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New leaders take on Haiti's chaos as those living in fear demand swift solutions to gang violence 04/26/2024 03:05pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — It has been only a day since the transitional presidential council was installed in Haiti, and the list of demands on the Caribbean nation's new leaders is rapidly growing. Haitians want security, food, jobs — and they want them now. The members of the council, taske A man accused in a Harvard bomb threat and extortion plot is sentenced to 3 years probation 04/26/2024 01:13pm • CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A New Hampshire man accused of participating in a plot in which a caller issued bomb threats last year to Harvard University and demanded a large amount of bitcoin was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation. The threats caused the evacuation of Harvard’s Science C Heads up, drivers: Road closures in DC for 5K on Saturday 04/26/2024 12:51pm • There is plenty going on in the District this weekend, as lovely spring weather finally begins to stick. Make sure to keep these road closures in mind as you are traveling to your Saturday plans. The PanCAN PurpleStride 5K will be taking place in downtown D.C. to honor those affected by pancreati Minneapolis approves $150K settlement for witness to George Floyd's murder 04/26/2024 12:08pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis City Council has agreed to pay a $150,000 settlement to an eyewitness who tried to intervene to prevent George Floyd’s murder and who says he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result. Donald Williams, a mixed martial arts fighter who testified ag Andrew Tate's trial on charges of rape and human trafficking can start, a Romanian court rules 04/26/2024 10:29am • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital on Friday ruled that a trial can start in the case of influencer Andrew Tate, who is charged with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The Bucharest Tribunal ruled that prosecutors’ case file again Man convicted of involuntary manslaughter in father's drowning, told police he was baptizing him 04/26/2024 08:27am • BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man who told police he was exorcising a demon and performing a baptism when he shoved his father's head under water multiple times has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in his death. A jury found Jack Callahan, 22, guilty on Thursday, following an ei Driver arrested after fatal hit and run in Silver Spring 04/26/2024 07:19am • The driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run incident in Silver Spring, Maryland, earlier this month has been arrested. On Wednesday, Montgomery County police took 42-year-old Gilver Yuviny Zelaya Diaz into custody for his involvement in a hit-and-run collision that left Jacques Price, 26, dead on South Korean police raid office of incoming head of doctors' group over protracted strikes 04/26/2024 06:17am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police said Friday they searched the office of the hard-line incoming leader of an association of doctors and confiscated his mobile phone as he faces accusations that he incited the protracted walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents. The devel Philippine police kill an Abu Sayyaf militant implicated in 15 beheadings and other atrocities 04/26/2024 06:15am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine forces killed an Abu Sayyaf militant, who had been implicated in past beheadings, including of 10 Filipino marines and two kidnapped Vietnamese, in a clash in the south, police officials said Friday. Philippine police, backed by military intelligence agents, k Mexico City seeks to downplay the case of a serial killer suspect who kept women's bones in his room 04/26/2024 03:29am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City prosecutors sought Thursday to downplay the case of a suspected serial killer who kept women’s bones and a saw in his room, apparently having targeted women over the course of more than a decade. The city’s head prosecutor said the remains of six women were foun Muslim groups claim double standards in police handling of two high-profile stabbings in Sydney 04/26/2024 03:03am • NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) — Muslim groups in Australia on Friday criticized the disparity in the police response to two stabbing attacks in Sydney this month, saying it had created a perception of a double standard and further alienated the country's minority Muslim community. The Australian Natio AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa 04/26/2024 02:33am • April 19-25, 2024 French police evict migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris ahead of the Olympics, Portugal commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, clean-up operations take place in South Africa during the Earth Day, and Estonians demonstrate in support of a military strateg Journalists critical of their own companies cause headaches for news organizations 04/26/2024 12:47am • NEW YORK (AP) — This spring, NBC News, The New York Times and National Public Radio have each dealt with turmoil for essentially the same reason: journalists taking the critical gaze they deploy to cover the world and turning it inward at their own employers. Whistleblowing isn't unique to any Chiefs trade up with Bills to select WR Xavier Worthy at No. 28 in NFL draft 04/26/2024 12:28am • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs traded up to select Texas wide receiver Xavier Worthy with the No. 28 pick in the NFL draft on Thursday night, giving Patrick Mahomes the kind of speedy deep threat they have not enjoyed since Tyreek Hill was on the roster. The Chiefs were supposed to The Latest | Israeli strikes in Rafah kill at least 5 as ship comes under attack in the Gulf of Aden 04/26/2024 12:10am • Palestinian hospital officials said Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip killed at least five people. More than half of the territory’s population of 2.3 million have sought refuge in Rafah, where Israel has conducted near-daily raids as it prepares for an offensive i