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Deadly flooding in China worsens as rescues and evacuations intensify 08/04/2023 12:06pm • BEIJING (AP) — Thousands of people threatened by storm-swollen rivers were evacuated in China's northeast on Friday while areas on the outskirts of Beijing cleared debris from flooding that wrecked roads, knocked out power and left neighborhoods in shambles. China is struggling with record-breakin Syrian Kurds urge the US-led coalition to say clearly where it stands on Turkish drone attacks 08/04/2023 10:31am • BEIRUT (AP) — The Kurdish-led authorities in northeastern Syria on Friday called on the U.S.-led coalition to make clear where it stands regarding Turkish drone strikes that have killed and wounded dozens of Syrian Kurdish fighters over the past months. The appeal by the local authorities — kno A month's worth of rain floods Vermont town, with more on the way 08/04/2023 09:59am • MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (AP) — Vermont's latest summer storm dumped a month’s worth of rain in one community, leading to the rescue of three people from a car roof, and more rain was in the forecast Friday. The highest rain totals were in Addison County, in the western part of the state, which had anyw U.N. group says people abused by late Japanese boy band producer deserve apologies and compensation 08/04/2023 09:34am • TOKYO (AP) — The men who came forward to allege they were sexually abused as teenagers by Japanese boy band producer Johnny Kitagawa now have a powerful listener: the United Nations. Damilola Olawuyi, chair of the U.N. Working Group on Business and Human Rights, told reporters Friday the number of A Texas man faces a possible death sentence after being convicted of fatally shooting a law officer 08/04/2023 09:17am • EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A Texas man faces either the death penalty or life in prison without parole after being convicted of fatally shooting a west Texas deputy sheriff. A jury in El Paso deliberated for about 30 minutes Thursday before finding Facundo Chavez, 31, guilty of capital murder in the 20 Influencer Andrew Tate released from house arrest while he awaits human trafficking and rape trial 08/04/2023 08:13am • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, the divisive internet influencer who is charged in Romania with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women, won an appeal on Friday to be released from house arrest, his spokesperson said. Tate won't be able to leave the cou South Korea detains suspect in high school teacher's stabbing a day after separate attack wounded 14 08/04/2023 06:57am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police detained a man suspected of stabbing a high school teacher with a knife Friday in the city of Daejeon. The stabbing follows a separate, apparently random attack on Thursday in which 14 people were wounded near a busy subway station in Seongnam. Officia Today in History: Aug. 4, Anne Frank and family arrested 08/04/2023 03:05am • Today in History Today is Friday, Aug. 4, the 216th day of 2023. There are 149 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History On Aug. 4, 1944, 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank was arrested with her sister, parents and four others by the Gestapo after hiding for two years inside a building in Teen killed after stolen car crashes into train in Fauquier County 08/04/2023 01:36am • An 18-year-old was killed Wednesday when the stolen car she was riding in as a passenger collided with a freight train in Delaplane, Virginia, authorities said. Just after midnight on Aug. 2, a sheriff's deputy witnessed a 2015 Honda Accord, driving 97 miles an hour in a stretch of Virginia Route A baby was found in the rubble of a US raid in Afghanistan. But who exactly was killed and why? 08/04/2023 12:05am • The Afghan villager was afraid the American soldiers might come. And one cool night in fall, as his children lay asleep, helicopters roared overhead. At the first sound of gunshots, he yelled for his wife and 10 children to take cover. His young daughter grabbed her sleeping infant sister off the be Family mistakenly held at gunpoint by Texas police say the stop traumatized the kids in the car 08/03/2023 10:53pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Black woman from Arkansas who was held at gunpoint along with three family members when Texas police wrongly suspected their car was stolen said Thursday that she decided to speak out after seeing video from a passerby and realizing two officers had aimed firearms at her South Korean police pursue suspect in 2nd stabbing attack in 2 days 08/03/2023 10:37pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A man rammed a car onto a sidewalk Thursday in the South Korean city of Seongnam, then stepped out of the vehicle and began stabbing people at a shopping mall, leaving at least 14 people wounded. Just hours after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday called for The son of Colombia's president says his father's election campaign received money of dubious origin 08/03/2023 09:07pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The son of Colombian President Gustavo Petro acknowledged Thursday that his father’s 2022 election campaign received money of dubious origin, according prosecutors investigating the son for alleged illicit enrichment and money laundering. Nicolás Petro, who was a legisla Mexican marines find 110 pounds of dynamite in drug cartel lab 08/03/2023 08:30pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican marines found 110 pounds (50 kilograms) of dynamite hidden in a methamphetamine laboratory run by a drug cartel, the navy said Thursday. The navy said the explosives may have been intended for use in “mines and explosive artifacts” of the kind that cartels have been Prosecutor wants to defend conviction of former Missouri detective who killed Black man 08/03/2023 07:14pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A prosecutor is stepping in after Missouri’s attorney general asked an appeals court to reverse the conviction of a former Missouri police officer who is white and killed a Black man in 2019. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker this week asked the state Wester