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CHICAGO (AP) — The sisters of a man fatally shot in his home this month by suburban Chicago police filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the officers and their department, alleging wrongful death and other counts. Kyenna McConico and Kennetha Barnes, sisters of Isaac Goodlow III, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Chicago against the Carol Stream Police …

NEW YORK (AP) — More than 20 years after Run-D.M.C. star Jam Master Jay was brazenly gunned down in his recording studio, two men close to him were convicted Tuesday of murder, marking a moment authorities had long awaited in one of the hip-hop world’s most elusive cases. An anonymous Brooklyn federal jury found Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington …

ATLANTA (AP) — Separate gun bills passed by the Georgia House of Representatives Tuesday would provide a tax credit to pay for gun safety training and gun safes, while another would prohibit financial institutions from using a code to distinguish firearms retailers. The tax credit bill received bipartisan support, passing the chamber by a vote of 162-3. It provides a …

NUEVA YORK (AP) — En plena temporada de primarias presidenciales en Estados Unidos, los populares chatbots están generando información falsa y engañosa que amenaza con privar a los votantes de sus derechos, según un informe dado a conocer el martes, basándose en los hallazgos de expertos en inteligencia artificial y de un grupo bipartidista de funcionarios electorales. Quince estados y …

WASHINGTON (AP) — El presidente Joe Biden le imploró el martes a los cuatro máximos líderes del Congreso a actuar rápidamente para evitar un cierre del gobierno y aprobar una ayuda urgente a Ucrania e Israel, mientras el estancamiento en la Cámara de Representantes controlada por los republicanos no da señales de ceder. Biden recibió al presidente de la cámara, …

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — An ambitious measure to expand early childhood education in Kentucky passed an early test Tuesday, winning broad support from a legislative panel as lawmakers look for ways to relieve parental stress by increasing access to childcare. The proposal cleared the Senate Families and Children Committee on a 9-1 vote. The legislation still has several hurdles to …

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) — Legisladores de Alabama buscan formas de proteger los servicios de fecundación in vitro en el estado tras el fallo de la Corte Suprema del estado que determinó que los embriones congelados pueden considerarse niños según la ley estatal. El fallo de la semana pasada, que de inmediato hizo surgir preguntas sobre la responsabilidad que podrían enfrentar …

HOUSTON (AP) — The gunfire that shattered the calm at pastor Joel Osteen’s megachurch in Houston only lasted about four minutes. But surveillance video and police body camera footage released Monday, more than two weeks after the Feb. 11 shooting at Lakewood Church, showed the terror of the brief attack: Parishioners scattering, searching for safety in rooms and hallways. Officers …

MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man who pleaded guilty in his disabled brother’s starvation death was sentenced Monday to a minimum of 30 years in prison by a judge who said the defendant is “one step away from becoming a psychopath.” Paul Ferguson, 21, pleaded guilty in December to first-degree child abuse in the death of 15-year-old Timothy Ferguson. …

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Students at two Georgia colleges grappled Monday with the killing of a nursing student killed in a violent act that Republicans including former President Donald Trump and Gov. Brian Kemp blamed on the immigration policies of President Joe Biden. The killing of 22-year-old Laken Riley revived a theme — migrants committing violent crimes — that is …