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Russia fires deputy defense minister jailed on bribery charges and extends his arrest

Jun. 21, 2024 00:15 AM EDT

Russian authorities have formally dismissed a deputy defense minister jailed on bribery charges and accused by Kremlin critics of living a lavish lifestyle, Russian media reported Thursday. A court ordered that his pretrial detention be extended for three more months. Timur Ivanov,...

Motion after motion puts Trump Florida case in slow motion as 3-day hearing begins

Jun. 21, 2024 00:14 AM EDT

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump is hearing arguments Friday on a long-shot defense effort to get the indictment thrown out based on the claim that the prosecutor who brought the charges was illegally...

The former nuncio to the US says he faces schism charges from the Vatican

Jun. 20, 2024 21:26 PM EDT

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s former nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, said on Thursday that he has been summoned by the Vatican to face charges of schism. The archbishop posted the two-page decree from the Vatican’s Dicastry for the Doctrine of...

Rapper Travis Scott arrested after Miami Beach police say he drunkenly yelled at people on a yacht

Jun. 20, 2024 20:25 PM EDT

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Rapper Travis Scott was arrested in Miami Beach early Thursday on misdemeanor charges of trespassing and public intoxication after officers say they found him at the city's marina shouting obscenities at people on a yacht and disobeyed their order to leave. ...

Survivors of New Hampshire motorcycle crash that killed 7 urge a judge to keep trucker off the road

Jun. 19, 2024 16:00 PM EDT

Days before the five-year anniversary of a crash that killed seven motorcyclists, relatives and friends urged New Hampshire officials Wednesday not to allow the trucker involved back on the state's roadways. A jury in 2022 found Volodymyr Zhukovskyy not guilty of multiple...

Iowa man pleads not guilty to killing four people with a metal pipe earlier this month

Jun. 19, 2024 15:20 PM EDT

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa man accused of killing four people with a metal pipe earlier this month has filed a written plea of not guilty to murder charges. Luke Wade Truesdell, 34, filed his not guilty plea Tuesday to four counts of first-degree murder. A judge ordered him...

2 French boys are accused of raping a 12-year-old Jewish girl in an act of antisemitism

Jun. 19, 2024 13:52 PM EDT

PARIS (AP) — Two adolescent boys in a Paris suburb have been given preliminary charges of raping a 12-year-old girl and religion-motivated violence, French authorities said Wednesday. A Jewish leader said the girl is Jewish. The attack elicited widespread shock and concern,...

5 family members of Malaysian man who attacked police station face terrorism charges

Jun. 19, 2024 06:26 AM EDT

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The father of a Malaysian man who attacked a police station and killed two police officers last month was charged Wednesday with inciting terrorism in his family. His Singaporean wife and three other children were also brought to court to face charges. ...

Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin is in trouble again as he's indicted for royal defamation

Jun. 18, 2024 21:37 PM EDT

BANGKOK (AP) — Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was indicted and arraigned Tuesday on a charge of defaming the country’s monarchy in one of several court cases that have rattled Thai politics. He was granted bail. Thaksin is the unofficial power behind the party...

Jury deliberates in state case against man who attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband with hammer

Jun. 18, 2024 19:00 PM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A judge on Tuesday expelled from court the former partner of the conspiracy theorist charged with breaking into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home in 2022, banning her from the public gallery as the man's state trial wrapped up. Gypsy Taub, who has two...