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Ex-Green Berets sentenced to 20 years for Venezuela attack
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A Venezuelan court has sentenced two former U.S. special forces soldiers to 20 years in prison for their part in a blunder-filled beach attack aimed at overthrowing President Nicolás Maduro. Lawyers for the former Green Berets, Luke Denman and Airan Berry, said they were...
El Salvador political stalemate a drag on pandemic response
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — For months, the strictest measures confronting the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America seemed to keep infections in check in El Salvador, but a gradual reopening combined with a political stalemate has seen infections increase nearly fourfold. Other countries have seen...
Man sues police over arrest after video contradicts report
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A former Worcester man has sued the city police department after video of his arrest at a beer garden last year contradicted the police account of the incident. Christopher Ayala-Melendez’s federal lawsuit filed this month alleges excessive force by police, malicious...
Former officer who shot Rayshard Brooks sues over firing
ATLANTA (AP) — The former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks is suing the mayor and interim police chief, saying his firing violated his constitutional rights and the city code. Meanwhile, prosecutors have asked a judge to revoke his bond. Garrett Rolfe was fired June 13, the day after...
Washington lawsuit says protective gear costs impede protest
SEATTLE (AP) — A lawsuit filed in Washington state claims the costs of protective clothing and equipment has impeded the civil rights of Black Lives Matter protesters. The lawsuit filed by five plaintiffs in U.S. District Court in Seattle alleges their right to peacefully demonstrate is hurt by the need to...
Experts: Obstacles to charging police in Breonna Taylor case
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Despite mounting public pressure to file criminal charges nearly five months after Breonna Taylor's death, prosecutors may face significant obstacles to bringing homicide-related charges against police officers who were shot at when sent to her house with a warrant, legal experts...
Michigan's top court kills lawsuit by wrongly imprisoned man
DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court has stopped a man from suing the state after he spent more than a year in prison for a crime that wasn't a crime. The man was behind bars for 17 months for failing to provide accurate information for Michigan's sex offender registry. The Corrections Department then...
Immigrant groups sue feds over congressional districts order
BOSTON (AP) — Civil rights and immigrant groups in Massachusetts have filed a federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's efforts to exclude immigrants living in the country illegally from being counted in the redrawing of congressional districts. Lawyers for Civil Rights filed the suit in Boston...
Lawyer: Feds must provide papers from white nationalist case
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department must provide documents used in its criminal case against a white nationalist, who with others is being sued in a civil rights complaint over the violence in 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia, the lawsuit's plaintiffs say. Community members who filed...
Government defends imprisoning ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer was returned to prison because he refused to sign an agreement over terms of his home confinement, not because he planned to publish a book critical of Trump, prosecutors said Wednesday. The written arguments came in advance of a court...
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