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A truck driver has been convicted of fatally taking pictures 11 worshippers at a synagogue within the deadliest assault on Jewish individuals within the US.Seven others have been wounded, together with 5 law enforcement officials, after 50-year-old Robert Bowers opened fireplace with an assault rifle and different weapons in Pittsburgh.Bowers was charged with 63 counts, together with hate crimes leading to demise and obstruction of the free train of faith leading to demise.During his weeks-long trial, jurors heard testimony from survivors and proof of Bowers' antisemitism, together with posts attacking Jews made on a far-right web site within the months earlier than the 27 October 2018 assault.At the US District Court within the Pennsylvania metropolis, the jury convicted him...

The Supreme Court dominated Friday that judges might be extra lenient in delivering punishment for some gun crimes, discovering that these sentences can run concurrently alongside sentences for different crimes. ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Abortion will stay authorized in Iowa after the state’s excessive court docket declined Friday to reinstate a regulation that might have largely banned the process, rebuffing Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds and, for now, holding the conservative state from becoming a member of others with strict abortion limits. ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The findings of a two-year investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department, prompted by the demise of George Floyd, are anticipated to be introduced Friday by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reassigned its chief medical officer after the in-custody dying of an 8-year-old woman whose mom’s pleas for an ambulance had been ignored regardless of her daughter’s persistent coronary heart situation, uncommon blood dysfunction, excessive fever and different illnesses, authorities mentioned Thursday. ...

John Simon III was a hungry child, a “chunky” toddler and a chubby little boy, his mom mentioned. But by age 14, his weight had soared to 430 kilos and was a life-threatening medical situation. ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Two years after the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department following the killing of George Floyd, Attorney General Merrick Garland is visiting Minneapolis to make an announcement in “a civil rights matter.” ...

Frederick County, Maryland, can have a brand new normal strung up its flagpoles after soliciting new designs from a contest, the county introduced this week. ...

The juvenile crime disaster gripping the nationwide capital area has native leaders calling on fathers and father figures to supply the optimistic affect on youth that no authorities program or establishment can replicate.  ...

NEW YORK — Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was ordered Thursday to pay $475,000 by a metropolis ethics board that discovered he misused public funds on a police safety element throughout his failed presidential bid. ...