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Justices could say 06/09/2014 06:54pm • SAM HANANEL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Messages posted on Facebook and Twitter or sent in emails can be tasteless, vulgar and even disturbing.But just when do they cross the line from free speech to threats that can be punished as a crime?As the Internet and social networks allow people to Israeli parliament set to vote for new president 06/09/2014 08:00am • ARON HELLER Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) -- A nasty race to succeed Shimon Peres as Israel's head of state is finally coming to an end, with five candidates facing off in parliament this week to become the country's next president.Israeli lawmakers in the 120-member Knesset are to elect a preside Ex-military chief sworn in as Egypt's president 06/09/2014 05:00am • HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's former military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, winner by a landslide in last month's presidential election, was sworn into office Sunday nearly a year after he ousted the nation's first freely elected leader.The retired field marshal called for unit Taye Diggs plays it tough, tender in new TV drama 06/07/2014 09:38pm • LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Taye Diggs can claim an actor's version of scoring a hat trick: He's worked with a trio of television's most innovative writer-producers.Diggs, who visited David E. Kelley's "Ally McBeal" as attorney Jackson Duper and played Dr. Sam Bennett on Shon Attorneys argue for, against death for ex-soldier 06/06/2014 11:40pm • JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) -- A federal prosecutor asked for the "ultimate punishment" for a former soldier convicted of his 5-year-old daughter's murder, while a defense attorney asked for mercy.Attorneys in a federal death penalty case in Hawaii summed up their argument Funeral held for 6-year-old stabbed in NY elevator 06/06/2014 07:14pm • JAKE PEARSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- About 1,000 people from all walks of life, some crying and others wearing photo-emblazoned T-shirts, gathered Friday to mourn a 6-year-old Brooklyn boy stabbed in a public housing project elevator.Mayor Bill de Blasio, his wife and the Rev. Al Sharpton Ex-DA's law license suspended in sexting scandal 06/06/2014 05:00pm • TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A former state prosecutor and victims' rights advocate who tried to spark a physical relationship with a domestic abuse victim and made sexual remarks to social workers cannot practice law for four months, the Wisconsin Supreme Court announced Fri 17 Indian police convicted of killing arrested man 06/06/2014 10:10am • NEW DELHI (AP) -- Seventeen Indian police officers were convicted Friday of kidnapping and killing a 22-year-old jobseeker in custody and could face the death penalty.The New Delhi court where they were convicted will announce their sentences on Monday, said Kanchan Prasad, a spokeswoman for India's Women behind walls: A look inside Md.'s Jessup prison for women 06/06/2014 10:00am • Editor's Note: WTOP reporter Lori Lundin spent a day at Jessup Correctional Facility for Women to get a firsthand look and to speak to some of the women inside. WASHINGTON -- Shiva Dayani's bad decision dramatically changed the course of her life. When Dayani was 17, she was a drug addict. " German Parliament extends Holocaust pensions 06/06/2014 01:10am • DAVID RISING Associated Press BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's Parliament on Thursday approved a measure extending pension payments totaling nearly a half-billion dollars for thousands of elderly Jews who were forced to work for the Nazis in ghettos.The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Wisconsin stabbing highlights juvenile crime laws 06/05/2014 02:06am • M.L. JOHNSON Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) -- When two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls were charged this week with stabbing a friend nearly to death, authorities had no choice but to send them to adult court.In more than half of the nation, kids as young as 10 are often charged as adults automatically Canada introduces new sex trade law 06/04/2014 08:30pm • ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) -- Canada's Conservative government introduced legislation Wednesday that will make it illegal to buy sex and to sell it in public areas where there might be minors. The bill's critics said it merely makes prostitutes more vulnerable.The proposed law is Prim Court to censure Montana judge over rape comments 06/04/2014 06:29pm • MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A Montana judge who said a 14-year-old rape victim appeared "older than her chronological age" faces public censure and a 31-day suspension without pay for his misconduct in the case, the Montana Supreme Court said in a Wednesday order.Justices Tattoos can be evidence of a crime _ or just cool 06/04/2014 05:20pm • DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Teardrops for murders. Spider webs for prison time. Penal code numbers for crimes committed.Criminals have long used tattoos as indelible ink on their own bodily rap sheet. And for just as long, police have used tattoos as a way to identify suspe Prom day stabbing suspect pleads not guilty 06/04/2014 04:34pm • JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN Associated Press MILFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A 17-year-old Connecticut boy charged with stabbing a classmate to death in school on their prom day pleaded not guilty to murder Wednesday as his attorney said he was investigating a possible mental health defense.Christopher Plaskon, who