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The Latest | Trump becomes first former US president to be convicted of felonies 05/30/2024 09:59pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Thursday was found guilty on all 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial. It was the first time a former U.S. president was ever tried or convicted in a criminal case, and was the first of Trump’s four indictments to reach trial. Prosecu Republican lawmakers react with fury to Trump verdict and rally to his defense 05/30/2024 09:23pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers reacted with immediate fury on Thursday as a New York jury convicted former President Donald Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election, speaking out with near unanimity in questioning the legitimacy of the trial and how The Latest | Jury finds Trump guilty on all charges in hush money trial 05/30/2024 05:58pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Thursday was found guilty on all 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial. It was the first time a former U.S. president was ever tried or convicted in a criminal case, and was the first of Trump’s four indictments to reach trial. Prosecu Stockholm accuses Iran of using criminals in Sweden to target Israel or Jewish interests 05/30/2024 12:02pm • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden's domestic security agency on Thursday accused Iran of using established criminal networks in Sweden as a proxy to target Israeli or Jewish interests in the Scandinavian country. The accusations were raised at a news conference by Daniel Stenling, the head of the Authorities arrest man allegedly running 'likely world's largest ever' cybercrime botnet 05/29/2024 08:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — An international law enforcement team has arrested a Chinese national and disrupted a major botnet that officials said he ran for nearly a decade, amassing at least $99 million in profits by reselling access to criminals who used it for identity theft, child exploitation, and fin The Latest | Israel expands Rafah offensive, saying it now controls Gaza's entire border with Egypt 05/29/2024 05:55pm • Israel’s military said Wednesday it has seized control of the entire length of Gaza’s border with Egypt, without elaborating. Capturing the strategic Philadelphi corridor signals that Israel has deepened its offensive in southern Gaza. Palestinians in the border city of Rafah reported heavy figh DC isn’t tracking youth in both child welfare and juvenile justice systems, report says 05/29/2024 06:20am • D.C. isn’t monitoring young people involved with both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, leaving some of the District's most vulnerable youth without access to essential services, according to a report from the city’s auditor. The report, produced with help from the Council for C Appeals court won't halt upcoming Alabama execution 05/28/2024 10:35pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday declined to halt the upcoming execution of an Alabama man convicted in the beating deaths of an elderly couple during a 2004 robbery. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied two separate requests for an execution stay for Jamie Ray M Cohen's credibility, campaigning at court and other takeaways from Trump trial's closing arguments 05/28/2024 09:18pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers and Manhattan prosecutors made their final pitches Tuesday to jurors who will decide whether the Republican will be the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime, squaring off over the strength of the evidence and credibility of the prosecution’s s Netanyahu says deadly Israeli strike in Rafah was the result of a 'tragic mishap' 05/28/2024 04:52am • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a “tragic mishap” was made in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah that set fire to a camp housing displaced Palestinians and, according to local officials, killed at least 45 people. The strike only add Hogan turns Maryland Senate campaign to public safety 05/25/2024 11:59pm • A week after winning the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, Larry Hogan is turning his focus on public safety even as his Democratic opponent continues a focus on the former governor’s position on abortion. The 10-point position paper released Wednesday by Hogan, his first since the May 14 pri Scuffles erupt between police, protesters demanding return of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza 05/25/2024 08:31pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Scuffles between Israeli police and protesters erupted in Tel Aviv on Saturday after thousands gathered to demonstrate against the government and demand that it bring back the hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. Meanwhile, a small U.S. military vessel and what appeared to be a s 4 years after George Floyd's death, Congress struggles with police reform 05/25/2024 07:14pm • ▶ Watch Video: 4 years on from George Floyd's murder, police reform efforts remain stalled in Washington Four years after George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, momentum in Washington to pass sweeping reform in the Minnesota man's name has a New York man pleads guilty to snatching officer's pepper spray during US Capitol riot 05/25/2024 01:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — An upstate New York man has pleaded guilty to charges that he snatched away a police officer's can of pepper spray during a chaotic clash with officers guarding the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot. Federal prosecutors said Friday that Troy Weeks, 38, was among UN court order demanding that Israel halt its Gaza offensive further isolates the US position 05/25/2024 12:22pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.N. court's order that Israel halt its offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah has deepened a disconnect with the United States over a military operation that faces mounting international condemnation but that American officials describe, at least for now, as limited and