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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 3rd lawsuit claims a Tennessee city's police botched investigation of a man accused of sex crimes 06/26/2024 03:57pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� A Tennessee city is facing a third lawsuit claiming its police refused to conduct proper investigations into allegations that a man was sexually assaulting multiple women for years. The newest plaintiff has said the man drugged her and pushed her out of his fifth-story apar A timeline of the legal case involving WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange 06/26/2024 03:36pm • The drawn-out legal case involving WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has concluded with his guilty plea to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets. In a deal with the U.S. Justice Department, Assange was sentenced Wednesday to the five years he'd already served in a British prison while fighti Four officers in now-disbanded police unit charged in cover-up of 2020 beating 06/26/2024 03:19pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� Four officers associated with a now-disbanded unit of the Baton Rouge Police Department have been indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on charges alleging that they covered up the beating of a suspect in custody. The charges stem from an attempted strip search in September 2 Former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger endorses Biden, whose campaign wants to flip anti-Trump Republicans 06/26/2024 03:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger endorsed President Joe Biden on Wednesday, giving the Democrat a prominent new ally in his high-stakes campaign to win over moderate Republicans and independents this fall. Kinzinger, a military pilot who emerged as a fierce critic of former Pr Judge sets $10M bond for second Venezuelan man accused of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl 06/26/2024 02:40pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� A second Venezuelan man living in the U.S. illegally and accused of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl was ordered on Tuesday to be held on a $10 million bond. Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel, 22, is one of two men charged with capital murder in Jocelyn Nungaray���s death. The other is F Illinois man rejects deal to plead guilty to 7 murder charges in shooting at 2022 July Fourth parade 06/26/2024 02:13pm • WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) ��� The man accused of killing seven people and injuring dozens more at a 2022 Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb rejected a deal requiring him to plead guilty to seven charges of murder Wednesday in a stunning courtroom scene just days before the second anniversary of t Ex-'Jackass' star Bam Margera will spend six months on probation after plea over family altercation 06/26/2024 01:42pm • WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) ��� Former ���Jackass��� star Bam Margera will spend six months on probation after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct Wednesday over an altercation at his home near Philadelphia. Margera, 44, had been charged with assaulting his brother and making threats to other family m A US journalist goes on trial in Russia on espionage charges that he and his employer deny 06/26/2024 01:30pm • YEKATERINBURG, Russia (AP) ��� Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich went on trial behind closed doors in Yekaterinburg on Wednesday, 15 months after his arrest in the Russian city on espionage charges that he, his employer and the U.S. government vehemently deny. The 32-year-old journalist No charges for London driver who had seizure and plowed into a school, killing 2 children 06/26/2024 11:40am • LONDON (AP) ��� The driver of a 4x4 who plowed into a school in southwest London in July, killing two children, suffered a seizure that could not have been predicted and will face no criminal charges, police said Wednesday. The vehicle crashed into a crowd of children celebrating an outdoor end-of-y Germany moves to ease the deportation of foreigners who glorify terrorist acts 06/26/2024 11:34am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Germany's government on Wednesday launched new legislation to ease the deportation of foreigners who publicly approve of terrorist acts. Under the law, a single comment on social media could provide grounds for kicking people out. The measure approved by the Cabinet was pledged by Ch British police say the driver of a 4x4 that plowed into a school, killing 2 children, will face no criminal charges 06/26/2024 10:48am • LONDON (AP) ��� British police say the driver of a 4x4 that plowed into a school, killing 2 children, will face no criminal charges. ICC convicts al-Qaida-linked leader of abusing prisoners in Mali 06/26/2024 10:18am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ��� The International Criminal Court on Wednesday convicted an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader of the religious persecution and torture of prisoners in Mali in 2012-13 when he headed the Islamic police in the historic desert city of Timbuktu. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag