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Thousands protest in Slovakia against plan to amend penal code and close special prosecutor's office 01/25/2024 09:52pm • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Thousands of people on Thursday joined growing street protests across Slovakia against a plan by populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to amend the penal code and eliminate a national prosecutors' office. The proposed changes have faced sharp criticism at home and abroad. Brazil's police investigate Bolsonaro's intelligence boss over alleged political spying 01/25/2024 07:59pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police are investigating the country's former intelligence chief as part of a wider probe into alleged spying on political opponents under former President Jair Bolsonaro, court records showed Thursday. The former intelligence chief, Alexandre Ramagem, was Judge says Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers can be questioned in Trump fake electors lawsuit 01/25/2024 05:34pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers can be asked questions related to his role serving as a Democratic elector in the 2020 presidential election as part of an ongoing lawsuit against former President Donald Trump's attorneys, a judge ruled Thursday. The ruling comes in a lawsuit by Demo Trump White House official Peter Navarro gets a 4-month sentence for defying a House Jan. 6 subpoena 01/25/2024 03:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump White House official Peter Navarro, who was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced on Thursday to four months behind bars. He was the second Trump aide Tennessee GOP leaders see no issue with state's voting-rights restoration system 01/25/2024 03:41pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's top Republican lawmakers say they have no issue with the state's strict policy on restoring voting rights for those convicted of a felony, arguing that people shouldn't have violated the law if they wanted to continue casting ballots. Earlier this week, Tennesse GOP pressures Biden to release evidence against Maduro ally pardoned as part of prisoner swap 01/25/2024 02:45pm • MIAMI (AP) — A group of Senate Republicans on Thursday urged the Justice Department to release its investigative file on a key fixer for Venezuela's socialist government pardoned by President Joe Biden ahead of trial on money laundering charges. Alex Saab, 52, was released from federal prison in M How genocide officially became a crime, and why South Africa is accusing Israel of committing it 01/25/2024 02:04pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — In the aftermath of World War II and the murder by Nazi Germany of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, the world united around a now-familiar pledge: Never again. A key part of that lofty aspiration was the drafting of a convention that codified and committed nations to Killer of 3 in English city of Nottingham sentenced to high-security hospital, likely for life 01/25/2024 10:45am • LONDON (AP) — A 32-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia who fatally stabbed two college students and a man in the central English city of Nottingham was told Thursday that he would “most probably” spend the rest of his life in a high-security medical facility. The sentencing of Valdo Caloc Russian courts jail a Putin critic and a woman convicted of a blast that killed a pro-war blogger 01/25/2024 08:51am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian court on Thursday sentenced a woman to 27 years in prison for a cafe blast that killed a prominent pro-war blogger after he was given a bust of himself that later exploded. In a separate proceeding, a Moscow court convicted a former leader of separatist rebels in Man sentenced to death for arson attack at Japanese anime studio that killed 36 01/25/2024 08:44am • TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of murder and other crimes Thursday for carrying out an arson attack on an anime studio in Kyoto that killed 36 people. The Kyoto District Court said it found the defendant, Shinji Aoba, mentally capable to face punis Hong Kong's top court restores activist's conviction over banned vigil on Tiananmen crackdown 01/25/2024 05:20am • HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s top court on Thursday restored a prominent detained activist’s conviction over a banned vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, marking the latest setback for the city’s democracy supporters. Chow Hang-tung, a former leader o Nearly 50-year sentence for man who killed Md. woman he was seeing after learning she was transgender 01/24/2024 08:10pm • A Prince George's County, Maryland, man learned Wednesday he'll serve nearly 50 years behind bars for murdering a transgender woman. Prosecutors said now-29-year-old DeAllen Price was in an intimate relationship with 20-year-old Taya Ashton when she was killed in July of 2021. Prosecutors said Pr With Oregon facing rampant public drug use, lawmakers backpedal on pioneering decriminalization law 01/23/2024 09:01pm • SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers in Oregon on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping new bill that would undo a key part of the state’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law, a recognition that public opinion has soured on the measure amid rampant public drug use during the fentanyl crisis. Editorial Roundup: United States 01/23/2024 08:50pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Jan. 21 The Washington Post on SCOTUS, “Chevron deference” To hear some describe the stakes, a pair of cases argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday could create a watershed moment in American government. Business lobbies and Memphis, Tennessee, police chief to serve in interim role under new mayor 01/23/2024 05:14pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Memphis police chief who was in charge when Tyre Nichols was fatally beaten by five officers will serve on an interim basis under a newly elected mayor, officials said Tuesday. The Memphis City Council had been set to vote Tuesday on whether to retain or replace Memphis P