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January 6 crimes did happen. Court cases, video and thousands of pages of evidence prove it 09/06/2024 03:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Inside Washington’s federal courthouse, there’s no denying the reality of Jan. 6, 2021. Day after day, judges and jurors silently absorb the chilling sights and sounds from television screens of rioters beating police, shattering windows and hunting for lawmakers as democracy A hitman serving life in prison gets more time for killing ‘Whitey’ Bulger 09/06/2024 02:07pm • CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A former Mafia hitman already serving life in prison was sentenced to 25 years Friday in the 2018 fatal prison bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger. Prosecutors said Fotios “Freddy” Geas used a lock attached to a belt to repeatedly hit the What’s at stake in Mexico's judicial system under sweeping overhaul pushed by the president 09/05/2024 09:17pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s governing party says judges in the current court system are corrupt, and it wants to push through an extreme proposal to make the country’s entire judicial branch — around 7,000 judges — stand for election. While some countries like Switzerland and the United St Former 2016 Trump campaign adviser is charged over his work for sanctioned Russian TV 09/05/2024 08:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged a Russian-born U.S. citizen and former adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign with working for a sanctioned Russian state television network and laundering the proceeds. Indictments announced Thursday allege that Dimitri Simes and Election 2024 Latest: Trump and Harris focus on tax policy ahead of next week's debate 09/05/2024 06:42pm • Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will debate for the first time next Tuesday as the presidential candidates fight to sway voters on the biggest stage in U.S. politics. The meeting comes just 75 days after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance triggered a political earthquake that ultim Husband of missing Manassas Park woman to head to trial in early 2025 09/05/2024 05:52pm • MANASSAS, Virginia (AP) — When Mamta Kafle Bhatt disappeared in late July, members of her local community in northern Virginia and her family in her native Nepal banded together to try to figure out what happened to her. They posted on social media, hosted community events and held a rally for Physician sentenced to 9 months in prison for punching police officer during Capitol riot 09/05/2024 05:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A Massachusetts medical doctor who punched a police officer during a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Thursday to nine months of imprisonment followed by nine months of home confinement. Jacquelyn Starer was in a crowd of rioters inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Ugandan Olympic athlete dies after being set on fire by her partner 09/05/2024 05:05pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated after 80% of her body was burned in an attack by her partner, a hospital official confirmed Thursday. She was 33. Owen Menach, a spokesperson at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospi US widens indictment of Russians in 'WhisperGate' conspiracy to destroy Ukrainian and NATO systems 09/05/2024 03:41pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has widened its indictment of Russians in the so-called WhisperGate malware attacks aimed at destroying computer systems in Ukraine and 26 NATO allies including the United States. A superseding indictment announced Thursday names five Russian military i Right-wing influencers were duped to work for covert Russian operation, US says 09/05/2024 02:12pm • NEW YORK (AP) — They have millions of followers online. They have been major players in right-wing political discourse since Donald Trump was president. And they worked unknowingly for a company that was a front for a Russian influence operation, U.S. prosecutors say. An indictment filed Wednesday Massachusetts driver who repeatedly hit an Asian American man gets 18 months in prison 09/05/2024 12:48pm • BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for threatening to kill a group of Asian Americans and repeatedly hitting one of them with his car. John Sullivan, a white man in his late 70s, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty in April to a federal hate crim Can Harris prosecute the political case against Trump? Key questions ahead of their debate 09/05/2024 11:27am • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will debate for the first — and perhaps, last — time on Tuesday night as the presidential candidates fight to sway voters on the biggest stage in U.S. politics. The meeting comes just 75 days after President Joe Biden's disastrous debate performa Questions swirl around attempted jailbreak in Congo as families of victims demand accountability 09/05/2024 06:13am • KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Families of those killed in what authorities called an attempted jailbreak in Congo's biggest prison are demanding answers from the government as activists denounce what they say are inhumane conditions in the nation's overcrowded penitentiaries. Officials have said that 12 With charges and sanctions, US takes aim at Russian disinformation ahead of November election 09/04/2024 09:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration seized Kremlin-run websites and charged two Russian state media employees in its most sweeping effort yet to push back against what it says are Russian attempts to spread disinformation ahead of the November presidential election. The measures, which in a The arrest of a former aide to NY governors highlights efforts to root out Chinese agents in the US 09/04/2024 09:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A secret Chinese police station hiding in plain sight in New York City. Clandestine efforts by Communist Party operatives to spy on and bully Chinese expatriates. And now, charges that a former aide to two New York governors was secretly acting as an agent of the Chinese government