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Natalee Holloway���s confessed killer returns to Peru to serve out sentence in another murder 10/31/2023 07:04pm • LIMA, Peru (AP) ��� A Dutchman who recently confessed to killing American high school student Natalee Holloway in 2005 in Aruba was returned to Peru on Tuesday to serve the remainder of his prison sentence for murdering a Peruvian woman. Joran van der Sloot arrived in Lima in the custody of law e Editorial Roundup: United States 10/31/2023 06:28pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Oct. 26 The Washington Post on the economic ideas presented by GOP candidates for POTUS Republican candidates are trying to capitalize on discontent with ���Bidenomics.��� Despite strong job gains, cooling inflation, blockbuster third- Thousands of DC-area kids get winter coats just in time for chilly trick-or-treating 10/31/2023 05:26pm • The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department sent 2,000 free winter coats to local students in need Tuesday morning. Some of the youngest students even got to visit the Virginia firehouse and pick out their jackets. Around 200 preschoolers filed off buses into the Fairfax County Fire Station 11. Investigation finds a threat assessment should have been done before the Oxford High School shooting 10/31/2023 05:21pm • OXFORD, Mich. (AP) ��� Officials with Michigan���s Oxford High School should have conducted a threat assessment into Ethan Crumbley's behavior prior to a shooting that left four students dead and others wounded, an independent investigation concluded. Crumbley's conduct included viewing bullets, wat Cameron tries to energize growing GOP base in challenging Democratic incumbent in Kentucky 10/31/2023 04:56pm • LONDON, Ky. (AP) ��� Looking to energize his party's growing base, Republican Daniel Cameron picked apart Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear's record Tuesday in Kentucky's hotly contested gubernatorial campaign. Cameron took aim at the incumbent's veto of transgender bills and handling of the pandemic whi Business Highlights: Europe���s inflation eases; the state of US unions 10/31/2023 04:52pm • ___ Europe���s inflation eased to 2.9% in October thanks to lower fuel prices. But growth has vanished FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ��� The inflation that has been wearing on European consumers fell sharply to 2.9% in October, its lowest in more than two years as fuel prices fell and rapid interest rate Boris Johnson's former top aide is withering about UK government during COVID-19 pandemic inquiry 10/31/2023 03:30pm • LONDON (AP) ��� The former top aide to ex-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday painted a picture of widespread chaos and dysfunction in the U.K. government during the coronavirus pandemic. In keenly awaited testimony to the country���s public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic, Dominic C Freedom Under Fire: 5 takeaways from AP���s series on rising tension between guns and American liberty 10/31/2023 02:41pm • In a country shadowed by the threat of mass shootings and neighborhood violence, courts have embraced an increasingly absolute reading of the right to guns. That raises difficult questions about how to protect the full range of freedoms Americans cherish. With nearly 400 million guns in civilian han Comedian Nimesh Patel shares journey from Chris Rock to 'SNL' en route to DC's Warner Theatre 10/31/2023 02:24pm • Comedian Nimesh Patel is ready to crack up the nation's capital. His "Fast and Loose" standup comedy tour arrives at Warner Theatre in D.C. next week for two nights on Nov. 10-11. "This will be my third time playing Warner Theatre, my second time headlining," Patel told WTOP. "I'm very excited The Supreme Court wrestles with social media cases that have echoes of Donald Trump 10/31/2023 02:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court wrestled Tuesday with whether public officials can block critics from commenting on their social media accounts, an issue that first arose in a case involving former President Donald Trump. The justices heard arguments in two cases involving lawsuits filed by pe Gallaudet has a history of technological innovation with wide applications. The latest is a helmet 10/31/2023 12:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Shelby Bean could not help but feel a bit jealous. As a deaf football player for four years at Gallaudet, he called defensive plays with American Sign Language and dealt with other obstacles hearing opponents never need to worry about. Now an assistant coach, he was on the sid Deaf family grieves father of 4 and beloved community leader who was killed in Maine shootings 10/31/2023 12:43pm • LISBON FALLS, Maine (AP) ��� Most survivors of the mass shootings at a Maine bowling alley and a bar heard the gunfire and tried to escape. For a group of deaf bowlers, the shattering din of bullets fired from a high-power rifle reached them only as a jolt. There were nine deaf bowlers Oct. 25 when Bud Light brewer confident it can win back US drinkers, but sales are still down after backlash 10/31/2023 11:50am • Anheuser-Busch InBev said Tuesday that revenue growth in most of its global regions was offset by a drop in North American sales in the third quarter, in a sign of continuing fallout from a promotion with a transgender influencer. The world's largest brewer and parent company of Bud Light said its r In the shadow of loss, a mother's long search for happiness 10/31/2023 11:23am • AJIJIC, Mexico (AP) ��� There���s a look Sandy Phillips came to know each time she arrived somewhere a gunman had made famous. Her road trip through mass shooting sites went on for a decade and always seemed to have a new stop. When she reached it, she���d lock eyes with someone and see the catatoni 'This is a crisis': Montgomery Co. panel explores juvenile crime, possible actions 10/31/2023 08:05am • Bomb threats, carjackings, gun offenses. While juvenile crime on the whole in Maryland is below pre-pandemic levels, the numbers for particular offenses are "off the charts," according to Montgomery County State's Attorney John McCarthy. Montgomery County Council members on the Public Safety Comm