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Brazil’s Supreme Court decriminalizes possession of marijuana for personal use 06/25/2024 10:22pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday voted to decriminalize possession of marijuana for personal use, making the nation one of Latin America’s last to do so, in a move that could reduce its massive prison population. With final votes cast on Tuesday, a majority of the justic Masked intruder pleads guilty to 2007 attack on Connecticut arts patron and fake virus threat 06/25/2024 06:33pm • The last of three masked men pleaded guilty to a failed attempt to extort $8.5 million from a wealthy Connecticut arts patron and her companion by threatening them with a deadly virus in a 2007 home invasion. The 38-year-old Romanian citizen, Stefan Alexandru Barabas, had been on the run for about 1 Trump lawyers in classified docs case ask judge to suppress evidence seized during Mar-a-Lago search 06/25/2024 04:28pm • FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump on Tuesday asked the judge presiding over his classified documents case to prevent prosecutors from using as evidence boxes of records seized during an FBI search of his Florida estate. The arguments marked the conclusion of a three-day hearing in Judge alters Trump’s gag order, letting him talk about witnesses, jury after hush money conviction 06/25/2024 04:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan judge on Tuesday modified Donald Trump's gag order, freeing the former president to comment publicly about witnesses and jurors in the hush money criminal trial that led to his felony conviction, but keeping others connected to the case off limits until he is sentenced California governor defends progressive values, says they're an 'antidote' to populism on the right 06/25/2024 03:37pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom used his State of the State address on Tuesday to boost President Joe Biden ahead of Thursday's pivotal presidential debate, comparing Donald Trump's version of the Republican Party to the rise of fascism prior to World War II and offering Democrats' ide Trial begins in Ecuador over murder of presidential candidate Villavicencio 06/25/2024 12:44pm • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s highest court put five suspects on trial Tuesday for last year’s murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, as his relatives protested outside to demand a swift and hefty sentence. Prosecutors at the National Court of Justice accuse Carlos Angulo, International court seeks arrest of Russian officials over attacks on Ukrainian power plants 06/25/2024 10:16am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court said Tuesday it issued arrest warrants for Russia’s former defense minister and its military chief of staff for attacks on Ukraine's power plants, the third time the global court has accused senior Russian leaders of war crimes. Ther Vice president holds College Park abortion rights rally with all the trappings of a campaign event 06/25/2024 09:40am • Vice President Kamala Harris (D)  stood in Ritchie Coliseum at the University of Maryland, College Park underneath a blue banner that said “Trust WOMEN” in large white text. Just underneath, in significantly smaller text, was a disclaimer: “Paid for by Biden for President.” At the Mon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty in deal with US and be freed from prison 06/24/2024 07:49pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will free him from prison and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified document Defense rests in trial of Karen Read, accused of killing her police officer boyfriend with SUV 06/24/2024 07:01pm • DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — The defense rested its case Monday in the murder trial of a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV, clearing the way for closing arguments and jury deliberations after nearly two months of testimony. Karen Read did not take the stand after t The Latest | Netanyahu says he will only accept a partial cease-fire deal that would not end the war 06/24/2024 06:21pm • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will only accept a partial cease-fire deal that would not end the 8-month-long war in Gaza, casting doubt on the viability of a U.S.-backed truce proposal. Netanyahu said he was ready to make a partial deal to bring back some of the 120 hostages Mass shootings across the US mark the first weekend of summer 06/24/2024 05:59pm • The first weekend of summer brought a tragic yet familiar pattern for American cities wracked by gun violence as mass shootings left dozens dead or wounded at a party in Alabama, an entertainment district in Ohio and a grocery store in Arkansas. It was the second straight weekend that saw an outbrea Is Trump shielded from criminal charges as an ex-president? A nation awaits word from Supreme Court 06/24/2024 01:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — In the coming days, the Supreme Court will confront a perfect storm mostly of its own making: a trio of decisions stemming directly from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Within days of each other, if not hours, the justices are expected to rule on whether Donald Trum Prince George’s Co. sued by family of man stabbed to death in correctional facility 06/24/2024 01:28pm • The family of a man stabbed to death while awaiting trial in a correctional facility is suing Prince George’s County, arguing the county was negligent and indifferent to the needs of 27-year-old Domonique Thurston in the months preceding his killing. Thurston’s father, Douglas Lloyd, says his Trump endorses Ten Commandments in schools, implores evangelical Christians to vote in November 06/22/2024 09:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump told a group of evangelicals they “cannot afford to sit on the sidelines” of the 2024 election, imploring them at one point to “go and vote, Christians, please!" Trump also endorsed displaying the Ten Commandments in schools and elsewhere while speaking to a