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The Latest | Israel wants Rafah civilians to go to Gaza's center ahead of southern offensive 03/13/2024 06:04pm • Israel plans to tell 1.4 million Palestinians displaced in the southern city of Rafah to seek shelter in central Gaza ahead of a planned military offensive into the south. Civilians would be directed toward “humanitarian islands” that would provide temporary housing, food, water and other necess Evangelical Christians are fierce Israel supporters. Now they are visiting as war-time volunteers 03/13/2024 05:47pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — When Shawn Landis, an evangelical Christian from Pennsylvania, heard about the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel, he knew he would come to Israel to volunteer as soon as it was safe. Five months later, he was chopping vegetables in a Tel Aviv kitchen, preparing meals f Jury begins deliberating manslaughter case against Connecticut trooper who killed man in stolen car 03/13/2024 05:32pm • A Connecticut state trooper's fatal shooting of the 19-year-old man who had just crashed a stolen car following a high-speed chase was “overkill” and showed an “extreme indifference to human life,” a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday during closing arguments at the trooper's manslaughter tria A new strategy to attack aggressive brain cancer shrank tumors in two early tests 03/13/2024 05:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A new strategy to fight an extremely aggressive type of brain tumor showed promise in a pair of experiments with a handful of patients. Scientists took patients’ own immune cells and turned them into “living drugs” able to recognize and attack glioblastoma. In the first-ste Ally of late Navalny accuses 'Putin’s henchmen' of attacking him in Lithuania, vows not to give up 03/13/2024 04:02pm • VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A close associate of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny accused Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “henchmen” on Wednesday of being behind a brutal attack that left him hospitalized. Police said an assailant attacked Leonid Volkov on Tuesday as he arr New York trooper found not guilty in fatal shooting of motorist following high-speed chase 03/13/2024 03:36pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A New York state trooper who was charged with manslaughter after shooting an unarmed motorist to death following a high-speed chase was acquitted on Wednesday. Trooper Anthony Nigro testified during his nonjury trial this week that he feared for his life when he fired two sho First on WTOP: Thousands fined for driving, parking in DC's bus lanes 03/13/2024 03:29pm • Thousands of people have received tickets for driving or parking in D.C.'s dedicated bus lanes, ever since a program that aims to make buses safer and more efficient advanced to its second phase earlier this year. As part of its Clear Lanes initiative, D.C.'s Department of Transportation started Waymo's robotaxi service expands into Los Angeles, starting free rides in parts of the city 03/13/2024 03:17pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robotaxis will begin cruising the streets of Los Angeles on Thursday when Google spinoff Waymo starts offering free rides to some of the roughly 50,000 people who have signed up for its driverless ride-hailing service. Waymo is expanding into Los Angeles, the second largest U.S. Spring for Amish people in Pennsylvania means 'mud sales,' from pitchforks to pies 03/13/2024 03:13pm • GORDONVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A couple hundred used buggies — horses not included — were lined up and ready for the auctioneer's gavel last weekend when day began at the Gordonville mud sale, a local Amish tradition dating to the 1960s. Mud sales are country auctions that benefit volunteer fire d Connecticut officer suspended for 5 days after video shows him punching motorist while off duty 03/13/2024 02:44pm • MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut police officer caught on camera punching a motorist who honked at him got suspended for five days and charged with assault but has been allowed to keep his job. Dashcam video obtained by WTIC-TV, FOX 61, through a freedom of information request shows Meriden Po Appeals court overturns convictions of former Georgia officer who fatally shot naked man 03/13/2024 02:11pm • ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court has overturned the convictions of a former Georgia police officer who shot and killed an unarmed, naked man. Robert “Chip” Olsen was responding to a call of a naked man behaving erratically at an Atlanta-area apartment complex in March 2015 when he killed 26-yea Elon Musk visits a Tesla plant near Berlin as production resumes after a suspected arson attack 03/13/2024 09:53am • GRUENHEIDE, Germany (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk visited the electric car maker's first European plant on Wednesday as production resumed at the factory just outside Berlin, about a week after a suspected arson attack cut its power supply. Musk was expected at a “team huddle” with employees at t Jelly Roll, Kelsea Ballerini, Lainey Wilson, Megan Moroney, Cody Johnson lead CMT Music Awards noms 03/13/2024 09:40am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jelly Roll, Kelsea Ballerini, Lainey Wilson, Megan Moroney, and Cody Johnson are the leading nominees for the 2024 CMT Music Awards, celebrating the best in country music videos. On Wednesday, CMT announced the nominees for their fan-voted awards show, where the five artists are Edmunds: Which three-row EV is best? Edmunds compares the Kia EV9 and Rivian R1S 03/13/2024 07:43am • Shoppers thinking about buying a three-row SUV have plenty of options. Unless they want an electric SUV, that is. Fortunately, there are two models that hold a lot of promise: the Kia EV9 and the Rivian R1S. The EV9 is Kia’s latest and largest electric SUV. Think of it as a Kia Telluride that’s House GOP launches new probe of Jan. 6 and tries shifting blame for Capitol attack away from Trump 03/13/2024 07:07am • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are launching a vast reinvestigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, seeking to push the blame away from Donald Trump, who has been indicted over his actions or his supporters in the mob siege trying to overturn the 2020 election. As Trump campa