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US and UK go after Chinese hackers accused of state-backed operation against politicians, dissidents

Mar. 25, 2024 21:04 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hackers linked to the Chinese government launched a sweeping, state-backed operation that targeted U.S. officials, journalists, corporations, pro-democracy activists and the U.K.'s election watchdog, American and British authorities said Monday in announcing a set of criminal...

Republicans threaten to hold Attorney General Garland in contempt over Biden documents case

Mar. 25, 2024 18:12 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans threatened to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress if he did not turn over unredacted materials related to the special counsel probe into President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents. In a letter Monday —...

White former officers get sentences of 10 to 40 years in torture of 2 Black men in Mississippi

Mar. 21, 2024 19:51 PM EDT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday finished handing down prison terms of about 10 to 40 years to six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to breaking into a home without a warrant and torturing two Black men in an hourslong attack that included...

Mississippi ex-deputy gets 40-year sentence as judge decries brutal attack on 2 Black men

Mar. 20, 2024 22:51 PM EDT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two former Mississippi deputies wept in court Wednesday as a federal judge sentenced them to years in prison and condemned their cruelty for breaking into a home with four other white officers and torturing two Black men. U.S. District Judge Tom Lee sentenced...

US violent crime decreased in 2023, continuing to reverse pandemic-era spike, FBI data shows

Mar. 20, 2024 16:01 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — New FBI statistics show overall violent crime in the U.S. dropped again last year, continuing a downward trend after a pandemic-era spike. Murders dropped 13% in the last three months of 2023 compared with the same period the year before, according to FBI data...

Massachusetts man gets prison for making bomb threat to Arizona election office

Mar. 13, 2024 19:23 PM EDT

PHOENIX (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to three years and six months in federal prison for making an online threat to bomb then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ election office in February 2021, the U.S. Justice Department said. James Clark, 40, of Falmouth,...

Who is Robert Hur? A look at the special counsel due to testify on Biden classified documents case

Mar. 11, 2024 11:22 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The special counsel who impugned the president's age and competence in his report on how Joe Biden handled classified documents will himself be up for questioning this week. Robert Hur is scheduled to testify before a congressional committee on Tuesday as House...

Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets while working with Chinese companies

Mar. 06, 2024 22:06 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, was...

Alabama's redrawn US House map spurs primary runoffs and ousts an incumbent on Super Tuesday

Mar. 06, 2024 02:02 AM EST

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama voters shook up the state’s congressional delegation Tuesday, throwing out one Republican incumbent and sending four candidates to runoffs in a district redrawn by a federal court to give Black voters greater opportunity to elect a representative of their choice....

Nebraska's Legislature and executive branches stake competing claims on state agency oversight

Mar. 04, 2024 19:53 PM EST

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Barely six months into his term as Nebraska's attorney general last year, Mike Hilgers released an opinion questioning the legality of offices of inspector general overseeing the state's prison system and the child services division of the Department of Health and Human...