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Watchdog: No proof treatment delays killed vets 05/16/2014 04:10am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- New complaints about long wait lists and falsified patient appointment reports have surfaced at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics across the country, the department's internal watchdog said Thursday, but he said there's no proof so far that delay China jails US businessman 20 years in mob trial 05/15/2014 10:02pm • GILLIAN WONG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese court sentenced a Chinese-American businessman to 20 years in prison on charges of heading a mob that illegally detained rivals and operated casinos, and rejected his claim that he was tortured by police.The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Cour China jails US businessman 20 years in mob trial 05/15/2014 10:02pm • GILLIAN WONG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese court sentenced a Chinese-American businessman to 20 years in prison on charges of heading a mob that illegally detained rivals and operated casinos, and rejected his claim that he was tortured by police.The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Cour Judge: Leaning toward White House privilege claim 05/15/2014 05:00pm • PETE YOST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge said Thursday she is leaning toward allowing President Barack Obama's claim of executive privilege in Operation Fast and Furious, the failed law enforcement operation at the center of a congressional investigation and subpoena fight betwe Hunger-striking Al-Jazeera reporter attends court 05/15/2014 04:32pm • LAURA DEAN Associated Press CAIRO (AP) -- Looking thin and weak, an Al-Jazeera journalist held without charges in Egypt vowed Thursday to continue his more than 100-day hunger strike despite being moved to solitary confinement.Arabic service journalist Abdullah Elshamy appeared in court after lawyer Crime Report: Carjacking Near Arlington Ridge 05/15/2014 03:30pm • A woman was reported carjacked Saturday afternoon near the Arlington Ridge and Arna Valley View neighborhoods. Police say the woman was sitting in her car, talking on the phone, when two men approached. They implied a gun, ordered the woman out of her car and drove off. The victim was shaken but uni European court: Google must yield on personal info 05/15/2014 01:20pm • TOBY STERLING Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Europe's highest court Tuesday gave people the means to scrub their reputations online, issuing a landmark ruling that experts say could force Google and other search engines to delete references to old debts, long-ago arrests and other unflattering e Pistorius to be sent for psychiatric tests 05/15/2014 02:28am • CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Oscar Pistorius will undergo psychiatric evaluation after the judge ruled at his murder trial Wednesday that his state of mind when he killed his girlfriend should be assessed by experts, possibly delaying court proceedings for two Guatemala's congress votes to deny genocide 05/14/2014 09:00pm • SONIA PEREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemala's Congress approved a non-binding resolution that denies there was any attempt to commit genocide during the bloody 36-year civil war, while calling for "national reconciliation" in the Central American country."It is legally impossibl US won't seek death penalty in carjacking, killing 05/14/2014 05:29pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Federal authorities have decided against seeking the death penalty for the upstate New York man who cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet, then raped a 10-year-old girl and killed her mother last year, U.S. Attorney Richard Hartunian said Wednesday.The Justice Department de Scorn, icy stares follow terror suspects' lawyers 05/14/2014 12:54am • NEW YORK (AP) -- People in the courthouse sometimes shun them. Friends, and even family, sometimes question their principles.For the small band of lawyers who defend the most despised terrorism suspects -- the ones accused of hatching al-Qaida plots to kill Americans around the world -- this is the Olmert joins list of convicted Israeli politicians 05/13/2014 03:01pm • JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's ex-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday for his part in a wide-ranging bribery case. While he appears set to become the first Israeli prime minister to head to prison, he is the latest in a string of politicians sentenced to time behin Israel's Olmert gets 6-year sentence in bribe case 05/13/2014 02:46pm • JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- An Israeli court sentenced former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to six years in prison for his role in a bribery scandal, capping the stunning downfall of a politician who just a few years ago hobnobbed at the White House and claimed to be close Court sides with US in cell-tracking records case 05/13/2014 08:48am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department does not have to turn over information on cases involving warrantless cellphone tracking if the cases ended without a defendant's conviction, a divided federal appeals court ruled Friday in upholding privacy protections for peopl US encouraging refugees to help human rights cases 05/13/2014 06:52am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- The Ethiopian jail guard suspected of torturing and maiming political prisoners during that country's "Red Terror" era came to the United States in 2004 under a false identity, seeking asylum and claiming he would be persecuted if he returned home.