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South Carolina Supreme Court rejects claim inmate didn't kill clerk and refuses to stop execution 09/19/2024 08:16pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has again refused to stop the execution of inmate Freddie Owens who is set to die Friday by lethal injection. The justices ruled Thursday that a sworn statement from a friend whose testimony helped convict Owens and who now says he lied to sav Justice Department opens civil rights probe of sheriff's office after torture of 2 Black men 09/19/2024 07:59pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff's department whose officers tortured two Black men in a racist attack that included beatings, repeated use of stun guns and assaults with a sex toy before one of the victims was shot in The Latest: Trump to campaign in New York and Harris speaks at Hispanic leadership conference 09/18/2024 08:59pm • Donald Trump is taking his message Wednesday to a somewhat unlikely place: suburban New York. The Republican presidential nominee and former president is heading to Uniondale, on Long Island, an area that could be key to his party maintaining control of the House. His party is trying to protect 18 R Days after posting mugshot of a boy accused of school threat, sheriff puts video of 2 teens online 09/18/2024 08:56pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Around the country, communities are being battered by a wave of school shooting threats, sparking emergency notifications, urgent group chats and heightened fears among parents that their child’s school could be the next Parkland or Sandy Hook or Uvalde — or any other DC coffee shop owner caught on camera telling delivery driver to 'learn English' 09/18/2024 08:14pm • An Uber Eats delivery driver from Venezuela is calling for justice after he claims he was berated and assaulted by a D.C. coffee shop owner. On Monday morning, delivery driver Gregorio José Amundarain Lávate said the encounter began when he went to Canna Coffee on Florida Avenue in Northwes Sean 'Diddy' Combs arrest and indictment: A timeline of key events 09/18/2024 07:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs is in custody after being arrested and indicted by federal authorities in New York. He is accused of operating an empire of sexual crimes dating back to at least 2008. The major move comes 10 months after sustained public allegations of sexual and other abus Justice Department disrupts vast Chinese hacking operation that infected consumer devices 09/18/2024 04:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has disrupted a group of hackers working at the direction of the Chinese government who targeted universities, government agencies and other organizations, Director Chris Wray said Wednesday. The hacking campaign known as Flax Typhoon installed malicious software on more North Carolina's highest court hears challenge to law allowing more time for child sex abuse suits 09/18/2024 04:32pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Challenges to a portion of a state law that gave adult victims of child sexual abuse two additional years to seek civil damages dominated oral arguments in lawsuits heard Wednesday by North Carolina’s highest court. The state Supreme Court in one day considered five cases in NAACP president urges Missouri governor to halt execution planned for next week 09/18/2024 03:41pm • Executing a Black man in Missouri who says he was wrongfully convicted would amount to a “horrible miscarriage of justice,” the president of the NAACP said in a letter Wednesday calling on the governor to halt the execution planned for next week. Prosecutors want to vacate the conviction of Marc Man who sold fentanyl-laced pill liable for $5.8 million in death of young female customer 09/18/2024 12:30pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — In 2019, Brandon McDowell was contacted by a sophomore in college who asked to buy Percocet, a prescription painkiller. What the 20-year-old sold her instead were counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid that can be lethal in a dose as small as 2 milligra For Tarana Burke, the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs legal case is one more sign of #MeToo’s lasting impact 09/18/2024 12:17pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Tarana Burke says people are always asking “what’s next?” for the #MeToo movement, the broad reckoning against sexual misconduct and abuse that she helped launch seven years ago. This week, Burke, who coined the phrase “me too” decades ago in work with survivors of sexual Florida will launch criminal probe into apparent assassination attempt of Trump, governor says 09/17/2024 10:13pm • WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida law enforcement officials will launch their own criminal investigation into the apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump that will run parallel to the federal probe, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday. The governor said Florida prosecuto Bangladesh opposition party demands a new election after Hasina's ouster 09/17/2024 09:29pm • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of activists and leaders of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party rallied Tuesday in the nation’s capital to demand a democratic transition through an election as an interim government has yet to outline a timeframe for new voting. The supporters gathered Family of DC man killed by police outside a McDonald's in Southeast calls for federal probe 09/17/2024 09:17pm • The family of a man who was shot and killed by police outside a McDonald's in Southeast D.C. earliest this month is calling for the U.S. Justice Department to launch a civil rights investigation into his killing. The relatives of Justin Robinson believe police didn’t do enough to de-escalate the s Election 2024 Latest: Trump and Harris resume campaigning after apparent assassination attempt 09/17/2024 08:15pm • The presidential campaign is moving forward after a second apparent attempt on Donald Trump ’s life over the weekend. Trump was heading to Michigan on Tuesday for a town hall while Vice President Kamala Harris answered questions at a forum for Black journalists in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, authori