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US cities hope crime strategies keep homicide numbers dropping and prevent summer surge 05/26/2023 06:08pm • CHICAGO (AP) — An expected bump in violent crime this summer has mayors and police officials around the U.S. rolling out familiar strategies of making officers more visible and engaging with community groups, in some cases leaning on civilians to enforce curfews and keep the peace. Chicago is amon Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 05/26/2023 02:08pm • 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 Belgium, Iran conduct prisoner swap in Oman, freeing aid worker and diplomat convicted in bomb plot 05/26/2023 01:56pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Belgium and Iran exchanged prisoners on Friday in a controversial move that saw an Iranian diplomat convicted of attempting to bomb exiles in France returning to Tehran bedecked in flowers while a visibly gaunt aid worker headed back to Brussels. Belgian Prime M Rwandan genocide suspect appears in court holding Bible after 22 years on the run 05/26/2023 11:07am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — One of Rwanda's most wanted suspects for the country's 1994 genocide appeared in a South African courtroom Friday, clutching a Bible and another book inscribed with “Jesus First” on the cover. Fulgence Kayishema was a police officer with the rank of inspector whe Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack 05/25/2023 06:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Oath Keepers extremist group founder Stewart Rhodes was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison for orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a bid to keep President Joe Biden out of the White House after winning the 2020 elect Murder, cruelty charges dismissed in Georgia toddler's hot car death 05/25/2023 05:11pm • ATLANTA (AP) — A father from Georgia will not face another trial over his toddler's death in a hot car, prosecutors said Thursday, after the Georgia Supreme Court last year reversed his murder and child cruelty convictions. Justin Ross Harris, 42, was found guilty in November 2016 on eight counts On 3rd anniversary of George Floyd's death, Biden stops GOP-led effort to block DC police reform law 05/25/2023 04:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday — the third anniversary of George Floyd's murder — vetoed an effort led by congressional Republicans to overturn a new District of Columbia law on improving police accountability. The law was part of a push to reform policing nationwide and One of Rwanda's most wanted genocide suspects arrested in South Africa after 22 years on run 05/25/2023 02:06pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda's genocide, a police officer suspected of orchestrating the killing of more than 2,000 people at a church nearly three decades ago, has been arrested in South Africa after 22 years on the run, a special tribunal set up by the Tennessee judge: Parents at school can try to keep shooter's writings secret 05/25/2023 01:21pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has ruled that a group of parents can have their say in a lawsuit over the writings of a shooter who killed six people at their children's school. The judge ruled Wednesday night that the Covenant School parents have a right to intervene against other gro Trump and DeSantis' rivalry intensifies as Florida governor formally enters 2024 presidential race 05/25/2023 03:14am • NEW YORK (AP) — Ron DeSantis ’ entry into the 2024 White House race against former President Donald Trump sets up a clash of the Republican Party’s two leading figures as the Florida governor attempts to topple a man who has dominated the GOP for the last seven years. Trump, who has establishe Bolivia's Catholic Church acknowledges being 'deaf' to sex abuse victims 05/24/2023 09:50pm • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Bolivia acknowledged Wednesday that the church had been deaf to the suffering of victims of sexual abuse, commenting as a pedophilia scandal involving priests is rocking the country. In a statement, the Andean nation’s Catholic bisho Illinois Catholic clergy abuse report could draw lawsuits, reforms but new charges unlikely 05/24/2023 05:56pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois' attorney general has ended a five-year investigation into sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the state, releasing a nearly 700-page report that revealed the problem was far worse than the church acknowledged in 2018 at the start of the state's review. Attorney Officers describe chaos, fear on Jan. 6 as judge weighs prison time for Oath Keepers' Rhodes 05/24/2023 04:38pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and public servants who fled the mob's attack told a judge on Wednesday that they are still haunted by what they endured, as the judge prepares to hand down sentences in a landmark Capitol riot case. U.S. District Ju Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton likely broke laws, Republican investigation finds 05/24/2023 03:48pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Republican-led investigation on Wednesday accused Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of committing multiple crimes in office — including felonies — during an extraordinary public airing of scandal and alleged lawbreaking that plunged one of the GOP's conservative stars in Judiciary confiscates passports of Lebanon's central bank chief after French arrest warrant 05/24/2023 10:49am • BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese judge questioned the country’s embattled central bank governor Wednesday and confiscated his Lebanese and French passports following an arrest warrant from France over corruption charges, judicial officials said. Riad Salameh left immediately after questioning by Judge I