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No charges in Amir Locke shooting is no surprise to legal experts, who say the law must change
MINNEAPOLIS — The decision not to charge the Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Amir Locke during a botched no-knock raid in February came as little surprise to legal observers, many of whom said the law leaves members of the public at risk.
"If they had taken this to trial, this probably would have been dismissed out of hand," said ...Read more
Granted immunity, former Baltimore police sergeant admits to decades worth of crimes
BALTIMORE — Money. Cocaine. A gun.
Former Baltimore Police Sgt. Keith Gladstone admitted to stealing all of that, and more, during his testimony as a witness for the U.S. government in an ongoing trial against one of his previous subordinates.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Leo Wise had Gladstone take the stand Tuesday to testify against former ...Read more
Hip-hop icon Kidd Creole found guilty of manslaughter in stabbing of homeless man in Manhattan
NEW YORK — Hip-hop icon Kidd Creole was convicted of manslaughter for stabbing a homeless man to death in 2017, despite the music legend’s self-defense claims.
Nathaniel Glover, 61, a member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, was found guilty of manslaughter after a Manhattan Supreme Court jury deliberated for about three hours ...Read more
More sanctions hit Russia as Zelenskyy warns of new wartime hardships
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces carried out punishing strikes against key Ukrainian cities on Wednesday, brushing aside mounting world outrage over the execution-style killings of civilians even as Washington and its Western allies moved to impose sharp new sanctions against Moscow.
In suburbs around the capital, Kyiv, Ukrainian investigators ...Read more
Shanghai calls on party members to 'draw swords' in COVID fight
China’s ruling Communist Party issued a rare call imploring rank-and-file members to help contain the coronavirus in Shanghai, a sign of the strain the locked-down financial hub of 25 million people is under as its worst outbreak to date spreads.
“We must dare to draw our swords and fight against all kinds of behaviors that interfere with ...Read more
North Korea may plan for nuclear test next week, US envoy says
North Korea might be considering conducting a nuclear test next week to coincide with national celebrations to mark the birthday of its deceased founder, the Biden administration’s point man for Pyongyang warned.
Sung Kim, the U.S.’s special envoy for North Korea, told reporters Wednesday that Pyongyang might be looking at some sort of ...Read more
Transit police officer and two civilians shot in Philly shootout; gunman found dead
PHILADELPHIA — A SEPTA transit police officer was hospitalized in critical but stable condition after gun battle erupted Wednesday evening between police and a man suspected of shooting two women in the city's Frankford section.
The male suspect was later found dead inside an apartment building where he had barricaded himself and was firing ...Read more
In Chicago, Obama warns that Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a warning of how 'flabby' and 'feckless' democracy has become
CHICAGO — Russia President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a warning that world democracy has gotten “flabby and confused and feckless” at a time of growing boldness and misguided support for authoritarianism, former President Barack Obama told a Chicago audience Wednesday.
“Putin represented a very particular reaction to the ...Read more
Second COVID booster shot extends protection for just a few weeks, study shows
A fourth shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine increased protection against viral infection for only four to seven weeks, according to a massive study published Tuesday.
The study included 1.25 million people age 60 and over in Israel who received their fourth dose between January and March. Israel uses only the Pfizer vaccine.
People who got ...Read more
Mocked as 'rubble' by Biden, Russia's ruble comes roaring back
In the days after the Ukraine war began, the ruble’s collapse was a potent symbol of Russia’s newfound financial isolation.
International sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s regime sank it to a record low of 121.5 rubles per dollar, triggering memories of the battering it took during the 1998 Russian financial crisis.
Things looked dire enough...Read more
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Lawmakers question oil executives on price gouging, but seem cool to price controls
WASHINGTON — As consumers fume over skyrocketing prices for gasoline and other commodities, congressional Democrats on Wednesday called executives from big oil companies on the carpet to explain why they appear to be making unseemly fat profits in the face of ...Read more
First week of Stoneman Douglas shooting trial ends with several dozen potential jurors
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Parkland school shooting trial ended its first week Wednesday, with several dozen potential jurors passing the first cut to serve on a case expected to last through September.
Despite the explosive nature of the trial, the first week opened quietly, with the Fort Lauderdale courtroom’s spectator benches almost ...Read more
Texas' drought is the worst in years. Is the state on the brink of widespread disaster?
FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas is in the worst drought conditions since 2011, when 95% of the state was in drought. Eleven years ago, parched conditions caused more than $7 billion in crop and livestock losses, sparked wildfires, pushed power grids to the limit and reduced reservoirs to dangerously low levels, according to the University of Texas ...Read more
Ketanji Brown Jackson on track for Thursday vote on history-making Supreme Court confirmation
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is on track for a Supreme Court confirmation vote this week as Republicans signaled they would not seek to stall her history-making appointment.
The vote to make Jackson the first Black woman to sit on the nation’s top court is now expected to take place no later than late Thursday after Sen. John Thune of South ...Read more
Boat captain pleads guilty in 3 smuggling deaths off San Diego coast
SAN DIEGO — The man at the helm of a smuggling boat that capsized off Point Loma, ending in the deaths of three migrants, pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court Wednesday to his role in the tragedy.
Antonio Hurtado, a 40-year-old U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty to felony charges of attempted human smuggling resulting in death and attempted ...Read more
Postal Service wants to raise prices of first-class mail again
Less than a year after raising the prices of Forever stamps, the U.S. Postal Service is hiking them up once again.
The USPS said Wednesday that it filed notice for a two-cent increase that will bring the price of first-class stamps to 60 cents a piece. The agency previously raised the price from 55 cents to its current 58 cents in August 2021. ...Read more
Media critic Eric Boehlert killed in bike accident
NEW YORK — Media critic and journalist Eric Boehlert has died following a bike accident in New Jersey. He was 57.
Boehlert was fatally struck Monday night in Montclair, where he lived with his family, about 20 miles northwest of New York City, his wife, Tracy Breslin, confirmed to the Daily News.
Calling him “an amazing husband and a ...Read more
Minneapolis officer who fatally shot Amir Locke won't be charged
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an armed 22-year-old Amir Locke during a SWAT raid in early February will not be charged with a crime, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman and Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Wednesday.
Calling Locke a "victim" and urging policymakers to reexamine the police tactic of no...Read more
Kentucky governor vetoes bill banning transgender girls from girls' sports
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Gov. Andy Beshear issued a veto Wednesday of a bill that would ban transgender girls from participating in girls or women’s sports grades six through senior year of college.
Senate Bill 83, sponsored by Sen. Robby Mills, R-Henderson, sailed through Kentucky’s GOP-dominated state legislature with scant support from ...Read more
Sheriff Villanueva launches criminal investigation into leak of use-of-force video
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he is launching a criminal investigation to find out who leaked security video of an incident in which a deputy knelt on the head of a handcuffed inmate for more than three minutes.
The Times published video last month of the March 2021 incident and detailed efforts by department ...Read more
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