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Portuguese hacker in Football Leaks scandal handed 6-month suspended sentence by French court 11/22/2023 09:35am • PARIS (AP) — A Portuguese hacker whose bombshell revelations on the “FootballLeaks” website rocked European soccer was convicted Wednesday by a Paris court and given a suspended prison sentence of six months. Rui Pinto accepted the sentence proposed by the public prosecutor for hacking into Pa Member of Maryland hate crime commission temporarily suspended for social media posts on Israel-Hamas war 11/21/2023 09:54pm • The leader of the Maryland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has been suspended from a state commission tasked with coming up with solutions to combat a rise in the number of hate crimes. Zainab Chaudry was taken off the commission by Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown aft How much is retail theft costing you in the checkout aisle? The answer may surprise you 11/20/2023 05:25pm • It is frustrating to have to wait for an employee to unlock a glass case so you get razors or laundry detergent, but retail theft is eating up more than just your time — it’s also eating up your dollars. “Approximately a nickel on every dollar of sales is for crime and crime prevention,” Alleged cross-country drug ring busted 2 years after DC mother overdosed with single pill 11/20/2023 02:34pm • More than two years after a young D.C. mother died of a fentanyl overdose, federal law enforcement have announced the additional arrests of members of a sprawling drug ring connected to the case. "As of this morning, I can share that we have in custody 23 defendants named in this indictment, amon Cyprus president has invited foreign experts to help with Russian sanction evasion investigations 11/20/2023 01:43pm • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The president of Cyprus said Monday he personally asked an unnamed “third country” to send an experienced team of financial crime experts to help the east Mediterranean island nation with investigations into old and new allegations that Cypriot financial service provider Bangladesh's top court upholds decision barring largest Islamist party from elections 11/19/2023 07:55am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s highest court on Sunday dismissed an appeal by the country’s largest Islamist party seeking to overturn a 2013 ruling that barred it from participating in elections for violating the constitutional provision of secularism Bangladesh is set to hold its next Fears of political violence are growing as the 2024 campaign heats up and conspiracy theories evolve 11/18/2023 11:53am • The man who bludgeoned former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer last year consumed a steady diet of right-wing conspiracy theories before an attack that took place with the midterm elections less than two weeks away. As the 2024 presidential campaign heats up, experts on extremism f Philadelphia man sentenced to 8 years in drunken driving crash that killed promising GW business student 11/17/2023 08:29pm • The Philadelphia man who prosecutors said downed several drinks at a D.C. bar before getting behind the wheel last January and crashing into an Uber, killing a promising George Washington University business student, was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison. Before handing down his sentence, Guatemalan prosecutors request that President-elect Bernardo Arévalo be stripped of immunity 11/17/2023 06:26pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s Attorney General’s office formally requested Friday that President-elect Bernardo Arévalo and others be stripped of their immunity so it can investigate them for allegedly encouraging the student occupation of the country’s only public university. Cultural Speaker Johnson says he'll make 44,000 hours of Jan. 6 footage available to the general public 11/17/2023 06:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday he plans to publicly release thousands of hours of footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, making good on a promise he made to far-right members of his party when he was campaigning for the job. “This decision will pr Judge rejects plea for Pennsylvania woman charged with killing her 2 young children 11/17/2023 05:10pm • READING, Pa. (AP) — A judge on Friday rejected a plea agreement for a Pennsylvania woman charged with killing her two young children, who were found hanging in the basement of their home nearly four years ago. Lisa Snyder, 40, sought to plead no contest but mentally ill to two counts of third-degr Ruling by Senegal's highest court blocks jailed opposition leader Sonko from running for president 11/17/2023 01:43pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's highest court on Friday effectively barred detained opposition leader Ousmane Sonko from running for president early next year by overturning a decision that would have reinstated him to the West African country's voter rolls. The legal setback for the embattled po French commission wants to remove statute of limitations for sexual violence against children 11/17/2023 12:47pm • PARIS (AP) — A French commission examining sexual violence against children called Friday for removing all time limits on the prosecution of people suspected of raping or sexually assaulting minors. The Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence against Children, which is known by its Fr Top UN court orders Azerbaijan to ensure the safety of Nagorno-Karabakh people 11/17/2023 12:20pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The U.N. top court on Friday issued an order calling on Azerbaijan to ensure the safety of people who leave, return to or remain in Nagorno-Karabakh, following the Azerbaijani military’s retaking of the separatist region in September. Armenia asked the International Alabama inmate executed for the shooting death of man in 1993 robbery 11/16/2023 10:26pm • ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate convicted of killing a man during a 1993 robbery when he was a teenager was executed Thursday by lethal injection. Casey McWhorter, 49, was pronounced dead at 6:56 p.m. at a southwest Alabama prison, authorities said. McWhorter was convicted of capital murder