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amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Six former Rankin County, Mississippi, law enforcement officers are set to be sentenced beginning Tuesday morning after pleading guilty to federal charges stemming from the racially motivated torture of two Black men during an incident that took place on Jan. 24, 2023. Former Rankin County sheriff’s (RCSO) deputies Brett McAlpin, […]
ABC News (OWASSO, Okla.) — The death of LGBTQ teen Nex Benedict following a fight in a high school restroom has been ruled a suicide, shining a renewed spotlight on the intensifying environment in Oklahoma schools and anti-LGBTQ bullying. ABC News spoke with former students and local parents, who say that the impact of anti-LGBTQ […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — No Labels may finally have a candidate in consideration for its third-party “unity ticket” in the 2024 presidential election. Sources familiar with the group’s efforts to field a third-party ticket tell ABC News that No Labels representatives have had meetings with former Georgia GOP Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan about […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Terry Szuplat, a former speechwriter for President Barack Obama, spoke with ABC News’ Linsey Davis Thursday just before President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, about his experiences helping craft the speech as part of the Obama White House. Szuplat, who will soon release a new book, “Say It Well,” […]
Jorge Cabrera/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted Friday in a Manhattan federal court on drug trafficking charges. Hernandez, who served as president of Honduras from 2014 to 2022, had been charged by U.S. authorities with drug trafficking and weapons offenses that linked him to tons of cocaine imported […]
Diyosa Carter/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A former librarian has filed a lawsuit against Llano County, Texas, and local library officials after she says she was fired for refusing to purge certain books from the library’s collection. “A public library is a foundation of any good society,” Suzette Baker, who had been appointed head librarian […]
Brian Mulroney, Canada’s former prime minister, sits for a photograph before introducing George Mitchell, a former Senator from Maine, not pictured, at the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. — Cole Burston/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has died at 84 […]
Raul Rubiera/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A former U.S. ambassador charged with spying for Cuban intelligence over a more than four-decade span told a judge Thursday he plans to plead guilty in his case, according to court records. Manuel Rocha, who rose through the ranks of the U.S. government and ultimately […]
ABC News LONDON — A court in Siberia denied on Thursday the appeal of Ksenia Karelina, a dual American-Russian citizen, who appeared via video link to appeal her detention on charges of treason. Karelina, 33, was arrested on Jan. 27, according to Russian state media. The Sverdlovsk Regional Court on Thursday extended her pre-trial detention […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A former State Department contracted officer responsible for diplomatic security was arrested Tuesday on charges that he breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Kevin Alstrup was charged with four misdemeanor offenses including entering and remaining in a restricted building, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building, disorderly conduct […]