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Tough decisions, possible tax increases cloud coming Md. legislative session 12/09/2023 07:49am • Taxes and cost shifts are on the table for the coming General Assembly session as Gov. Wes Moore (D) and lawmakers look to solve both a structural budget shortfall and massive cuts to transportation projects. Eric Luedtke, Moore's chief legislative officer, told county officials Friday that the c Federal judge prohibits separating migrant families at US border for 8 years 12/08/2023 06:30pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday prohibited the separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years, preemptively blocking resumption of a lightning-rod, Trump-era policy that the former president hasn’t ruled out if voters return him to the White Arkansas man sentenced to 5 1/2 years for firebombing police cars during 2020 protests 12/08/2023 06:14pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The ringleader of a group who admitted to firebombing several police cars in Arkansas during the 2020 protests over the killing of George Floyd has been sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison, while three of his co-defendants were sentenced to 18 months each. New York can enforce laws banning guns from 'sensitive locations' for now, U.S. appeals court rules 12/08/2023 04:26pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York can continue to enforce laws banning firearms in certain “sensitive” locations and require that handgun owners be of “good moral character,” a federal appeals court ruled Friday in its first broad review of a host of new gun rules passed in the state after a la Vessel owner pleads guilty in plot to smuggle workers, drugs from Honduras to Louisiana 12/08/2023 12:51pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Pennsylvania man described by authorities as the lead defendant in a drug distribution and human smuggling case has pleaded guilty to federal crimes in Louisiana. Court records show that Carl Allison, 47, of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty Thursday before U.S. District Judge Eldon F Not guilty: Mother of man killed in DC police chase acquitted of assaulting US marshal in court 12/08/2023 07:45am • The mother of Karon Hylton-Brown — the 20-year-old father who was killed in a 2020 crash while being chased by D.C. police — has been found not guilty of assaulting a U.S. marshal in a federal courtroom. Karen Hylton was in arrested in May 2023, immediately after two D.C. police officers were Greek soccer matches postponed after clashes leave police officer in critical condition 12/08/2023 07:42am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — This weekend's top-level soccer matches in Greece have been postponed following serious clashes involving sports fans that left a police officer in critical condition after he was hit by a flare. Greek league organizers said weekend matches would be rescheduled after it faile Trump's vow to only be a dictator on 'day one' follows growing worry over his authoritarian rhetoric 12/07/2023 07:58pm • TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — As Donald Trump faces growing scrutiny over his increasingly authoritarian and violent rhetoric, Fox News host Sean Hannity gave his longtime friend a chance to assure the American people that he wouldn't abuse power or seek retribution if he wins a second term. But inst Trump appeals ruling rejecting immunity claim as window narrows to derail federal election case 12/07/2023 05:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is appealing a ruling that found he is not immune from criminal prosecution as he runs out of opportunities to delay or even derail an upcoming trial on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Lawyers for the 2024 Republ Retail group pulls back on claim organized retail crime accounts for nearly half of inventory loss 12/07/2023 03:12pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The National Retail Federation, the nation's largest retail trade group, has revised a report released in April that pulls back the claim that organized retail crime accounts for nearly half of overall industry shrink, which measures overall loss in inventory, including theft. The Denmark's parliament adopts a law making it illegal to burn the Quran or other religious texts 12/07/2023 11:04am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A new law was passed in Denmark's parliament on Thursday that makes it illegal to desecrate any holy text in the country, after a recent string of public desecrations of the Quran by a handful of anti-Islam activists sparked angry demonstrations in Muslim countries. The Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is freed from prison on humanitarian grounds 12/07/2023 02:09am • LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori was released from prison Wednesday on humanitarian grounds, despite a request from a regional human rights court to delay his release. Fujimori, 85, was serving a 25-year sentence in connection with the slayings of 25 Peruvians by death Judge still undecided if DC should be held in contempt over lack of beds for detained youth 12/06/2023 09:20pm • A judge remains undecided as to whether D.C. should be held in contempt after the city was accused of failing to provide enough beds at its youth shelter for detained teens. It is part of a lawsuit filed against the city by a teenager who was turned away by the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Ser Australian Parliament rushes through laws that could see detention of freed dangerous migrants 12/06/2023 04:37pm • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government Wednesday rushed legislation through Parliament that could place behind bars some migrants who were freed after the High Court ruled their indefinite detention was unconstitutional. The House of Representatives voted 68 to 59 on Wednesday night US files war crime charges against Russians accused of torturing an American in the Ukraine invasion 12/06/2023 01:52pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Four Russian men accused of torturing an American during the invasion of Ukraine have been charged with war crimes in a first-of-its-kind case, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday. It is the first prosecution against members of the Russian armed forces in connection wi