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Judge delays Trump’s hush money sentencing until at least September after high court immunity ruling 07/02/2024 08:32pm • In a major reprieve for former President Donald Trump, sentencing for his hush money convictions was postponed Tuesday until at least September — if ever — as the judge agreed to weigh the possible impact of a new Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. Trump had been scheduled to face s Last known survivors of Tulsa Race Massacre challenge Oklahoma high court decision 07/02/2024 05:49pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Attorneys for the last two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday to reconsider the case they dismissed last month and called on the Biden administration to help the two women seek justice. Viola Fletcher, 110, and Lessi High court passes on case of Georgia man on death row who says Black jurors were wrongly purged 07/02/2024 03:38pm • ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to consider the case of a Black man on death row in Georgia who says his trial was unfair because the prosecutor improperly excluded Black jurors. Warren King, 48, was convicted of murder and other crimes in the September 1994 shooting deat Supreme Court sidesteps several new gun cases, including challenge to state assault weapons ban 07/02/2024 03:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sidestepped a new set of Second Amendment fights Tuesday, declining to hear a challenge to an assault weapons ban in Illinois and sending other gun cases back to lower courts, including a challenge to the law used to convict Hunter Biden. The moves came after th Does the Supreme Court ruling make the president a king? Not quite, says this Virginia law professor 07/02/2024 02:48pm • The Supreme Court ruled Monday that former presidents are immune from prosecution for what's described as "official acts" while in office, but not for "unofficial acts." The justices did not distinguish whether the crimes former President Donald Trump is accused of in his upcoming criminal trials Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier denied parole for 1975 killings of 2 FBI agents serving warrants 07/02/2024 01:50pm • Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, has been denied parole. The U.S. Parole Commission said in a statement Tuesday announcing the decision that he won't be eligible for another par Supreme Court refuses to hear bite mark case 07/02/2024 01:33pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review the case of an Alabama man who has spent decades in prison for a murder conviction supported by recanted and discredited testimony about bite marks. Charles M. McCrory was convicted of murder for the 1985 killing of his wife Stolen at birth, an adoptee sues Chile over thousands of similar dictatorship-era crimes 07/01/2024 07:59pm • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean-American raised in the United States filed a criminal complaint against the Chilean government on Monday, alleging that it engaged in a systematic plan to steal thousands of babies from perceived enemies of the state in the 1970s and 1980s. The case filed by Jimmy Florida prosecutors knew Epstein raped teenage girls 2 years before cutting deal, transcript shows 07/01/2024 06:53pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida prosecutors knew the late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted teenage girls two years before they cut a plea deal that has long been criticized as too lenient and a missed opportunity to imprison him a decade earlier, according to trans What to know about the plea deal offered Boeing in connection with 2 plane crashes 07/01/2024 06:06pm • Federal prosecutors and victims' families are waiting for Boeing to decide whether to accept a plea deal that would settle a criminal fraud charge accusing the aerospace giant of misleading regulators who approved the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed. Relatives of some of the 346 pe US Supreme Court Latest: Court sends Trump’s immunity case back to lower court 07/01/2024 02:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court extended the delay in the criminal case against Donald Trump on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election, reducing the chance that Trump could be tried before the November election. In a historic ruling, the justices said Monday for the first time that f Ukraine is releasing thousands of prisoners so they can join the fight against Russia 07/01/2024 12:31pm • DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — At a rural penal colony in southeast Ukraine, several convicts stand assembled under barbed wire to hear an army recruiter offer them a shot at parole. In return, they must join the grueling fight against Russia. “You can put an end to this and start a new l Posthumous book by Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina will document war crimes since Russian invasion 07/01/2024 08:02am • NEW YORK (AP) — A posthumous book by Victoria Amelina, the Ukrainian author killed last year during a Russian missile strike, will be published in February upon the war's third anniversary. “Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary,” which draws upon Amelina's interviews with 1 South Africa's unprecedented new coalition has 7 parties in the Cabinet. Here's a breakdown 07/01/2024 07:29am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has included seven different parties in his Cabinet in an unprecedented power-sharing agreement in the continent's most industrialized country after the African National Congress lost its parliamentary majority in a milestone e R. Sampanthan, face of the Tamil minority's campaign for autonomy after Sri Lanka's civil war, dies 07/01/2024 05:22am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Rajavarothiyam Sampanthan, an ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker who became the face of the minority group's campaign for autonomy in Sri Lanka after the end of a brutal quarter-century civil war, has died. He was 91. A lawyer by profession, Sampanthan entered Parliament fo