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Trump tries to move past his guilty verdict by attacking the criminal justice system

May. 31, 2024 18:59 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump sought to move past his historic criminal conviction on Friday and build momentum for his bid to return to the White House with fierce attacks on the judge who oversaw the case, the prosecution’s star witness and the criminal justice system as a whole. ...

Answers to your questions about Donald Trump's historic hush money trial conviction

May. 31, 2024 17:30 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Will Donald Trump go to prison? Could he pardon himself? What about the election? The first criminal conviction of a former American president raises a host of legal and political questions. Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury Thursday of 34 felony counts...

Trump carries the stain of conviction like a crown. Will the verdict matter to voters?

May. 31, 2024 16:25 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The bravado behind Donald Trump' s boastful hypothesis in 2016 — “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters" — is headed for a real-world reckoning. Until now, at least, he's been uncannily right. Through...

Biden details a 3-phase hostage deal aimed at winding down the Israel-Hamas war

May. 31, 2024 18:15 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday detailed a three-phase deal proposed by Israel to Hamas militants that he says would lead to the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza and could end the grinding, nearly 8-month-old Mideast war. Biden added that Hamas is “no...

Israel confirms its forces are in central Rafah in expanding offensive in the southern Gaza city

May. 31, 2024 14:37 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military confirmed Friday that its forces are operating in central parts of Rafah in its expanding offensive in the southern Gaza city. Israel launched its ground assault into the city on May 6, triggering an exodus of around 1 million Palestinians out...

Florida sheriff's office fires deputy who fatally shot Black airman at home

May. 31, 2024 18:37 PM EDT

A Florida sheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot a Black airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground, saying the deputy's life was never in danger and he should not have fired his weapon. Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden fired Deputy Eddie Duran, who...

Mexico's drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday's elections than before

May. 31, 2024 17:32 PM EDT

COTIJA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday’s elections that will determine the presidency, nine governorships and about 19,000 mayorships and other local posts. The country’s powerful drug cartels have long staged...

Berlin lets Ukraine use German weapons against targets in Russia after the US also eases its stance

May. 31, 2024 10:02 AM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Germany joined the United States on Friday in authorizing Ukraine to hit some targets on Russian soil with the long-range weapons they are supplying — a significant policy change that comes as depleted Ukrainian troops are losing ground in the war. Ukrainian...

Italy's migrant jails are squalid and chaotic. A young man from Guinea was desperate to escape

May. 31, 2024 16:06 PM EDT

ROME (AP) — It was still dark and quiet outside when Ousmane Sylla performed his last prayer in the courtyard of an Italian migrant jail. “I miss my Africa very much and my mother too,” read a scribble in French on the wall nearby. ”May I rest in peace." A few...

Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who brought victims to pig farm, is dead after prison assault

May. 31, 2024 18:21 PM EDT

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who took female victims to his pig farm during a crime spree near Vancouver in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has died after being assaulted in prison, authorities said Friday. He was 74. The Correctional Service of Canada said...

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Marian Robinson, mother of Michelle Obama, dies at 86

May. 31, 2024 19:07 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Marian Shields Robinson, the mother of Michelle Obama who moved with the first family to the White House when son-in-law Barack Obama was elected president, has died. She was 86. Mrs. Robinson's death was announced by Michelle Obama and other family members in a...

Trump tries to move past his guilty verdict by attacking the criminal justice system

May. 31, 2024 18:59 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump sought to move past his historic criminal conviction on Friday and build momentum for his bid to return to the White House with fierce attacks on the judge who oversaw the case, the prosecution’s star witness and the criminal justice system as a whole. ...

Kansas Constitution does not include a right to vote, state Supreme Court majority says

May. 31, 2024 18:58 PM EDT

The Kansas Supreme Court offered a mixed bag in a ruling Friday that combined several challenges to a 2021 election law, siding with state officials on one provision, reviving challenges to others and offering the possibility that at least one will be halted before this year's general election. ...

At bribery trial, ex-US official casts Sen. Bob Menendez as a villain in Egyptian meat controversy

May. 31, 2024 18:54 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A former top U.S. agricultural official cast Sen. Bob Menendez as a villain at his bribery trial Friday, saying he tried to stop him from disrupting an unusual sudden monopoly that developed five years ago over the certification of meat exported to Egypt. A...

Russia and Ukraine exchange POWs for the first time in months. Bodies of fallen are also swapped

May. 31, 2024 18:52 PM EDT

SUMY REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and Russia exchanged prisoners of war on Friday, each sending back 75 POWs in the first such swap in the past three months, officials said. A few hours earlier and at the same location, the two sides also handed over bodies of their fallen soldiers. ...

Pro-Palestinian protesters enter Brooklyn Museum, unfurl banner as police make arrests

May. 31, 2024 18:48 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A large pro-Palestinian rally marched on the Brooklyn Museum Friday afternoon, setting up tents in the lobby and unfurling a “Free Palestine” banner over the building. Social media posts show New York City police confronting, tackling and arresting some of the...

FACT FOCUS: Trump responds to guilty verdict with attacks and false claims

May. 31, 2024 18:45 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump on Friday addressed his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in what prosecutors have called a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election by paying hush money to silence the accounts of women who claimed to have extramarital sex with him....

Whistleblower lawsuit alleges retaliation by Missouri House speaker

May. 31, 2024 18:43 PM EDT

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's House speaker once described “stupid Republican women” as “an invasive species,” according to a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit filed against the powerful lawmaker Friday. House Chief Clerk Dana Miller's lawsuit alleged GOP House...

British ambassador to Mexico apparently no longer in post after pointing rifle at staff

May. 31, 2024 18:39 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The British foreign ministry has apparently removed its ambassador to Mexico, Jon Benjamin, following controversy generated by a video in which he jokes while pointing a high-powered rifle at staff inside a vehicle. The United Kingdom's government website on...

Florida sheriff's office fires deputy who fatally shot Black airman at home

May. 31, 2024 18:37 PM EDT

A Florida sheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot a Black airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground, saying the deputy's life was never in danger and he should not have fired his weapon. Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden fired Deputy Eddie Duran, who...