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AP Investigation: In hundreds of deadly police encounters, officers broke multiple safety guidelines 05/14/2024 06:09am • In hundreds of deaths where police used force meant to stop someone without killing them, officers violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining and subduing people — not simply once or twice, but multiple times. Most violations involved pinning people facedown in ways that could restrict Star witness Michael Cohen says Trump was intimately involved in all aspects of hush money scheme 05/13/2024 09:58pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was intimately involved with all aspects of a scheme to stifle stories about sex that threatened to torpedo his 2016 campaign, his former lawyer said Monday in matter-of-fact testimony that went to the heart of the former president’s hush money trial. “Everything r Notorious people smuggler wanted in Europe arrested in northern Iraq 05/13/2024 08:50pm • BAGHDAD (AP) — One of Europe's most notorious human smugglers was arrested Monday in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, security officials said. The regional government's security agency said it had arrested Barzan Majeed, known as “the Scorpion,” in the area of Sulaymaniyah, 3 men charged in Whitey Bulger's 2018 prison killing have plea deals, prosecutors say 05/13/2024 08:16pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Three men charged in the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger have reached plea deals with prosecutors, according to court papers filed Monday. The plea deals for Fotios “Freddy” Geas, Paul J. DeCologero and Sean McKinnon were disclosed Key players: Who's who at Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial 05/13/2024 09:05am • NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen, who was once Donald Trump's personal lawyer and fixer, is expected to take the stand Monday as the prosecution's star witness in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. The trial centers on allegations the former president falsified his company’s inte In progressive Argentina, the LGBTQ+ community says President Milei has turned back the clock 05/12/2024 09:47am • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — When Luana Salva got her first formal job after years of prostitution, she was ecstatic. A quota law in Argentina that promoted the inclusion of transgender people in the work force — unprecedented in Latin America expect in neighboring Uruguay — pulled her from Silver Spring man charged with distribution of child pornography 05/11/2024 08:33pm • The FBI-MPD Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force arrested a Silver Spring, Maryland, man in D.C. on Friday who's accused of sharing child pornography on social media. In an indictment, unsealed Friday, Joseph Ruben Baer, 20, was charged with one count of distribution of child porno Experts say gun alone doesn't justify deadly force in fatal shooting of Florida airman 05/11/2024 05:02pm • On the afternoon of May 3, Roger Fortson opened the door of his Florida apartment with a gun in his hand and was immediately shot six times by a sheriff’s deputy responding to a complaint about an argument. Fortson's supporters point to the deputy's rapid decision to open fire and his mere presenc What's the history of 'outside agitators'? Here's what to know about the label and campus protests 05/11/2024 02:11pm • Historically, when students at American universities and colleges protest — from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter — there's a common refrain that “outside agitators” are to blame. College administrators and elected officials have often pointed to community members joining prot Haitians demand the resignation and arrest of the country's police chief after a new gang attack 05/11/2024 01:57pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A growing number of civilians and police officers are demanding the dismissal and arrest of Haiti’s police chief as heavily armed gangs launched a new attack in the capital of Port-au-Prince, seizing control of yet another police station early Saturday. Armed men rai Thomas says critics are pushing 'nastiness' and calls Washington a 'hideous place' 05/10/2024 08:49pm • FAIRHOPE, Ala. (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told attendees at a judicial conference Friday that he and his wife have faced “nastiness" and "lies” over the last several years and decried Washington, D.C., as a “hideous place.” Thomas spoke at a conference attended by judges Louisiana court may reopen window for lawsuits by adult victims of childhood sex abuse 05/10/2024 06:45pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s Supreme Court agreed Friday to reconsider its recent ruling that wiped out a state law giving adult victims of childhood sexual abuse a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits. The law was passed by the Louisiana Legislature in 2021 and amended in 2022. Sometim Specialty lab exec gets 10-year prison term for 11 deaths from tainted steroids in Michigan 05/10/2024 06:07pm • HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge sentenced the former executive of a specialty pharmacy to at least 10 years in prison Friday for the deaths of 11 people who were injected with tainted pain medication, part of a meningitis outbreak that affected hundreds across the U.S. in 2012. Barry Cadden' Alleged Rushdie attacker, awaiting trial in New York, could still face federal charges, lawyer says 05/10/2024 05:42pm • MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The lawyer for the New Jersey man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie is in talks with county and federal prosecutors to try to resolve existing charges of attempted murder without a trial — as well as potential terrorism-related charges that could still be coming, Judge directs Michael Cohen to keep quiet about Trump ahead of his hush money trial testimony 05/10/2024 05:39pm • NEW YORK (AP) — With Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen expected to take the witness stand Monday, the judge in the former president’s hush money case issued prosecutors a stern warning: Get Cohen to stop his taunting posts and jabs at Trump. Judge Juan M. Merchan's comments came as