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Montenegro court agrees to release founder of cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs on bail 05/12/2023 08:31am • PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A court in Montenegro agreed to release Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon from jail Friday along with another South Korean citizen who also is charged with using forged identification documents in the Balkan country. The Basic Court Podgorica accepted 400,000 euros ( $435 Philippine court acquits former justice secretary of drug charges after key witnesses said they lied 05/12/2023 02:02am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A former Philippine opposition senator and justice secretary was acquitted of drug charges Friday after key witnesses recanted and said they had lied about her involvement in narcotics trafficking. Leila de Lima, 63, remained jailed, however, as she has one outstanding c 18 years after Natalee Holloway's disappearance, Peru to extradite key suspect to US 05/11/2023 11:36pm • LIMA, Peru (AP) — The chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway is poised to face charges linked to the young woman’s vanishing for the first time after the government of Peru authorized his extradition to the United States. Neither U.S. nor Peruvian a Man indicted on 98 charges including hate crimes for 2022 shooting at Taiwanese church in California 05/11/2023 06:47pm • SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting one person and wounding five others at a Southern California church luncheon last year has been charged with dozens of federal hate crimes in connection with the attack, which investigators said was motivated by political hatred of Taiwan. Prosecutor says International Criminal Court issues 4 arrest warrants for alleged crimes in Libya 05/11/2023 06:24pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced Thursday that judges have issued four new arrest warrants stemming from his investigations of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Libya. Prosecutor Karim Khan also said he recently applied for two addi 'Money, power, sex': Idaho jury deliberates case against slain kids' mom in alleged doomsday plot 05/11/2023 04:43pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho jury is weighing the fate of a woman charged in the slayings of her two youngest children and a romantic rival in what prosecutors say was a strange doomsday-focused plot. Lori Vallow Daybell wanted the victims' money, so she used sex and power to manipulate her broth New York attorney general sues manufacturer over magazine lock used in Buffalo store massacre 05/11/2023 02:40pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's attorney general sued a gun accessory manufacturer Thursday for selling a lock that can be easily removed to attach high-capacity magazines, which are illegal in the state. The white gunman who massacred 10 Black shoppers and workers in a Buffalo supermarket last yea DC's top prosecutor says lack of testing from shuttered crime lab to blame for some dropped cases 05/11/2023 01:55pm • The top prosecutor in D.C. says the continued fallout from the District's shuttered crime lab means his office has been unable to bring charges against suspected offenders in some cases. Overall, prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's Office — the arm of the federal Justice Department tasked with Mississippi man sentenced to federal prison for manufacturing machine guns 05/11/2023 01:12pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison after illegally manufacturing machine guns, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday. Kent Edward Newhouse, 41, manufactured firearms from April to July 2022, according to the Justice Department. In April of t Terraform Labs founder pleads not guilty in Montenegro forged documents case 05/11/2023 09:03am • PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A trial opened in Montenegro on Thursday against Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon and another citizen of South Korea who are charged in the Balkan country with using forged identification documents, state-owned media reported. The two have pleaded not guilty and offered Brazil to launch national investigation into soccer match-fixing 05/10/2023 10:27pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil will launch a national investigation into soccer match-fixing and the probe could have “international repercussions,” Justice Minister Flavio Dino said Wednesday. Dino's announcement follows a request from the Brazilian country's soccer confederation amid a sprawling s 'Affront to democracy': Concern about appointing Mississippi judges where most are elected 05/10/2023 08:27pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Three residents of Mississippi's capital city testified Wednesday that their rights as citizens are undermined by a new state law that would create a court inside Jackson with judges who are appointed because the state constitution requires most judges to be elected. “It is Idaho man who dangled from Senate balcony during Capitol riot receives 15-month prison sentence 05/10/2023 07:32pm • An Idaho man who traveled to Washington in a car loaded with weapons and was photographed dangling from the Senate balcony during the Capitol riot was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison. Josiah Colt, one of the first rioters to reach the Senate floor on Jan. 6, 2021, later pleaded guilty th Myanmar military government offers cash rewards to defectors 05/10/2023 05:34am • BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government is urging people fighting against its rule to surrender their weapons, offering a cash reward if they do so along with the possibility of reduced sentences if they broke the law. The official announcement in Wednesday's edition of the Global New Light As Trump probes intensify, foes of ex-president see opening 05/08/2023 06:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — An investigation into Donald Trump's handling of classified documents has intensified in recent weeks, with prosecutors summoning a broad range of witnesses before a federal grand jury and zeroing in on questions of whether the former president or others obstructed government eff