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What we know after a 14-year-old boy was charged with killing 4 people at his Georgia high school.
A 14-year-old boy stands charged with four counts of murder, accused of using a semiautomatic assault-style rifle to kill two students and two teachers this week at his high school in Georgia. Colt Gray had his first hearing Friday after being charged as an adult in the latest mass shooting at a...
Woman recounts praying after falling while trying to escape Colorado supermarket shooting
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Elan Shakti was tired and had trouble walking but decided to go to the supermarket anyway to buy plants for a family mourning. But as she was buying them, Shakti, now 79, heard gunfire ring out and then someone yell for people to run. Shakti, who had recently...
Brazil's Lula fires human rights minister accused of sexual misconduct
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has fired Human Rights Minister Silvio Almeida following reports he engaged in sexual misconduct, the presidential palace said in a statement Friday evening. “The president considers keeping the minister in his...
The former Uvalde schools police chief asks a judge to throw out the charges against him
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The former Uvalde, Texas, schools police chief asked a judge on Friday to throw out the criminal indictment filed against him over the slow law enforcement response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead. In a...
An American woman accused of killing 2 of her children fights extradition in a London court
LONDON (AP) — An American woman accused of killing her two youngest children in Colorado last December told her 11-year-old daughter who survived the attack that God made her do it, a prosecutor said in a London court. The girl begged for her life after Kimberlee Singler stabbed...
Trump assails women who accused him of misconduct, days before his debate with Harris
WASHINGTON (AP) — Shortly after appearing in court for an appeal of a decision that found him liable for sexual abuse, Donald Trump stepped in front of television cameras Friday and brought up a string of past allegations of other acts of sexual misconduct, potentially reminding voters of...
Appeals court upholds conviction of former Capitol police officer who tried to help rioter
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the conviction of a former U.S. Capitol police officer who tried to help a Virginia fisherman avoid criminal charges for joining a mob's attack on the building that his law-enforcement colleagues defended on Jan. 6, 2021. A...
Juries aren't swayed by defenses in Capitol riot trials
WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired New York police officer told a jury that he was acting in self-defense when he tackled a police officer and grabbed his gas mask during the Jan. 6 riot. Jurors deliberated for less than three hours before convicting the 20-year NYPD veteran, Thomas...
Google is blasted by UK watchdog for what it calls anti-competitive behavior through digital ads
LONDON (AP) — Google was slammed Friday by U.K. regulators who say it's taking advantage of its dominance in digital advertising to thwart competition in Britain, ratcheting up pressure that the tech giant is facing on both sides of the Atlantic over its “ad tech” business practices. ...
Telegram CEO defends himself against French charges in first public comments
PARIS (AP) — Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov promised to step up efforts to fight criminality on the messaging app, his first public comments since French authorities handed him preliminary charges for allegedly allowing the platform's use for criminal activity. In a Telegram...
