BALTIMORE — Federal prosecutors filed notice Friday that they will ask to seize former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s Florida vacation condo on the same day as her sentencing on perjury and mortgage fraud charges.

The government indicated early on in the case that it would seek forfeiture. Friday’s filing formalizes ...Read more

NEW YORK — Rep. Jerry Nadler Friday derided Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu as the worst leader of the Jewish people since an infamous Biblical turncoat.

The liberal Manhattan Democrat said Netanyahu has done more damage to his own people than anyone since a Jewish monarch of the Hasmonean dynasty who invited Roman invaders into the Holy ...Read more

CHICAGO — The University of Chicago announced it was prepared to “intervene” to remove the pro-Palestine encampment from the school’s Main Quadrangle, president Paul Alivisatos said Friday, claiming student protestors have created a “systemic disruption” on campus.

Meanwhile, tensions heightened Friday afternoon when a group of ...Read more

ATLANTA — A group of protesters including Georgia State University students staged a Friday afternoon march to protest the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange.

The march began at 3 p.m. at Hurt Park near the GSU student center, proceeded to the intersection of Park Place and Auburn Avenue and then up the steps to the Andrew Young ...Read more

Policing experts said the timeline and context of events in Monday’s fatal shootout in Charlotte — in which four law enforcement officers were killed — is important in understanding what happened.

A review could lead to changes at law enforcement agencies nationally, one expert said.

“A situation like (Monday’s) was always my biggest...Read more

ATLANTA — Daniel Black calls serving as his alma mater’s commencement speaker the greatest honor of a lifetime.

Black is a professor of African American studies at Clark Atlanta University, where he will deliver his speech on May 18. He’s giddy talking about it. Other high-profile names making addresses to local graduates include ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The state of Missouri will defend three state senators who each face federal lawsuits for sharing social media posts falsely accusing a man of being a shooter in the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting.

Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s office is representing Republican Sens. Rick Brattin of ...Read more

The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine, with the massive outlay being repaid with the windfall profits from sovereign Russian assets that have been frozen – and are accruing interest — mostly in Europe.

The plan is being discussed among the Group of Seven ...Read more

DENVER — Denver police Chief Ron Thomas said Friday that he refused a second request from officials at the Auraria Campus to clear pro-Palestine demonstrators from an encampment after police arrested 45 people in a tense sweep of the site last week — and said there is currently “no legal way” for officers to dismantle the demonstration. ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Perhaps they just lost a spouse, or went through a traumatic health scare. Perhaps, as they’ve grown older, they’ve simply become lonely. Then someone calls bearing good news.

Over 50 elderly Americans answered the phone to such news a couple years ago, told by callers based in Broward County that they had won a ...Read more

ATLANTA — A new study has brought the public health concern of vaping back to the forefront. Electronic cigarettes have already been branded unsafe for kids, teens and young adults by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and new evidence has linked the vapes to possible increased exposure of harmful heavy metals.

Most...Read more

DENVER — A fundraising dinner for the Jefferson County Republican Party slated to feature South Dakota governor and vice-presidential hopeful Kristi Noem has been canceled because of safety concerns amid fallout from her admission in a new book that she killed a family dog over behavioral issues, party officials announced Friday.

The ...Read more

ATLANTA — DeKalb County police may open an investigation after residents near Emory University found their neighborhood littered with antisemitic fliers Thursday morning.

Authorities received several complaints about the fliers after they were found strewn through the Emory Highlands neighborhood off of North Decatur Road, DeKalb police ...Read more

As a historic global conference of the United Methodist Church draws to a close in Charlotte Friday, the issue of homosexuality that has driven away many of the denomination’s churches appears settled.

Delegates on Thursday removed language in Methodist Church laws that for decades has said homosexuality was “incompatible” with Christian ...Read more

CHICAGO — The heads of the Chicago Police Department and Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office were joined by Mayor Brandon Johnson in announcing murder charges against the man who allegedly shot and killed off-duty CPD officer Luis Huesca last month in Gage Park.

“Today, we honor (Huesca) as we hold accountable the offender who is ...Read more

ATHENS — A group of University of Georgia professors plans to call on the university to immediately lift the suspensions of students who were arrested Monday in a campus protest.

A draft of the letter the group plans to submit to the administration says UGA had the right to bring in the police and enforce campus free speech policies.

But the...Read more

When San Diego County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer first saw the Coast Runner milling machine being marketed as some state-of-the-art product for creative people in California, she was livid.

Despite its chill name and the retro colors splashed on its side, Lawson-Remer said the Coast Runner was clearly just a rebranded Ghost Gunner — a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to former U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole.

The former North Carolina senator spent her political career shattering glass ceilings and fighting for women’s equality.

During her expansive career, Dole, 87, became the first woman to ...Read more