Tag: Law and order
Supreme Court skeptical of low-level crack offender’s case
WASHINGTON — Crack cocaine trafficking kingpins convicted more than a decade ago can ask courts to reduce their prison terms under a 2018 federal...
Ethiopia ‘at a crossroads’ amid spiraling ethnic conflict
<p>GONDAR, Ethiopia — Aba Yosief Desta preferred not to discuss the ethnicities of victims in the widening conflicts threatening Ethiopia's unity. </p>
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National bail fund to expand in the Deep South
<p>A national effort helping to bail poor and low-income people out of jail formally announced on Tuesday its expansion into the Deep South.</p>
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Police arrest German who threatened politicians, journalists
BERLIN — Police in Berlin have arrested a 53-year-old German man on suspicion of sending dozens of threatening letters to politicians, lawyers and journalists...
Court: Black man made to work without pay entitled to $546K
RICHMOND, Va. — After a Black man with intellectual disabilities was enslaved, beaten and forced to work more than 100 hours a week without...
Iran police probe death of Swiss Embassy staffer in Tehran
<p>TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian police on Tuesday started investigating the death of a Swiss diplomat who died after reportedly falling from a high rise...
Supreme Court skeptical of low-level crack offender’s case
<p>WASHINGTON — Crack cocaine trafficking kingpins convicted more than a decade ago can ask courts to reduce their prison terms under a 2018 federal...
Iran police probe death of Swiss Embassy staffer in Tehran
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian police on Tuesday started investigating the death of a Swiss diplomat who died after reportedly falling from a high rise...
Holocaust survivor who testified against Eichmann dies at 91
JERUSALEM — Joseph Zalman Kleinman, a Holocaust survivor who survived the Auschwitz death camp and testified against Adolf Eichmann in the Nazi commander's trial...
Iranian authorities break up mixed-gender party, arrest 16
<p>TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian police arrested 16 men and women at a mixed-gender party in the northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi, the semi-official Tasnim...