NEW YORK (AP) — Former Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced in a U. S. court on Monday to life in prison and called for an end to the brand of brutal violence he used for decades to grow the Sinaloa cartel into the world’s largest drug trafficking organization. “Nobody wins in a war like this,” the 76-year-old Zambada said through a Spanish-language translator in Brooklyn federal court. He apologized “for the harm I caused and the example I set” and urged...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge in the nation's capital has set a trial date in September for a former Olympic canoe racer charged with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the site of a troubled multimillion-dollar renovation project championed by President Donald Trump. D. C. Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman set the Sept. 28 trial date for David Hearn during a hearing on Monday. It was Hearn's second court appearance since a grand jury indicted him on a felony count of to...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A 5. 5 magnitude earthquake shook the Andes region of Peru, killing at least six people, injuring more than 30 and displacing 300, authorities said Sunday. The U. S. Geological Survey reported the quake struck on Saturday at 9:24 p. m. , with its epicenter located 2 kilometers (1. 24 miles) west-southwest of the city of Sicaya in Huancayo province. It was 10 kilometers (6. 21 miles) deep. Peru’s National Civil Defense Institute said in a statement the total number of is a...