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Chicago woman pleads guilty, gets 50 years for cutting child from victim's womb 04/16/2024 07:32pm • CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman accused of luring a pregnant teenager to her home and cutting her baby from her womb with a butcher knife nearly five years ago pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday and was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Clarisa Figueroa, 51, seated in a wheelchair and wearing a bright Georgia prosecutors renew challenge of a law they say undermines their authority 04/16/2024 07:03pm • Three district attorneys in Georgia have renewed their challenge of a commission created to discipline and remove state prosecutors, arguing it violates the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. Their lawsuits filed Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta challenge Georgia’s Prosecuting Attor Supreme Court questions obstruction charges brought against Jan. 6 rioters and Trump 04/16/2024 05:54pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether federal prosecutors went too far in bringing obstruction charges against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. But it wasn’t clear how the justices would rule in a case that also could affect the prosecution The Latest | First day of Trump's hush money trial adjourns with no jurors selected 04/15/2024 05:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The first day of Donald Trump 's historic hush money trial ended Monday after hours of pretrial motions and an initial jury selection process that saw dozens of prospective jurors excused after they said they could not be fair or impartial. The court ultimately adjourned without an In Modi's India, opponents and journalists feel the squeeze ahead of election 04/15/2024 02:23am • NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are increasingly wielding strong-arm tactics to subdue political opponents and critics of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party ahead of the nationwide elections that begin this week. A decade into power, and on the cusp of secur How to tackle crime in Indian Country? Empower tribal justice, ex-Justice Department official says 04/14/2024 07:15am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A quarter-century ago, the Justice Department had few meaningful relationships with Native American tribes. While the federal government worked with state and local police and courts, tribal justice systems did not have the same level of recognition, said Tracy Toulou, who overs Virginia man arrested for allegedly assaulting officers during Jan. 6 Capitol riot 04/14/2024 06:02am • A Virginia man has been arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Darl McDorman, 53, of Waynesboro, is accused of assaulting law enforcement officers during the attempted insurrection, according to a U.S. Attorney's Office for D.C. news release. Learn more about O.J. Simpson: The TV, movies, books and podcasts about the trial of the century 04/13/2024 11:06am • NEW YORK (AP) — The story of O.J. Simpson's life was inherently cinematic — what started as fodder for a triumphant sports biopic abruptly became something much darker and complex as Simpson slid from fame to infamy following the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. It's little w Nearing 50 Supreme Court arguments in, lawyer Lisa Blatt keeps winning 04/13/2024 09:11am • WASHINGTON (AP) — No woman has appeared more often before the Supreme Court than Lisa Blatt, who will make her 50th argument this month. No lawyer, male or female, has done it with quite the same mix of humor, passion and style. And her win-loss record isn't bad, either: 40-6, with two cases yet How a hush money scandal tied to a porn star led to Trump’s first criminal trial 04/13/2024 08:05am • NEW YORK (AP) — It was the kind of tawdry tale that Donald Trump might have relished before politics: a porn actor claiming they had had sex. But on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, Trump feared the story, which he says is false, would cost him votes. So, prosecutors say, he arranged to Jury convicts former DEA agent of obstruction but fails to reach verdict on Buffalo bribery charges 04/12/2024 07:35pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A federal jury on Friday convicted a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent of obstruction of justice and lying to federal agents. But jurors acquitted Joseph Bongiovanni of a charge that he improperly wiped his DEA cellphone and failed to reach a verdict on a dozen Noncitizen voting isn't an issue in federal elections, regardless of conspiracy theories. Here's why 04/12/2024 07:34pm • Former President Donald Trump turned to one of his favorite themes on Friday — the specter of immigrants improperly voting in federal elections. House Speaker Mike Johnson came to the former president's Florida compound to announce that he would introduce a bill to stop those who are not citizens Manhattan court must find a dozen jurors to hear first-ever criminal case against a former president 04/12/2024 07:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Of the 1.4 million adults who live in Manhattan, a dozen are soon to become the first Americans to sit in judgment of a former president charged with a crime. Jury selection is set to start Monday in former President Donald Trump's hush money case — the first trial among four cri Kentucky GOP lawmakers remove Democratic governor's role in filling US Senate vacancies 04/12/2024 07:18pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Friday removed the Democratic governor from any role filling future U.S. Senate vacancies — a move supporters said was unrelated to recent scrutiny about the health of the state's senior senator, Republican leader Mitch McConnell. The GOP Nebraska lawmakers pass a bill to restore voting rights to newly released felons 04/12/2024 05:27pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers passed a bill Thursday to restore the voting rights of those convicted of felonies upon the completion of their sentences, including prison and parole time. The bill, introduced for years by Omaha state Sen. Justin Wayne, passed by a wide margin in the last y