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Illinois appeals court hears arguments on Jussie Smollett request to toss convictions 09/12/2023 03:47pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Jussie Smollett's lawyers told an Illinois appellate court Tuesday it should toss the former “Empire” actor’s convictions for staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and then lying about it to Chicago police, arguing that anger over the case led to properly 6 protesters arrested as onshore testing work for New Jersey wind farm begins 09/12/2023 03:18pm • OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) — Police arrested six protesters Tuesday who tried to disrupt the start of land-based testing for New Jersey's first offshore wind farm. But the work progressed anyway. Police in Ocean City, which has become the hub of resistance to offshore wind projects in New Jersey and el Israeli Supreme Court hears first challenge to Netanyahu's divisive judicial overhaul 09/12/2023 02:49pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court heard the first challenge Tuesday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul, deepening a showdown with the far-right government that has bitterly divided the nation and put it on the brink of a constitutional crisis. Netanyahu� Israeli academics and artists call on Biden and UN to shun Netanyahu during his upcoming US visit 09/12/2023 12:22pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Israeli academics and artists have urged U.S. President Joe Biden and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to shun Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the United States next week, underlining the divide between Israel's far-right governme Data center developers are being pushed farther out in Northern Virginia 09/12/2023 12:04pm • Leasing demand for data centers in Northern Virginia remains as strong as ever, but developers may be running out of room for new projects closer in. CBRE's report on data center activity for the first half of 2023 notes developers are migrating to new sites within Virginia. Data center activity A Russian passenger jet with a hydraulics problem makes a safe emergency landing in an open field 09/12/2023 11:13am • MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian passenger plane with 170 people on board made a successful wheels-down emergency landing in a field Tuesday, and no one was seriously injured, officials said. The Airbus A320 belonging to Ural Airlines was flying from the Black Sea resort of Sochi to Omsk in eastern Siberia Vatican opens up a palazzo built on ancient Roman ruins and housing its highly secretive tribunals 09/12/2023 11:03am • ROME (AP) — The Vatican on Tuesday opened the doors to one of Renaissance Rome’s most spectacular palazzos, normally hidden from public view since it houses some of the Holy See’s most secretive offices: the ecclesial tribunals that decide everything from marriage annulments to plenary indulge A new documentary reexamines the Louis CK scandal, 6 years later 09/12/2023 10:01am • TORONTO (AP) — Louis C.K. came to the Toronto International Film Festival six years ago with the hotly anticipated “I Love You, Daddy,” just as allegations of sexual misconduct against the comedian were gaining new prominence. The movie sold at TIFF for $5 million, but before it could reach th Court renews detention of 5 Israelis in Cyprus police custody after U.K. woman accuses them of rape 09/12/2023 08:14am • PARALIMNI, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus court on Tuesday extended the detention of five Israelis for another six days after a British woman accused them of gang-raping her in a hotel room during a pool party in the coastal resort town of Ayia Napa. Famagusta District Court Judge Petros Theophilou ruled Ahead of High Holidays, US Jewish leaders stress need for security vigilance as antisemitism surges 09/12/2023 08:01am • Ahead of the High Holidays that begin this week, a network of Jewish security experts and religious leaders hosted several webinars to help prepare for the season. Among the topics: How to respond to an “active threat” targeting the Jewish community, and how to stop severe bleeding. The holidays Police defend strategy in hunt for escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante after he evaded searchers 09/12/2023 07:46am • Authorities in Pennsylvania who have been trying to capture an escaped murderer for nearly two weeks pushed back Monday against questions about whether they blew a chance to collar him, instead blaming the complex terrain in the initial search area for the fugitive’s success in getting clear of it Giants rally past Guardians 5-4 in 10 innings to keep pace in NL wild-card chase 09/12/2023 06:35am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — LaMonte Wade Jr. lined a single in front of sliding center fielder Myles Straw in the 10th inning to drive in Blake Sabol with the winning run, and the San Francisco Giants rallied past the Cleveland Guardians 5-4 on Monday night. The comeback victory kept the Giants just 1½ How Md. retailers are responding to organized retail theft that has 'become so serious' 09/12/2023 04:14am • In response to organized retail theft across the state, the Maryland Retailers Association is meeting with several jurisdictions to discuss solutions before the issue becomes so significant that stores consider closing. Cailey Locklair, president of the Maryland Retailers Association, said the gr Israel's contentious legal overhaul comes to a head as judges hear cases on their own fate 09/12/2023 03:02am • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan has plunged the country into nine months of unrest and exposed bitter divisions within Israeli society. On Tuesday, the country’s gaze shifted from the streets to the courtroom, where Supreme Court judges began t Earthquake robbed Moroccan villagers of almost everything — loved ones, homes and possessions 09/11/2023 08:25pm • TAFEGHAGHTE, Morocco (AP) — His dead relatives have been dug out and buried, but the remnants of Musa Bouissirfane's former life are still trapped under rubble and dust in the ruins of the mud-brick Moroccan village of Tafeghaghte. “It’s incredibly challenging to lose your entire family and al