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Biden backed off a pledge to abolish the federal death penalty. That's left an opening for Trump 02/27/2024 10:17am • WASHINGTON (AP) — As he prepared to take office three years ago, Joe Biden's incoming administration considered a host of possible options to fulfill a campaign pledge to end the federal death penalty. One idea was an executive order, according to people familiar with the matter. But the White Hou A former member of Germany's Red Army Faction has been arrested after decades in hiding 02/27/2024 10:00am • BERLIN (AP) — A former member of the disbanded left-wing militant Red Army Faction group who is accused of participating in a string of robberies has been arrested after more than 30 years on the run, German authorities said Tuesday. Daniela Klette, 65, was arrested at an apartment in Berlin on Mo Deleted texts helped convince jurors man killed trans woman because of gender ID, foreperson says 02/26/2024 05:28pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — When jurors first began weighing the fate of a man charged with murdering the transgender woman he’d been seeing secretly, they had little problem concluding that he fired the gun, the jury foreperson said. The most difficult task was determining that he was driven by hate, Editorial Roundup: United States 02/26/2024 04:55pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Feb. 22 The Washington Post on the Biden impeachment inquiry Until this month, House Republicans referred to information provided by a “highly credible” FBI informant as the core of their case to impeach President Biden. This week, Survivors and families of 94 migrants who died in a shipwreck off Italy call for justice a year on 02/26/2024 09:20am • CROTONE, Italy (AP) — Survivors and family members of victims of a tragic shipwreck a year ago that killed 94 migrants, including 35 minors, just a few meters off Italy’s southern coast, returned for three days of commemorations ending Monday, calling for justice to be done. A torchlight vigil Maryland considers more juvenile justice bills, and they may be included in bigger legislative package 02/25/2024 09:16am • As Maryland’s top Democratic leaders continue to assess legislation to tweak the state’s juvenile justice system, all or portions of other juvenile-related bills could be incorporated in the bigger legislative package backed by the governor and key committee chairs. Sen. Cory V. McCray (D Trump calls himself a 'proud political dissident' in CPAC speech 02/24/2024 07:36pm • OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump cast November's presidential election as “judgment day” and declared himself a “proud political dissident” during a speech before conservative activists outside of Washington Saturday as he again cloaked his campaign in religious imagery. Killing of nursing student out for a run underscores fears of solo female athletes 02/24/2024 05:12pm • Carol Capps runs regularly in the forested area of the University of Georgia campus, where the body of a 22-year-old nursing student was found earlier this week after she was reported missing from a morning run. Capps, 24, said the trails around Lake Herrick always seemed safe, a place where she cou Illinois judge who reversed rape conviction removed from bench after panel finds he circumvented law 02/24/2024 02:00pm • CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois judge who sparked outrage by reversing a man’s rape conviction involving a 16-year-old girl has been removed from the bench after a judicial oversight body found he circumvented the law and engaged in misconduct. The Illinois Courts Commission removed Adams County Judg Man guilty in Black transgender woman's killing in 1st federal hate crime trial over gender identity 02/24/2024 12:49pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man was found guilty Friday of killing a Black transgender woman after the exposure of their secret sexual relationship in the nation’s first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity. After deliberating for roughly four hours, jurors convict Alabama IVF ruling puts spotlight on state plans for tax breaks and child support for fetuses 02/24/2024 11:08am • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are legally protected children is highlighting how support for the idea that a fetus should have the same rights as a person underpins far less dramatic laws and proposals from abortion foes across the U.S. Lawmakers i DC police sergeant pleads guilty to federal civil rights violation in fatal shooting of man sleeping in car 02/23/2024 08:19pm • A D.C. police sergeant pleaded guilty Friday to violating the civil rights of a man found sleeping in his car in Northeast in 2021, according to the Department of Justice. Enis Jevric, 42, pleaded guilty in federal court in the shooting death of 27-year-old An'Twan Gilmore by using excessive forc Los Angeles County district attorney seeks reelection in contest focused on feeling of public safety 02/23/2024 06:26pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County voters are set to decide next month if embattled District Attorney George Gascón will remain the head of the nation’s largest prosecutor’s office in a race centered on perceptions of public safety. Gascón, who was elected in 2020 on a criminal justice pl Two Navy SEALs drowned in the Arabian Sea. How the US charged foreign crew with smuggling weapons 02/23/2024 05:58pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two Navy SEALs drowned last month while trying to board a vessel that was intercepted by U.S. naval forces in the Arabian Sea. On Thursday, federal prosecutors unsealed a criminal complaint against four foreign nationals they say were transporting suspected Iranian-made missil Louisiana advances a bill expanding death penalty methods in an effort to resume executions 02/23/2024 04:18pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In an effort to resume Louisiana’s death row executions that have been paused for 14 years, lawmakers on Friday advanced a bill that would add the use of nitrogen gas and electrocution as possible methods to carry out capital punishment. As red states add execution metho