Hunter Biden's sentencing on federal firearms charges delayed until December

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden will be sentenced on felony firearms charges in December after the judge agreed Thursday to a delay requested by the defense. In June, President Joe Biden 's son was convicted in Delaware federal court of three felonies for purchasing a gun in...

First people are sentenced under Hong Kong's tough new security law

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court sentenced the first two people under a tough new Hong Kong national security law on Thursday, including a man who was given 14 months in prison for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan. A second man received 10 months for writing pro-independence messages on...

Veteran CIA officer who drugged and sexually assaulted dozens of women gets 30 years in prison

WASHINGTON (AP) — A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Wednesday after an emotional hearing in which victims described being deceived by a man who appeared kind,...

Former northern Virginia jail deputy gets 6 1/2 years for drug operation, sex trafficking

A former sheriff's deputy at a northern Virginia jail was sentenced Wednesday to 6 1/2 years in prison for smuggling drugs into the jail and for running a sex trafficking operation out of a Baltimore apartment. Robert T. Sanford Jr., 37, worked night shifts at the Fairfax County...

Veteran CIA officer who drugged and sexually assaulted dozens of women is sentenced to 30 years in prison

Iran releases an Austrian man, the first time his imprisonment made public

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran authorities released an Austrian citizen who was held in prison in the country’s northwest, state media said Tuesday, the first time information about his imprisonment was made public. Mizanonilne.ir news agency, which is affiliated with the country’s...

An American pastor detained in China for nearly 20 years has been released

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Christian pastor from California has been freed from China after nearly 20 years behind bars and is back home in the U.S., the State Department said Monday. David Lin, 68, was detained after he entered China in 2006, later convicted of contract fraud and...

A Minnesota man gets 33 years for fatally stabbing his wife during Bible study

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man was sentenced to more than 33 years in prison for stabbing his wife to death during a Bible study session. Robert Castillo, 41, who pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder, apologized in court Friday for killing his wife, Corinna...

Kansas cold case ends 44 years later as man is sentenced for killing his former neighbor in 1980

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — More than 44 years after a nursing student was slain in her trailer home in central Kansas, her former neighbor has been sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison for killing her. The investigation into the Jan. 24, 1980, shooting death of Mary Robin Walter, 23,...

Judge frees Colorado paramedic convicted in death of Elijah McClain from prison

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado paramedic convicted in the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020, is being released from prison after a judge reduced his sentence to four years of probation Friday. ...