in crimes across Bosnia and in one town in Croatia as members of a joint criminal plan to drive Auschwitz museum criticizes use of death camp in politics after ruling party uses it in political ad 05/31/2023 08:38am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial museum has denounced a political spot by Poland's ruling party that uses the theme of the Nazi German extermination camp to discourage participation in an upcoming anti-government march. The state-run museum attacked “instrumentalization of t Jail for Prince George's Co. officer who grabbed, struck handcuffed teenager 05/31/2023 05:49am • A Prince George's County, Maryland, police officer will spend but 45 days of his five-year sentence in jail for assaulting a teenager in custody. A judge sentenced Cpl. Darryl Wormuth Tuesday after he was convicted earlier this month of second-degree assault and misconduct while in office. In Takeaways from AP's report on legislative reforms to victim compensation programs 05/31/2023 12:57am • Across the country, violent crime victims are using their stories to push for changes to state compensation programs meant to help them with medical bills, relocation, funerals or other expenses. Vanessa Martinez, who survived a gunshot wound to the head, has turned to speaking at rallies supportin Victims of violent crime drive legislative change to state programs, pushing against barriers to aid 05/31/2023 12:51am • Vanessa Martinez was finishing preparations for her daughter’s second birthday in September 2021 when her ex-boyfriend broke into her Mesa, Arizona, condo and shot her in the head as she frantically tried to shield their three young children. Doctors had to remove a third of her skull, but Martine