• On the stand, Trump accuser says not reporting rape to police 'not surprising for somebody my age'

    On the stand, Trump accuser says not reporting rape to police 'not surprising for somebody my age'

    May 01, 2023 08:00 PM EST

    ... after people wrote in about sexual assaults and threats from partners and exes.“I always — in most cases — advised my readers to go to the police,” Carroll acknowledged. Tacopina also pointed out that although Carroll's memoir described sexual assaults by multiple men over the course of her life, Trump ...

  • Russia convicts former police officer over Ukraine war criticism

    Russia convicts former police officer over Ukraine war criticism

    Apr 25, 2023 06:44 PM EST

    TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Russia convicted a former police officer of publicly spreading false information about the country's military for criticizing the war in Ukraine to his friends over the phone. The ex-officer, Semiel Vedel, was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison under a law ...

  • 5 wounded in ramming near Jerusalem market, Israeli police say

    5 wounded in ramming near Jerusalem market, Israeli police say

    Apr 24, 2023 06:15 PM EST

    JERUSALEM (AP) — A car ramming attack Monday near a popular Jerusalem market wounded five people and the Palestinian driver was shot and killed, Israeli police said, as the country memorialized its fallen soldiers. The statement said the driver of the car was shot and killed at the scene near the ...

  • Former police officer who shot Breonna Taylor has new job in law enforcement

    Former police officer who shot Breonna Taylor has new job in law enforcement

    Apr 24, 2023 03:09 PM EST

    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The former Louisville police officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor has a new job in law enforcement in a county northeast of the city. The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday confirmed the hiring of Myles Cosgrove, who was fired from the Louisville Metro Police Department ...

  • Gunfire at prom after-party in Texas injures 9 teens, police say

    Gunfire at prom after-party in Texas injures 9 teens, police say

    Apr 24, 2023 01:45 PM EST

    Deputies in Jasper County said they responded just after midnight to shots fired at a home where the party was held and found nine victims with gunshot wounds that were not life-threatening.

  • House passes bill to overturn D.C. police accountability law

    House passes bill to overturn D.C. police accountability law

    Apr 19, 2023 10:52 PM EST

    But Democrats appeared to draw a line in the sand against overturning the new police accountability package, which is similar to a bill the party passed in the House after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in the summer of 2020. That bill never became law. The package ...

  • Tyre Nichols' family sues Memphis, says police unit 'targeted young Black men'

    Tyre Nichols' family sues Memphis, says police unit 'targeted young Black men'

    Apr 19, 2023 04:25 PM EST

    ... forming an identical unit at the Memphis Police Department that “predictably implemented the same unconstitutional mandates, policies, and customs” The lawsuit accuses Davis and other police supervisors of encouraging officers to engage in illegal searches and seizures. The lawsuit accuses the Memphis Police Department of lowering standards for who could ...

  • What are China's alleged 'secret overseas police stations'?

    What are China's alleged 'secret overseas police stations'?

    Apr 19, 2023 12:34 AM EST

    ... s Foreign Ministry says it operates the centers abroad to help citizens with bureaucratic tasks, such as renewing drivers’ licenses, that typically are done at police stations in China. But the Spain-based nongovernment group Safeguard Defenders accused Chinese police of using the offices to spy on critics abroad and ...

  • Social justice activists demand police reform after Jayland Walker decision

    Social justice activists demand police reform after Jayland Walker decision

    Apr 18, 2023 11:40 PM EST

    ... the kid on the corner, he was not the guy on the streets.” DiCello disputed how the state's investigation described Walker as shooting at police when he fired outside his car window. “There’s no gun pointed at anyone. You don’t see it ever,” he said in an ...

  • 2 men arrested on charges of establishing a secret Chinese police station in New York

    2 men arrested on charges of establishing a secret Chinese police station in New York

    Apr 17, 2023 09:39 PM EST

    “New York City is home to New York’s finest: the NYPD," U.S. Attorney Breon Peace, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, said at a news conference announcing the arrests. "We don’t need or want a secret police station in our great city.” Justice Department officials in ...