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With beds scarce and winter bearing down, a tent camp grows outside NYC's largest migrant shelter 01/25/2024 03:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) — On any given night, some 3,000 migrants sleep on cots lined up inside huge, heated tents on a small island with sweeping views of the Manhattan skyline. But as New York struggles to house a surging number of immigrants from the U.S-Mexico border, there simply isn’t enough space i Movie Review: 'Tótem' is a masterful child's-eye view of family and death 01/25/2024 03:10pm • For a film about death, Lila Avilés’ “Tótem” is extraordinarily lived in. Avilés’ camera roams through the festive, cluttered gathering of an extended family as they prepare for a birthday celebration that evening. Watching it all is the 7-year-old Sol (Naíma Sentíes), whose father, Ton US economy grew at a surprisingly strong 3.3% pace last quarter, pointing to continued resilience 01/25/2024 02:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s economy grew at an unexpectedly brisk 3.3% annual pace from October through December as Americans showed a continued willingness to spend freely despite high interest rates and price levels that have frustrated many households. Thursday’s report from the Commerce Here's what to know about Sweden's bumpy road toward NATO membership 01/25/2024 02:36pm • STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s bid to join NATO — held up for almost two years — cleared its next-to-last hurdle when Turkey gave its go-ahead this week to let the Nordic country into the alliance. All existing NATO countries must give their approval before a new member can join the alliance, and Teen fugitive in Philadelphia was picked up by car shortly after escape, authorities say 01/25/2024 02:15pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A teenager awaiting trial in a homicide case who escaped outside a Philadelphia hospital this week was spotted on video getting into a vehicle that drove him away less than an hour after he fled on foot, authorities said. U.S. marshals and city police continued to search Thursd Colombia declares a disaster because of wildfires and asks for international help 01/25/2024 01:30pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government declared a disaster Thursday and asked for international help to combat raging wildfires that are expected to worsen in coming days due to warm, dry conditions associated with the El Niño weather phenomenon. Officials raised the number of fires fro Plan to remove career firefighters from Beltsville station has some residents upset 01/25/2024 10:02am • A recommendation to remove career firefighters from the Beltsville Volunteer Fire Station has a lot of people upset. At a community meeting Wednesday night, Prince George’s County Fire Chief Tiffany Green said an inspection of the station in December uncovered fire violations connected to adequ Police chief: Man fatally shot by DC police officer after jumping out of ambulance, running through traffic 01/25/2024 09:50am • A D.C. police officer fatally shot a man who was reportedly having a mental health crisis Wednesday after officials say he jumped out of an ambulance, ran through traffic and came at officers with a "metal object." The shooting happened near the intersection of North Capitol Street and New York A Zverev's Australian Open semifinal run draws attention on and off the courts 01/25/2024 08:18am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Alexander Zverev's run to a second Australian Open semifinal has drawn attention to his business in other courts. As the season's first major was starting, news emerged that a German court set a trial date in May over an assault allegation dating to 2020 after Zverev ch A man is charged with 76 counts of murder in a deadly South African building fire last year 01/25/2024 07:53am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A man was charged with 76 counts of murder and 86 counts of attempted murder on Thursday for allegedly causing a deadly fire at an apartment building in South Africa last year that was one of the country's worst disasters. Prosecutors said he made a written confession in which Jersey Shore town trying not to lose the man vs. nature fight on its eroded beaches 01/25/2024 05:42am • NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey shore town locked in a legal battle with the state over tens of millions of dollars it has spent trying -- mostly in vain -- to hold back the ocean now is more vulnerable than ever. A recent winter storm destroyed part of the sand dunes in North Wildwood, l Austrian man who raped his captive daughter over 24 years can be moved to a regular prison 01/25/2024 05:32am • KREMS, Austria (AP) — An Austrian man who had kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times, fathering seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to a regular prison, a court ruled on Thursday. The decision, however, stipulates that Josef Fritzl, 88 Cinnamon applesauce pouches were never tested for heavy metals at Ecuador plant, FDA inspection finds 01/25/2024 05:00am • (CNN) — Lead-contaminated cinnamon applesauce pouches that may have sickened hundreds of children in the United States were not tested for heavy metals during their manufacture at an Austrofood facility in Ecuador, according to an inspection report from the US Food and Drug Administration. The Death toll in southwestern China landslide rises to 39, with 5 people still missing 01/25/2024 12:57am • BEIJING (AP) — The death toll from a landslide in a remote, mountainous part of southwestern China rose to 39 on Thursday, while five people remained missing, Chinese state media reported. The disaster struck early Monday in the village of Liangshui in the northeastern part of Yunnan province. Se Former Los Angeles Dodgers star Steve Garvey swings for long shot US Senate win in California 01/25/2024 12:16am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Long-suffering California Republicans will see something on the March ballot that might shock them: a U.S. Senate candidate whose name they recognize. The state's Republican Party has been in a decades-long tailspin in heavily Democratic California, where a GOP candidate hasn’