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Can Mississippi strip felons, including tree thieves, of voting rights? Federal judges hear the case 01/23/2024 04:22pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Whether permanently stripping voting rights from some Mississippi felons amounts to unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment is being weighed by 19 federal appellate judges, some of whom said during a hearing Tuesday that it should be decided by lawmakers, not a court. A Move to repeal new Virginia law on organized retail theft blocked for this year 01/23/2024 09:21am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A move to repeal a new Virginia law that makes organized retail theft a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison was defeated for this year after members of a House subcommittee voted Monday to send the bill to the Virginia State Crime Commission for further study. The n Virginia Democrats press major new gun control measures despite GOP opposition 01/23/2024 07:16am • Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s assertion this month that the state’s gun laws are already strong enough for his liking isn’t deterring Democrats from moving forward with major proposals limiting access to firearms. Policymaking committees in both chambers of the General Assembly have starte Cyprus police vow tougher screening of soccer fans in a renewed effort to clamp down on violence 01/22/2024 04:14pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — In a renewed bid to clamp down on violence at soccer games, police in Cyprus said Monday they will step up security screening of fans at stadium entrances, shutter team supporter clubs if necessary and call for matches to either be canceled or halted if safety is compromised Dutch court convicts pro-Syrian government militia member of illegally detaining, torturing civilian 01/22/2024 10:10am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court convicted Monday a former high-ranking member of a pro-Syrian government militia of illegal detention and complicity in torture, sentencing him to 12 years in prison. The defendant, identified only as Mustafa A. in line with Dutch privacy laws, was found Virginia man arrested on charges connected to Jan. 6 Capitol riot 01/20/2024 11:40pm • A man from Chesterfield County, Virginia, has been indicted on charges related to his alleged involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 siege of the U.S. Capitol, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. FBI agents arrested 51-year-old John Michael Livings In the biographical drama ‘Rob Peace,’ Chiwetel Ejiofor reframes a life 01/20/2024 09:48pm • PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Chiwetel Ejiofor had read Jeff Hobbs’ “The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace” years before Antoine Fuqua asked if he might consider writing and directing an adaptation. The book, which explores the complex life of a brilliant boy who grew up in the crime ridden and Today in History: January 20, Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated on new, earlier date 01/20/2024 12:01am • Today in History Today is Saturday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2024. There are 346 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first chief executive to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 instead of March 4. On this date: In 1801, Sec Report: DC police's gang database an unreliable system secretly surveilling residents 01/19/2024 08:10pm • A new report claims a gang-related list that D.C. police maintains is unreliable and may make life harder for innocent people. “There are six criteria on how you get on the DC Gang Database, and they are not based off criminality,” said Carlos Andino, lead author of the report and associate c Texas prosecutor convenes grand jury to investigate Uvalde shooting, multiple media report 01/19/2024 07:08pm • UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A Texas prosecutor has convened a grand jury to investigate the Uvalde school shooting, multiple newspapers reported Friday, as families of the 19 children and two teachers killed continued their calls for criminal charges against officers involved in the hesitant and haphazar Man sentenced to life plus 30 years in 2018 California spa bombing that killed his ex-girlfriend 01/19/2024 04:14pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man was sentenced Friday to two concurrent life sentences, plus 30 years, for blowing up his ex-girlfriend’s spa business with a package bomb in 2018, killing her and seriously injuring two others. Friday’s hearing concluded a case against Stephen Beal, Kansas court upholds a man's death sentence, ruling he wasn't clear about wanting to remain silent 01/19/2024 12:26pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' top court on Friday upheld the death sentence for a man convicted of fatally shooting three adults and a toddler, ruling that he did not clearly invoke his right to remain silent before making statements crucial to his conviction. The state Supreme Court's lone dissente No. 3 Colorado follows lead of high-energy point guard Jaylyn Sherrod to best start since 1992-93 01/19/2024 08:18am • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Colorado point guard Jaylyn Sherrod constantly operates at a go, go, go level. That’s just her nature. It applies in the classroom, where she’s completing a second master’s degree. At her internship, working with the Boulder Police Department. Even with her hobbies, whe Sri Lanka has arrested tens of thousands in drug raids criticized by UN human rights body 01/19/2024 04:59am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan authorities have arrested tens of thousands of people in a monthlong crackdown on drugs, and vowed to continue despite U.N. criticism of possible human rights violations during the “heavy-handed” operation. Since the operation began in December, heavily ar The police response to the Uvalde shooting was riddled with failures, a new DOJ report says 01/18/2024 09:56pm • UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Police officials who responded to the deadly Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting waited far too long to confront the gunman, acted with “no urgency” in establishing a command post and communicated inaccurate information to grieving families, according to a Justice De