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Editorial Roundup: United States 01/04/2024 05:11pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Dec. 29 The Washington Post on election integrity and GOP officials Since 2022, nine states where Republican officials administer elections have quit a nonprofit, nonpartisan consortium that helps keep voter rolls up to date through in Mid Atlantic Daybook 01/04/2024 04:32pm • Associated Press Mid Atlantic Daybook for Thursday, Jan. 04. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Mid-Atlantic bureau is reachable at 202-641-9660 Judge recommends ending suit on prosecuting ex-felons who vote in North Carolina, cites new law 01/04/2024 04:05pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina law that makes it a serious crime for someone to vote while still on probation or parole for a felony conviction shouldn't be thrown out, especially with a change to the law that took effect this week, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. Magistrate Judge Joe Webst Justice Department sues Texas over law that would let police arrest migrants who enter US illegally 01/03/2024 09:17pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department on Wednesday sued Texas over a new law that would allow police to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally, taking Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to court again over his escalating response to border crossers arriving from Mexico. The lawsuit draws Tex Live updates | Fighting rages in southern Gaza and fears grow the war may spread in the region 01/03/2024 05:59pm • Heavy fighting raged in central and southern Gaza on Wednesday as fears mounted of a regional escalation following a strike in Beirut that killed one of the top Hamas leaders. Israel has refused to comment on reports it carried out the killing Saleh Arouri, the most senior Hamas member slain since Apparent Israeli strike kills senior Hamas figure in Beirut and raises fears conflict could expand 01/03/2024 04:17am • BEIRUT (AP) — An apparent Israeli strike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut killed Hamas' No. 2 political leader Tuesday, marking a potentially significant escalation of Israel's war against the militant group and heightening the risk of a wider Middle East conflict. Saleh Arouri, who was the most Arrest made in New Year's Day hotel shooting death 01/02/2024 11:40pm • An 18-year-old D.C. man has been arrested and charged with the killing of 18-year-old Ashlei Hinds, who was shot to death at a New Year's party at a Friendship Heights hotel. D.C. police have arrested Jelani Cousin, of Northeast, and charged him with second degree murder while armed. "I'm glad Lawsuit aims to keep Pennsylvania congressman off ballot over Constitution's insurrection clause 01/02/2024 06:38pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A liberal activist asked a Pennsylvania court on Tuesday to bar U.S. Rep. Scott Perry from the state’s primary ballot, arguing that Perry isn’t eligible because of his efforts to keep President Donald Trump in office and block the transfer of power to Democrat Joe Biden. Cherelle Parker publicly sworn in as Philadelphia's 100th mayor 01/02/2024 03:44pm • Cherelle Parker, who has held local and state office and first got involved in politics as a teenager, publicly swore her oath of office on Tuesday as Philadelphia’s 100th mayor, becoming the first woman to do so. The 51-year-old Democrat with years of political experience took the helm of the nat Juvenile justice among criminal justice reform topics up for discussion in upcoming Md. legislative session 01/02/2024 10:47am • The Maryland General Assembly passed a juvenile justice reform measure last year to restructure how the state deals with young people involved in certain crimes by providing them resources versus detaining them behind bars and prosecuting them in court. Juvenile justice was a major topic in 2023 Bangladesh court sentences Nobel laureate Yunus to 6 months in jail. He denies violating labor laws 01/01/2024 03:46pm • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A labor court in Bangladesh’s capital Monday sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to six months in jail for violating the country’s labor laws. Yunus, who pioneered the use of microcredit to help impoverished people, was present in court and was granted ba Judge allows new court in Mississippi's majority-Black capital, rejecting NAACP request to stop it 12/31/2023 10:38pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that he will allow Mississippi officials to move forward with creating a state-run court in part of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson, over objections from the NAACP. Attorneys for the civil rights organization had sued on behalf of several The year in review: Influential people who died in 2023 12/31/2023 06:30pm • Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from being an ex-con and hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army. But it all came to a sudden end when the private plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded over Russia. Prigozhin's Aug. 23 death put an exclamatio Off-duty police officer is killed in North Carolina after witnessing a crime 12/31/2023 01:53pm • GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — An off-duty police officer was shot and killed in North Carolina after witnessing a crime at a gas station and approaching the two suspects, officials said. The police sergeant, Philip Dale Nix, was a 23-year veteran of the Greensboro Police Department, according to a Sunda Court documents naming Jeffrey Epstein's associates to be unsealed: What to know 12/31/2023 01:45pm • Mint Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Hundreds of sealed court filings pertaining to the late sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein are set to be made public this week, and several prominent names -- including Britain's Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton -- are expected to appear in the document