PANAMA CITY (AP) 鈥� Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli was sentenced Tuesday to more than 10 years in prison for money laundering.Martinelli, 71, had been trying to mount a political comeback in next year鈥檚 general elections, but a judge sentenced him to 128 months in prison in a ...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) 鈥� The Virginia NAACP on Tuesday called on Gov. Glenn Youngkin to establish clear and publicly available criteria for restoring the voting rights of convicted felons who have served their time, saying the system now is secretive and could discriminate against people of ...
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 ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A New York City entrepreneur who illegally sold marijuana at a dozen shops across Manhattan must pay more than $400,000 in taxes and proceeds from illicit sales of cannabis, as part of a crackdown on the thousands of unlicensed operations across the city.The Manhattan District ...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) 鈥� The U.S.-led United Nations Command is trying to secure the release of <a href="https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-us-citizen-crossed-border-e4aaa883901052e65f5c400c8279438b">an American soldier who fled to North Korea from the South Korean side of ...
