Arizona man gets life sentence for killing, burying couple
An Arizona man was sentenced on Monday to life in prison for killing a couple and burying them in his backyard in a 6-foot-deep grave he dug with a borrowed backhoe, his lawyer said.
New York officer fired, but tensions still high where Eric Garner died
Hassan Johnson was getting his head shaved on Monday at the same barber shop Eric Garner used to visit.
Late-season fires flare up in drought-stricken parts of Alaska
Late-season wildfires during one of the driest summers on record in Anchorage have destroyed homes, forced evacuations, closed roads and schools and poured sometimes-dangerous levels of smoke into the state’s most populous region.
U.S. attorney general shakes up prison bureau after Epstein death
U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Monday shook up the leadership at the federal Bureau of Prisons, removing its acting chief following the suicide of financier Jeffrey Epstein in a New York City jail.
Avenatti says he did nothing wrongful in Nike extortion case
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer and critic of U.S. President Donald Trump, on Monday said he did nothing “wrongful” in dealing with Nike Inc, and asked a federal judge to dismiss the criminal extortion case against him.
Ohio man, one of three alleged thwarted mass shooters, denies charges in court
An alleged self-described white nationalist, one of three men in the United States accused of planning mass shootings in a week, pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges that he threatened to attack a Jewish community center, the court clerk said.
Democratic hopeful Warren apologizes for Native American ancestry claims
U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren on Monday apologized again for her claims in the 1980s that she is Native American, speaking to a crowd of tribal leaders in Iowa.
Planned Parenthood turns down U.S. subsidies in fight over abortion referrals
Planned Parenthood said on Monday it would no longer accept grants from a federal program subsidizing reproductive healthcare for low-income women after the Trump administration banned participants in the program from referring women to abortion provid…
U.S. tests first ground-launched cruise missile after INF treaty exit
The Pentagon said on Monday it tested a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile with a range of more than 500 km (310 miles), the first such test since the United States pulled out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)….
New York police fire officer who placed Eric Garner in deadly chokehold
The white New York City police officer who used a deadly chokehold on Eric Garner during a 2014 arrest was fired on Monday, five years after video of the encounter fueled nationwide protests against police brutality.
