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India’s top court stays conviction of opposition leader for mocking the prime minister's surname

NEW DELHI (AP) - India's top court on Friday stayed the criminal defamation conviction of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi for mocking the prime ministers surname. His party said it would now seek to ha...

Aug 04, 2023

Police detain a suspect in South Korea's 2nd stabbing attack in 2 days

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean police detained a man suspected of stabbing a high school teacher with a knife Friday in the city of Daejeon. The stabbing follows a separate, apparently random ...

Aug 03, 2023

Appeals court allows Biden asylum restrictions to temporarily stay in place as case plays out

WASHINGTON (AP) - An appeals court Thursday allowed a rule restricting asylum at the southern border to temporarily stay in place. The decision is a major win for the Biden administration, which had a...

Aug 03, 2023

Expelled Nashville Democrat Justin Jones of the ‘Tennessee Three’ wins back state House seat

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Nashville Democrat Justin Jones, a member of the so-called "Tennessee Three," won back his state House seat Thursday after Republican lawmakers expelled him for his participati...

Aug 03, 2023

Florida man who dropped appeals is executed for 1988 rape, hammer killing of nurse

A Florida man who recently dropped all legal appeals was executed Thursday for the 1988 murder of a woman who was sexually assaulted, killed with a hammer and then set on fire in her own bed. James Ph...

Aug 03, 2023

Texas A&M reaches $1 million settlement with Black journalism professor

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas A&M University reached a $1 million settlement Thursday with a Black journalism professor after botched attempts to hire her unraveled after pushback over her past work ...

Aug 03, 2023

Trump arrives at DC courthouse to face charges he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Donald Trump has arrived at the federal courthouse in Washington to surrender to authorities on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 defeat in the presidential el...

Aug 03, 2023

Mississippi ex-law enforcement charged with civil rights offenses against 2 Black men during raid

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Six former law enforcement officers in Mississippi have been charged with federal civil rights offenses against two Black men who were brutalized for more than an hour during a h...

Aug 03, 2023

Pittsburgh synagogue gunman has been sentenced to die in the nation’s deadliest antisemitic attack

PITTSBURGH (AP) - The man who killed 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue was formally sentenced to death Thursday, one day after a jury determined that capital punishment was appropriate for the ...

Aug 03, 2023

13 injured in South Korea when a man rams a car onto a sidewalk, stabs pedestrians

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - At least 13 people were injured in South Korea on Thursday when a man rammed a car onto a sidewalk and then stepped out of the vehicle and began stabbing people near a subway...

Aug 03, 2023