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���Every move I make, I second guess���: These Muslim and Arab Americans say the surge in hate has made them more vigilant 11/18/2023 04:00am • (CNN) — Nicole was walking through an affluent part of Alexandria, Virginia, with a friend last month, when a man approached her and began screaming.He railed about the hijab she wore, saying she looked Muslim, and made comments about Hamas raping Israeli women,��she said. Her friend corrobora The Israel-Hamas war is driving a surge in US hate crimes. These Jewish Americans say it���s changing the way they live 11/18/2023 04:00am • (CNN) ��� Melissa Franklin has always decorated her home for Hanukkah ��� proudly hanging a Star of David on her porch and placing her family���s menorah in the front window. This year, however, will be different. ���I just can���t see us doing it because I don���t want retaliation,��� Frankli Censored art from around the world finds a second opportunity at a Barcelona museum for banned works 11/18/2023 12:16am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� A drawing of a nude Donald Trump. A punching bag sculpture shaped like a woman���s torso. A display of women's party shoes standing proudly on prayer rugs. All are pieces of contemporary art that have provoked debate and, sometimes, violent reactions. These pieces and dozen Moms for Liberty reports over $2 million in revenue, with bulk of contributions from two donors 11/17/2023 09:46pm • The Moms for Liberty ���parental rights��� nonprofit reported $2.1 million in total revenue in 2022, a big leap from the previous year that was made possible primarily through contributions from two anonymous megadonors, according to a tax filing provided to The Associated Press on Friday. The drama 6 Colorado officers charged with failing to intervene during fatal standoff 11/17/2023 07:10pm • DENVER (AP) ��� Six more Colorado law enforcement officers were charged Friday in connection with the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man suffering a mental health crisis last year that became an example for critics of what���s wrong with how police handle such calls. The latest charges bring the to Texas approves new textbooks after friction over fossil fuels in the US's biggest oil and gas state 11/17/2023 06:15pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� Texas��� education board approved new science textbooks Friday but called on some publishers to remove material that some Republicans criticized as incorrect or negative portrayals of fossil fuels in the U.S.'s biggest oil and gas state. The vote laid bare divisions on the Te Man accused of kidnapping a 9-year-old girl from New York park is charged with rape 11/17/2023 05:46pm • BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) ��� A man accused of kidnapping a 9-year-old girl from a state park in upstate New York raped the child during the two days she was held hostage before her rescue, prosecutors said Friday. Craig N. Ross Jr. was initially charged only with first-degree kidnapping in the abduct Four of 7 officers returned to regular duty after leak of Nashville school shooting records 11/17/2023 04:35pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Four of seven Nashville Police officers who had been put on administrative assignment following the leak of pages from a school shooter's journals to a conservative commentator have returned to regular duty, according to a police statement on Friday. The officers had been p Thousands of bodies lie buried in rubble in Gaza. Families dig to retrieve them, often by hand 11/17/2023 01:45pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� The wreckage goes on for block after devastated block. The smell is sickening. Every day, hundreds of people claw through tons of rubble with shovels and iron bars and their bare hands. They are looking for the bodies of their children. Their parents. Their neighbo Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/17/2023 01:35pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Russian authorities ask the Supreme Court to declare the LGBTQ 'movement' extremist 11/17/2023 11:51am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� The Russian Justice Ministry on Friday said it has filed a lawsuit with the nation's Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ+ ���international public movement��� as extremist, the latest crippling blow against the already beleaguered LGBTQ+ community in the increasingly conservat Matriarch is charged with arranging her ex-son-in-law's death, 1 week after son convicted of murder 11/17/2023 11:12am • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� The matriarch of a South Florida family who made their fortune practicing dentistry has been arrested at Miami International Airport on charges of orchestrating the hit-man murder of her ex-son-in-law, one week after her oral surgeon son was convicted on the same first Beyonc�� reporter hired by Gannett after buzzy job posting 11/17/2023 09:33am • (CNN) ��� Multimedia journalist Cach�� McClay is having a career ���Renaissance��� as she takes on her new role as the Beyonc�� reporter for USA Today and The Tennessean. ���I grew up in a Beyonc�� household, my mother and sister are fans,��� McClay said, according to USA Today, who announced the California family sues sheriff's office after deputy kidnapped girl, killed her mother, grandparents 11/17/2023 06:34am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A California family is suing a Virginia sheriff's department that hired a deputy who sexually extorted and kidnapped a 15-year-old girl at gunpoint, killed her mother and grandparents, and set their home on fire. Austin Lee Edwards, 28, died by suicide during a shootout with Player of the Week: Westfield's Kennedy Duda 11/17/2023 05:42am • Each week, WTOP is picking one student athlete to be featured on air and online as our Player of the Week. This week's WTOP Player of the Week is Kennedy Duda of Westfield High School in Chantilly, Virginia. A junior running back for the Bulldogs, Duda has found the end zone 19 times in 10 regula