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Aruba requests van der Sloot case documents, including his description of killing Natalee Holloway 10/23/2023 05:26pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Aruba have requested documents from the U.S. Department of Justice in the extortion case against Joran van der Sloot, including his description of killing Natalee Holloway on the island nearly 20 years ago. Van der Sloot, as part of a plea deal in the extort DC Mayor Bowser proposes new tough-on-crime legislation 10/23/2023 04:29pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser joins District officials Monday in unveiling new policies that focus on violent crime. (WTOP/Luke Lukert) With crime on the rise in staggering numbers in D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled new legislation on Monday that she said would give law enforcement additional tool Md. judge murder suspect still at large as search concludes in Williamsport 10/22/2023 12:55pm • As the search for the man suspected of shooting and killing a Maryland judge continues, his vehicle was found Saturday morning as he remains at large. The Washington County Sheriff's Office said that a resident found a silver Mercedes SUV, believed to be driven by 49-year-old Pedro Argote, in a w Houston's next mayor has big city problems to fix. Familiar faces want the job 10/21/2023 12:00am • HOUSTON (AP) — The challenges facing Houston’s next mayor are familiar to many big cities: crime, crumbling infrastructure, budget shortfalls and a lack of affordable housing. But in November’s marquee mayoral election in the U.S., the top candidates promising to turn Houston around are two De Denver wants case against Marlon Wayans stemming from luggage dispute dismissed 10/20/2023 08:42pm • DENVER (AP) — Denver prosecutors asked a judge on Friday to dismiss a case against Marlon Wayans stemming from a luggage dispute with an airline employee who the actor and comedian said targeted him because of his race. The city attorney's office's request comes a day after Wayans, who is Black, A slain Maryland judge presided over the divorce case of man identified as a suspect in his killing 10/20/2023 05:46pm • HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Police are searching for a man suspected of fatally shooting a Maryland judge who had awarded custody of the suspect’s children to his wife on the day of the killing, authorities said Friday. The judge was shot in his driveway Thursday evening while his wife and son were 'Fully justified': Decades in prison for 4 men convicted in shooting death of 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson 10/20/2023 05:40pm • Four men convicted in the shooting death of Makiyah Wilson, who was gunned down in a spray of bullets five years ago, have been sentenced to lengthy, decadeslong prison terms — bringing to an end a five-year legal effort to bring justice in the 10-year-old girl's killing. Qujuan Thomas, 24, and Violent threats from Virginia to Texas disrupt Muslim groups raising support for Palestinians 10/20/2023 04:08pm • ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — For more than 20 years the Council on American-Islamic Relations has held its annual banquet at the Marriott Crystal Gateway hotel in Crystal City, Virginia, just outside the nation’s capital, according to CAIR’s executive director, Nihad Awad. Sporadic protests and angry Maryland police officer suspended after arrest on Capitol riot charges 10/20/2023 04:08pm • SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A Maryland police officer who fatally shot a stabbing suspect earlier this year was arrested Thursday on charges that he assaulted police during a mob's Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Montgomery County Police Department said in a news release that it has su Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro pleads guilty over efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in Georgia 10/20/2023 04:02pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro pleaded guilty to a felony on Friday just as jury selection was getting underway in his trial on charges accusing him of participating in efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election in Georgia. Chesebro, who was charged alongside Trump and French officials suspect pranksters in a rash of fake bomb threats and warn of heavy punishments 10/19/2023 09:27pm • PARIS (AP) — The sumptuous Palace of Versailles was forced to evacuate visitors for the fourth time in less than a week for a security check after a bomb alert. Airports and schools around France also fell victim to bomb alerts and forced evacuations after similar warnings a day earlier. Even a nu Trump is 'not above the law,' prosecutors say in urging judge to let federal election case proceed 10/19/2023 08:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors said Thursday that Donald Trump is “not above the law” as they urged a judge to reject the former president's efforts to dismiss the case charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Lawyers for Trump had asked U.S. District Judge Anne Kirkpatrick, a veteran cop but newcomer to New Orleans, gets city council OK as police chief 10/19/2023 05:59pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Anne Kirkpatrick, a veteran police official who has served as chief of departments in Spokane, Washington, and Oakland, California, won City Council approval as New Orleans' new police chief Thursday on a 6-1 vote. Kirkpatrick had been serving as interim chief after Mayor LaToya Live updates | Israel OKs limited aid for Gaza as regional tensions rise following hospital blast 10/18/2023 11:38pm • President Joe Biden has visited Israel on an urgent mission to keep the Israel-Hamas war from spiraling into a broader regional conflict. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that limited humanitarian aid would be allowed into Gaza from Egypt following a request fro Down, but not out: Two Argentine political veterans seek to thwart upstart populist 10/18/2023 10:08pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Economy Minister Sergio Massa and former Security Minister Patricia Bullrich adapted shrewdly over their combined seven decades in Argentine politics. It remains to be seen whether experience is an asset or a liability in what has already been an atypical presidentia