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Editorial Roundup: United States 10/11/2023 07:05am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Oct. 7 The Washington Post on U.S. interest rates Borrowing is expensive again, as anyone who has tried to buy a car or home lately can tell you. The interest rate on 10-year Treasury bonds, the benchmark for home loans, is hovering ar Israeli village near the Gaza border lies in ruin, filled with the bodies of residents and militants 10/11/2023 04:24am • KFAR AZZA, Israel (AP) — On the road approaching this rural village, the bodies of militants lie scattered between the shells of burned-out cars. Walls and doors of what used to be neatly kept stucco homes are blasted wide open. As bags holding the bodies of slain residents await identification, t Fire tears through a parking garage at London's Luton Airport, and 5 people have been hospitalized 10/11/2023 03:06am • LONDON (AP) — A massive fire tore through a newly built parking garage at one of London's international airports early Wednesday, and four firefighters and an airport employee were hospitalized for smoke inhalation. All flights at Luton Airport were suspended until 3 p.m. U.K. time Wednesday, the Quake in Afghanistan leaves rubble, funerals and survivors struggling with loss 10/11/2023 01:34am • ZINDA JAN, Afghanistan (AP) — Nurullah crossed the border into Iran to earn money for his family, like so many men from his village in western Afghanistan. On Sunday, he stood on the side of the road crying. The 55-year-old was heading home to bury his wife, three children and a grandchild killed White House condemns a violent crash at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco 10/10/2023 11:45pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. official said Tuesday the government believes the driver who crashed into the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco the day before did so “with malign intent,” but police haven’t shared details about the driver’s identity or motive for what the Chinese government h Live updates | Day 4 of the latest Israel-Palestinian war 10/10/2023 11:32pm • Israel stepped up its offensive on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in response to an unprecedented attack by Hamas, pounding neighborhoods with airstrikes and expanding the mobilization of reservists to 360,000. The military said it had regained effective control over the Gaza border and areas Hamas attac Palestinians scramble for safety as Israel pounds sealed-off Gaza Strip to punish Hamas 10/10/2023 11:29pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory now suffering severe retaliation for the deadly weekend attack by Hamas militants. Humanitari Fairfax Co. police warns residents about 'bank jugging' 10/10/2023 11:27pm • Across the country, law enforcement is seeing a rise in a type of robbery known as "bank jugging," and in the D.C. region, Fairfax County police are sounding the alarm about the crime. The scheme involves criminals who follow someone who has left a bank or ATM with the hopes of stealing the money Atlanta police chief fires officer after traffic stop led to Black deacon’s death 10/10/2023 10:06pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta's police chief on Tuesday fired an officer who shocked a 62-year-old Black church deacon with a stun gun during a dispute over a traffic ticket, leading to the man's death. Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said Officer Kiran Kimbrough didn't follow department procedures Aug. 10 Safer streets for pedestrians at the heart of new Montgomery Co. master plan 10/10/2023 10:02pm • Montgomery County, Maryland, has a detailed road map with one goal: making the county's streets safer for pedestrians. Now, the comprehensive plan to improve pedestrian safety has gotten a stamp of approval from the county's council. The Pedestrian Master Plan was passed unanimously by the 11-mem Fraud trial: Trump acknowledged penthouse size at 11,000 square feet, not 30,000 he later claimed 10/10/2023 08:28pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump signed a document 30 years ago that gave the true size of his New York penthouse which was later listed as far larger on financial statements, according to evidence Tuesday at the former president's civil business fraud trial. The evidence appeared in an email attachme Memphis hoops recruit Mikey Williams ordered to stand trial on 6 felony gun charges 10/10/2023 07:58pm • EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — A Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered star Memphis recruit Mikey Williams to stand trial on six felony gun charges, which puts his immediate basketball future in doubt. Judge Sherry M. Thompson-Taylor scheduled Williams' arraignment for Oct. 24. She denied the prosecuti Black man was not a threat to Tacoma police charged in his restraint death, eyewitness says at trial 10/10/2023 07:31pm • TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Eyewitness testimony Tuesday in the continuing trial three police officers, who are white and Asian American, charged with the 2020 death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man, starkly contradicted the picture the officers’ lawyers painted. Keyon Lowery, 26, told the jury in Pierce C Prince Harry and Meghan Markle say social media is harming kids' and teens' mental health 10/10/2023 07:07pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Tuesday called for social media platforms to adopt better content-moderation policies and other fixes, saying modifications need to be made to addictive apps that can harm young people's mental health. The couple spoke at a panel discussion coordi 'Ambushed': Maryland woman fatally shot in car at her apartment complex parking lot 10/10/2023 05:15pm • A woman was fatally shot while inside her vehicle at the parking lot of her Laurel, Maryland, apartment complex. The Laurel Police Department said that Tjai "TJ" Farmer, 42, of Laurel was "ambushed by a lone gunman" while she was sitting in her vehicle inside her apartment complex parking lot at