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The Latest | First 7 jurors seated at the end of the second day of Trump’s hush money trial 04/16/2024 07:54pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Following a protracted questionnaire phase and hours of questioning on Tuesday, seven jurors were seated by the time the court adjourned on the second day of Donald Trump ’s hush money trial. Jury selection will resume Thursday morning. The jurors are picked by process of elimina Maui Fire Department report on deadly wildfire details need for more equipment and mutual aid plans 04/16/2024 07:33pm • HONOLULU (AP) — When wildfires broke out across Maui last August, some firefighters carried victims piggyback over downed power lines to safety and sheltered survivors inside their engines. Another drove a moped into a burning neighborhood again and again, whisking people away from danger one at a Chicago woman pleads guilty, gets 50 years for cutting child from victim's womb 04/16/2024 07:32pm • CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman accused of luring a pregnant teenager to her home and cutting her baby from her womb with a butcher knife nearly five years ago pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday and was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Clarisa Figueroa, 51, seated in a wheelchair and wearing a bright Black immigrant rally in NYC raises awareness about racial, religious and language inequities 04/16/2024 07:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Black immigrants turned out in the hundreds on Tuesday across from New York City Hall during a hearing about racial inequities in the city's shelter and immigrant support systems. Over 1,500 immigrants, mostly from Guinea, assembled in City Hall Park, after it became clear that onl Editorial Roundup: United States 04/16/2024 07:08pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 12 The New York Times on aid to Israel The suffering of civilians in Gaza — tens of thousands dead, many of them children; hundreds of thousands homeless, many at risk of starvation — has become more than a growing number of Wisconsin man pleads not guilty to neglect in disappearance of boy 04/16/2024 06:52pm • MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — A man who was caring for a 3-year-old Wisconsin boy when he vanished in late Februar y pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a charge of chronic child neglect. Jesse Vang, 39, entered the plea during his arraignment in a Manitowoc County court. A judge on April 4 ordered Vang to Man gets 4 death sentences for kidnapping, rape and murder of 5-year-old Georgia girl 04/16/2024 06:00pm • PHENIX CITY, Ala. (AP) — A man who kidnapped, raped and killed a 5-year-old Georgia girl has been given four death sentences for the crime. Russell County Circuit Court Judge David Johnson handed down the sentence Monday against Jeremy Williams who murdered, raped and brutalized Kamarie Holland in Supreme Court questions obstruction charges brought against Jan. 6 rioters and Trump 04/16/2024 05:54pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether federal prosecutors went too far in bringing obstruction charges against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. But it wasn’t clear how the justices would rule in a case that also could affect the prosecution West Virginia transgender sports ban discriminates against teen athlete, appeals court says 04/16/2024 05:53pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's transgender sports ban violates the rights of a teen athlete under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools, an appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the law can How Prince William Co. is looking to solve housing affordability for first responders, teachers 04/16/2024 05:37pm • The median cost for a home in Prince William County, Virginia, is around $525,000, according to Rocket Homes. It’s keeping some of the county's police officers and teachers from being able to buy a home there, but a new initiative is aimed at making things more affordable for those public servants Maryland spa owner charged with operating illicit massage parlors 04/16/2024 05:02pm • The owner of two Maryland spas is under arrest and facing both prostitution and sex trafficking charges after investigators claim she was operating illicit massage parlors. Montgomery County police said detectives received information in October 2023 that prostitution and human trafficking may ha 9 bodies found adrift in a boat off Brazil were likely migrants from Mauritania and Mali, police say 04/16/2024 04:48pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Brazilian police investigating the grim discovery of a boat with several decomposing bodies say they were likely African migrants from Mali and Mauritania. Fishermen off Brazil's northern coastal state of Pará found the boat adrift Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean. Brazil's Civil rights attorney demands footage in fatal police chase, but city lawyer says none exists 04/16/2024 04:31pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Civil rights attorney Ben Crump demanded Tuesday that police in a small town in Mississippi release camera footage of a chase that ended in the death of a Black teenager, but the city attorney said the police department does not use cameras. “I have been advised by the Chie Expanded curfew could be heading to parts of Prince George’s County 04/16/2024 04:30pm • A Prince George's County Council member has reluctantly proposed an expanded curfew, saying there's "no reason to have a 15-year-old or a 16-year-old" without a chaperone during the wee hours on a school night. Outside chambers Tuesday, Council member Ed Burroughs showed a video of a group of kid Several gun bills inspired by mass shooting are headed for final passage in Maine 04/16/2024 04:20pm • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A series of gun safety bills introduced after the deadliest shooting in Maine history was headed toward final passage Wednesday as the state Legislature raced to wrap up its session. The House voted 75-68 to enact the governor’s omnibus gun safety bill that strengthens the