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An Australian court overturns a woman's 2-decade-old convictions in the deaths of her 4 children 12/14/2023 03:22am • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian appeals court overturned all convictions against a woman on Thursday, 20 years after a jury found her guilty of killing her four children. Kathleen Folbigg already was pardoned at the New South Wales state government's direction and released from prison in Congressional group demands probe into Beijing's role in violence against protesters on US soil 12/13/2023 05:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional commission is asking the Justice Department to investigate the role of Beijing after protesters claimed they were beaten and harassed by Chinese government agents in November in San Francisco during an official visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The protesters FBI to exhume woman's body from unsolved 1969 killing in Netflix's 'The Keepers' 12/13/2023 03:07pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — FBI investigators are planning to exhume the body of a young woman whose unsolved 1969 killing has been a source of widespread speculation, especially since Netflix’s documentary series “The Keepers” examined the slaying of a Baltimore nun that unfolded days earlier under ee US lawmakers gather at the White House on easing gun violence. 'You're not in it alone,' Harris says 12/13/2023 03:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Wednesday hosted nearly 100 lawmakers from around the country to discuss how their states can try to better reduce gun violence. "You’re not in it alone,” Vice President Kamala Harris told them. The event was run by the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, a Supreme Court will hear a case that could undo Capitol riot charge against hundreds, including Trump 12/13/2023 02:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear an appeal that could upend hundreds of charges stemming from the Capitol riot, including against former President Donald Trump. The justices will review a charge of obstruction of an official proceeding that has been brought agains Lawsuit challenges Alabama inmate labor system as 'modern day slavery' 12/13/2023 01:52am • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Current and former inmates announced a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Alabama's prison labor program as a type of “modern day slavery," saying prisoners are forced to work for little pay — and sometimes no pay — in jobs that benefit government entities or private compani Recordings show how the Mormon church protects itself from child sex abuse claims 12/12/2023 03:29pm • HAILEY, Idaho (AP) — Paul Rytting listened as a woman, voice quavering, told him her story. When she was a child, her father, a former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had routinely slipped into bed with her while he was aroused, she said. It was March 2017 and Rytting Turkish club president arrested and league games suspended after referee is punched at match 12/12/2023 02:11pm • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities on Tuesday arrested the president of a top-flight soccer club after he punched a referee in the face at the end of a match, prompting the Turkish Football Federation to suspend all league games. MKE Ankaragucu president Faruk Koca attacked referee Halil Um Young Thug trial on pause until January after co-defendant is stabbed in jail 12/12/2023 12:13pm • ATLANTA (AP) — The trial for rapper Young Thug and five other people is on pause until early next year after one of the defendants was stabbed in the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. Shannon Stillwell, 31, was stabbed multiple times Sunday evening during a fight with another man housed in the same p Battle over creating new court centers on equality in Mississippi's majority-Black capital city 12/12/2023 12:15am • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The constitutional right of equal treatment under the law is at the center of a monthslong legal fight over a state-run court in part of Mississippi's majority-Black capital city of Jackson. A federal judge is set to hear arguments Dec. 19 over the Capitol Complex Improvement Special counsel Jack Smith asks the Supreme Court to rule quickly on whether Trump can be prosecuted 12/11/2023 09:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court to take up and rule quickly on whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results. Smith made his request for the court to act with unusual speed to preve Man imprisoned as teen for flower shop killing is released after judge throws out his conviction 12/11/2023 06:53pm • BAYPORT, Minn. (AP) — A 35-year-old man who was sent to prison as a teenager for the 2004 killing of a man in a Minneapolis flower shop was set free Monday after a judge ruled the eyewitness evidence on which his conviction rested was unreliable. Marvin Haynes, who was 16 at the time of the killin Families help remove DC mural dedicated to American hostages taken abroad 12/11/2023 05:28pm • A temporary mural dedicated to Americans who have been wrongfully detained abroad is being taken down after it was plastered on a wall in the Georgetown Neighborhood of D.C. for a year-and-a-half. Some of the prisoners included in the mural have returned home since its creation, but others are st Young Thug trial delayed at least a day after co-defendant is stabbed in jail 12/11/2023 02:19pm • ATLANTA (AP) — One of the five co-defendants on trial with rapper Young Thug has been stabbed at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, delaying the proceedings for at least a day, authorities said. Shannon Stillwell was stabbed multiple times Sunday evening and was in stable condition, the county she Illinois man who confessed to 2004 sexual assault and murder of 3-year-old girl dies in prison 12/10/2023 04:02pm • CHICAGO (AP) — A man who confessed to the 2004 sexual assault and murder of a 3-year-old Illinois girl has died in a state prison, according to state records. Scott Eby, 52, an inmate at the Menard Correctional Center, died Thursday, according to an online inmate notification system. The death of