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Tabloid publisher says he pledged to be Trump campaign's 'eyes and ears' during 2016 race

Apr. 23, 2024 21:25 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A veteran tabloid publisher testified Tuesday that he pledged to be Donald Trump 's “eyes and ears" during his 2016 presidential campaign, recounting how he promised the then-candidate that he would help suppress harmful stories and even arranged to purchase the silence of a...

North Carolina man sentenced to six years in prison for attacking police with pole at Capitol

Apr. 23, 2024 17:29 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who became a fugitive after a federal jury convicted him of assaulting police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison. David Joseph Gietzen, 31, of Sanford, North Carolina, struck a police officer with a pole...

Arizona judge declares mistrial in the case of a rancher accused of fatally shooting a migrant

Apr. 22, 2024 22:10 PM EDT

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a rancher accused of fatally shooting a Mexican man on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border. The decision came after jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision after more than two full days of...

Jury: BNSF Railway contributed to 2 deaths in Montana town where asbestos sickened thousands

Apr. 22, 2024 20:29 PM EDT

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal jury on Monday said BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people who were exposed to asbestos decades ago when tainted mining material was shipped through a Montana town where thousands have been sickened. The jury awarded $4 million each in...

Judge OKs phone surveys of jury pool for man charged in 4 University of Idaho student deaths

Apr. 22, 2024 20:11 PM EDT

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Defense attorneys for a man charged in the deaths of four University of Idaho students can resume phone surveys of potential jurors in the case, a judge has ruled. Bryan Kohberger faces four murder charges in connection with the November 2022 stabbing deaths of...

A Washington police officer killed 3 people in 8 years -- and faces a murder trial for the last one

Apr. 22, 2024 19:59 PM EDT

SEATTLE (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a suburban Seattle police officer charged with murder in the death of a 26-year-old man outside a convenience store in 2019 — the third person the officer had killed in the past eight years. Auburn officer Jeff Nelson...

Trump tried to 'corrupt' the 2016 election, prosecutor alleges as hush money trial gets underway

Apr. 22, 2024 18:52 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the start of the former president's historic hush money trial. "This was a...

Key takeaways from the opening statements in Donald Trump's hush money trial

Apr. 22, 2024 18:25 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Monday's opening statements in the first criminal trial of a former American president provided a clear roadmap of how prosecutors will try to make the case that Donald Trump broke the law, and how the defense plans to fight the charges on multiple fronts. Lawyers...

Jury deliberating in Iraq Abu Ghraib prison abuse civil case; contractor casts blame on Army

Apr. 22, 2024 16:34 PM EDT

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A lawyer for the military contractor being sued by three survivors of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told jurors Monday that the plaintiffs are suing the wrong people. “If you believe they were abused ... tell them to make their claim against the...

British climate protester won't be charged for sign telling jurors to vote their conscience

Apr. 22, 2024 14:30 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — A climate protester who could have faced up to two years in prison for holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants cannot be charged with contempt of court, a London judge ruled Monday. Trudi Warner had been arrested last...