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Egypt's Brotherhood says vote is 'null and void' 06/04/2014 03:32pm • SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press CAIRO (AP) -- The political party of Egypt's Islamist president ousted by the military last year said Wednesday it considers the election of the former army chief as the next president "null and void" and will accept nothing short of the reinstatement of Mohammed Morsi Germany investigates alleged NSA Merkel phone tap 06/04/2014 02:05pm • DAVID RISING Associated Press BERLIN (AP) -- German prosecutors have opened an investigation into the alleged monitoring of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone by the U.S. National Security Agency, officials said Wednesday, in a move that could again complicate diplomatic relations between the two Some tattoos that could signal wearers' crimes 06/04/2014 07:36am • The Associated Press Criminal justice experts say there are many tattoos that could signify the wearers committed murders and other crimes. Here are some examples:-- TEARDROPS: Have several possible meanings, including the number of people the wearer killed or the number of stints in prison they se Attorney: Girl in stabbing deserves juvenile court 06/04/2014 01:00am • TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Wisconsin's tough laws requiring children be charged as adults in homicide cases could mean a 12-year-old girl accused of stabbing a friend won't get help she needs, her attorney said Tuesday.Waukesha County prosecutors have charged two 12-year-old gi Little public action in Chinese cyberspying case 06/03/2014 10:50pm • EILEEN SULLIVAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two weeks ago, Attorney General Eric Holder vowed to bring to a U.S. courtroom five members of the Chinese military who the U.S. accused of hacking computers for economic espionage purposes. The FBI even published "Wanted" posters with pictures of Rich man's accusers press to reopen sex abuse case 06/03/2014 06:56pm • CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer MIAMI (AP) -- Nearly a decade ago, a wealthy financial guru came under FBI investigation, suspected of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls at his Palm Beach mansion. Then, abruptly, the investigation was dropped and Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to a sing Justices reject reporter's bid to protect source 06/03/2014 06:50am • MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A reporter who has been ordered to divulge the identity of the source of classified information lost his bid Monday to get the Supreme Court to clarify whether journalists have a right to protect their confidential sources.Without comment, the justice US disrupts hacking schemes that stole millions 06/03/2014 04:10am • JOE MANDAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A band of hackers implanted viruses on hundreds of thousands of computers around the world, secretly seized customer bank information and stole more than $100 million from businesses and consumers, the Justice Department said Monday in announcing charge US soldier freed from captivity in Afghanistan 06/01/2014 04:42am • JULIE PACE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan has been freed by the Taliban in exchange for the release of five Afghan detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Obama administration officials said Saturday.Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was h India arrests 3rd suspect in gang rape of 2 teens 06/01/2014 02:36am • BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- Police arrested a third suspect Saturday in the gang rape and slaying of two teenage cousins found hanging from a tree in northern India, as a top state official said he was recommending a federal investigation into a case that has triggered Pakistan arrests 4 suspects in woman's stoning 05/30/2014 01:01pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistani police said Friday that they have arrested four more people in connection with the killing of a pregnant woman who was beaten and stoned to death by her family for marrying without their permission.The police arrested the four men late Thursday from their village in the N Pakistan: Slain woman's husband killed 1st wife 05/30/2014 12:06am • MUNIR AHMED Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- The husband of a woman stoned to death in Pakistan killed his first wife four years ago, police and relatives said Thursday, a shocking twist both showing how complicated justice can be and how dangerous life is for women in the country.A mob of Official: Texas can keep lethal drug source secret 05/29/2014 06:28pm • NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- Texas' prison system doesn't have to reveal where it gets its execution drugs, the state attorney general said Thursday, marking a reversal by the state's top prosecutor on an issue being challenged in several death penalty states.Attorney General Greg Sergeant accused of sexually assaulting soldiers 05/29/2014 05:54pm • ALAN SCHER ZAGIER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A Missouri-based Army drill sergeant has been accused of sexually assaulting 12 female soldiers during the past three years, including several while he was deployed in Afghanistan.Staff Sgt. Angel M. Sanchez appeared at a pretrial hearing at Fort Bulgarian ex-minister gets 4 years in jail 05/29/2014 01:22pm • SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -- A former Bulgarian interior minister has been sentenced to four years in prison for obstructing an investigation against a senior police official.The Sofia City Court on Thursday sentenced Tsvetan Tsvetanov on charges of "obstruction of justice by refusing to authorize wireta