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Sergeant accused of sexually assaulting soldiers 05/29/2014 05:54pm • ALAN SCHER ZAGIER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A Missouri-based Army drill sergeant has been accused of sexually assaulting 12 female soldiers during the past three years, including several while he was deployed in Afghanistan.Staff Sgt. Angel M. Sanchez appeared at a pretrial hearing at Fort Bulgarian ex-minister gets 4 years in jail 05/29/2014 01:22pm • SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -- A former Bulgarian interior minister has been sentenced to four years in prison for obstructing an investigation against a senior police official.The Sofia City Court on Thursday sentenced Tsvetan Tsvetanov on charges of "obstruction of justice by refusing to authorize wireta NIreland leader retreats from anti-Muslim remarks 05/29/2014 11:53am • SHAWN POGATCHNIK Associated Press DUBLIN (AP) -- Northern Ireland's Protestant leader retreated Thursday from anti-Muslim comments he made when defending a Belfast evangelist's right to denounce Islam, but government colleagues accused him of defending prejudicial attitudes at a time of rising race- Immigration delay ups the ante on Obama, GOP 05/29/2014 03:12am • ERICA WERNER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President Barack Obama announced he was looking for ways to ease deportations without going through Congress, Republicans called it a case study in overreach, arguing that it's Obama -- not Republicans -- who is undermining prospects for an immig China holds public rally to punish 55 in northwest 05/29/2014 01:04am • LOUISE WATT Associated Press BEIJING (AP) -- In a stadium filled with 7,000 people, a Chinese court announced guilty verdicts for 55 people on charges of terrorism, separatism and murder as the government tries to display its determination to combat unrest in the troubled northwest region.The public China holds public rally to punish 55 in northwest 05/29/2014 01:04am • LOUISE WATT Associated Press BEIJING (AP) -- In a stadium filled with 7,000 people, a Chinese court announced guilty verdicts for 55 people on charges of terrorism, separatism and murder as the government tries to display its determination to combat unrest in the troubled northwest region.The public Fla. court voids ex-FBI agent's murder conviction 05/28/2014 07:12pm • CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer MIAMI (AP) -- A divided appeals court on Wednesday threw out the murder conviction and lengthy prison sentence for a former FBI agent in the decades-old mob-style killing of a gambling executive, one of numerous slayings linked to jailed Boston mobster James "Wh Text of Obama's remarks at military graduation 05/28/2014 12:10pm • The Associated Press A text of President Barack Obama's remarks at the U.S. Military Academy graduation ceremony in West Point, New York, as provided by the White House:---Good morning. Thank you, General Caslen, for that introduction. To General Trainor, General Clarke, and the faculty and staff a Jailed Venezuela police chief starts hunger strike 05/27/2014 05:58pm • FABIOLA SANCHEZ Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A former police chief whose decade-long imprisonment has been taken up as a cause by Venezuela's opposition said in a letter made public Tuesday that he is going on a hunger strike to demand his release.Ivan Simonovis is serving a 30-year s White House mistakenly reveals CIA official's name 05/27/2014 04:10am • KEN DILANIAN AP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an embarrassing flub, the Obama administration accidentally revealed the name of the CIA's top official in Afghanistan in an email to thousands of journalists during the president's surprise Memorial Day weekend trip to Bagram Air Field.The o Sudan bans media from reporting on detained leader 05/26/2014 04:40pm • KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Sudan's general prosecutor on Monday barred media from reporting news related to the detention of a top opposition leader who was arrested for criticizing the government's security policy in war-torn Darfur.Yasser Mohammed's order relates to the detention of 78-year-old oppos Ethiopian guard sentenced for immigration crimes 05/23/2014 11:40pm • SADIE GURMAN Associated Press DENVER (AP) -- An Ethiopian jail guard accused of torturing and killing dozens of people during government-sponsored violence in the 1970s was sentenced Friday to 22 years in prison for immigration crimes by a federal judge who said the U.S. cannot become a refuge for h Some states opting out of federal prison rape law 05/23/2014 08:40pm • REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Several states are refusing to comply with a federal law designed to reduce sexual assaults in prison, with governors criticizing the decade-old law as counterproductive and too expensive to implement.The governors of Idaho, Texas, Indiana, Utah an California judge says serial rapist to be released 05/23/2014 06:44pm • LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A judge on Friday ordered that a serial rapist be released to live in a Los Angeles County community in spite of a host of vocal protests.Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Gilbert Brown issued a brief order saying that Christopher Evan Tennessee brings back electric chair 05/23/2014 04:36am • ERIK SCHELZIG Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee has decided how it will respond to a nationwide scarcity of lethal injection drugs for death-row inmates: with the electric chair.Republican Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill into law Thursday allowing the state to electrocute death row