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Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman were arrested in the “mostly peaceful” protests following George Floyd’s murder. The two lawyers handed out Molotov cocktails to the crowd, and Rahman tossed one into a police car before fleeing the scene in Mattis’s van. They reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors in October 2020 that wiped out six of the seven charges against them. Those prosecutors, nonetheless, sought a maximum 10-year sentence and argued that the incident qualified for a so-called terrorism enhancement that would turbocharge sentencing—a determination with which the U.S. Probation Office concurred. Ginning herself up to distribute explosives to...

As tourists lined up to snap photos of the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign Monday morning, many noticed something amiss. Red graffiti was scrawled on the famous landmark, defacing the main face and one of its structural legs. Cameron Randall and friend Kevin Daniels, visiting from North Carolina, noticed it right away and were disappointed someone would damage the popular tourist attraction. "It's kind of sad someone would vandalize something like that," Daniels said. "It's the entrance to the city and everything." The Young Electric Sign Company owns the sign and leases it to Clark County, county spokeswoman Jennifer...

NEW HAVEN, CONN. - Kevin J. O'Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Leib Kohn, age 68, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Christopher F. Droney in Hartford to 30 days of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release. On December 15, 2004, Kohn and his now-defunct companies, L & M Manufacturing and NESCO NY Inc., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act by sending military components out of the United States without the required authorization from the U.S. Government. Kohn and his companies have...

F-16 can graduate IAF to next generation fighter: Lockheed Martin New Delhi, April 20 : The US F-16 combat jet is best suited to enable the Indian Air Force (IAF) to transit to fifth-generation fighters, says its manufacturer Lockheed Martin, even as it prepares to expand global opportunities for new Indian technologies. The company is also hoping to soon ink a deal for the IAF purchase of six C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft that will be used to ferry personnel of the Indian Army's Special Forces, as also troopers of the paramilitary forces engaged in counter-insurgency operations. The firm has...

Linda Vester just reporting that Paul Johnson has been killed.