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Latest challenge to North Carolina's power-shifting law focuses on state elections board control

Dec. 23, 2024 22:11 PM EST

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's current governor and his successor tacked on another lawsuit Monday disputing a key provision within a GOP law that erodes the powers of several incoming Democratic state leaders — the latest in a longstanding power struggle between North Carolina's...

Prosecutors withdraw appeal of dismissed case against Alec Baldwin in fatal movie set shooting

Dec. 23, 2024 21:20 PM EST

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico prosecutors won’t pursue an appeal of a court’s decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting on a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie, the Santa Fe district attorney’s office announced Monday. ...

Inside the Gaetz ethics report, a trove of new details alleging payments for sex and drug use

Dec. 23, 2024 20:23 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee's long-awaited report on Matt Gaetz documents a trove of salacious allegations, including sex with an underage girl, that tanked the Florida Republican's bid to lead the Justice Department. Citing text messages, travel receipts, online...

UN investigative team says Syria's new authorities `very receptive' to probe of Assad war crimes

Dec. 23, 2024 19:27 PM EST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. organization assisting in investigating the most serious crimes in Syria said Monday the country’s new authorities were “very receptive” to its request for cooperation during a just-concluded visit to Damascus, and it is preparing to deploy. The...

Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murder and weapons charges in UnitedHealthcare CEO's death

Dec. 23, 2024 18:33 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of fatally shooting the CEO of UnitedHealthcare pleaded not guilty on Monday to state murder and terror charges while his attorney complained that comments coming from New York’s mayor would make it tough to receive a fair trial. Luigi Mangione,...

Relief, defiance, anger: Families and advocates react to Biden's death row commutations

Dec. 23, 2024 18:16 PM EST

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Victims' families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions shared a range of emotions on Monday, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences. Biden converted the sentences of 37...

Inside the state and federal charges against the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO

Dec. 23, 2024 18:16 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — A triptych of criminal charges paints a searing, sometimes disparate portrait of the man accused of ambushing and killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson as the executive arrived at a Manhattan hotel for his company’s annual investor conference. Filed...

Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates before Trump can resume executions

Dec. 23, 2024 18:11 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes...

Adnan Syed's lawyers seek to reduce his prison sentence

Dec. 23, 2024 17:23 PM EST

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Attorneys for Adnan Syed, whose complex legal case was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial," are seeking to have his prison sentence reduced as he awaits further court decisions. Syed was released from prison in 2022 and has remained free ever since, though his court...

House Ethics Committee accuses Gaetz of paying for sex, including with 17-year-old girl

Dec. 23, 2024 15:21 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee on Monday accused Matt Gaetz of “regularly” paying for sex, including once with a 17-year-old girl, and purchasing and using illicit drugs as a member of Congress, as lawmakers released the conclusions of a nearly four-year investigation that...