Pioh What are the main obstacles to a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?A Pennsylvania woman linked to a far-right extremist movement was sentenced on Thursday to three years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol, where she invaded then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosis office with other rioters.Riley June Williams, 23, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was charged but not convicted of helping steal a laptop from Pelosis office suite during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.A federal jury convicted Williams in Novemberof six charges, including a felony count of civil disorder, after a two-week trial. But it deadlocked on two other counts, including aiding and abetting the laptops theft.Jurors also deadlocked on a charge of obst stanley butelka ructing an official proceeding, the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress for c stanley cup ertifying President Joe Bidens 2020 electoral victory. Then-Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress evacuated the House and Senate chambers when rioters attacked the Capitol stanley cup .Prosecutors had asked U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson to sentence Williams to seven years and three months in prison. Everywhere she went, Williams acted as an accelerant, exacerbating the mayhem. Where others turned back, she pushed forward, prosecutors wrote in a court filing.Defense lawyers requested a term of imprisonment of one year and one day for Williams, who was 22 in January 2021. In some respects, she is starkly different from the average January 6th defendant 鈥?particularly given her youth and that she is a female, they wrote. In other ways she is s Sria Texas school shooting suspect s father thinks he was bullied
CLEVELAND 鈥?A judge said Thursday that enough evidence exists to charge two white policemen in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old black boy who was holding a pellet gun, a largely symbolic ruling because he cant compel prosecutors to charge them.Municipal Court Judge Ronald Adrine ruled theres probable cause to charge rookie officer Timothy Loehmann with murder, involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide or dereliction of duty in the November shooting death of Tamir Rice. And he ruled theres evidence to charge Loehmanns partner, Frank Garmback, with reckless homicide or dereliction of duty.The judge made his ruling after activists submitted affidavits asking the court to rule theres enough evidence to charge the officers in Tamirs death, which has spurred protests and complaints about treatment of blacks. This cour stanley italy t reaches its conclusions consistent with the stanley cup facts in evidence and the standard of proof that applies at this time, the judge wrote.The Cuyahoga County Sheriffs Department recently completed its investigation and gave its file to the county prosecutor, whose staff is reviewing the case while preparing to take it to a grand jury to determine if criminal charges should be filed.Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said Thursday that this case, like all other fatal use-of-deadly-force cases involving law enforcement officers, will go to a grand jury. Ultimately, he said, the grand jury decid stanley cup es whether police officers are charged or not charged. The judge wrot |