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Judge strikes down Montana immigrant law 06/23/2014 03:29pm • MATT VOLZ Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A Montana judge struck down most of a 2012 voter-approved law requiring government officials to conduct immigration checks on anybody seeking services provided by the state -- from unemployment benefits to crime-victim assistance.The law, which aims t Justices uphold broad use of anti-bank fraud law 06/23/2014 11:50am • WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld the broad application of a federal anti-bank fraud law.The justices sustained the bank fraud conviction of Kevin Loughrin, who used stolen checks as part of a scheme to take merchandise and cash from a Target store in Utah. Using che Top NY prosecutor confronts criticism from India 06/23/2014 01:16am • LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- After years of silence on the issue, India-born U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has begun to open up about the cultural scorn he has faced over his high-profile prosecutions of South Asian defendants, particularly that of an Indian diplomat that led to Ugandans drum alarms to rescue abducted children 06/22/2014 01:04pm • RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press BUIKWE, Uganda (AP) -- When a child goes missing in this central Ugandan district, villagers beat drums into a pulsing rhythm that sends rescuers scampering through bushes. Others, riding motorcycles, try to block exit routes.In response to the kidnappings and ritual Hong Kong irks Beijing with democracy vote 06/22/2014 12:26pm • KELVIN CHAN Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) -- Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers lined up to vote Sunday, joining hundreds of thousands of others who cast electronic ballots in the first three days of an unofficial referendum on democratic reform that Beijing has blasted as a farce.Tensions have soa Orchestrated tales in ex-Blackwater guards' trial? 06/22/2014 07:06am • PETE YOST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense lawyers for the ex-Blackwater security guards accused of killing 14 Iraqis in Baghdad nearly seven years ago are raising the possibility that prosecution witnesses, with direction from Iraqi law enforcement investigators, have orchestrated their $40M settlement reached in Central Park rape case 06/21/2014 05:52pm • JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- With New York awash in murder and drugs, the 1989 rape and beating of a Central Park jogger by what was said to be a gang of "wilding" teens was seen as evidence of a city sliding into lawlessness. A quarter-century later, it stands instead as a $40 Spain's new king meets terror victims at 1st act 06/21/2014 08:06am • MADRID (AP) -- Spain's new king and queen have met victims of terrorism in their first official act together since being proclaimed monarchs.In his first speech as king at his proclamation in Parliament on Thursday, King Felipe VI said those who had been victims of terrorist violence, who "lost thei 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