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More than 3,300 US inmates have sought clemency 07/31/2014 07:40pm • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 3,300 federal inmates have applied to have their prison sentences cut short in the months since the Justice Department rolled out a new clemency initiative, according to data provided to The Associated Press.That figure represents nearly five NYC mayor seeks to ease tension after arrest death 07/31/2014 07:30pm • JAKE PEARSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- In a scene not witnessed at City Hall for decades, the mayor sat between his police commissioner and one of the police department's most outspoken critics on Thursday, trying to ease tensions with minority communities after the in-custody death of a bla Portland settles suit by officer who honored Nazis 07/31/2014 04:12pm • NIGEL DUARA Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Once-forgotten plaques placed by a Portland police officer in a city park to honor five Nazi-era German soldiers have come back to haunt the city.The officer, Capt. Mark Kruger, threatened to sue the city last year over texts sent by a top police o Witness of Syrian atrocities testifies in Congress 07/31/2014 04:08pm • BRADLEY KLAPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Graphic images of emaciated and bloodied corpses in the Syrian civil war were presented to uncharacteristically silent members of Congress Thursday as a former military photographer testified about the signs of savagery he witnessed.Codenamed "Caes State Dept: 'No American is proud' of CIA tactics 07/31/2014 03:45pm • KEN DILANIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department has endorsed the broad conclusions of a harshly critical Senate report on the CIA's interrogation and detention practices after the 9/11 attacks, a report that accuses the agency of brutally treating terror suspects and misleading New Zealand moves to make match fixing a crime 07/30/2014 11:20pm • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand lawmakers have unanimously supported legislation which would make match fixing a criminal offense in time for next year's Cricket World Cup.A bill providing penalties of up to seven years in prison for those who try to influence the outcome of a sports eve Khmer Rouge tribunal clears way for genocide trial 07/30/2014 09:45am • ABBY SEIFF Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- A United Nations-assisted tribunal on Wednesday cleared the way to begin the genocide trial of two elderly former top leaders of Cambodia's 1970s Khmer Rouge regime.Survivors of the communist regime's reign of terror, along with students and B Man wrongly imprisoned seeks millions from state 07/30/2014 04:36am • STEPHEN SINGER Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A man cleared of murder and rape charges after being locked up for two decades made an emotional appeal for millions of dollars in compensation on Tuesday, telling the state claims commissioner about the fear he endured in prison.Kenneth Irelan Khmer Rouge tribunal readies way for genocide case 07/30/2014 12:40am • ABBY SEIFF Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- A U.N.-backed tribunal on Wednesday began a hearing to prepare for the genocide trial of the two senior surviving leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, under whose rule an estimated 1.7 million people died in the late 1970s from starvation, exhau Khmer Rouge tribunal to tackle genocide charges 07/29/2014 07:36am • ABBY SEIFF Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- The slow course of justice for the leaders of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime will inch forward again Wednesday, as a U.N.-backed tribunal holds an initial hearing against a pair of defendants in their 80s facing genocide and other cha Man seeks video of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing 07/28/2014 03:38am • TIM TALLEY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- One man's quest to explain his brother's mysterious jail cell death 19 years ago has rekindled long-dormant questions about whether others were involved in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.What some consider a far-flung conspiracy theory will be at the Aruba releases Venezuelan diplomat sought by US 07/28/2014 02:26am • JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Aruba's government released a former Venezuelan general who was detained on U.S. drug charges when he arrived to serve as his country's consul on the Dutch Caribbean island, sending him home Sunday night and defusing a diplomatic fight with its neig Judge says Texas man innocent in rape 07/26/2014 09:08am • DALLAS (AP) -- A Dallas man who prosecutors say did not commit a 1990 rape for which he served 12 years in prison should be exonerated based on recent DNA testing he did not request, a judge recommended Friday.Dallas County Criminal District Court Judge Gracie Lewis found 57-year-old Michael Phillip War crimes commission takes aim at Islamic State 07/25/2014 09:10pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The head of the independent U.N. commission on Syrian war crimes said Friday that commanders of the Islamic State extremist group are "good candidates" to be put on a confidential list of alleged perpetrators.Brazilian diplomat and scholar Paulo Sergio Pinheiro said the al-Qai Gaza officials accuse Israel of war crimes at ICC 07/25/2014 02:10pm • THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) -- Top Palestinian officials have accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza, filing a complaint Friday to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.Palestinian Justice Minister Saleem Al-Saqqa and Ismail Jabr, the Gaza court public prosecutor, started legal