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FBI agent says 2 officers accepted accountability in fatal beating of Tyre Nichols 09/26/2024 06:12pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — An FBI agent who interviewed two former Memphis police officers on trial in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols testified Thursday that they accepted accountability for participating. FBI Special Agent Anthony Householder took the stand in the federal trial of Tadarrius Bean, D Philadelphia's district attorney scores legal win against GOP impeachment bid 09/26/2024 05:57pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania state lawmakers who tried to impeach Philadelphia’s elected progressive prosecutor improperly tried to stretch that process across two different legislative sessions, the state's highest court ruled Thursday. The decision was a victory for Philadelphia Distric The Latest: NYC mayor charged with taking bribes and illegal campaign funds from foreign sources 09/26/2024 03:58pm • New York City Mayor Eric Adams was indicted Thursday on federal charges alleging that he took bribes and illegal campaign contributions from foreign sources. The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan alleges in the indictment that Adams “compounded his gains” from the illegal contributions by ga A Pennsylvania woman is convicted of killing her 2 young children in 2019 09/26/2024 02:41pm • READING, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman was convicted of killing her two young children, who were found hanging in the basement of their home five years ago. Lisa Snyder, 41, was convicted Tuesday of two counts of first-degree murder in the September 2019 deaths of 4-year-old Brinley and 8-year-o Editorial Roundup: United States 09/26/2024 12:10pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Sept. 20 The Washington Post on what to expect on election night and advises patience In 2020, the United States did not have election night so much as election week. Factors including a slow count of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvani Japanese court acquits the longest-serving death row inmate of a 1966 quadruple murder 09/26/2024 10:37am • TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court found an 88-year-old former boxer not guilty on Thursday after a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, reversing a decision that made him the world's longest-serving death row inmate. Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death Congo accuses Rwanda before an East Africa court of helping rebels fight Congolese forces 09/26/2024 08:51am • ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) — A regional court in East Africa opened proceedings on Thursday in a case filed by Congo against neighboring Rwanda, accusing it of violating Congo's sovereignty and territorial integrity by sending troops to help rebels in the country's east. Eastern Congo has struggled wi 'We have to meet that demand': DC's incoming chief judge on vacancies, security for Superior Court judges 09/26/2024 06:14am • Starting next Tuesday, one of the busiest courts in the nation will have a new chief judge. Judge Milton C. Lee Jr. will take over as chief judge for D.C. Superior Court. Lee takes the helm as the court continues to cope with a shortage of judges. “That has an impact on our ability to manage Garland says officers' torture of 2 Black men was betrayal of community they swore to protect 09/26/2024 12:39am • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The prosecution of six former law enforcement officers who tortured two Black men in Mississippi is an example of the Justice Department's action to build and maintain public trust after that trust has been violated, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday. Garland sp Pope expels a bishop and 9 other people from a Peru movement over 'sadistic' abuses 09/25/2024 09:45pm • VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis took the unusual decision Wednesday to expel 10 people – a bishop, priests and laypeople -- from a troubled Catholic movement in Peru after a Vatican investigation uncovered “sadistic” abuses of power, authority and spirituality. The move against the leadersh Trump tells women he 'will be your protector' as GOP struggles with outreach to female voters 09/25/2024 06:34am • INDIANA, Pa. (AP) — From former President Donald Trump to Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, male Republican candidates are struggling to speak to female voters, using language criticized as tone-deaf and patronizing as they try to win support from women and speak to issues important to them. On Man who staked out Trump at Florida golf course charged with attempting an assassination 09/24/2024 10:16pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who authorities say staked out Donald Trump for 12 hours on his golf course in Florida and wrote of his desire to kill him was indicted Tuesday on an attempted assassination charge. Ryan Wesley Routh had been initially charged with two federal firearms offenses. The upgrade A city proud of its role in facing down hatred confronts a new wave of violence 09/24/2024 06:47pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — There was a time, not so very long ago, when this city earned the nickname “Bombingham,” renowned for senseless violence and its strength in confronting the racial hatred that fueled it. But days after Birmingham endured its third mass shooting of 2024, officials and re Ex-officer testifies in tears he's sorry for Tyre Nichols beating. 'I made his child fatherless' 09/24/2024 04:20pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former Memphis police officer who has pleaded guilty to violating Tyre Nichols’ civil rights testified in tears Tuesday, saying he left Nichols’ young son fatherless, that he was sorry and that he wishes he had stopped the punches. Desmond Mills took the stand in the tr Capitol rioter mistakenly released from prison after appeals court ruling, prosecutors say 09/24/2024 04:13pm • The federal Bureau of Prisons mistakenly released an Iowa man from custody before he finished serving his 30-month sentence for storming the Senate chamber during a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol, Justice Department prosecutors said in a court filing this week. Leo Christopher Kelly of Cedar Rapid