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A Swiss court sentences a former Gambian interior minister to 20 years for crimes against humanity 05/15/2024 02:52pm • GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s top criminal court on Wednesday convicted a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 20 years over his role in murder, torture and other repression committed by the West African country’s security forces under its longtime Son-in-law of top opponent of Venezuela's president pleads guilty to US money laundering charges 05/15/2024 12:49pm • MIAMI (AP) — The son-in-law of a prominent Venezuelan opposition leader has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges for his role in a vast bribery conspiracy to siphon $1.2 billion from the state-owned oil company. As part of his plea agreement announced Tuesday in federal court in Miami, Fern ICC prosecutor faces demand for action against Israeli leaders and Russian attack over Putin warrant 05/14/2024 11:28pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor faced demands Tuesday for speedy action against Israeli leaders and a blistering Russian attack over the ICC’s arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin stemming from Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Karim Khan responded by t Justice Department says Boeing violated deal that avoided prosecution after 737 Max crashes 05/14/2024 08:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Boeing has violated a settlement that allowed the company to avoid criminal prosecution after two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max aircraft more than five years ago, the Justice Department told a federal judge on Tuesday. It is now up to the Justice Department to decide whet Speaker Mike Johnson assails Trump's felony trial in remarkable visit outside courthouse 05/14/2024 08:17pm • U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson assailed the hush money case against Donald Trump Tuesday as an illegitimate “sham,” becoming the highest-ranking Republican to show up at court, embrace the former president's claims of political persecution and attack the U.S. system of justice. It was a remarka Lies, loyalty and a gag order upheld: Tuesday's Trump hush money trial takeaways 05/14/2024 06:47pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's attorneys started grilling prosecutors' star witness in his hush money trial Tuesday, portraying former attorney Michael Cohen as a media-obsessed liar who's determined to see the former president behind bars. Cohen endured intense questioning by defense attorney To Army whistleblower who exposed alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan is sentenced to prison 05/14/2024 06:37pm • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge sentenced a former army lawyer to almost six years in prison on Tuesday for leaking to the media classified information that exposed allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. David McBride, 60, was sentenced in a court in the capital, Canb The Latest | Defense expects cross-examination of Cohen to last through Thursday, transcript shows 05/14/2024 05:58pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-foe returned to the witness stand and could face a bruising round of questioning from the former president’s lawyers. Michael Cohen 's testimony this week has linked Trump to all aspects of a hush money scheme that prosecutors say was aimed at stifli Military hearing officer deciding whether to recommend court-martial for Pentagon leaker 05/14/2024 04:52pm • BEDFORD, Massachusetts (AP) — A Massachusetts Air National Guard member who pleaded guilty in March to federal crimes for leaking highly classified military documents appeared Tuesday before a military hearing officer who will recommend whether the guardsman should face a court-martial. Jack Teix Tennessee governor OKs bill allowing death penalty for child rape convictions 05/14/2024 03:34pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has approved legislation allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions, a change the Republican-controlled Statehouse championed amid concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital punishment in such cases. Lee, a Republican, quietly American sought after ‘So I raped you’ Facebook message detained in France on 2021 warrant 05/14/2024 01:38pm • LYON, France (AP) — An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” has been detained in France after a three-year search. A prosecutor in Metz, France, confirmed Tuesday that Ian Thomas Cle AP Investigation: In hundreds of deadly police encounters, officers broke multiple safety guidelines 05/14/2024 06:09am • In hundreds of deaths where police used force meant to stop someone without killing them, officers violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining and subduing people — not simply once or twice, but multiple times. Most violations involved pinning people facedown in ways that could restrict Star witness Michael Cohen says Trump was intimately involved in all aspects of hush money scheme 05/13/2024 09:58pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was intimately involved with all aspects of a scheme to stifle stories about sex that threatened to torpedo his 2016 campaign, his former lawyer said Monday in matter-of-fact testimony that went to the heart of the former president’s hush money trial. “Everything r Notorious people smuggler wanted in Europe arrested in northern Iraq 05/13/2024 08:50pm • BAGHDAD (AP) — One of Europe's most notorious human smugglers was arrested Monday in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, security officials said. The regional government's security agency said it had arrested Barzan Majeed, known as “the Scorpion,” in the area of Sulaymaniyah, 3 men charged in Whitey Bulger's 2018 prison killing have plea deals, prosecutors say 05/13/2024 08:16pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Three men charged in the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger have reached plea deals with prosecutors, according to court papers filed Monday. The plea deals for Fotios “Freddy” Geas, Paul J. DeCologero and Sean McKinnon were disclosed