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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 Georgia appeals court says woman who argues mental illness caused crash can use insanity defense 06/27/2024 03:22pm • ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia appeals court has ruled a woman who was suffering from a psychotic break stemming from mental illness when she caused a fatal car crash can use an insanity defense at trial. Michelle Wierson was speeding through the streets in DeKalb County in her Volkswagen Tiguan in Sept Years after Idaho college students were stabbed to death, judge eyes 2025 trial for suspect 06/27/2024 02:56pm • It could be another year or more before a man accused in the 2022 stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students goes to trial. A judge and attorneys discussed Thursday starting Bryan Kohberger’s trial sometime in June 2025, nearly three years after the killings shocked the small university Editorial Roundup: United States 06/27/2024 02:30pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: June 25 The Philadelphia Inquirer on the war in Gaza and the Houthis As hopes for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza continue to dim, it’s important to underline that the United States is already engaged militarily in a broader Middle E Julian Assange is now free to do or say whatever he likes. What does his future hold? 06/27/2024 12:16pm • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — He has run for office, published hundreds of thousands of leaked government documents online, and once lobbied to save his local swimming pool. One of the most polarizing and influential figures of the information age, Julian Assange is now free after five years in a Stella Assange thanks Australian lawmakers for WikiLeaks founder's freedom 06/27/2024 12:14pm • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Stella Assange thanked the spectrum of lawmakers who campaigned for her husband, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, to be freed during her visit Thursday to Australia’s Parliament House, where political leaders differed over how welcome the convicted felon was in his h Oklahoma executes man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing 7-year-old girl in 1984 06/27/2024 12:04pm • McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing his 7-year-old former stepdaughter in 1984. Richard Rojem, 66, received a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was declared dead at 10:16 a.m., pr China expels 2 former defense ministers from its ruling Communist Party over graft allegations 06/27/2024 10:17am • BEIJING (AP) — China has expelled two former defense ministers from the ruling Communist Party over accusations of corruption that are likely to lead to sentences of life in prison. The Defense Ministry on Thursday said Li Shangfu had abused his authority to enrich himself by taking bribes in exc Texas man executed for 2001 abduction and killing of 18-year-old woman 06/26/2024 09:54pm • HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who admitted he kidnapped, sexually assaulted and fatally shot an 18-year-old woman in 2001 was executed Wednesday evening. Ramiro Gonzales, 41, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. following a chemical injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the Janu Biden pardons potentially thousands of ex-service members convicted under now-repealed gay sex ban 06/26/2024 08:22pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden pardoned potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex, saying Wednesday that he is “righting an historic wrong” to clear the way for them to regain lost benefits. Biden's acti Jury recommends death penalty for ex-prison guard trainee who murdered 5 women inside Florida bank 06/26/2024 06:12pm • A jury on Wednesday recommended a former prison guard trainee be sentenced to death for his execution-style murders of five women inside a Florida bank five years ago, a massacre that fulfilled his long-stated desire to kill. Jurors voted 9-3 to recommend Zephen Xaver receive the death penalty for Trial starts over the 2022 assassination attempt of Argentina's Cristina Fernández de Kirchner 06/26/2024 04:58pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Three suspects went on trial Wednesday before a federal court in Argentina for the assassination attempt two years ago of then-Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, one of the country's most powerful and divisive political figures in recent decades. On that 3rd lawsuit claims a Tennessee city's police botched investigation of a man accused of sex crimes 06/26/2024 03:57pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee city is facing a third lawsuit claiming its police refused to conduct proper investigations into allegations that a man was sexually assaulting multiple women for years. The newest plaintiff has said the man drugged her and pushed her out of his fifth-story apar Four officers in now-disbanded police unit charged in cover-up of 2020 beating 06/26/2024 03:19pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Four officers associated with a now-disbanded unit of the Baton Rouge Police Department have been indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on charges alleging that they covered up the beating of a suspect in custody. The charges stem from an attempted strip search in September 2 California floats an idea to fight shoplifting that may even affect who controls Congress 06/26/2024 02:30pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California initiative to once again make shoplifting a felony for repeat offenders is developing into a contest over whether the state's Democrats are tough enough on crime to hang on to their seats in Congress. A broad coalition of law enforcement and retailers aims t