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‘The movement will persist’: Advocates stress Weinstein reversal doesn’t derail #MeToo reckoning 04/26/2024 11:36am • NEW YORK (AP) — #MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there’s a legal setback, the movement is declared dead in the water. A legal success, and presto, it’s alive again. So Burke, who nearly two decades ago coined the phrase “Me too” from her work with sexual assault Supreme Court seems skeptical of Trump's claim of absolute immunity but decision's timing is unclear 04/25/2024 08:52pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday appeared likely to reject former President Donald Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from prosecution over election interference, but several justices signaled reservations about the charges that could cause a lengthy delay, possibly beyond Novembe 21 senior members of DC police to be dismissed — more than half due to 'serious misconduct' 04/25/2024 07:01pm • More than 20 senior members of D.C.'s police department are on the way out. A total of 21 senior police officers or senior sergeants will be leaving the department on April 30, according to D.C. supervisory public affairs specialist Thomas Lynch. Senior officers are those who've retired from the First with Trump, now with Kamala Harris: Kim Kardashian is advocating for criminal justice reform 04/25/2024 06:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Kim Kardashian marshaled her celebrity in one administration to spotlight criminal justice reform — and she's doing it again in the next. The reality TV star and entrepreneur joined Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday for a roundtable highlighting the administration’s Burkina Faso's army massacred over 200 civilians in a village raid, Human Rights Watch says 04/25/2024 05:29pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Thursday. The mass killings took place on Feb. 25 in the country's norther The Latest: Supreme Court arguments conclude in Trump immunity case 04/25/2024 12:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday took up Donald Trump's bid to avoid prosecution over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump’s lawyers argue that former presidents are entitled to absolute immunity for their official acts. Otherwise, they Summer Movie Guide: Virtually all the movies coming to theaters and streaming from May to Labor Day 04/25/2024 11:34am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Are you ready for some movies this summer? There's action-adventure, romance, horror, franchises and anniversary re-releases of some of your favorites populating theaters and streaming services from May through Labor Day. You just have to know where to look. Things kick off in Arizona indicts 18 in election interference case, including Giuliani and Meadows 04/24/2024 11:34pm • PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump 's chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyer Rudy Giuliani and 16 others for their roles in an attempt to overturn Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. The indictment released Wednesday names 11 Republicans who Boeing's financial woes continue, while families of crash victims urge US to prosecute the company 04/24/2024 08:36pm • Boeing said Wednesday that it lost $355 million on falling revenue in the first quarter, another sign of the crisis gripping the aircraft manufacturer as it faces increasing scrutiny over the safety of its planes and accusations of shoddy work from a growing number of whistleblowers. CEO David Calho Grand jury indicts man on murder charge in shooting death of Texas girl during ATM robbery 04/24/2024 07:49pm • HOUSTON (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting a 9-year-old girl when he was robbed at a Houston ATM in 2022 has been indicted on a murder charge in her death. Tuesday’s indictment against Tony Earls comes nearly two years after another grand jury declined to indict him in the death of Arlene Biden pardons 11 people and shortens the sentences of 5 others convicted of non-violent drug crimes 04/24/2024 05:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has granted clemency to 16 people who were convicted of non-violent drug crimes, issuing pardons to 11 men and women and commuting the sentences of five other people in the latest use of his clemency power to address racial disparities in the justice system. Family of man killed when Chicago police fired 96 times during traffic stop file wrongful death suit 04/24/2024 04:17pm • CHICAGO (AP) — The family of a Chicago man killed when plainclothes police officers fired their guns nearly 100 times during a traffic stop filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday, accusing the department of “brutally violent” policing tactics. The 81-page federal complaint alleges the offic Veteran DEA agent sentenced to 4 years for leaking intelligence in Miami bribery conspiracy 04/24/2024 02:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday sentenced a longtime U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent to four years in prison for leaking DEA intelligence to defense lawyers in a $100,000 bribery scheme that prosecutors said jeopardized drug cases and the lives of confidential informants. John How Republican-led states far from the US-Mexico border are rushing to pass tough immigration laws 04/24/2024 01:01pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican-led states are rushing to give broader immigration enforcement powers to local police and impose criminal penalties for those living in the country illegally as the issue of migrants crossing the U.S. border remains central to the 2024 elections. The Oklahoma Legisl Australian police arrest 7 alleged teen extremists linked to stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church 04/24/2024 07:07am • SYDNEY (AP) — Australian police arrested seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology in raids across Sydney on Wednesday, as a judge extended a ban on social media platform X sharing video of a knife attack on a bishop that started the criminal investigation. The seven, aged