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Dozens indicted over NYC gang warfare that led to the deaths of four bystanders 11/14/2024 05:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Four bystanders were shot dead in the last 18 months because of gang rivalries in upper Manhattan, authorities said Thursday as they announced the indictments of dozens of people in a yearslong welter of gunfire, robberies, weapons deals, car crashes and more. One shooting injured Could your neighborhood Advance Auto Parts be one of the hundreds of stores that will be shuttered? 11/14/2024 05:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Advance Auto Parts is closing more than 500 stores and shedding another 200 independent locations as part of its efforts to revive its struggling business. North Carolina-based Advance Auto said Thursday that it would be reducing its U.S. footprint as part of a “strategic plan Brief altercation between fans mars France-Israel soccer match despite heavy security 11/14/2024 05:19pm • PARIS (AP) — There was a brief altercation between a small number of fans early into Thursday's Nations League soccer game between France and Israel despite heavy security inside the stadium, a week after violence erupted in Amsterdam in connection with an Israeli club team’s visit. Around 10 mi Tennessee suspect in dozens of rapes is convicted of producing images of child sex abuse 11/14/2024 04:01pm • GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man who is accused in lawsuits of drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of women while police deliberately botched investigations into him was convicted Thursday of producing images of child sexual abuse. Sean Williams, 53, faces a minimum mandatory term of Brazil authorities link bombing in the capital to extremist discourse 11/14/2024 02:27pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice said Thursday that he believes the explosion outside the court in capital Brasilia was the consequence of frequent far-right attacks and hate speech targeting the country’s institutions. “It grew under the guise of a criminal use of freedom of South Carolina to take a break from executions for the holidays 11/14/2024 02:23pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has decided the state should take a break from executions for the holidays. Justices issued an order on Thursday saying they would wait to sign the next death warrant until at least Jan. 3. South Carolina restarted its death chamber this year Former top official in Chile is arrested on rape charges in a blow to President Boric 11/14/2024 12:27pm • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A former senior official in Chile's government was arrested Thursday on suspicion of rape, authorities said, in a case that has shocked the South American country and dented domestic support for leftist President Gabriel Boric. Manuel Monsalve, 59, who until last month serv Food prices worried most voters, but Trump's plans likely won't lower their grocery bills 11/14/2024 10:26am • Americans are fed up with the price of food, and many are looking to President-elect Donald Trump to lower their grocery bills. Trump often railed on the campaign trail against hefty price increases for bacon, cereal, crackers and other items. “We’ll get them down,” he told shoppers during a S Loudoun Co. could lower rates on car tax, eliminate vehicle license fee 11/14/2024 10:22am • Few people are happy to receive a tax bill — Loudoun County in Virginia has taken a step that could reduce the amount residents pay on the unpopular car tax. "It's something that hits you twice a year, you kinda know that it's coming, but you kinda forget about it," said Matt Letourneau, chair 7 people are killed in Pakistan when a militant's car bomb accidentally explodes 11/14/2024 10:09am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful car bomb accidentally detonated at the house of a Pakistani Taliban militant in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least two children and five suspected militants, police said. The explosion took place before dawn in the city of Mir Ali in Khyber Pa 2 charged with setting some Northeast wildfires amid New Jersey drought warning and blazes out West 11/14/2024 09:47am • BRICK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey's governor declared a drought warning. Black Hawk helicopters scooped water from a lake to dump on a burning forest in New York state. A park in Manhattan caught fire. And authorities in two states revealed criminal charges Wednesday against people accused of setting AP PHOTOS: Thick smog shrouds Asian cities 11/14/2024 08:58am • NEW DELHI (AP) — Thick smog shrouded New Delhi and other cities around South and Southeast Asia as air pollution levels soared Thursday. Air pollution in the region worsens particularly in winter when the burning of crop residue in agricultural areas coincides with cooler temperatures that trap th Dutch lawmaker Wilders wants to deport those convicted of violence against Israeli soccer fans 11/14/2024 01:42am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hard-right Dutch political leader Geert Wilders on Wednesday blamed “Moroccans” for attacks on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam last week, asserting that they “want to destroy Jews” and recommending the deportation of people convicted of involvement if they ha Man kills himself with blasts outside Brazil's Supreme Court after failing to get inside 11/13/2024 10:20pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — A man who failed in an attempt to break into Brazil's Supreme Court killed himself in explosions outside the building Wednesday that forced justices and staff to evacuate, authorities said. The two strong blasts were heard about 7:30 p.m. after the day's session finished and all t Tech consultant testifies that 'bad joke' led to deadly clash with Cash App founder Bob Lee 11/13/2024 08:19pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The tech consultant charged in Cash App founder Bob Lee 's stabbing death testified in his own defense Wednesday that he made a “bad joke” to try to put an end to a late night of drinking and doing drugs, and the famous entrepreneur suddenly attacked him. In his first publ