The church was named Good News. Hundreds of members died in a cult massacre that haunts survivors

MALINDI, Kenya (AP) — Shukran Karisa Mangi always showed up drunk at work, where he dug up the bodies of doomsday cult members buried in shallow graves. But the alcohol couldn’t numb his shock the morning he found the body of a close friend, whose neck had been twisted so severely that his head...

Congo court sentences 3 Americans and 34 others to death on coup charges

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A military court in Congo handed down death sentences Friday to 37 people, including three Americans, after convicting them on charges of participating in a coup attempt. The defendants, most of them Congolese but also including a Briton, Belgian and...

State Department diplomatic security officer pleads guilty to storming Capitol

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who worked as a U.S. State Department diplomatic security officer pleaded guilty on Friday to joining a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol over three years ago, court records show. Kevin Michael Alstrup is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 12 by U.S. District...

Officers' reports on fatal Tyre Nichols beating omitted punches and kicks, lieutenant testifies

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Three former Memphis police officers broke department rules when they failed to say that they punched and kicked Tyre Nichols on required forms submitted after the January 2023 fatal beating, a police lieutenant testified Friday. Larnce Wright, who trained the...

California pair convicted in Chinese birth tourism scheme

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury on Friday convicted a Southern California couple of running a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States without revealing their intentions to give birth to babies who would automatically have American citizenship. Michael Liu...

An ex-Pentagon official accused of electrocuting dogs pleads guilty to dogfighting charges

BALTIMORE (AP) — A former Pentagon official who was federally indicted last year on dogfighting charges in Maryland has pleaded guilty to some of the counts against him. Frederick Moorefield Jr., 63, entered the guilty plea Friday. Investigators found evidence he had engaged in...

Georgia’s lieutenant governor won’t be charged in 2020 election interference case

ATLANTA (AP) — A special prosecutor has decided not to pursue charges against Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones over efforts to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 presidential election loss in the state. Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia on...

Justin Timberlake pleads guilty to impaired driving in New York

SAG HARBOR, N.Y. (AP) — Justin Timberlake urged drivers not to get behind the wheel of a car after even a single alcoholic drink on Friday, shortly after pleading guilty to driving while impaired in New York’s Hamptons earlier this year. The public safety announcement in front of...

Nebraska attorney general alleges thousands of invalid signatures on marijuana ballot petitions and 1 man faces charges

India's top court releases New Delhi's chief minister on bail after 6 months in jail

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court on Friday freed on bail Arvind Kejriwal, a prominent opposition leader and chief minister of New Delhi, who was arrested nearly six months ago ahead of national elections on charges of receiving bribes from a liquor distributor. Supreme Court...