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Guatemala's congress votes to deny genocide 05/14/2014 09:00pm • SONIA PEREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemala's Congress approved a non-binding resolution that denies there was any attempt to commit genocide during the bloody 36-year civil war, while calling for "national reconciliation" in the Central American country."It is legally impossibl US won't seek death penalty in carjacking, killing 05/14/2014 05:29pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Federal authorities have decided against seeking the death penalty for the upstate New York man who cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet, then raped a 10-year-old girl and killed her mother last year, U.S. Attorney Richard Hartunian said Wednesday.The Justice Department de Scorn, icy stares follow terror suspects' lawyers 05/14/2014 12:54am • NEW YORK (AP) -- People in the courthouse sometimes shun them. Friends, and even family, sometimes question their principles.For the small band of lawyers who defend the most despised terrorism suspects -- the ones accused of hatching al-Qaida plots to kill Americans around the world -- this is the Olmert joins list of convicted Israeli politicians 05/13/2014 03:01pm • JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's ex-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday for his part in a wide-ranging bribery case. While he appears set to become the first Israeli prime minister to head to prison, he is the latest in a string of politicians sentenced to time behin Israel's Olmert gets 6-year sentence in bribe case 05/13/2014 02:46pm • JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- An Israeli court sentenced former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to six years in prison for his role in a bribery scandal, capping the stunning downfall of a politician who just a few years ago hobnobbed at the White House and claimed to be close Court sides with US in cell-tracking records case 05/13/2014 08:48am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department does not have to turn over information on cases involving warrantless cellphone tracking if the cases ended without a defendant's conviction, a divided federal appeals court ruled Friday in upholding privacy protections for peopl US encouraging refugees to help human rights cases 05/13/2014 06:52am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- The Ethiopian jail guard suspected of torturing and maiming political prisoners during that country's "Red Terror" era came to the United States in 2004 under a false identity, seeking asylum and claiming he would be persecuted if he returned home. Feds seek prison for rural Washington pot growers 05/12/2014 01:56pm • NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- The green-cross storefronts of medical marijuana dispensaries are common in much of Washington, and the state is plowing ahead with licensing people to grow and sell recreational pot to adults.But a federal trial scheduled to begin in the Same-sex marriage opponents invoke Justice Kennedy 05/11/2014 05:10am • MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The pro-gay rights rulings of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy have been a key spark in the march toward legalized gay marriage. To counter the trend, same-sex marriage opponents now are seizing upon other opinions by Kennedy himself.It was Kenne Marine Corps to review raid on law offices 05/10/2014 05:10pm • JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Military criminal investigators raided Marine Corps defense counsel offices at Camp Pendleton, opening files during a 2½-hour search and potentially compromising scores of cases, the attorney who oversees Marine defense lawyers in the region said Frid UN calls for terrorists in Nigeria to face justice 05/09/2014 07:23pm • EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council called Friday for the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram to be held accountable for what may amount to crimes against humanity and hinted at sanctions against the Islamist extremists.The statement approved by all 15 Italian victims of priest sex abuse appeal to pope 05/09/2014 06:31pm • NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Italian victims of priestly sex abuse appealed directly to Pope Francis for justice Friday, calling for a commission of inquiry into the problem in the Vatican's backyard.In letters and a video posted online, 17 survivors denounced the treatment Italian victims of priest sex abuse appeal to pope 05/09/2014 06:31pm • NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Italian victims of priestly sex abuse appealed directly to Pope Francis for justice Friday, calling for a commission of inquiry into the problem in the Vatican's backyard.In letters and a video posted online, 17 survivors denounced the treatment Italian victims of priest sex abuse appeal to pope 05/09/2014 06:31pm • NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Italian victims of priestly sex abuse appealed directly to Pope Francis for justice Friday, calling for a commission of inquiry into the problem in the Vatican's backyard.In letters and a video posted online, 17 survivors denounced the treatment Italian victims of priest sex abuse appeal to pope 05/09/2014 06:31pm • NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Italian victims of priestly sex abuse appealed directly to Pope Francis for justice Friday, calling for a commission of inquiry into the problem in the Vatican's backyard.In letters and a video posted online, 17 survivors denounced the treatment