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Ecuadorian police broke into Mexico's embassy, sparking outrage. Why is this such a big deal? 04/07/2024 07:58am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Diplomatic relations between Mexico and Ecuador dramatically imploded after Ecuadorian police burst into Mexico's embassy in Quito and arrested Jorge Glas, Ecuador's former vice president. Glas, arrested late Friday, had been convicted on charges of bribery and corruption and r Mexico severs diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police storm its embassy to arrest politician 04/07/2024 06:08am • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Mexico's government severed diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest a former Ecuadorian vice president, an extraordinary use of force that shocked and mystified regional leaders and diplomats. Ecuadorian police late Friday broke thro Robert F. Kennedy Jr. questions prosecutions for Jan. 6 attack, says he wants to hear 'every side' 04/05/2024 09:21pm • Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a lengthy statement Friday suggested that the prosecution of rioters who violently attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, might be politically motivated, partly aligning himself with the false portrayal being pushed by former President Montenegro's top court orders another review in the case of cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon 04/05/2024 12:17pm • PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro's top court said Friday it has overturned a decision to hand over a South Korean mogul known as “the cryptocurrency king” to his native country. The move marks yet another twist in a months-long legal saga in the case of Do Kwon, the Terraform Labs found Federal report finds 68,000 guns were illegally trafficked through unlicensed dealers over 5 years 04/04/2024 09:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 68,000 illegally trafficked firearms in the U.S. came through unlicensed dealers who aren’t required to perform background checks over a five-year period, according to new data released Thursday by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives. That repres Limiting plea agreements, increasing consequences: How DC's mayor wants to handle absenteeism 04/04/2024 09:12pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has unveiled a plan to address truancy and absenteeism and put in place more serious consequences for middle schoolers caught with drugs or guns on school grounds. The proposal, called the "Utilizing Partnerships, Local Interventions for Truancy and Safety Amendment Act o Brazil's federal police arrest 2 fugitives from maximum-security prison after 50-day manhunt 04/04/2024 08:07pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police said Thursday that they arrested two fugitives who escaped a maximum-security prison in northeastern Brazil, bringing a 50-day manhunt to an end. Authorities also detained 14 people for helping the inmates since their getaway. In February, Rogério Mendon Judge rejects Trump's First Amendment challenge to indictment in Georgia election case 04/04/2024 03:54pm • ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others rejected on Thursday arguments by the former president that the indictment seeks to criminalize political speech protected by the First Amendment. The indictment issued in August by a Fulton Oklahoma executes man convicted of double slaying in 2002 04/04/2024 12:38pm • McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — A man convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago was executed Thursday morning. Michael Dewayne Smith received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:20 a.m., Oklahoma De WATCH: Fairfax Co. police 'narrowly escaped line-of-duty death' in chaotic 'street takeover,' chief says 04/03/2024 10:00pm • WATCH: Four ppl facing criminal charges in this chaotic incident over the weekend in Springfield, Virginia. Fairfax County police chief says he thinks they “narrowly escaped a line of duty death.” He says people tried to drag an officer out of her car. @WTOP pic.twitter.com/NXv8Ozmzsz — Nic 'More work to do' to combat crime in downtown Silver Spring, Montgomery Co. officials say 04/03/2024 08:00pm • Officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, held a news conference Wednesday on their efforts to cut crime in downtown Silver Spring, emphasizing that progress is being made despite challenges that include police department staffing levels. Noting that crime for the first quarter of the current yea Man sentenced to 37 years on hate crime charges in deadly shooting at Muslim-owned tire shop 04/03/2024 07:03pm • DALLAS (AP) — A man who opened fire at a Muslim-owned tire shop in Dallas in 2015, killing one person, was sentenced Wednesday to 37 years in prison on federal hate crime charges, authorities said. Anthony Paz Torres, 39, pleaded guilty in September to five federal hate crime counts for killing on Man who used megaphone to lead attack on police during Capitol riot gets more than 7 years in prison 04/03/2024 02:44pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A Washington state man who used a megaphone to orchestrate a mob’s attack on police officers guarding the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Wednesday to more than seven years in prison. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said videos captured Taylor James Johnatakis playing a leader Trump accuses Biden of causing a border 'bloodbath' as he escalates his immigration rhetoric 04/02/2024 10:34pm • GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump accused President Joe Biden of unleashing a “bloodbath” at the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday, escalating his inflammatory rhetoric as he campaigned in two Midwestern swing states likely to be critical to the outcome of the 2024 election. Trump, who has accu Jurors to begin deliberating in case against former DEA agent accused of taking bribes from Mafia 04/02/2024 07:58pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Seven weeks of testimony that featured more than 70 witnesses left no doubt that a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent accepted cash bribes to shield childhood friends and suspects with ties to organized crime from law enforcement, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesda