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Car bombing in northeast Afghanistan kills local official and his driver, wounds 10 people 06/06/2023 03:11am • KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A car bombing in Afghanistan’s northeast on Tuesday killed a provincial deputy governor and his driver, a local official said. Ten people were also wounded in the blast. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing in the city of Faizabad in Badakhshan pro Too many people in NYC are stopped, searched and frisked illegally, federal monitor says 06/06/2023 12:16am • NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's reliance on the tactic known as “stop and frisk" as part of a new initiative to combat gun violence is harming communities of color and running afoul of the law, a court-appointed federal monitor reported Monday. Monitor Mylan Denerstein said the NYPD 's Neighborh Cink among 45 players in US Open after 36-hole qualifiers 06/05/2023 11:14pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Stewart Cink doesn't care that he turned 50 last month. He'll do anything to play in the U.S. Open, even if that means going 36 holes against some kids who weren't even born when he played his first one 27 years ago. Cink got a pep talk from his wife Monday to keep patient Louisiana Senate passes bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender youths 06/05/2023 09:08pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A controversial bill — that at one point had been presumed dead — banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths in Louisiana was passed by the Senate on Monday and is likely to reach the governor's desk in the coming days. The bill, which passed in the Se As India grieves train crash that killed 275, relatives try to identify bodies of loved ones 06/05/2023 08:40pm • BHUBANESWAR, India (AP) — Families of the victims of India’s deadliest train crash in decades filled a hospital in Bhubaneswar city on Monday to try to identify the bodies of relatives, as railway officials recommended a criminal probe of the crash that killed 275 people. Distraught relatives of Demolition company vows repairs after a blast of air during an implosion damaged nearby homes 06/05/2023 08:04pm • SPRINGDALE, Pa. (AP) — A blast of air and dust from the implosion of two smokestacks at a shuttered coal-fired power plant in western Pennsylvania last week felled power poles and caused damage to nearby homes. But the demolition company is vowing full repairs. The implosion at the Cheswick Genera Senegal violence threatens country's stability as experts call on government to instill calm 06/05/2023 07:13pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal experts called on the government on Monday to instill calm after days of the deadliest violence in years and concerns it could have lasting consequences. Days of clashes between security forces and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko have killed at least 16 Missouri governor denies clemency for man facing execution on Tuesday 06/05/2023 06:03pm • Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Monday declined clemency for a man who faces execution Tuesday evening for killing two jailers in an ill-fated effort to free someone else from a county jail. Michael Tisius, 42, would be the third person in Missouri, and the 12th person nationally, to be executed in 202 NY state trooper charged with manslaughter in fatal shooting after high-speed chase in 2022 06/05/2023 06:02pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A New York state trooper was charged with manslaughter Monday for shooting an unarmed motorist to death after he refused to get out of his car following a high-speed chase. Trooper Anthony Nigro pleaded not guilty to first- and second-degree manslaughter at an arraignment in B LOCALIZE IT: $570M in grants headed to railroad crossing projects in 32 states 06/05/2023 05:47pm • EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: The Biden administration is handing out more than $570 million in grants to help eliminate railroad crossings in 32 states just as the industry is increasingly relying on longer and longer trains to cut costs. The grants announced Monday will help eliminate more than three d Dozens of dangerous rail crossings will be eliminated with $570 million in grants 06/05/2023 05:21pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — With the rail industry relying on longer and longer trains to cut costs, the Biden administration is handing out $570 million in grants to help eliminate many railroad crossings in 32 states. The grants announced Monday will contribute to building bridges or underpasses at the s Woman was killed, dismembered by daughter and granddaughter, prosecutors say 06/05/2023 05:07pm • Words such as "mind boggling" were used in court to describe a murder that the chief of the unit that prosecutes many of the worst crimes in Prince George's County, Maryland, described as among the worst murders in memory. At the moment, 71-year-old Margaret Craig, of the Landover area, is still Children rescued from burning car while mom was shoplifting, police say 06/05/2023 04:47pm • OVIEDO, Fla. (AP) — Shoppers at a Florida mall managed to pull two children out of a burning car after their mother left them alone while she shoplifted, police said. The vehicle caught fire May 26 outside the Oviedo Mall, just northeast of Orlando, Oviedo police said. The children were taken to O DNA from drinking glass linked New Jersey man to 4 Boston sexual assaults, prosecutor says 06/05/2023 03:47pm • BOSTON (AP) — A New Jersey lawyer charged with sexually assaulting four women in Boston about 15 years ago was ordered held on $500,000 bail Monday during a hearing in which a prosecutor said authorities helped tie him to the attacks by getting DNA from a drinking glass he had used. Matthew Nilo, Montgomery Co. police searching for suspect after teenager shot at Silver Spring block party 06/05/2023 03:30pm • Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, are looking for suspects after a 16-year-old girl was shot at a block party in Silver Spring on Friday night. According to police, a group of people were at a block party on the 11400 block of Stewart Lane, near White Oak Community Center, when a dark sedan