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Owner of exploding Michigan building arrested at airport while trying to leave US, authorities say

Apr. 26, 2024 13:24 PM EDT

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a suburban Detroit business that caught fire and exploded, killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authorities said Friday. U.S. Customs and New York Port...

A man accused in a Harvard bomb threat and extortion plot is sentenced to 3 years probation

Apr. 26, 2024 13:20 PM EDT

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A New Hampshire man accused of participating in a plot in which a caller issued bomb threats last year to Harvard University and demanded a large amount of bitcoin was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation. The threats caused the evacuation of...

Chicago appeals court rejects R. Kelly 's challenge of 20-year sentence

Apr. 26, 2024 13:06 PM EDT

CHICAGO (AP) — The singer R. Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sex convictions in Chicago, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Jurors in 2022 convicted the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, on three charges of producing...

Charges against Trump's 2020 'fake electors' are expected to deter a repeat this year

Apr. 26, 2024 12:42 PM EDT

An Arizona grand jury's indictment of 18 people who either posed as or helped organize a slate of electors falsely claiming that former President Donald Trump won the state in 2020 could help shape the landscape of challenges to the 2024 election. The indictment issued Wednesday is...

These people were charged with interfering in the 2020 election. Some are still in politics today

Apr. 26, 2024 11:57 AM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud. At least five states that were won in 2020 by President Joe Biden have investigated...

A Russian journalist has been detained for posts criticizing the military, his lawyer says

Apr. 26, 2024 08:17 AM EDT

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A journalist for the Russian edition of Forbes magazine has been detained on charges of spreading false information about the Russian military, his lawyer said Friday. Sergei Mingazov is being held in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, lawyer Konstantin...

A Turkish court sentences a Syrian woman to life in prison for a bombing in Istanbul in 2022

Apr. 26, 2024 07:29 AM EDT

ISTANBUL (AP) — A court on Friday sentenced a Syrian woman to life in prison for a deadly explosion on a busy shopping district in Istanbul in 2022, Turkey's state-run news agency reported. Alham Albashir was given seven consecutive life sentences after being convicted on terrorism...

Trading Trump: Truth Social's first month of trading has sent investors on a ride

Apr. 26, 2024 00:09 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — There have been lawsuits, short-selling and rampant speculation. Now, as Trump Media & Technology Group approaches its first month as a publicly traded company, it’s clear that — like the man it’s named after — there’s nothing typical about the stock. ...

Key moments from landmark Supreme Court arguments on Trump's immunity claims

Apr. 25, 2024 21:53 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — There was talk of drone strikes and presidential bribes, of a potential ruling “for the ages” and of the Founding Fathers, too. The presidential race went unmentioned but was not far from mind. The Supreme Court heard more than 2 1/2 hours worth of arguments...

Ex-tabloid publisher testifies he scooped up possibly damaging tales to shield his old friend Trump

Apr. 25, 2024 21:38 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — As Donald Trump was running for president in 2016, his old friend at the National Enquirer was scooping up potentially damaging stories about the candidate and paying out tens of thousands of dollars to keep them from the public eye. But when it came to the seamy...