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Trial starts over the 2022 assassination attempt of Argentina's Cristina Fernández de Kirchner 06/26/2024 04:58pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Three suspects went on trial Wednesday before a federal court in Argentina for the assassination attempt two years ago of then-Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, one of the country's most powerful and divisive political figures in recent decades. On that Man who police say urged 'Zionists' to get off NYC subway train faces criminal charge 06/26/2024 04:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A man who demanded that “Zionists” identify themselves on a New York City subway train during a protest over the Israel-Hamas war, then suggested that they get out, was charged Wednesday with attempted coercion, a misdemeanor, police said. A video showing the man leading protes 3rd lawsuit claims a Tennessee city's police botched investigation of a man accused of sex crimes 06/26/2024 03:57pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee city is facing a third lawsuit claiming its police refused to conduct proper investigations into allegations that a man was sexually assaulting multiple women for years. The newest plaintiff has said the man drugged her and pushed her out of his fifth-story apar The collapse of a cable car in Colombia kills 1 person and injures 20 06/26/2024 03:36pm • MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — A cable car in the Colombian city of Medellin failed and plunged onto a sidewalk next to a station platform Wednesday, killing at least one person and injuring 20 others, officials said. It was not immediately clear if the person who died was on the ground or was a pass Fire that gutted DC apartment building caused by fireworks, officials say 06/26/2024 02:40pm • Young people shooting off Roman candles on a balcony caused a massive blaze that tore through a D.C. apartment building Tuesday and displaced more than six dozen people, authorities say. Seventy-six people lost their homes in the fire Tuesday afternoon at the Oxford Manor Apartments in the 26 Opposition activists arrested in a crackdown in Mali were moved to prisons, families say 06/26/2024 12:46pm • BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Opposition politicians who were arrested in a crackdown in Mali were sent to prisons across the country this week, their families said, in a move rights groups decried as another step back for the country where the ruling junta has suspended all political activities. Mali, a l A Vatican Radio territory in north Rome once blamed for electro-smog will become a solar farm 06/26/2024 10:18am • ROME (AP) — Pope Francis decreed Wednesday that an area of northern Rome, long the source of controversy because of electromagnetic waves emitted by Vatican Radio towers there, will now house a field of solar panels to fuel Vatican City. Citing the Vatican’s pledge in U.N. climate treaties to cu Saipan, placid island setting for Assange's last battle, is briefly mobbed — and bemused by the fuss 06/26/2024 07:31am • SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — It was a peculiar setting to the final act in a legal drama that has now spanned the globe: a rural Western Pacific island, where visitors are usually tourists — attracted by laid-back resorts, snorkeling, diving and golf — and the furthermost reach of t Don't want a hybrid? Edmunds picks SUVs that will still save you money at the pump 06/26/2024 06:24am • Driving a new SUV and saving money at the pump is possible, and you don’t need to get a hybrid or electric vehicle. From small crossovers to large traditional SUVs, there are fuel-efficient models on sale now that don’t require paying a premium for electrification. Based on official fuel economy Pain and pleasure: BMX racers weigh the risks and rewards playing the Olympics' most dangerous game 06/26/2024 06:00am • Alise Willoughby remembers where she was when the phone rang. She had just returned home to Minnesota to take part in a charity event, and the best BMX racer of her generation was on her way to Target Field, where she was supposed to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before a Twins game. Her husb 'There's not a mystery about what needs to be done': Local transit officials on increase of fatal pedestrian crashes in Md. 06/26/2024 05:09am • After a big surge in fatal crashes that claimed the lives of pedestrians in recent years, a new report from the Governor's Highway Safety Association showed nationwide there was a more than 5% decline in such crashes in 2023 compared to 2022. But as encouraging as that sounds, the numbers are sti As Iran's presidential vote looms, tensions boil over renewed headscarf crackdown 06/26/2024 12:59am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Seemingly every afternoon in Iran's capital, police vans rush to major Tehran squares and intersections to search for women with loose headscarves and those who dare not to wear them at all. The renewed crackdown comes not quite two years since mass protests ove NTSB chair says Norfolk Southern interfered with derailment probe after botching vent-and-burn call 06/25/2024 08:02pm • EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that Norfolk Southern repeatedly tried to interfere with the agency's investigation into the East Palestine derailment and shape its conclusions about the flawed decision to blow open five tank cars and b 'Babies killing babies:' Teenagers charged in shooting that killed 3-year-old and wounded 7-year-old 06/25/2024 07:37pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Two teenage boys were indicted Tuesday in the shooting death of a 3-year-old who was killed while riding his tricycle outside his Buffalo home last week, officials said. The toddler's 7-year-old sister was wounded. “Literally, babies killing babies,” Mayor Byron Brown said One-way traffic, bus lane could be coming to access road near Bradlee Shopping Center 06/25/2024 06:50pm • Bike lanes, one-way traffic and a dedicated bus lane could be coming to a stretch of the access road near the Bradlee Shopping Center in Alexandria, Virginia. After months of data analysis, brainstorming and community engagement, Sara Brandt-Vorel, the city's transportation capital project manage