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Storm Ciarán whips western Europe, blowing record winds in France and leaving millions without power 11/02/2023 09:56pm • PARIS (AP) — Record-breaking winds in France and across much of western Europe left at least seven people dead and injured others as Storm Ciarán swept through the continent Thursday. The storm devastated homes, causing travel mayhem and cut power to a vast number of people. Winds of more than 19 Live updates | Hundreds evacuate Gaza Strip as more pressure placed on Israel to pause fighting 11/02/2023 09:16pm • Israeli troops advanced further toward Gaza City on Thursday, battling with Hamas militants as the Palestinian death toll surged above 9,000. In the nearly four weeks since Hamas launched its deadly attack on Israel, U.S. and Arab leaders are ramping up pressure on Israel to at least briefly pause i Florida dentist charged in murder-for-hire case says he was a victim of extortion, not a killer 11/02/2023 08:51pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida dentist on trial in a murder-for-hire case involving his ex-brother-in-law claimed Thursday that he was a victim of extortion by the killers, but wasn't actually involved in the plot to kill the prominent Florida State University professor. Charles Adelson, whose North Dakota lawmaker's plane took off without runway lights before the crash that killed his family 11/02/2023 07:55pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota state senator took off from a remote Utah airport last month with his wife and two young sons in the plane without the runway lights on a night with no moonlight and crashed just a minute later, killing everyone aboard, investigators said in a preliminary repor Oregon man sentenced for LGBTQ+ hate crimes in Idaho, including trying to hit people with car 11/02/2023 07:44pm • BOISE, Idaho. (AP) — An Oregon man who pleaded guilty in connection with LGBTQ+ hate crimes, including trying to hit people with a car in Idaho last year, has been sentenced to just over three years in prison. Matthew Lehigh was sentenced Thursday to 37 months followed by three years of supervise Volunteer medical students are trying to fill the health care gap for migrants in Chicago 11/02/2023 07:44pm • CHICAGO (AP) — ___Using sidewalks as exam rooms and heavy red duffle bags as medical supply closets, volunteer medics spend their Saturdays caring for the growing number of migrants arriving in Chicago without a place to live. Mostly students in training, they go to police stations where migrants Who has the best odds to celebrate a NASCAR championship? Ryan Blaney's sister 11/02/2023 07:12pm • AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The oddsmakers named Kyle Larson the favorite to win the NASCAR championship, but half the field believe the person with the best chance to celebrate Sunday will be a spectator at Phoenix Raceway. Erin Blaney is in the unique position in that both her boyfriend and her olde Nigeria's government budgets for SUVs and president's wife while millions struggle to make ends meet 11/02/2023 06:13pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's lawmakers on Thursday approved the new government's first supplemental budget, which includes huge allocations for SUVs and houses for the president, his wife and other public officials, sparking anger and criticism from citizens in one of the world’s poorest coun How the Virginia election may shake up gun laws 11/02/2023 05:58pm • Follow WTOP’s coverage of the Virginia Election 2023. The politics surrounding gun control have been at a standstill in Virginia due to its divided government, but the state could take a hard turn depending on what happens in its closely-watched election that's coming up on Tuesday. With Rep Seattle-area police searching for teen accused of randomly killing a stranger resting on a bus 11/02/2023 05:54pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities in the Seattle area are searching for a 17-year-old boy who they say shot and killed a passenger on a city bus last month in what newly filed charging documents describe as “the senseless execution of a total stranger” — a recent example of shocking but rare attack Xfinity Series winds down to final 4 drivers at Phoenix Raceway 11/02/2023 05:52pm • AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — John Hunter Nemechek went down so he could climb back up. The second-generation NASCAR driver is headed back to the Cup Series next year after working his way up from the Truck Series. With a win Saturday at Phoenix Raceway, Nemechek would add another Xfinity Series champion Ex-gang leader pleads not guilty in 1996 Tupac Shakur killing in Vegas and judge appoints lawyers 11/02/2023 05:43pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Southern California street gang leader pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder in the 1996 killing of rap music icon Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas — a charge prompted by his own descriptions in recent years about orchestrating the deadly drive-by shooting. Duane Keith “Keff Are more expensive phone chargers worth the cost? Not necessarily 11/02/2023 05:41pm • Online and in stores, cheap versions of charging cables for Apple and Android phones aren't hard to find. But how sturdy are the less pricey cables? Consumer Reports found that with several cables you get what you pay for, but other times that's not the case. The testing pitted Apple’s $30 c Former Memphis police officer pleads guilty to federal charges in Tyre Nichols’ death 11/02/2023 05:32pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former Memphis police officer pleaded guilty Thursday in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols in exchange for prosecutors recommending a 15-year sentence, becoming the first of five officers charged in the case to admit guilt. Desmond Mills Jr. entered his plea during a hearin Arrest made in fatal shooting of Salem State University student 11/02/2023 05:17pm • SALEM, Mass. (AP) — Police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old Salem State University student just days before what would have been his first college basketball game, an official said. Missael Pena Canela, 18, of Salem, has been charged with murder in connection with the sh