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Australian police arrest 7 alleged teen extremists linked to stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church
04/24/2024 07:07am • SYDNEY (AP) — Australian police arrested seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology in raids across Sydney on Wednesday, as a judge extended a ban on social media platform X sharing video of a knife attack on a bishop that started the criminal investigation. The seven, aged
Garl
and
speaks with victims' families as new exhibit highlights the faces of gun violence
04/23/2024 08:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Children fatally shot in their classrooms. Law enforcement gunned down while doing their jobs. Victims of domestic violence.
And
people killed on American streets. Photos of their faces line the wall as part of a new exhibit inside the federal agency in Washington that's respons
Judge strikes down North Carolina law on prosecuting ex-felons who voted before 2024
04/23/2024 03:58pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has halted the enforcement of a North Carolina law that made it a serious
crime
for someone to vote while still on probation or parole for a felony conviction when they had simply violated the voting law by mistake. The ruling was celebrated by groups represent
US government agrees to $138.7M settlement over FBI's botching of Larry Nassar assault allegations
04/23/2024 03:17pm • DETROIT (AP) — The U.S.
Justice
Department announced a $138.7 million settlement Tuesday with more than 100 people who accused the FBI of grossly mish
and
ling allegations of sexual assault against Larry Nassar in 2015
and
2016, a critical time gap that allowed the sports doctor to continue to prey
Maryl
and
man charged in rowdy Fairfax County 'street takeover'
04/23/2024 02:12pm • A Maryl
and
man has been charged in connection with a chaotic "street takeover" incident last month, involving a large outdoor gathering of people partying
and
driving recklessly, who police say eventually surrounded the car of a responding officer in Fairfax County, Virginia. Br
and
on Extecoc Sant
Man who attacked police after storming US Capitol with Confederate flag gets over 2 years in prison
04/23/2024 08:15am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A Kentucky man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while carrying a Confederate battle flag was sentenced on Monday to more than two years in prison for pepper spraying two police officers in the face, partially blinding them for hours during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. Isreal Easterday
Mississippi lawmakers move toward restoring voting rights to 32 felons as broader suffrage bill dies
04/23/2024 12:30am • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators advanced bills Monday to give voting rights back to 32 people convicted of felonies, weeks after a Senate leader killed a broader bill that would have restored suffrage to many more people with criminal records. The move is necessary due to Mississippi
Trial opens for former Virginia hospital medical director accused of sexual abuse of ex-patients
04/22/2024 09:12pm • NEW KENT, Va. (AP) — The former longtime medical director of a Virginia hospital that serves vulnerable children used physical examinations as a “ruse” to sexually abuse two teenage patients, a prosecutor said Monday, while the physician's attorney “adamantly” denied any inappropriate cond
Venezuela's president meets with accuser in ongoing criminal probe into human rights abuse
04/22/2024 07:40pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro met with the head of the International Criminal Court as he faces an ongoing investigation by the tribunal into
crime
s against humanity for his crackdown on anti-government protests. ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan's fourth visit to Ve
Trump tried to 'corrupt' the 2016 election, prosecutor alleges as hush money trial gets underway
04/22/2024 06:52pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the start of the former president's historic hush money trial. "This was a planned, coordinated,
Editorial Roundup: United States
04/22/2024 03:11pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States
and
abroad: April 18 The Los Angeles Times on Mike Johnson's Ukraine aid bill Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has been maddeningly slow in pushing the House to approve badly needed aid for Ukraine as it resists Russian aggression. But this week he sa
The Latest | Lawyers in Trump hush money case paint competing portraits of him in opening statements
04/22/2024 03:04pm • NEW YORK (AP) — In opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial, prosecutors said Monday that the former president “orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt” the 2016 presidential election. Defense attorneys countered, calling Trump “innocent”
and
saying the Manhattan di
British climate protester won't be charged for sign telling jurors to vote their conscience
04/22/2024 02:30pm • LONDON (AP) — A climate protester who could have faced up to two years in prison for holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants cannot be charged with contempt of court, a London judge ruled Monday. Trudi Warner had been arrested last March
and
accused
Iowa lawmakers address immigration, religious freedom
and
taxes in 2024 session
04/22/2024 02:26pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — After a marathon day that stretched into Saturday's early hours, Iowa lawmakers wrapped up a four-month legislative session that focused on reforming the way special education is managed
and
speeding up tax cuts. The Republican-led General Assembly also waded into issues li
Supreme Court will take up the legal fight over ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers
04/22/2024 10:31am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns that had been struck down by lower courts. The
justice
s by a 5-4 vote had previously intervened to keep the regulation in effect during the legal fight
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