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Minnesota prosecutor was reluctant to drop murder charge against trooper, but ultimately did 06/03/2024 08:01pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A progressive Minnesota prosecutor who was elected on a platform of police accountability has reluctantly dropped charges against a state trooper who fatally shot a Black man after a traffic stop. After months of heavy criticism, even from the state’s Democratic governor, Henn Ex-US soldier charged in 'international crime spree' extradited from Ukraine, officials say 06/03/2024 06:49pm • A former U.S. soldier has been extradited from Ukraine on years-old charges that he went on an alleged “international crime spree,” including the 2018 killings and robbery of a couple in Florida to fund travel plans to Venezuela to wage military-style raids against its government, federal prosec Company that bred beagles for research pleads guilty to neglect, ordered to pay record $35M fine 06/03/2024 06:05pm • A company that bred beagles for medical research agreed Monday to pay a record $35 million as part of a criminal plea admitting it neglected thousands of dogs at its breeding facility in rural Virginia. Prosecutors said the penalties amount to the largest ever levied in an animal-welfare case. The p Trump's case casts a spotlight on movement to restore voting rights to those convicted of felonies 06/03/2024 04:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican-led states have historically made it difficult for those convicted of a felony to vote or barred it altogether. Now the Republicans’ presumptive nominee for president, who lives in one of those states, is among them. Donald Trump’s conviction in the New York hush m The first woman elected to lead Mexico faces pressing gender-related issues 06/03/2024 02:24pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Claudia Sheinbaum’s name will go down in Mexican history. The governing party candidate won Mexico’s presidential election on Sunday, a turning point in a mostly conservative nation that for more than two centuries has been exclusively ruled by men. Elsewhere in Latin Americ Gov. Moore to fly flags half-staff after arrest of suspect in murder of Maryland parole agent 06/02/2024 10:17am • The man suspected of killing a Maryland parole agent in a Chevy Chase apartment Friday night is in custody, officials said Saturday. Montgomery County police said 54-year-old Emanuel Edward Sewell was found shortly after 5 p.m. while traveling on Interstate 64 near Hurricane, West Virginia. He'll From collapsed plea deal to trial: How Hunter Biden has come to face jurors on federal gun charges 06/01/2024 10:54am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's son was in federal court, prepared to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses. The culmination of a sprawling investigation, the deal between Hunter Biden and prosecutors was going to spare him a politically explosive trial in the middle of his father’s r Florida sheriff's office fires deputy who fatally shot airman at home 06/01/2024 09:56am • A Florida Panhandle sheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot an airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground, saying the deputy's life was never in danger and he should not have fired his weapon. Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden fired Deputy Eddie Duran, who fatally sh Louisiana law that could limit filming of police hampers key tool for racial justice, attorneys say 06/01/2024 09:53am • A new Louisiana law that makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet (7.6 meters) of a police officer under certain circumstances is an affront to the movement for racial justice and violates the First Amendment, civil rights attorneys say. Critics have said the law — signed this week by Republica Black leaders call out Trump's criminal justice contradictions as he rails against guilty verdict 06/01/2024 08:32am • NEW YORK (AP) — As Donald Trump lambasted the guilty verdict of his hush money trial this week, he stood inside a Manhattan courthouse that was the site of one of the most notorious examples of injustice in recent New York history. And he had a part in that. It's the same courthouse where five Bla Who is Alvin Bragg? District attorney who prosecuted Trump says he was just doing his job 06/01/2024 07:42am • NEW YORK (AP) — When Alvin Bragg took office as Manhattan district attorney in 2022, he stunned the public and his own staff by pausing an investigation into former President Donald Trump that appeared to be hurtling toward an indictment. Two top prosecutors were so upset with the decision, they q Donald Trump’s attorney was 'shocked' the former president took the verdict with 'solemnness' 06/01/2024 12:57am • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's lawyer told The Associated Press he was surprised at Trump’s stoic demeanor as he listened to the verdict that made him the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime. Todd Blanche was sitting to Trump’s left in the Manhattan courtroom as the verdict was re FACT FOCUS: Trump responds to guilty verdict with attacks and false claims 06/01/2024 12:35am • Former President Donald Trump on Friday addressed his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in what prosecutors have called a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election by paying hush money to silence the accounts of women who claimed to have extramarital sex with him. W Oregon defendants without a lawyer must be released from jail, US appeals court says 05/31/2024 09:13pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a ruling that Oregon defendants must be released from jail after seven days if they don’t have a defense attorney. In its decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called Oregon's public defense system a “Sixth Amendment nig Killing of Minneapolis police officer stuns a department that's been struggling to fill its ranks 05/31/2024 08:20pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The shooting death of a Minneapolis police officer has stunned a department that has struggled to fill its ranks since the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing turmoil. Officer Jamal Mitchell's death Thursday came days after the fourth anniversary of Floyd's killing by a city