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Sen. Bob Menendez arrives at court to answer to bribery case charges as he rejects calls to resign

Sep. 27, 2023 10:58 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez on Wednesday arrived at a courthouse where he's due to answer to charges that he used his powerful post to secretly advance Egyptian interests and do favors for New Jersey businessmen in exchange for bribes of cash and gold bars. The New...

Lebanese military court sentences an Islamic State group official to 160 years in prison

Sep. 27, 2023 10:56 AM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese military court has sentenced an official with the extremist Islamic State group to 160 years in prison for carrying out deadly attacks against security forces and planning others targeting government buildings and crowded civilian areas, judicial officials said Wednesday....

Fiancée remembers slain California deputy's goodbye kiss days after they got engaged

Sep. 27, 2023 10:43 AM EDT

Just days after getting engaged, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer said goodbye to his fiancée for the last time. “I remember that day too, he kissed me goodbye, told me he loved me and I said, ‘I’ll see you later,’” Brittany Lindsey said in a...

Bahrain rights group says 13 convicted over prison sit-in that authorities say was violent

Sep. 27, 2023 09:56 AM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain has sentenced 13 prisoners to an additional three years over a sit-in held in a detention facility in 2021 that prison authorities say was violent. The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy said Wednesday that the convictions issued...

A 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death near London. A 17-year-old male suspect has been arrested

Sep. 27, 2023 09:50 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — A 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death while on her way to school just south of London on Wednesday morning, and a 17-year-old male suspect was arrested in connection with her death, police said. The Metropolitan Police said that officers were at the scene at around...

A rocket launcher shell accidentally explodes at a home in southern Pakistan and 8 people are dead

Sep. 27, 2023 03:37 AM EDT

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A shell of a rocket launcher apparently accidentally exploded at a home in a remote village in southern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, including women and children, police said. At least two people were also wounded in the blast in...

Abduction and terrorism trial after boy found dead at New Mexico compound opens with mom's testimony

Sep. 27, 2023 02:58 AM EDT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal prosecutors presented tearful testimony Tuesday from the mother of a sickly toddler who was whisked away from his Georgia home by relatives without her permission to a remote desert encampment in northern New Mexico where he died. Four family...

Expert ruling that Colorado supermarket shooting suspect is competent for trial set to be debated

Sep. 27, 2023 00:24 AM EDT

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A hearing begins Wednesday to determine if the man accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 is mentally competent to stand trial. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 24, was found mentally competent by experts at the state mental hospital in August,...

Jury convicts man with ties to 'boogaloo' movement in 2020 killing of federal security officer

Sep. 26, 2023 22:35 PM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man with ties to the “boogaloo” extremist movement was convicted of murder and attempted murder by a federal jury Tuesday in the 2020 killing of a federal security officer in Northern California during protests against police brutality. Robert Alvin...

South Korean court denies arrest warrant for opposition leader Lee in corruption allegations

Sep. 26, 2023 20:53 PM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean judge on Wednesday denied an arrest warrant for the country’s opposition leader on broad corruption allegations, saying there wasn't a clear risk that he would destroy evidence. Lee Jae-myung, who awaited the decision at a detention...