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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns to Australia a free man after US legal battle ends 06/26/2024 10:03pm • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) ��� WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet and raised a celebratory clenched fist as his supporters cheered Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department Texas man executed for 2001 abduction and killing of 18-year-old woman 06/26/2024 09:54pm • HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) ��� A Texas man who admitted he kidnapped, sexually assaulted and fatally shot an 18-year-old woman in 2001 was executed Wednesday evening. Ramiro Gonzales, 41, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. following a chemical injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the Janu 2 killed at a Dallas-area fast food restaurant in shooting police say was targeted 06/26/2024 07:31pm • IRVING, Texas (AP) ��� Two people were killed in a fast food restaurant in suburban Dallas on Wednesday afternoon in a shooting that police say was targeted. Irving police said that they had identified a suspect, who has not yet been arrested. Police said there wasn���t a threat to the public. Telev Former Honduran president sentenced to 45 years for helping traffickers get tons of cocaine into US 06/26/2024 06:44pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A defiant former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hern��ndez was sentenced in New York Wednesday to 45 years in prison for teaming up with some bribe-paying drug traffickers for over a decade to ensure over 400 tons of cocaine made it to the United States. Judge P. Kevin Castel sent Karen Read's jurors weigh evidence in a murder trial that challenged police integrity 06/26/2024 06:39pm • DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) ��� In the heat of early summer, a Massachusetts jury is deciding whether a woman murdered her boyfriend on a snowy winter night, or was framed in a conspiracy concocted by corrupt police involved in the killing of one of their own. Karen Read is charged with second-degree murder Jury recommends death penalty for ex-prison guard trainee who murdered 5 women inside Florida bank 06/26/2024 06:12pm • A jury on Wednesday recommended a former prison guard trainee be sentenced to death for his execution-style murders of five women inside a Florida bank five years ago, a massacre that fulfilled his long-stated desire to kill. Jurors voted 9-3 to recommend Zephen Xaver receive the death penalty for He flipped off a trooper and got charged. Now Vermont is on the hook for $175,000 06/26/2024 06:09pm • ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) ��� Vermont has agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit on behalf of a man who was charged with a crime for giving a state trooper the middle finger in 2018, the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday. The lawsuit was filed in 2021 by the ACLU of Texas court denies request to reconsider governor's pardon in BLM demonstrator's killing 06/26/2024 05:58pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� A Texas appeals court on Wednesday denied a request to consider whether to reverse Gov. Greg Abbott���s pardon of a man who was convicted of killing a Black Lives Matter demonstrator. The decision from the the all-Republican Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday at least temp More than a hundred Haitian migrants arrived in a sailboat off the Florida Keys 06/26/2024 05:34pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� A group of more than a hundred Haitian migrants arrived in a sailboat off the lower Florida Keys on early morning Wednesday, local and federal officials said. The boat arrived about 100 yards (91 meters) away from a condominium in Key West at 4:00 a.m., and shortly after that law enf Haitians hold their breath as newly arrived Kenyan police force prepares to face gangs 06/26/2024 05:03pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Anticipation is mingling with fear across Haiti as the country welcomes the fourth major foreign intervention in its history to fight gang violence choking the Caribbean country. A couple hundred police officers from Kenya met early Wednesday with Prime Minister Garry Trial starts over the 2022 assassination attempt of Argentina's Cristina Fern��ndez de Kirchner 06/26/2024 04:58pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� Three suspects went on trial Wednesday before a federal court in Argentina for the assassination attempt two years ago of then-Vice President Cristina Fern��ndez de Kirchner, one of the country's most powerful and divisive political figures in recent decades. On that Man who police say urged 'Zionists' to get off NYC subway train faces criminal charge 06/26/2024 04:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A man who demanded that ���Zionists��� identify themselves on a New York City subway train during a protest over the Israel-Hamas war, then suggested that they get out, was charged Wednesday with attempted coercion, a misdemeanor, police said. A video showing the man leading protes Billionaire Frank Stronach is facing additional sexual assault charges in Canada 06/26/2024 04:21pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� Austrian-Canadian auto parts billionaire Frank Stronach was arrested again on Wednesday and is facing additional sexual assault charges, police said. Peel Regional Police Constable Tyler Bell-Morena said investigators have identified additional victims and Stronach, 91, faces eight Judge upholds North Carolina's anti-rioting law, dismisses civil liberties suit 06/26/2024 04:10pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a civil rights group challenging North Carolina's anti-rioting law, whose criminal penalties were raised last year by state legislators. The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina sued over the law, after the legislat Key to drive down crime this summer is knowing when to sound the alarm in communities, DC mayor says 06/26/2024 04:10pm • What does it take to have a safe summer? That's what hundreds of people hoped to learn as they gathered inside the University of the District of Columbia's theater. They were violence interrupters, community ambassadors and others who work together with D.C. government agencies. They were there t