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A UK financial trader dubbed the ringleader of an interest rate manipulation scandal loses an appeal 03/27/2024 12:54pm • LONDON (AP) — A British financial trader, who has been described as the ringleader in the manipulation of a key interest rate before and after the global financial crisis, lost his appeal Wednesday to have his conviction quashed. Tom Hayes, 44, who was a former trader at U.S. bank Citigroup and Sw UK court says Assange can't be extradited on espionage charges until US rules out death penalty 03/26/2024 08:40pm • LONDON (AP) — A British court ruled Tuesday that Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the United States on espionage charges unless U.S. authorities guarantee he won't get the death penalty, giving the WikiLeaks founder a partial victory in his long legal battle over the site's publication of c Indictment accuses Rwandan man of lying about role in his country's 1994 genocide to come to US 03/26/2024 07:03pm • BOSTON (AP) — A Rwandan man who authorities say killed people with a machete and raped women in the country’s 1994 genocide before immigrating to the U.S. was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Boston. Eric Nshimiye, of Ohio, is accused of repeatedly lying about his involvement in the g Lego head mugshots add to California's debate on policing and privacy 03/26/2024 05:33pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California police department has been handcuffed by Lego after the toy company asked the agency to stop adding Lego heads to cover the faces of suspects in images it shares on social media. The Murrieta Police Department has been using Lego heads and emojis to cover p Louisiana Legislature opened window for sex abuse survivors to sue, but state's high court shut it 03/26/2024 05:07pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Advocates for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse say they will ask Louisiana's Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that wiped out 2021 legislation giving them a renewed opportunity to file civil damage lawsuits over their molestation. The ruling bucked a trend. Advocates US and Cyprus will sign a deal to fight money laundering and evasion of Russian sanctions 03/26/2024 09:04am • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The United States and Cyprus said Tuesday they’re formalizing their collaboration in fighting money laundering, sanctions evasion and other financial crimes with an agreement offering Cypriot law enforcement authorities U.S. expertise. The FBI and Cypriot police will sign Ohio man gets 2.5 years in prison for death threats made in 2022 to Arizona’s top election official 03/25/2024 07:31pm • An Ohio man who acknowledged making death threats in voicemails left for then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs during the 2022 election season was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years in prison. Joshua Russell of Bucyrus, Ohio, had pleaded guilty in late August to a federal charge of making an inte Editorial Roundup: United States 03/25/2024 05:01pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 23 The Washington Post on SCOTUS and abortion The Supreme Court declared nearly two years ago, when it overruled Roe v. Wade, that the rules on abortion were now up to the states — but as the justices hear a critical case this Brazilian police arrest suspected masterminds behind the killing of councilwoman-turned-icon 03/24/2024 05:51pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police arrested two men Sunday for allegedly ordering the killing of a popular Rio de Janeiro councilwoman in 2018, a long-awaited step after years of society clamoring for justice. The assassination of Marielle Franco, a 38-year-old city councilwoman, in a On the anniversary of the 1976 military coup, Argentines push back against leaders revising history 03/24/2024 04:57pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — As Argentina on Sunday marked the most traumatic date in its modern history — the 1976 military coup that ushered in a brutal dictatorship — President Javier Milei posted a startling video that demanded justice. Not for those who suffered repression under the jun Maryland 'Jane Doe' homicide victim from 1998 identified as DC woman 03/23/2024 03:29pm • The body of a homicide victim found in a Charles County, Maryland, field in 1998 has now been identified as a woman from Southeast D.C., according to a news release. LaQuanda Denise "Niecey" Williams of Southeast D.C. was 31 years old when her decomposing body was discovered in an overgrown Bel A FBI tells passengers on the Alaska Airlines flight that lost a panel they might be crime victims 03/22/2024 07:29pm • The FBI has told passengers on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max that lost a door-plug panel in midflight that they might be victims of a crime. “I’m contacting you because we have identified you as a possible victim of a crime,” a victim specialist from the federal agency's Seattle office wr The Latest | Blinken urges Israel not to invade Rafah. Netanyahu says he'll 'do it alone' 03/22/2024 07:07pm • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sternly rejected the visiting U.S. secretary of state's plea not to launch a ground invasion into Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah, saying Friday “we will do it alone” if necessary. The looming Rafah invasion has cast a shadow over ongoing efforts to fo West Virginia governor signs law removing marital assault exemption 03/22/2024 05:46pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Certain sexual assaults against a spouse will now be criminalized in West Virginia for the first time under a law signed Friday by Republican Gov. Jim Justice. The law removes marriage as a defense to first- and third-degree sexual assault. Until 1976, a married person co Cheating on your spouse is a crime in New York. The 1907 law may finally be repealed 03/22/2024 07:40am • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — For more than a century, it has been a crime to cheat on your spouse in New York. But adultery may soon be legal in the Empire State thanks to a bill working its way through the New York Legislature, which would finally repeal the seldom-used law that is punishable by up to thr