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A man shot by police in New Caledonia has died. The French Pacific territory remains restive 06/08/2024 07:55am • PARIS (AP) ��� A man shot by police in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia has died of his wounds, becoming the eighth victim of weeks of unrest prompted by changes to the voting law that Indigenous Kanaks fear will marginalize them and their push for independence. Police told investigator HFStival organizers tease return to DC this fall 06/08/2024 03:50am • It's been 13 years, but an iconic music festival is set to return to D.C. in September. A Facebook post from the 9:30 Club ��� and reposted by the Nationals Park account ��� shows pictures from past HFStival concerts and teased a Sept. 21 date at Nats Park. In a tweet, the 9:30 Club said to st Rishi Sunak's D-Day departure is just the latest in a long line of gaffes in UK election campaigns 06/08/2024 03:25am • LONDON (AP) ��� The decision by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to leave D-Day commemorations in northern France early has caused a political storm that threatens to derail his Conservative Party's general election campaign. Though Sunak apologized for not attending Thursday's final commemoration UN will declare that both Israel and Hamas are violating children's rights in armed conflict 06/08/2024 01:45am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� The U.N. secretary-general will tell the Security Council next week that both Israel and Hamas are violating children's rights and leaving them exposed to danger in their war to eliminate each other. The secretary-general annually makes a global list of states and militias th Former astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, killed in Washington plane crash 06/08/2024 01:18am • SEATTLE (AP) ��� William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic ���Earthrise��� photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He Las Vegas logs another record-high but weeklong heat wave losing grip on US Southwest 06/08/2024 01:12am • RENO, Nev. (AP) ��� Las Vegas set a new record high again on Friday and Albuquerque tied its high mark, but forecasters said the weeklong heat wave that baked most of the U.S. Southwest earlier than usual in temperatures well into triple digits was on its last legs. Slightly cooler weather was expec Mystery pitch awaits crestfallen Pakistan in Twenty20 World Cup cricket match against India 06/08/2024 12:18am • WESTBURY, New York (AP) ��� A crestfallen Pakistan goes into its grudge game against archrival India at cricket's Twenty20 World Cup on Sunday with still-painful memories of its huge upset defeat by the United States. The U.S. beat Pakistan in Group A game with a historic win in the Super Over at Da Florida Sen. Rick Scott says he'll vote against recreational pot after brother's death 06/08/2024 12:09am • WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) ��� Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida says he'll be voting in November against a ballot amendment to legalize recreational marijuana in his state, a deeply personal decision based on his brother's long history of addiction. The senator and former Florida governor said Appointed by Trump, Hunter Biden trial judge spent most of her career in civil law 06/08/2024 12:01am • The judge presiding over Hunter Biden's federal gun trial in Delaware is a former corporate civil lawyer with a background in biology who was nominated to the bench by the Biden family's chief political antagonist: former President Donald Trump. But even while that might raise partisan eyebrows and 22 Chinese nationals sentenced to long prison terms in Zambia for multinational cybercrimes 06/07/2024 11:28pm • LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) ��� A Zambian court on Friday sentenced 22 Chinese nationals to long prison terms for cybercrimes that included internet fraud and online scams targeting Zambians and other people from Singapore, Peru and the United Arab Emirates. The Magistrates Court in the capital, Lusaka, sen Former astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, killed in Washington plane crash 06/07/2024 11:16pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic ���Earthrise��� photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He 'The two were a fixture in downtown Bethesda': Popular dog who rides on the back of owner���s bike dies 06/07/2024 11:03pm • When Richard Hoye rode his bike around downtown Bethesda, Maryland, his black Labrador retriever, Rudder, would be right behind him in a pedicab. Hoye, 68, and Rudder were the best of buddies for 14 years until Rudder passed away on Wednesday, leaving not only Hoye, but many in the downtown Bethe Mexico's outgoing president vows to pursue changes to Constitution despite market nervousness 06/07/2024 10:27pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico���s outgoing president pledged Friday to press ahead with j udicial reforms despite nervousness among investors and suggestions from his own handpicked successor that he should go slow. President Andr��s Manuel L��pez Obrador said he would pursue 20 constitutional change Harvey Weinstein lawyers argue he was denied fair trial in appeal of LA rape conviction 06/07/2024 10:21pm • Harvey Weinstein���s lawyers argue in an appeal that he did not get a fair trial when he was convicted of rape and sexual assault in Los Angeles in 2022 and sentenced to 16 years in prison. The brief filed Friday with California���s Second District Court of Appeal comes six weeks after his similar Surging Reds beat Cubs 3-2 for 6th straight victory 06/07/2024 10:19pm • CINCINNATI (AP) ��� Nick Lodolo allowed one run through six innings, Tyler Stephenson hit a two-run double and the surging Cincinnati Reds beat the Chicago Cubs 3-2 on Friday night for their sixth straight victory. The Reds have won 11 of 14 to pull even with the Cubs in second place in the NL Centr