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Youngkin vetoes Virginia bills mandating minimum wage increase, establishing marijuana retail sales 03/28/2024 07:29pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities on Thursday: bills that would have allowed the recreational retail sales of marijuana to begin next year and measures mandating a minimum wage increase. The development, which drew crit Tennessee governor signs bill to undo Memphis traffic stop reforms after Tyre Nichols death 03/28/2024 07:08pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday signed off on the repeal of police traffic stop reforms made in Memphis after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by officers in January 2023, despite pleas from Nichols’ parents to GOP lawmakers and the governor to give them a chance to The Latest | Israel must open more land crossings for Gaza aid, UN court says 03/28/2024 05:22pm • In a legally binding order, the top United Nations court says Israel must open more land crossings into Gaza for food, water, fuel and other supplies. The International Court of Justice issued two new so-called provisional measures Thursday in a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of acts Bus driver accused of stalking boy, 8, sentenced to nine years in prison 03/28/2024 05:12pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former school bus driver who stalked and threatened an 8-year-old boy in New Hampshire was sentenced on Thursday to nine years in prison. Michael Chick, of Eliot, Maine, who pleaded guilty in federal court last month to one count of cyberstalking, also was sentenced to thre Trump attends wake of slain New York officer, calls for 'law and order,' to show contrast with Biden 03/28/2024 05:10pm • MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Donald Trump attended Thursday's wake of a New York City police officer gunned down in the line of duty and called for “law and order,” as part of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's attempt to show a contrast with President Joe Biden and focus on cri GOP-backed bill proposing harsher sentences to combat crime sent to Kentucky's governor 03/28/2024 04:24pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kentucky wrapped up work Thursday on a sweeping criminal justice bill that would deliver harsher sentences to combat crime. Opponents making a last stand before final passage warned the measure would carry a hefty price tag with no assurances that a to 34 years later, DC woman charged with killing boyfriend and interfering with the investigation 03/28/2024 03:17pm • The girlfriend of a 34-year-old D.C. man who was shot and killed in 1990 has been arrested and charged in the cold case, police announced Thursday. Sheila Brown, now 66 and living in Annapolis, Maryland, told police she was about to run errands on the afternoon of March 28, 1990, when two men kno Trump's team cites First Amendment in contesting charges in Georgia election interference case 03/28/2024 03:06pm • ATLANTA (AP) — The charges against Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case seek to criminalize political speech and advocacy conduct that the First Amendment protects, a lawyer for the former president said Thursday as he argued that the indictment should be dismissed. The hearing b Indonesia's top court hears appeals from losing presidential candidates who want a revote 03/27/2024 09:53pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s top court heard appeals lodged by two losing presidential candidates who are demanding a revote, alleging widespread irregularities and fraud at the polls in appearances before the judges Wednesday. Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto won the election with an Trump plans to attend the wake of slain New York City police officer 03/27/2024 06:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is planning to attend the wake for a New York City police officer who was fatally shot during a traffic stop this week, according to his campaign. Trump, the 2024 presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is expected to be at a visitation Thursday Texas Rep. Troy Nehls target of investigation by House ethics committee 03/27/2024 05:22pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Richmond, is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, the bipartisan panel announced. It did not specify the focus of the investigation, but Nehls said it was related to his campaign’s finances. The committee announced Tuesday it was digging in Judge dismisses murder charges ex-Houston officer had faced over 2019 drug raid 03/27/2024 04:35pm • HOUSTON (AP) — A former Houston police officer who led a 2019 deadly drug raid that prompted a probe which revealed systemic corruption problems within the police department’s narcotics unit and resulted in nearly two dozen convictions being overturned has won a legal victory after a judge dismi Woman charged with kidnapping, murder in disappearance of DC woman who went missing last year 03/27/2024 03:11pm • A woman was arrested Tuesday after being indicted on murder charges in connection with the disappearance of a D.C. woman, who was reported missing in October 2023. Chyna Crawford, 25, of Southwest, was last seen around 10 p.m. on Oct. 23 in the 4000 block of South Capitol Street. A missing person Tunisia sentences 4 to death over pivotal 2013 assassination 03/27/2024 02:01pm • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Four people were sentenced Wednesday to death and two to life in prison for a murder that sparked widespread unrest in Tunisia and became emblematic of the country's early challenges transitioning from dictatorship to democracy after the Arab Spring. Chokri Belaid, the 48-yea Ahmaud Arbery's killers ask a US appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions 03/27/2024 01:34pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Attorneys for three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in a Georgia subdivision asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to throw out their hate crime convictions, arguing that prosecutors relied on their history of racist comments without proving they targeted Arbery beca