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The body of a Mississippi man will remain in state hands as police investigate his death, judge says 04/30/2024 06:03pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The body of a Mississippi man who was found dead after vanishing under mysterious circumstances will not be released to family members until law enforcement agencies finish investigating the case, a state judge said Tuesday. At a hearing in Jackson, Mississippi, Hinds County Fugitive task forces face dangerous scenarios every day. Here's what to know about how they operate. 04/30/2024 04:27pm • WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — A fugitive task force attempting to serve a warrant Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, ended in the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement in a single incident since 2016. Four officers were killed and four more were wounded after the suspect began firing from an upstairs North Carolina bill compelling sheriffs to aid ICE advances as first major bill this year 04/30/2024 03:08pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A bill that would require North Carolina sheriffs to comply with requests by federal agents interested in picking up jail inmates believed to be in the country illegally passed a Senate committee Tuesday, making it the first major legislation to advance in this year's work ses The Georgia Supreme Court has thrown out an indictment charging an ex-police chief with misconduct 04/30/2024 02:12pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia's highest court on Tuesday threw out an indictment that charged a former police chief and a top aide with felonies for failing to investigate allegations of misconduct within their department. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that the 2021 indictment against former Glyn Editorial Roundup: United States 04/30/2024 10:27am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 26 The Wall Street Journal on a potential Trump-Biden debate Is President Biden going to debate Donald Trump as the November election nears? “I am. Somewhere. I don’t know when,” Mr. Biden said Friday in an interview with H Ahead of visit to Israel, US's Blinken presses Hamas to accept new proposal for Gaza cease-fire 04/30/2024 12:56am • CAIRO (AP) — The United States stepped up pressure Monday for a cease-fire deal in Gaza as the secretary of state said a new proposal had been put to Hamas, whose officials were in Cairo talking to Egyptian mediators. Israeli airstrikes killed 26 people in Gaza’s southernmost town of Rafah, acco The Latest | Israeli airstrikes on Rafah kill at least 22 people 04/29/2024 07:43pm • Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22 people, including six women and five children, Palestinian health officials said. One of the children killed in the strikes overnight into Monday was just 5 days old. Israel has regularly carried out airstrikes on Rafah si Two teens arrested in Greenbelt 'senior skip day' shooting that wounded 5 04/29/2024 07:02pm • Two teenage boys have been arrested in connection with a shooting at a "senior skip day" gathering at a Greenbelt, Maryland, park that left five young people injured earlier this month. The boys, aged 14 and 16, are charged as adults with attempted first-degree murder and weapons charges, Pri Ecuador files complaint against Mexico at top UN court in spat over embassy raid 04/29/2024 02:47pm • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador filed a complaint Monday at the top U.N. court over what it called Mexico’s illegal move to grant political asylum to a former Ecuadorian vice president, which led to Ecuador’s highly criticized raid on a Mexican embassy earlier this month. The Ecuadorian complain Police officer hiring in US increases in 2023 after years of decline, survey shows 04/28/2024 10:48am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police departments across the United States are reporting an increase in their ranks for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 killing of George Floyd, which led to a historic exodus of officers, a survey shows. More sworn officers were hired in 2023 than in Chants of ‘shame on you’ greet guests at White House correspondents’ dinner shadowed by war in Gaza 04/28/2024 04:37am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The war in Gaza spurred large protests outside a glitzy roast with President Joe Biden, journalists, politicians and celebrities Saturday but went all but unmentioned by participants inside, with Biden instead using the annual White House correspondents’ dinner to make both Renowned Peruvian investigative reporter battles criminalized smear campaign — and cancer 04/28/2024 01:25am • LIMA, Peru (AP) — At age 75, one of Latin America’s most storied journalists had been looking forward to weaving into books the fragmented threads of more than four decades of investigative reporting that exposed high-level abuse of power in Peru and abroad. In an illustrious career, Gustavo Gor Retrial of Harvey Weinstein unlikely to occur soon, if ever, experts say 04/27/2024 04:06pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A retrial in New York of disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein won’t be coming to a courtroom anytime soon, if ever, legal experts said on a day when one of two women considered crucial to his rape trial said she wasn't sure she would testify again. A ruling Thursday by t Harvey Weinstein due back in court, while a key witness weighs whether to testify at a retrial 04/26/2024 07:58pm • Harvey Weinstein will appear in a New York City court next week, the first step in potentially retrying the film mogul after his 2020 rape conviction was overturned. New York’s highest court on Thursday threw out Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, ordering a new trial. The Manhattan district atto #MeToo advocates vow the reckoning will continue after Weinstein's conviction is overturned 04/26/2024 05:48pm • NEW YORK (AP) — #MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there’s a legal setback, the movement is declared dead in the water. A legal success, and presto, it’s alive again. So Burke, who nearly two decades ago coined the phrase “Me too” from her work with sexual assault