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Liberia passes a law setting up a long-awaited war crimes court 05/02/2024 04:13pm • MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — President Joseph Boakai on Thursday signed an executive order to create a long-awaited war crimes court to deliver justice to the victims of Liberia's two civil wars, characterized by widespread mass killings, torture and sexual violence. Human rights groups have describe North Carolina bill ordering sheriffs to help immigration agents closer to law with Senate vote 05/02/2024 12:59pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Sheriffs would be required to temporarily hold inmates in jail that federal immigration agents believe are in the country illegally under a bill passed by the North Carolina Senate on Thursday. But unlike two previous versions of the bill successfully shot down by Democratic G Trump calls judge 'crooked' after facing a warning of jail time if he violates a trial gag order 05/01/2024 07:51pm • FREELAND, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump returned briefly to the campaign trail Wednesday and called the judge presiding over his hush money trial “crooked” a day after he was held in contempt of court and threatened with jail time for violating a gag order. Trump's remarks at events in the battleg A retired teacher saw inspiration in Columbia's protests. Eric Adams called her an outside agitator 05/01/2024 07:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Before police officers poured into Columbia University on Tuesday night, arresting more than 100 people as they cleared an occupied school building and tent encampment, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he received a piece of intelligence that shifted his thinking about the campu Trump's comparison of student protests to Jan. 6 is part of effort to downplay Capitol attack 05/01/2024 04:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump this week lamented the possibility that Columbia University's pro-Palestinian protesters could be treated more leniently than the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, marking the second time the former president has invoked the ongoing campus protests The Latest | In Israel, Blinken pushes Hamas to agree on Gaza cease-fire deal 05/01/2024 04:08pm • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel on Wednesday to press for a cease-fire deal in the Israel-Hamas war, saying “ the time is now ” and warning that Hamas would bear the blame for any failure to reach an agreement to halt the war in Gaza. On his seventh visit since the latest wa Expanding clergy sexual abuse probe targets New Orleans Catholic church leaders 05/01/2024 02:23pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities have expanded an investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans to include senior church officials suspected of shielding predatory priests for decades and failing to report their crimes to law enforcement. Louisiana State Police ca Maryland approves more than $3M for a man wrongly imprisoned for murder for three decades 05/01/2024 01:25pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland officials on Wednesday approved more than $3 million in compensation for a Baltimore man who spent 31 years in prison on a wrongful murder conviction. Gov. Wes Moore apologized to Gary Washington during a Board of Public Works meeting where the compensation was ap Court case over fatal car crash raises issues of mental health and criminal liability 05/01/2024 12:16pm • ATLANTA (AP) — No one disputes that Michelle Wierson crashed her SUV into a car stopped at a traffic light, causing the death of a young boy. But while prosecutors say she needs to be held accountable for her actions, her lawyers say her mental state at the time absolves her of criminal liability Saudi Arabia confirms a fitness influencer received an 11-year sentence over 'terrorist offenses' 05/01/2024 05:48am • JERUSALEM (AP) — Saudi Arabia confirmed in a letter to the United Nations that a female fitness instruction who was popular online received an 11-year prison sentence but did not specify any of her alleged “terrorism offenses.” Though the kingdom insisted the case had nothing to do with the in The top UN court rejects Nicaragua's request for Germany to halt aid to Israel 04/30/2024 11:01pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top U.N. court rejected on Tuesday a request by Nicaragua to order Germany to halt military and other aid to Israel and renew funding to the U.N. aid agency in Gaza. The International Court of Justice said that legal conditions for making such an order weren't met Court in the Central African Republic seeks arrest of ex-President Bozizé for human rights abuses 04/30/2024 09:21pm • BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — An internationally backed court in the Central African Republic issued an international arrest warrant Tuesday for the country’s exiled former President François Bozizé for human rights abuses from 2009 to 2013, a spokesperson said. The Special Criminal The Latest | Blinken says Israel will open a major aid crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza 04/30/2024 08:49pm • Israel plans on opening a major humanitarian aid crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza, said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday. Israel's war against Hamas has flattened huge swaths of Gaza's north, and famine is imminent for the hundreds of thousands of civilians who remain. Blinken Binance founder Changpeng Zhao sentenced to 4 months for allowing money laundering 04/30/2024 08:24pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Changpeng Zhao, founder of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, was sentenced Tuesday to four months in prison for looking the other way as criminals used the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism. U.S. District Judge Richard A. How Republican-led states far from the US-Mexico border are rushing to pass tough immigration laws 04/30/2024 07:55pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican-led states are rushing to give broader powers to local police and impose criminal penalties for those living in the U.S. illegally as the issue of immigration enforcement remains central to the 2024 elections. Oklahoma's Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill on