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Children's author Kouri Richins hit with new charges alleging earlier attempt to kill her husband 03/26/2024 09:43pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman who authorities say fatally poisoned her husband in 2022, then published a children’s book about grief, now faces another attempted murder charge for allegedly drugging him weeks earlier on Valentine's Day. Kouri Richins, 33, is accused of killing her husband w In first, an Argentine court convicts ex-officers of crimes against trans women during dictatorship 03/26/2024 09:25pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Judges overseeing a high-profile human rights trial in Argentina convicted 11 former officials of crimes against humanity on Tuesday, in the first case to focus on the former military dictatorship's overlooked practice of committing sexual violence against transgende The British Museum is suing a former curator it says stole 1,800 items and tried to sell them 03/26/2024 09:18pm • LONDON (AP) — The British Museum went to court Tuesday against a former curator alleged to have stolen hundreds of artifacts from its collections and offered them for sale online. The museum is suing Peter Higgs, who was fired in July 2023 after more than 1,800 items were discovered to be missing. NYC subway rider is fatally pushed onto tracks, reviving discussion about mental illness in system 03/26/2024 08:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of fatally shoving another person into the path of an oncoming New York City subway train was described Tuesday by his mother and officials as having psychological issues, reviving discussion about how the city should respond to people experiencing mental health crise Missouri attorney general is accused of racial bias for pinning a student fight on diversity program 03/26/2024 08:45pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Days after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey blamed an after-school fight on a school district's diversity programming, a lawyer for the majority Black district in suburban St. Louis said that the state's chief attorney is showing “obvious racial bias." Bailey, w UK court says Assange can't be extradited on espionage charges until US rules out death penalty 03/26/2024 08:40pm • LONDON (AP) — A British court ruled Tuesday that Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the United States on espionage charges unless U.S. authorities guarantee he won't get the death penalty, giving the WikiLeaks founder a partial victory in his long legal battle over the site's publication of c Book of kids' drawings reflect regular violence shaping their lives in a Rio de Janeiro favela 03/26/2024 08:36pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Dozens of kids and teenagers from Rio de Janeiro's Mare neighborhood gathered for the launch of a book in which they show, with their own words and pictures, how violence in their poor, bayside community weighs on their young lives. The book, titled “I Was Supposed to be at Utah coach says team was shaken after experiencing racist hate during NCAA Tournament 03/26/2024 07:45pm • SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Members of the Utah women's basketball team were subjected to racism near their hotel in Idaho last week when a pickup truck with a Confederate flag drove near them and the driver began using offensive language, including the N-word, authorities said Tuesday. The team was lef 6 construction workers presumed dead after Baltimore Key Bridge collapse, Coast Guard says 03/26/2024 07:33pm • Listen to WTOP online and on the radio at 103.5 FM or 107.7 FM for our team coverage. Six construction workers who were on Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge at the time it was rammed by a cargo ship, causing the bridge to collapse, are presumed dead after a search and rescue operation that Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to the abortion medication mifepristone 03/26/2024 06:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to preserve access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion case since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. In nearly 90 minutes of Police investigate death of girl whose body was found in pipe after swimming at a Texas hotel 03/26/2024 06:13pm • HOUSTON (AP) — Police in Houston are investigating the death of an 8-year-old girl whose body was found inside a large pipe for a lazy river at a Houston hotel where she'd been swimming with her family. Aliyah Jaico's death on Saturday was ruled an accidental drowning by the Harris County Institut Lego head mugshots add to California's debate on policing and privacy 03/26/2024 05:33pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California police department has been handcuffed by Lego after the toy company asked the agency to stop adding Lego heads to cover the faces of suspects in images it shares on social media. The Murrieta Police Department has been using Lego heads and emojis to cover p An imprisoned journalist in Belarus designated a political prisoner by a leading rights group 03/26/2024 04:33pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A prominent journalist in Belarus was designated a political prisoner on Tuesday by the country's leading human rights group following his conviction on charges widely seen as part of an ongoing crackdown on dissent. Ihar Karnei, who used to write for Radio Free Europe/Radi Boston to pay $4.6M to settle wrongful death suit stemming from police killing of mentally ill man 03/26/2024 04:32pm • BOSTON (AP) — The city of Boston will pay about $4.6 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the police killing of a mentally ill man in 2016. The mother of Terrence Coleman, 31, filed the federal lawsuit six years ago. Hope Coleman had called for an ambulance to take her son to t Alcohol permit lifted at Indy bar where shooting killed 1 and wounded 5, including police officer 03/26/2024 04:31pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana officials revoked the liquor license Tuesday of an Indianapolis bar where one person was killed and five others, including a police officer, were wounded during a weekend shooting. The Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission voted unanimously to revoke a liquor license e