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Phoenix seeks to end Justice Department probe of its police department without court supervision 01/11/2024 06:00pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to end its two-year civil rights investigation of the city’s police department through an agreement in which it would take recommendations for changes from the federal agency but wouldn’t be subject to costly court supervision. Th North Carolina man convicted of hate crime charges in 2 separate confrontations 01/11/2024 05:49pm • GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man was convicted Thursday on federal hate crime charges after a jury found he attacked his Hispanic neighbor and shouted racial slurs at a Black driver in separate confrontations about a year apart. In October 2021, Marian Hudak, 52, yelled insults at his Thousands protest in Slovakia against a government plan to amend the penal code 01/11/2024 03:42pm • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Thousands of people took to the streets of major cities in Slovakia on Thursday to renew their protests against plans by the new government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to amend the country’s penal code. The changes proposed by the three-party coalition gove Nelson Mandela's support for Palestinians endures with South Africa's genocide case against Israel 01/11/2024 02:28pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Barely two weeks after he was released from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela flew to Zambia to meet with African leaders who had supported his fight against South Africa's apartheid system of forced racial segregation. One figure stood out among the men in dark suits e Vegas man accused of spraying fire extinguisher at police during Jan. 6 Capitol riot 01/11/2024 01:17pm • A rioter from Las Vegas has been arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges connected to his role in the attempted Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to the Department of Justice. Mario Gonzalez, 51, was arrested by the FBI in Nevada this week. The DOJ said Gonzalez came Iowa community recalls 11-year-old boy with 'vibrant soul' killed in school shooting 01/11/2024 01:17pm • Hundreds of people said goodbye Thursday to a vibrant 11-year-old boy known as “Smiley,” a week after he was shot to death at his Iowa school by an older student who also wounded seven other children and staff members before killing himself. Residents of the small community of Perry packed a Cat South Africa says Israel's campaign in Gaza amounts to genocide. What can the UN do about it? 01/11/2024 12:00pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Israel is defending itself in the United Nations' highest court Thursday against allegations that it is committing genocide with its military campaign in Gaza. South Africa asked the International Court of Justice to order Israel to immediately stop the war, alleging Feds charge member of Maryland Board of Elections with Jan. 6 crimes 01/11/2024 11:04am • A Republican member of the Maryland State Board of Elections was arrested by federal authorities this week and charged for his alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced. Carlos Ayala, 52, of Salisbury, was charged in a criminal ‘We’re back to governing’: Maryland General Assembly opens annual 90-day legislative session 01/10/2024 09:54pm • Maryland’s Senate president vowed a return to a more normal 90-day General Assembly session following four years marked by transition and pandemic. The house of delegates and Senate returned to Annapolis on Wednesday and gaveled in the 446th legislative session. A winter storm that 24 hours ear Wisconsin sexual abuse case against defrocked Cardinal McCarrick suspended 01/10/2024 09:42pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge suspended charges against defrocked Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, accused of sexually assaulting a boy in the 1970s, ruling Wednesday that the former cleric is incompetent for trial because of dementia. The decision will be reviewed at the end o The top UN court is set to hear South Africa's allegation of Israeli genocide in Gaza 01/10/2024 08:19pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A legal battle over whether Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza amounts to genocide opens Thursday at the United Nations' top court with preliminary hearings into South Africa's call for judges to order an immediate suspension of Israel's military actions. Israel strin DC to consider major new public safety bill to stem rising violent crime 01/10/2024 05:26pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Public safety legislation unveiled Wednesday by local lawmakers in the nation's capital is aimed at bringing down spiraling violent crimes rates that have stoked public anxiety and prompted congressional scrutiny. The measure largely repackages and consolidates previous propos 'We have an emergency' — can DC bill address spike in crime? 01/10/2024 04:57pm • While most parts of the country have seen decreases in crime, including violent crime, that has not been the case in D.C. After finishing 2023 with big spikes in homicides, carjackings, car thefts and other violent crimes, the chair of the D.C. Council’s public safety committee wants to move ag Maryland lawmakers wrestle with budget deficit, public safety, housing as session opens 01/10/2024 04:46pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland General Assembly opened its annual 90-day legislative session on Wednesday with lawmakers set to wrestle with budget challenges as well as measures on affordable housing and public safety. Like other states, Maryland greatly benefited from federal pandemic aid New Mexico Legislature confronts gun violence, braces for future with less oil wealth 01/10/2024 04:06pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's Legislature convenes Tuesday for a rapid-fire 30-day session amid a multibillion-dollar financial surplus and concerns about violent crime, homelessness and childhood wellbeing in an election year for House and Senate legislators. Lawmakers are searching for new