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US wants Boeing to plead guilty to fraud over fatal crashes, lawyers say 06/30/2024 06:20pm • The U.S. Justice Department is pushing Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud in connection with two deadly plane crashes involving its 737 Max jetliners, according to several people who heard federal prosecutors detail a proposed offer Sunday. Boeing will have until the end of the coming week to The Saipan surprise: How delicate talks led to the unlikely end of Julian Assange's 12-year saga 06/29/2024 09:23pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — About a year and a half ago, a lawyer for Julian Assange presented federal prosecutors in Virginia with a longshot request: Dismiss the case against the WikiLeaks founder. It was a bold ask given that Assange had published hundreds of thousands of secret documents and was arguab In an Argentine court, Venezuelans testify to alleged crimes against humanity under President Maduro 06/29/2024 07:44am • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Frustrated by the limits of the laboriously slow International Criminal Court and determined that the security officers who allegedly killed their loved ones not enjoy absolute impunity, Venezuelans have brought their crimes-against-humanity case to a federal court 3 DC corrections officer sentenced to more than 3 years behind bars for assaulting inmate 06/29/2024 04:22am • A former D.C. corrections officer was sentenced to more than three years behind bars Friday for assaulting a handcuffed inmate by ramming the inmate's head into a metal door frame in 2019. Marcus Bias, 28, was handed down a sentence of 42 months in prison followed by 24 months of supervised relea Federal judge temporarily stops Oklahoma from enforcing new anti-immigration law 06/28/2024 09:05pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge granted a motion Friday to temporarily stop Oklahoma from enforcing its new anti-immigration law that would make it a crime to live in the state without legal immigration status. U.S. District Judge Bernard M. Jones issued a preliminary injunction requested by Supreme Court makes it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, charge Trump faces 06/28/2024 06:49pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday limited a federal obstruction law that has been used to charge hundreds of Capitol riot defendants as well as former President Donald Trump. The justices ruled 6-3 that the charge of obstructing an official proceeding, enacted in 2002 in response to th Divided Supreme Court rules in major homelessness case that outdoor sleeping bans are OK 06/28/2024 04:07pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court cleared the way for cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside in public places on Friday, overturning a ruling from a California-based appeals court that found such laws amount to cruel and unusual punishment when shelter space is lacking. The c Oklahoma chief justice recommends removing state judge over corruption allegations 06/28/2024 12:55pm • The chief judge of the Oklahoma Supreme Court is recommending the immediate suspension and eventual removal of a state judge who faces separate shooting charges in Oklahoma and Texas. The petition filed Thursday with the Oklahoma Court of the Judiciary by Chief Judge John Kane IV follows an investig Debate takeaways: Trump confident, even when wrong, Biden halting, even with facts on his side 06/28/2024 09:32am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The presidential debate was a re-run that featured two candidates with a combined age of 159, but it went especially poorly for one of them, President Joe Biden. Already fighting voter concerns about his age, Biden, 81, was halting and seemed to lose his train of thought Thursday DC barbershop owner prosecutors call a 'dangerous predator' takes plea deal in rape case 06/28/2024 09:30am • A D.C. barbershop owner accused of drugging and raping multiple teenage girls has pleaded guilty to four of the sexual assaults in a plea deal with prosecutors. “We are pleased with the plea agreement, because this will take a dangerous predator off the streets,” said Prince George’s County A father who lost 2 sons in a Boeing Max crash waits to hear if the US will prosecute the company 06/28/2024 08:15am • As they travel around Alaska on a long-planned vacation, Ike and Susan Riffel stop now and then to put up stickers directing people to “Live Riffully.” It's a way for the California couple to honor the memories of their sons, Melvin and Bennett, who died in 2019 when a Boeing 737 Max jetliner cr Today in History: June 28, Franz Ferdinand assassinated 06/28/2024 12:05am • Today in History Today is Friday, June 28, the 180th day of 2024. There are 186 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, were shot to death in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, an act that sparked Judge in Trump classified docs case grants his request for hearing on key evidence in indictment 06/27/2024 11:49pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case of former President Donald Trump granted his request Thursday for a hearing on whether prosecutors had been permitted to improperly breach attorney-client privilege when they obtained crucial evidence from one of his Funeral held in Houston for 12-year-old girl whose body was found in a creek 06/27/2024 08:54pm • HOUSTON (AP) — A 12-year-old Texas girl who was found dead in a creek not far from her home was remembered on Thursday for her love of reading and animals. Among those attending funeral services for Jocelyn Nungaray were Democratic Houston Mayor John Whitmire and Cecilia Abbott, wife of Texas Gov Man charged with threatening to kill presidential candidates found dead as jury was deciding verdict 06/27/2024 03:59pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man charged with threatening the lives of presidential candidates last year has been found dead while a jury was deciding his verdict, according to court filings Thursday. The jury began weighing the case against Tyler Anderson, 30, of Dover on Tuesday after a