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Brother, sister to serve years in prison for selling fentanyl connected to deadly DC overdose 06/16/2023 10:06am • A brother and sister from the D.C. area were sentenced to a combined 14-plus years in prison for selling fentanyl to a woman who died from an overdose, the U.S. Attorney's Office for D.C. announced Thursday. Larry Eastman, 23, of Temple Hills, Maryland, was sentenced to more than 11 years in pris Donald Trump scores rare legal win as DA drops golf course tax probe 06/15/2023 07:42pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Make that one less legal headache for Donald Trump. A suburban New York prosecutor said Thursday that she has closed a multiyear investigation that focused in part on whether the twice-indicted former president or his company misled authorities to reduce taxes on properties they ow Florida deputy didn't follow extensive training during Parkland school massacre, supervisor says 06/15/2023 04:50pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida sheriff's deputy didn't follow his extensive training on how to stop an active shooter when he didn't confront the killer who murdered 17 people at a Parkland high school, a former training commander testified Thursday. Former Broward County Deputy Sco Arizona woman alleges sexual assault by Trevor Bauer; he denies allegation and countersues 06/14/2023 09:28pm • PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman has accused former major league pitcher Trevor Bauer of sexual assault, alleging in a lawsuit updated this week that he held a knife at her throat and choked her until she passed out during a rape that left her pregnant in late 2020. Bauer was never arrested or char 28-year-old woman accused of posing as Louisiana high school student 06/14/2023 05:56pm • HAHNVILLE, La. (AP) — A 28-year-old woman who enrolled at a Louisiana high school and posed as a 17-year-old student to learn English has been arrested along with her mother, authorities said Wednesday. Martha Jessenia Gutierrez Serrano and her mother, Marta Elizabeth Serrano Alvarado, 46, both of South Korea sues rival North Korea for blowing up joint liaison office in 2020 06/14/2023 04:36am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea filed a 44.7 billion won ($35 million) damage suit against North Korea on Wednesday for blowing up a joint liaison office just north of their border in 2020, which highlighted a revival of tensions between the rivals following the collapse of larger nuclear ta France accuses Russia of faking websites to sow confusion and disinformation about Ukraine war 06/13/2023 02:23pm • France’s government accused Russia on Tuesday of operating a long-running online manipulation campaign, including impersonating the websites of leading French media and the French Foreign Ministry, aimed at spreading confusion and false information about the war in Ukraine. The French agency respo Cases of check fraud escalate dramatically, with Americans warned not to mail checks if possible 06/13/2023 12:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Check fraud is back in a big way, fueled by a rise in organized crime that is forcing small businesses and individuals to take additional safety measures or to avoid sending checks through the mail altogether. Banks issued roughly 680,000 reports of check fraud to the Financial Cri Polish broadcaster TVN says state regulator holding up license renewal 06/13/2023 06:25am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A leading independent television broadcaster in Poland is expressing concern that the state broadcasting regulator has not yet renewed a license that expires next year for its main channel. The authorities’ treatment of TVN in the past has raised concerns about declining me Hundreds of tribal members, mostly Navajo, living on Phoenix streets amid fake sober home crackdown 06/12/2023 08:27pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Navajo law enforcement teams made contact with several hundred Native Americans from various tribes who are living on the streets in the metro Phoenix area, after the state cracked down on Medicaid fraud and suspended unlicensed sober living homes, Navajo Nation Attorney General Eth Wisconsin's top elections official for 2024 uncertain as incumbent's term nears end 06/12/2023 01:37pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Who will oversee the 2024 presidential election in the critical battleground state of Wisconsin remains clouded with uncertainty just weeks before the state's nonpartisan top elections official reaches the end of her term. Republicans who control the state Legislature could fi Randy Cox, paralyzed in police van, reaches $45 million settlement with New Haven, Connecticut 06/10/2023 01:45pm • New Haven, Connecticut, has agreed to a $45 million settlement with Randy Cox, who was paralyzed while being transported handcuffed and without a seat belt in the back of a police van following his arrest last year, the city's mayor and attorneys said Saturday. The agreement was reached Friday eveni Chelsea Peretti on her directorial debut 'First Time Female Director,' premiering at Tribeca 06/09/2023 03:34pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Chelsea Peretti plays a first-time director in her directorial debut: “First Time Female Director.” The film premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival takes an acutely meta premise in lampooning the tumultuous experience of an inexperienced woman brought in to a direct a play at Movie Review: Who let the beasts out? New 'Transformers' tries but fails to energize the saga 06/09/2023 07:59am • With the “Transformers” franchise clearly at a crossroads, its latest protectors have turned to their deep bench of characters. But just adding more robots won't transform this tired series. “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” returns the franchise to its galaxy-wide self-importance after tak A little white pill, Captagon, gives Syria's Assad a strong tool in winning over Arab states 06/09/2023 02:10am • BEIRUT (AP) — A little white pill has given Syrian President Bashar Assad powerful leverage with his Arab neighbors, who have been willing to bring him out of pariah status in hopes he will stop the flow of highly addictive Captagon amphetamines out of Syria. Western governments have been frustra