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The six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who tortured and abused two Black men in a racist attack were sentenced on Wednesday to 15 to 45 years in prison on state charges. The men — former Rankin County Sheriff’s deputies Brett Morris McAlpin, 53; Christian Dedmon, 29; Jeffrey Middleton, 46; Hunter Elward, 31; and Daniel […]
10 April 2024 Updated 1 hour ago Image caption, Julian Assange in 2017 US President Joe Biden has said that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The country’s parliament recently passed a measure – backed by PM Anthony Albanese – calling for the return of […]
Kremlin-controlled media lit up this week with news that an American veteran had signed a contract with the Russian military in a bold act of defiance against U.S. support for Ukraine. “Wil is staunchly convinced of the need to support Russia and admires the tenacity and heroism of our soldiers,” one
Eight Bronx men were charged on Wednesday with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of beer, mostly Modelo and Corona imported from Mexico, by robbing train yards and warehouses in dozens of thefts across the Northeast over the past two years. An indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors in Manhattan accuses Jose Cesari as being […]
By Brandon Drenon BBC News 29 March 2024 Image source, Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Getty Images Image caption, Crystal Mason was convicted for illegal voting in 2018. A woman in Texas who had been sentenced to five years in prison for wrongfully voting in the 2016 election has been acquitted of the charges.
U.S. federal prosecutors charged crypto exchange KuCoin and two of its founders with violating anti-money laundering laws on Tuesday, saying the exchange operated in the U.S., lied to at least one of its investors about operating in the U.S. and failed to both register with U.S. government entities and maintain an anti-money laundering program. The […]
Washington —The Justice Department announced charges against seven Chinese nationals with ties to a state-sponsored group in a hacking scheme, accusing the individuals of targeting U.S. businesses and political officials, candidates and campaign staff to promote the Chinese government’s “economic espionage and foreign intelligence objectives.” The indictment charges the seven individuals, which were allegedly part […]
The founder of a District nonprofit serving homeless LGBTQ youths will be allowed to leave the D.C. jail while she fights federal charges that she diverted $150,000 of pandemic relief funds meant to support the group’s indigent clients to her own accounts in El Salvador. Ruby Corado, 53, the founder . . .
On Feb. 23, 2024, a segment of a speech made by former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Black Conservative Federation gala went viral due to confusing remarks in which he appeared to claim that Black people liked him because of his numerous criminal indictments. Social media users posited differing interpretations of what he meant. […]
Donald Trump made the comments in a speech to Black conservatives Charleston, United States: US Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley on Saturday lashed out at rival Donald Trump for making what she called “disgusting” comments about Black Americans. Trump, who . . .