By SOPHIE BATES JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Federal authorities on Thursday announced indictments against 20 people, including 14 current or former Mississippi Delta law enforcement officers, that allege the officers took bribes to provide safe passage to people they believed … Continued
Marjorie Johnson, the witty home baker who was a perennial Minnesota State Fair ribbon winner for more than five decades, died Thursday at 106. Her son Steven Johnson said she moved to Little Hospice in Edina on Wednesday afternoon. Staff … Continued
By AARON MORRISON and ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is investigating whether leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement defrauded donors who contributed tens of millions of dollars during racial justice protests in 2020, according to multiple … Continued
By BRIAN WITTE ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland state senator has been indicted on federal charges including extortion related to her 2022 campaign for a state House seat for allegedly conspiring to threaten the release of an explicit video … Continued
“The next mayor’s commitment to public safety shouldn’t be measured by how many people they jail, but by how they prevent harm before it happens, and reduce incarceration as a result.” A rally calling for the closure of Rikers Island … Continued
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to provide dozens of lawyers to the Justice Department for temporary assignments in Memphis and near the U.S.-Mexico border that could run through next fall, according … Continued