JERUSALEM (AP) 鈥� Tens of thousands of protesters on Tuesday blocked highways and train stations and massed in central Tel Aviv during a day of countrywide demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu鈥檚 contentious judicial overhaul plan.The protests, now in their seventh month, ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) 鈥� Illinois became the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail as a condition of pretrial release from jail on Tuesday when the state Supreme Court upheld the constitutionally of the law abolishing it.The 5-2 ruling overturns a Kankakee County judge's opinion in ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) 鈥� A grand jury indicted Ohio state Rep. Bob Young on misdemeanor domestic violence and assault charges Tuesday 鈥� but he has no plans to resign.Following a fundraising party earlier this month, the Republican lawmaker struck his wife in the face and threw her cellphone ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) 鈥� South Africa's president said Tuesday that arresting Russian President Vladimir Putin 鈥� should he show up at an economic summit next month in Johannesburg 鈥� would amount to a 鈥渄eclaration of war鈥� by his country.The August summit is bringing together Brazil, Russia, ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) 鈥� The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia is suing a county commissioner in the state's eastern panhandle for blocking a constituent on social media.The lawsuit filed Friday in Jefferson County Circuit Court alleges Jefferson County Commissioner Steve ...
CAIRO (AP) 鈥� An Egyptian court sentenced a rights activist on Tuesday to three years in prison over an opinion article he wrote in 2019 in a case that renewed global attention to Egypt's intolerance of government critics.The case of Patrick George Zaki has also echoed in Italy, where he was a ...
