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Colombia warlord could go free July 1 06/20/2014 06:50pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A paramilitary warlord recently sentenced to 40 years in prison for his role in hundreds of murders could go free as early as July 1 because he surrendered in a deal with the government.Ramon Isaza would be the first major paramilitary released from prison from a batch who s UN chief opposes airstrikes on extremists in Iraq 06/20/2014 05:11pm • EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Friday that any possible airstrikes against Sunni extremists in Iraq could be ineffective and backfire. He urged Iraq's feuding communities to unite against the terrorists who have captured a vast swath of t High court: Whistleblowers' testimony is protected 06/20/2014 03:28am • SAM HANANEL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The First Amendment protects public employees from job retaliation when they are called to testify in court about official corruption, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.The unanimous decision cheered whistleblower advocates, who said it could encourage US revamps screening of migrant kid sponsors 06/20/2014 12:11am • AMY TAXIN Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- The federal government has resumed checking the fingerprints of people other than parents who step forward to care for migrant children detained at the border amid concern by immigrant advocates that skipping the screening could put children at ri APNewsBreak: Hemp seeds seized at US-Canada border 06/19/2014 08:35pm • KRISTEN WYATT Associated Press DENVER (AP) -- Hundreds of pounds of industrial hemp seeds bound from Canada to Colorado have been seized by federal authorities in North Dakota, marking the latest bump along the road to legalization of marijuana's non-intoxicating cousin.At the center of the dispute Suspect's friend wants jurors asked about bombings 06/19/2014 05:23pm • DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) -- Lawyers for a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev want potential jurors in his trial to be carefully screened on their feelings about Tsarnaev, Muslims and the deadly attack itself.Azamat Tazhayakov is scheduled to go on tr Correction: Nazi Investigation story 06/19/2014 04:40pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- In a story June 18 about a man charged with complicity in the killing of 216,000 Jews at a Nazi death camp during World War II, The Associated Press erroneously reported when a German court issued an arrest warrant. It was issued June 17, 2013, not this past Tuesday.A corrected Long after move to US, Nazi suspect faces charges 06/19/2014 02:20pm • KATHY MATHESON Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A decade after a court ruling allowed him to live out his quiet, middle-class life in the U.S., an 89-year-old Philadelphia man faces possible extradition to Germany on charges he aided in the killing of 216,000 Jewish men, women and children at a Lawyers: Ex-Ivory Coast leader eager for trial 06/19/2014 01:53pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Lawyers for Ivory Coast's former president say their client is eager to stand trial on charges of crimes against humanity so those truly responsible for his country's crisis will be brought to justice.Last week judges at the International Criminal Court ruled that Laurent Gbag Macedonia: Parliament approves new cabinet 06/19/2014 01:22pm • SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) -- Macedonia's parliament has approved the new conservative coalition cabinet of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who vowed Thursday to boost the economy and reduce unemployment.Gruevski, who won his fourth consecutive victory in snap polls in April, told parliament his new gov What's next for Libya suspect, on ship and beyond? 06/19/2014 10:58am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military got its man, and has handed him over to the Justice Department. What's next for Ahmed Abu Khattala, the Libyan militant accused of being a mastermind of the 2012 Benghazi attacks? What's happening on the ship where he's being held? Wh Gulf nations struggle with Iraq militant blowback 06/19/2014 04:58am • AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Saudi Arabia and other petro-powerhouses of the Gulf for years encouraged a flow of private cash to Sunni rebels in Syria. Now an al-Qaida breakaway group that benefited from some of that funding has stormed across a wide swath of Iraq US aims for trial of Benghazi suspect held on ship 06/19/2014 03:18am • LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The capture of an alleged leader of the deadly 2012 attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, gave U.S. officials a rare moment of good news. Now, they are preparing to try the captured Libyan in the U.S. court system and pledging to double down on Man accused in border agent killing is extradited 06/18/2014 10:10pm • ASTRID GALVAN Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- One of the five men accused in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent whose death exposed a botched federal gun sting has been extradited to the United States.Jesus Leonel Sanchez-Meza, also known as Lionel Portillo-Meza, was arraigned in feder Iraqi faces charges after 7 years at Guantanamo 06/18/2014 06:46pm • BEN FOX Associated Press GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) -- A Guantanamo prisoner accused of being an al-Qaida commander who organized deadly attacks in Afghanistan had his first day in court Wednesday more than seven years after he was taken to this U.S. base.Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi was arraigned