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Texas police officer indicted in fatal shooting of man on his front porch 12/20/2023 06:07pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An Austin, Texas, police officer has been indicted for deadly conduct in the fatal shooting of a man standing on his own front porch. A grand jury indicted Austin police Officer Daniel Sanchez on Wednesday in Rajan Moonesinghe's death. Video and audio show Austin police offic The Constitution's insurrection clause threatens Trump's campaign. Here is how that is playing out 12/20/2023 06:05pm • DENVER (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's bid to win back the White House is now threatened by two sentences added to the U.S. Constitution 155 years ago. The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday barred Trump from the state's ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits anyone wh Boston mayor apologizes to Black men wrongly accused in 1989 murder that shone spotlight on racism 12/20/2023 05:49pm • BOSTON (AP) — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued a formal apology Wednesday to two Black men who were wrongly accused in a 1989 murder of a white woman, a case that coarsened divisions in a city long split along racial lines and renewed suspicion and anger directed at the police department by the cit Congo's presidential vote is extended as delays and smudged ballots lead to fears about credibility 12/20/2023 05:47pm • KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Lengthy delays at the polls forced officials on Wednesday to extend voting in Congo's presidential election as many residents in the mineral-rich West African nation struggled to cast ballots because of steep logistical and security challenges, raising concerns about the int Rite Aid banned from facial recognition tech use for 5 years after faulty theft targeting in stores 12/20/2023 05:39pm • Rite Aid has been banned from using facial recognition technology for five years over allegations that its surveillance system was used incorrectly to identify potential shoplifters, especially Black, Latino, Asian or female shoppers. The settlement with the Federal Trade Commission addresses charge France's Macron defends divisive immigration bill and denies it marks tilt by government to right 12/20/2023 05:17pm • PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that a contentious immigration bill negotiated with conservatives is imperfect and needs some fixes but is “what the French wanted," and is not a victory for the far-right. The president on a much-listened-to talk show explained and d Philadelphia news helicopter crashes in New Jersey forest, killing pilot and photographer 12/20/2023 05:13pm • WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Investigators were looking for evidence Wednesday of what caused a news helicopter to crash in the New Jersey Pinelands the night before, killing the pilot and photographer on board. Chopper 6 from WPVI-TV in Philadelphia was returning from an assignment at the Ohio prosecutor says he's duty bound to bring miscarriage case to a grand jury 12/20/2023 04:49pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio prosecutor says it is not within his power to drop a criminal charge against a woman who miscarried in the restroom at her home, regardless of the pressure being brought to bear by the national attention on her case. Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins said in a Pennsylvania police find 20-year-old shooting victim's body in Hagerstown, Md. park 12/20/2023 04:40pm • Remains of a 20-year-old man were found in a Hagerstown, Maryland, park this past weekend and Pennsylvania police said Tuesday that a suspect was charged in the fatal shooting. Shane Bradley, 31, was arrested and charged in the killing of Isiah Clark and is also facing charges related to kidnappi Rockville police release photo of courthouse hit-and-run suspect still at-large 12/20/2023 04:35pm • Nearly a week after the hit-and-run in front of a Rockville, Maryland, courthouse, two people remain hospitalized and police are continuing to search for the suspect. The suspect, 44-year-old Walter Giovanni Marquez-Aviles, of Gaithersburg, remains at-large. Rockville police released his photogra White supremacist sentenced for threatening jury and witnesses at synagogue shooter's trial 12/20/2023 03:57pm • WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — A self-proclaimed white supremacist was sentenced to more than six years in federal prison Wednesday for making online threats toward the jury and witnesses at the trial of a man who killed 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Hardy Carroll Lloyd, 45, of Follansbee, Wes Man arrested for exposing himself along Fairfax County trail, police say 12/20/2023 03:55pm • A man Fairfax County police say may have exposed himself on multiple occasions along a Virginia trail was arrested and charged. Sean Maxwell, 53, of Burke, was arrested Saturday on a charge of indecent exposure, a Fairfax County police news release said. Police were called around 12:45 p.m. to th Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers 12/20/2023 03:48pm • OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria (AP) — Men in dusty workwear trudge through a thicket, making their way up a hill where sprawling plantations lay tucked in a Nigerian rainforest whose trees have been hacked away to make room for cocoa bound for places like Europe and the U.S. Kehinde Kumayon and his a Poland's new Cabinet moves to free state media from previous government's political control 12/20/2023 03:31pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s new pro-European Union government has begun to wrestle control of the country’s state media and some other state agencies from the conservative party that consolidated its grip on them during eight years in power. The Cabinet of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, which California's top prosecutor won't seek charges in 2020 fatal police shooting of Bay Area man 12/20/2023 02:58pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s attorney general will not seek criminal charges against a police officer who in 2020 fatally shot a man outside a pharmacy in the San Francisco Bay Area amid national protests over the police killing of George Floyd, his office announced Tuesday. A Vallejo polic