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Russia renews attacks on the Ukrainian energy sector as Kyiv launches drones at southern Russia 04/27/2024 06:56am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a barrage of missiles against Ukraine overnight, in attacks that appeared to target the country’s energy infrastructure. Meanwhile, Russia said its air defense systems had intercepted more than 60 Ukrainian drones over the southern Krasnodar region. Ukraine� Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police 04/27/2024 06:21am • Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived. The 43-year-old was surrounded by police who arrested him after responding to a trespassing call in a Wisconsin parking lot. Officers had shocked him with a Taser and pinned him as he pleaded that he couldn’t breathe. Now South Africa remembers an historic election every April 27. Here's why this year is so poignant 04/27/2024 01:38am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans celebrate their “Freedom Day” every April 27, when they remember their country's pivotal first democratic election in 1994 that announced the official end of the racial segregation and oppression of apartheid. Saturday is the 30th anniversary of th Paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with ketamine before his death avoids prison 04/27/2024 01:27am • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with a powerful sedative avoided prison Friday and was sentenced to 14 months in jail with work release and probation in the killing of the Black man that helped fuel the 2020 racial injustice protests. Jeremy Cooper had faced Midwest tornadoes flatten homes in Nebraska suburbs and leave trails of damage in Iowa 04/26/2024 10:33pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday, damaging hundreds of homes and other structures as it tore for miles along farmland and into subdivisions. Some injuries were reported but there were no immediate reports that anyone was killed. Multiple tornadoes wer Canadian province will make changes to try to stop drug use in public places, premier says 04/26/2024 09:03pm • VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The government of the Canadian province of British Columbia is making changes to its drug decriminalization policy to stop drug use in public places. Premier David Eby told a news conference Friday the province is asking the federal government to make illicit dru DC Homeland releases draft report on flash flood that killed 10 dogs at Northeast doggy day care 04/26/2024 08:10pm • A draft report on what went wrong in the response to the flash flood that killed 10 dogs in Northeast D.C. in August last year includes a number of recommendations, but raises more questions for one local ANC commissioner. The draft "after-action" report from D.C.'s Homeland Security and Emergenc Takeaways from AP's investigation into fatal police encounters involving injections of sedatives 04/26/2024 07:55pm • The practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found. At least 94 people died after they were given sedatives a Mississippi police were at odds as they searched for missing man, widow says 04/26/2024 07:40pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In the weeks after Sudanese Civil War refugee Dau Mabil vanished without a trace in Mississippi, officers from two police agencies blamed each other for the stalled investigation, his widow told The Associated Press. Fishermen, not police, spotted Mabil's body floating in a r An emergency slide falls off a Delta Air Lines plane, forcing pilots to return to JFK in New York 04/26/2024 07:31pm • NEW YORK (AP) — An emergency slide fell off a Delta Air Lines jetliner shortly after takeoff Friday from New York, and pilots who felt a vibration in the plane circled back to land safely at JFK Airport. Delta said that after takeoff the pilots got an alert about the emergency slide on the plane's Fire at small hotel in southern Brazil kills at least 10 people 04/26/2024 06:16pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A fire tore through a small hotel in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre early Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 11, authorities said. The fire broke out in the early hours in the three-story building, which provided affordable housing in single rooms a Youth curfew at National Harbor now in effect 04/26/2024 05:45pm • A youth curfew is now in effect at National Harbor in Prince George's County, Maryland. Unaccompanied kids and teens who are 16 and younger aren’t allowed there on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights from 5 p.m. to 6 a.m. The first time a kid is caught unsupervised will come with a warning. Afte Google announces $1B for data center expansion in Loudoun, Prince William counties 04/26/2024 03:41pm • Google on Friday announced a $1 billion investment to expand its Virginia data centers, including two Loudoun County sites and a newly opened Prince William County campus. Google President and CEO Ruth Porat was joined by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin at the company’s Reston headquarters to an Maryland Film Festival celebrates 25 years in Baltimore, launching Greta Gerwig, Berry Jenkins 04/26/2024 03:11pm • Happy 25th birthday to the Maryland Film Festival celebrating a quarter century of cinema in Baltimore. The festival returns to the recently restored SNF Parkway Theatre on West North Avenue from May 2 through May 5. "It's such a Baltimore institution and has really grown and become one of Orbán challenger leads protest calling for child protection after sexual abuse scandal in Hungary 04/26/2024 02:51pm • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — An aspiring challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán renewed his calls for change Friday as he led a protest of several thousand people demanding a more robust child protection system and the resignation of Orbán's government. The demonstrators gathered outsi