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1-year prison sentence for ex-Metro transit officer in beating of unarmed rider 02/02/2024 12:59pm • A former D.C. Metro Transit Police Department officer has been sentenced to a year in prison for beating an unarmed rider with a metal baton in 2018. Andra Vance, 48, was sentenced Wednesday to one year and one day in prison, plus a year of supervised release, according to a news release from the Massachusetts Senate approves gun bill aimed at ghost guns and assault weapons 02/02/2024 12:10pm • BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts Senate approved a sweeping gun bill Thursday designed to crack down on “ghost guns,” toughen the state’s prohibition on assault weapons and outlaw devices that convert semiautomatic firearms into fully automatic machine guns. The Senate approved the bill on a Eritrean troops are accused of abducting farmers and stealing livestock in Ethiopia's Tigray 02/02/2024 09:25am • Eritrean troops are abducting farmers and stealing hundreds of livestock in border regions of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, 15 months after a cease-fire ended a civil war there and called for their withdrawal, according to an aid memo seen by The Associated Press. The memo prepared on Jan. 31 by the E UN expert says more needs to be done to address human rights abuses in the Philippines 02/02/2024 07:59am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has taken steps to to address human rights abuses in the country, including the killings of journalists and rights activists, a U.N. expert said Friday. However, more needs to be done, she said, including ensuri Friends imprisoned for decades cleared of 1987 New Year's killing in Times Square 02/02/2024 12:06am • NEW YORK (AP) — In the early hours of New Year’s Day in 1987, a French tourist was mugged while walking with his wife through Times Square. The man, 71-year-old Jean Casse, struck his head on the pavement. He was pronounced dead soon after. Within days, police hauled in a pair of young Brooklyn Tearful relatives of Maine mass shooting victims plead for change to prevent future tragedies 02/01/2024 09:25pm • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Tearfully relaying scenes of blood, chaos and panic, family members of the victims of Maine's deadliest shooting described their unfathomable losses on Thursday as they implored an independent commission to make sure others never have to experience the same thing. One by one, DC property management company failed to protect Black women from harassment, lawsuit alleges 02/01/2024 09:00pm • The D.C. Attorney General is suing a property management company, accusing the company of violating the city's Human Rights Act by failing to protect two Black women who say they were harassed by a man who also lived in the apartment building. In a news release, Attorney General Brian Schwalb sai Georgia could require cash bail for 30 more crimes, including many misdemeanors 02/01/2024 07:30pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia, once a self-proclaimed leader in criminal justice reform, is sliding a little further toward its old lock-'em-up ways. State senators voted 30-17 on Thursday to require cash bail for 30 additional crimes, including 18 that are always or often misdemeanors, leaving Senate Bi Ex-CIA computer engineer gets 40 years in prison for giving spy agency hacking secrets to WikiLeaks 02/01/2024 05:12pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday after his convictions for what the government described as the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history and for possession of child sexual abuse images and videos. The bulk of the sentence Prosecutors detail possible expert witnesses in federal case against officers in Tyre Nichols death 02/01/2024 02:19pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis Police Department trainers are prepared to testify in the federal civil rights case against four former Memphis police officers in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols that the officers used force inconsistent with their training and failed to prevent their colleagues fr California teenager charged with swatting faces adult charges in Florida 02/01/2024 01:56pm • SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A California teenager accused of swatting a Florida mosque has been arrested and transported across the country to face felony charges. Alan Winston Filion, 17, was arrested Jan. 18 by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on a warrant from Seminole County, Florida, ac Mexican president suggests US talks on migration and drugs may suffer after drug money allegations 02/01/2024 01:48pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president suggested Thursday that talks with the U.S. government on migration and drug trafficking could suffer after media reports of a U.S. investigation into alleged drug money donations for his 2006 campaign. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador suggested U.S. Attorneys for the man charged in University of Idaho stabbings seek change of venue 02/01/2024 11:41am • MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Attorneys for the man charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death in late 2022 are seeking a change of venue, saying he cannot receive a fair trial in the community where the killings occurred. Anne Taylor, Bryan Kohberger’s lead public defender, this Secret US spying program targeted top Venezuelan officials, flouting international law 02/01/2024 04:36am • MIAMI (AP) — A secret memo obtained by The Associated Press details a yearslong covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to surreptitiously record and build drug-trafficking cases against the country’s leadership – a plan the U Few are held responsible for wrongful convictions. Can a Philadelphia police perjury case stick? 02/01/2024 12:23am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Of the nearly 3,500 people exonerated of serious crimes in the U.S. since 1989, more than half had their cases marred by alleged misconduct by police or prosecutors, according to a national database. But experts say it’s rare for anyone to be held accountable for the harm �