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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 11/24/2023 10:26am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ No evidence that DNA sequence used in Pfizer shot Another milestone on offer for F1 champion Max Verstappen at season-ending Abu Dhabi GP 11/24/2023 09:24am • After a record-breaking year, Formula One champion Max Verstappen isn't ready for 2023 to end just yet. Especially when another milestone can be reached at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday. Another victory would take him to 54 career wins and past former Red Bull star Sebastian Vett Missouri governor granting pardons at pace not seen since WWII era 11/24/2023 09:19am • Distraught by a romantic breakup, 16-year-old Kenny Batson vented his hurt by stomping out the windshields of cars on a for-sale lot. He landed in juvenile detention, but that was only the beginning of his trouble. Over the ensuing years, Batson stole cigarettes, booze and cars for drunken joyrides Palestinians in Gaza seeking refuge from war find their world is shrinking. They say nowhere is safe 11/24/2023 08:03am • BEIRUT (AP) — Gaza has always been a small, crowded space with hardly any exits. Now the world for Palestinians there has shrunk to the size of whatever refuge they can find. The strip is 25 miles (40 kilometers) long by some 7 miles (11 kilometers) wide. More than a month into the war, Israeli tr Gaza shrinks for Palestinians seeking refuge. 4 stories offer a glimpse into a diminished world 11/24/2023 08:01am • BEIRUT (AP) — Gaza has always been a small, crowded space with hardly any exits. Now the world for Palestinians there has shrunk to the size of whatever refuge they can find: a jammed shelter, a car, the walls of a shared apartment, or floors and benches in hospital corridors. The strip is 25 mile Make noise! A murder and a movie stir Italians to loudly demand an end to violence against women 11/24/2023 07:55am • ROME (AP) — After the latest, horrifying killing of a college student allegedly by her resentful and jealous ex-boyfriend, students from Turin to Palermo have taken to pounding on classroom desks in unison to demand a stop to the slaying of women in Italy at the hands of men. Just days before the Nissan will invest $1.4 billion to make EV versions of its best-selling cars at its UK factory 11/24/2023 07:13am • LONDON (AP) — Nissan will invest $1.4 billion to update its factory in northeast England to make electric versions of its two best-selling cars, a boost for the British government as it tries to revive the country's ailing economy. The Japanese automaker manufactures the gasoline or gas-hybrid Qa Violent clashes break out in Dublin after knife attack that injured 3 children, one seriously 11/24/2023 12:11am • LONDON (AP) — Violent clashes broke out in central Dublin on Thursday evening, with vehicles torched and riot police attacked, after a 5-year-old girl was seriously injured in a knife attack earlier in the day that also saw a woman and two other young children hospitalized. Irish police said the g Railyard explosion, inspections raise safety questions about Union Pacific's hazmat shipping 11/24/2023 12:09am • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal inspectors have twice found hundreds of defects in the locomotives and railcars Union Pacific uses at the world’s largest railyard in Nebraska, but none of those seem to explain why a shipping container filled with toxic acid exploded there this fall. Investigators hav Today in History: November 24, Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald 11/24/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Friday, Nov. 24, the 328th day of 2023. There are 37 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 24, 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in a scene captured on live television. 3 journalists and 2 relatives have been abducted in a violent city in southern Mexico 11/23/2023 10:04pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors said Thursday that three journalists and two of their relatives have been abducted by armed men in a violence-plagued state in Mexico, which press groups say is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, outside of war zones. The prosecutors o FBI ends investigation of car wreck at Niagara Falls bridge, no indication of terrorism 11/23/2023 08:59pm • NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — The FBI has ended its investigation of a fiery car wreck that killed two people at a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls after finding no evidence that it was a terror attack, easing a period of high tensions as Americans headed into the Thanksgiving holiday. The FBI's d EU sends border police reinforcements to Finland over fears that Russia is behind a migrant influx 11/23/2023 06:39pm • HELSINKI (AP) — The European Union’s border agency said Thursday that it will send dozens of officers and equipment as reinforcements to Finland to help police its borders amid suspicion that Russia is behind an influx of migrants arriving to the country. Frontex said that it expects a “signif Former St. Louis alderman in fraud case also charged with lying to police 11/23/2023 04:55pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former St. Louis alderman indicted in a fraud case was charged with lying to police about getting carjacked last year, authorities said. Brandon Bosley was charged Wednesday with one misdemeanor count of making a false report to police when he said a woman tried to carjack him Residents of Kentucky town can return home after crews extinguish derailment fire 11/23/2023 04:38pm • LIVINGSTON, Ky. (AP) — A chemical fire at a Kentucky train derailment that caused evacuations has been extinguished and people can return to their homes, rail operator CSX said Thursday. CSX spokesperson Bryan Tucker said in an email Thursday afternoon that “the fire is completely out.” He sai