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More teens would be tried in adult courts for gun offenses under Kentucky bill winning final passage

Mar. 27, 2024 21:32 PM EDT

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A bill intended to combat teen crime by transferring more youths for trial in adult courts when charged with gun-related gun offenses won final passage in the Kentucky legislature on Wednesday. The Senate voted 24-10 to sent the bill to Democratic Gov. Andy...

Hunter Biden's lawyers push California judge to toss out tax charges

Mar. 27, 2024 20:12 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for Hunter Biden asked a judge Wednesday to toss out the tax case accusing him of a four-year scheme to avoid paying $1.4 million in taxes while living an extravagant lifestyle. President Joe Biden's son has pleaded not guilty to the nine felony and...

Donald Trump assails judge and his daughter after gag order in New York hush-money criminal case

Mar. 27, 2024 19:54 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at the New York judge who put him under a gag order ahead of his April 15 hush-money criminal trial, making a fallacious claim about his daughter and urging him to step aside from the case. In a social media post, the former...

Hurry up and wait: Trump's classified documents case is mired in delays that may run past election

Mar. 27, 2024 14:58 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The case against Donald Trump seemed relatively straightforward in August 2022 when FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago estate, with authorities citing evidence that the former president hoarded enough classified documents to fill dozens of boxes and obstructed the government's...

In first, an Argentine court convicts ex-officers of crimes against trans women during dictatorship

Mar. 26, 2024 21:27 PM EDT

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Judges overseeing a high-profile human rights trial in Argentina convicted 11 former officials of crimes against humanity on Tuesday, in the first case to focus on the former military dictatorship's overlooked practice of committing sexual violence against...

Texas AG Ken Paxton reaches deal to end securities fraud charges after 9 years

Mar. 26, 2024 18:34 PM EDT

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday agreed to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution under a deal to end criminal securities fraud charges that have shadowed the Republican for nearly a decade. The announcement by special prosecutors in a Houston courtroom came...

Judge issues gag order barring Donald Trump from commenting on witnesses, others in hush money case

Mar. 26, 2024 18:18 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge Tuesday issued a gag order barring Donald Trump from commenting publicly about witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and jurors in his upcoming hush-money criminal trial, citing the former president's history of “threatening, inflammatory, denigrating" remarks...

Trial date set in August for ex-elected official accused of killing Las Vegas journalist

Mar. 26, 2024 16:11 PM EDT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge on Tuesday tentatively set an Aug. 5 trial date for a former Las Vegas-area elected official accused of killing an investigative journalist. But she acknowledged that still more time might be needed to finish searching the slain reporter's computers for possible...

Tunisian journalist accused of insulting a public official to face trial next month

Mar. 26, 2024 14:03 PM EDT

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A prominent Tunisian journalist was put under pre-trial detention on a judge's order after a Tuesday hearing in which he dangled the prospect of publishing reporting on corruption and the misuse of public funds by several ministers and public institutions. ...

Trump's New York hush money case is set for trial April 15

Mar. 25, 2024 20:43 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The first of Donald Trump’s four criminal trials will begin April 15, a Manhattan judge ruled Monday after tearing into the former president’s lawyers for what he said were unfounded claims that the hush-money case had been tainted by prosecutorial misconduct. ...