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Gaza mediators and others warn Israel of disaster if it launches a ground invasion on crowded Rafah 02/10/2024 11:25pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel’s neighbors and key mediators warned Saturday of disaster and repercussions if its military launches a ground invasion in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, where Israel says remaining Hamas strongholds are located — along with over half the besieged territory’s President Joe Biden to travel to East Palestine next week, a year after derailment 02/10/2024 08:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to East Palestine, Ohio, on Friday, about a year after a Norfolk Southern train there derailed and spilled a cocktail of hazardous chemicals that caught fire. The White House said Saturday the president would travel there to ensure state and local How a run-down Ford launched a music revolution that swept Brazil’s Carnival 02/10/2024 07:19pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Sound begins blasting ear drums and rattling bones even before the speakers — hauled by big rigs creeping their way through Brazil’s thronging Carnival crowds — draw near. The behemoth sound trucks known as electric trios are a Brazilian innovation that amplified music 'We've lost both engines,' pilot said before private jet crashed onto Florida interstate, killing 2 02/10/2024 04:28pm • A pilot and co-pilot were identified as the two killed in a fiery plane crash on a Florida highway, law enforcement officials said Saturday afternoon. The Collier County Sheriff’s Office identified Edward Daniel Murphy, a 50-year-old pilot and co-pilot Ian Frederick Hofmann, 65, as the deceased. An Israeli drone strike in Lebanon kills 2 in one of the deepest hits inside the country in weeks 02/10/2024 03:56pm • BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli drone struck a car near Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon on Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding two others, security officials said. The strike came as tensions across the Middle East grow with the Israel-Hamas war, a drone attack last month that kill The Lunar New Year of the Dragon flames colorful festivities across Asian nations and communities 02/10/2024 02:33pm • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — With fireworks, feasts and red envelopes stuffed with cash for the kids, numerous Asian nations and overseas communities have welcomed Saturday the Lunar New Year. It begins with the first new moon of the lunar calendar and ends 15 days later on the first full moon. The date 1 dead, 1 injured following 2 shootings in Prince George's Co. 02/10/2024 10:19am • One man is dead and another is injured after a shooting in Prince George's County in Maryland on Saturday morning. Around 4 a.m., police responded to the 2300 block of Iverson Street where they found a man outside suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital in stable condition Super Eagles out to stop Elephants' charge as Nigeria meets Ivory Coast in Africa Cup final 02/10/2024 06:37am • ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — A host nation holds its breath. Ivory Coast is on the verge of a scarcely believable third Africa Cup of Nations title, but the Elephants must first continue their remarkable run by beating old rival Nigeria in Sunday’s final. The Super Eagles are confident of capturi 2 people dead after small plane attempts emergency landing on southwest Florida interstate 02/10/2024 12:21am • NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Two people have died after a small plane attempted to make an emergency landing on Interstate 75 in southwest Florida on Friday afternoon, colliding with a vehicle and bringing traffic to a halt as a massive plume of black smoke rose into the air. The crash landing happened nea How DC's prosecutor is using social media, federal help to combat violent crime 02/09/2024 08:38pm • A focus on collaborating with federal law enforcement officials and digital media is helping the U.S. Attorney's Office prosecute violent crimes in the District. Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for D.C., said Friday that by realigning resources, his office should be able to "pick up the pace" o The wife of a famed Tennessee sheriff died in a 1967 unsolved shooting. Agents just exhumed her body 02/09/2024 08:24pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities have exhumed the body of the wife of a famed former Tennessee sheriff more than a half-century after she was fatally shot in a still-unsolved killing. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation confirmed that it oversaw the exhumation of the body of Pauline Pusser on Shelter-in-place order continues as Maine city searches for at least 4 suspects in vehicle shooting 02/09/2024 07:35pm • SACO, Maine (AP) — A shelter-in-place order remained in effect Friday evening for downtown Saco, Maine, as police searched for at least four suspects following an exchange of gunfire between the occupants of two vehicles, one of which then careened through an intersection and crashed into a bus ca A 4.6-magnitude earthquake shakes greater Los Angeles. No reports of significant damage 02/09/2024 07:23pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Southern California coast near Malibu on Friday and was widely felt in the Los Angeles region, rattling windows and shaking shelves but bringing no reports of major damage or injuries. The area of the epicenter was in the rugged Santa Monica Pakistan's ex-PM Sharif says he will seek a coalition government after trailing jailed rival Khan 02/09/2024 05:56pm • LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The former prime minister of Pakistan expected his party would claim an easy victory in the country’s parliamentary elections, sending him to the top job for a fourth time. Instead, Nawaz Sharif faces a difficult path to power. Independent candidates backed by his impriso A stepmother says her husband killed his 5-year-old and hid her body. His lawyers say she's lying 02/09/2024 05:46pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The estranged wife of a New Hampshire man accused of beating his young daughter to death testified Friday that he punched the 5-year-old to death, folded her body into a duffel bag, then hid it in the trunk of his car, then a ceiling vent and a restaurant freezer while decidin