Crime
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Prosecutors seek 'very substantial' prison time for Avenatti
Jun 17, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Prosecutors urged a judge Wednesday to impose a 'œvery substantial'ť prison sentence on Michael Avenatti for trying to extort millions of dollars from Ni...
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Officers resign from Portland, Oregon, protest response unit
Jun 17, 2021 7:00 am - PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A team of 50 police officers who serve on a specialized crowd-control unit in Portland, Oregon, and respond to the city's ongoing, often violent pr...
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Reports detail tense moments with Georgia election monitors
Jun 17, 2021 7:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - As a pair of election workers sat at a table counting ballots during an audit of Georgia's presidential election in November, no fewer than eight Republic...
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Myanmar extends detention of US journalist Danny Fenster
Jun 17, 2021 7:00 am - BANGKOK (AP) - Danny Fenster, the American journalist in Myanmar detained last month by authorities, made an appearance Thursday in a special court in the prison where h...
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Officials: Man in boy road rage killing admitted firing gun
Jun 17, 2021 7:00 am - SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A Southern California man charged with killing a 6-year-old boy in a road rage incident last month told police he pulled out a gun and fired at ...
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Top general 'shocked' by AP report on AWOL guns, mulls fix
Jun 17, 2021 7:00 am - Shocked by an Associated Press investigation into the loss and theft of military guns, the Pentagon's top general signaled Thursday that he will consider a 'œsystematic ...
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Editors of Hong Kong newspaper arrested under security law
Jun 17, 2021 7:00 am - HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong police used a sweeping national security law Thursday to arrest five editors and executives of a pro-democracy newspaper on charges of colludi...
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Ex-President Gbagbo back in Ivory Coast after acquittal
Jun 17, 2021 7:00 am - ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - Former President Laurent Gbagbo returned home to Ivory Coast on Thursday, a decade after his refusal to concede defeat in a presidential elec...
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Biden, Putin discuss ambassadors, nuclear weapons and more
Jun 17, 2021 7:00 am - Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin of Russia spent more than three hours discussing issues Wednesday at their summit in Geneva. They ticked through their respective...
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Man charged with first-degree murder in expressway shooting that killed Elgin teenJun 17, 2021 1:00 am - Illinois State Police charged a man Thursday with first-degree murder in connection with a 2020 Eisenhower Expressway shooting, according to a news release. Dezhawn D. S...