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Union leaders demand firings following killing of Md. parole agent 06/04/2024 09:46am • Union leaders representing state parole and probation agents are calling for the immediate firing of Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Secretary Carolyn J. Scruggs and two others following the line-of-duty death of an agent last week. Parole and Probation Agent Davis Martinez, A volcano erupts on a central Philippine island, sending hundreds into evacuation centers 06/04/2024 08:27am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� A volcano belched a plume of ash and steam into the night sky in the central Philippines in a powerful explosion that sent more than 700 people fleeing to evacuation camps. The explosion of Mount Kanlaon Monday night on Negros Island triggered sirens across Canlaon, a c Body of a 5th victim is recovered from a submerged car after flooding in Germany 06/04/2024 05:32am • BERLIN (AP) ��� A woman's body has been recovered from a car that sank into floodwater in Bavaria, police said Tuesday, bringing the confirmed death toll in flooding across southern Germany to five. Persistent heavy rain led to widespread flooding over the weekend. While the situation has now eased 'Egregious behavior': Va. work crew threw bear carcass off overpass, near trail, animal rights group says 06/04/2024 04:30am • A work crew in Virginia illegally threw the body of a black bear that had been hit by a car off an overpass, which led to a woman's gruesome discovery of the carcass Friday, according to the Animal Welfare League of Arlington. A company contracted by the Virginia Department of Transportation has German authorities see Islamic extremist motive in Mannheim knife attack 06/04/2024 03:13am • BERLIN (AP) ��� German authorities say they have uncovered evidence of an Islamic extremist motive in last week's knife attack in the southwestern city of Mannheim in which a police officer was fatally injured. Justice Minister Marco Buschmann wrote on the social media platform X late Monday that �� Japan police search for suspects in spray-painting of graffiti at controversial war shrine 06/03/2024 11:31pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japanese police are searching for the suspects who spray-painted the word ���toilet��� on a Tokyo shrine that commemorates the country's war dead, in an apparent protest against the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, officials and news re The Latest | Four more Israeli hostages declared dead, and Palestinians seek to join genocide case 06/03/2024 09:40pm • Israel's military confirmed the deaths of four more hostages held by Hamas ��� including three men in their 80s who were seen in a Hamas video begging for their release. Around 80 hostages captured on Oct. 7 are believed to still be alive in Gaza, alongside the remains of 43 others. Monday's announc Police arrest pro-Palestinian demonstrators inside San Francisco building housing Israeli Consulate 06/03/2024 08:03pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Police on Monday arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators for trespassing after they occupied the lobby of a San Francisco building that houses the Israeli Consulate. Police zip-tied the hands of protesters, put them in police vans, and drove them away. Officers arrest Minnesota prosecutor was reluctant to drop murder charge against trooper, but ultimately did 06/03/2024 08:01pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� A progressive Minnesota prosecutor who was elected on a platform of police accountability has reluctantly dropped charges against a state trooper who fatally shot a Black man after a traffic stop. After months of heavy criticism, even from the state���s Democratic governor, Henn 5 dogs with military intelligence unit in violence-plagued Ecuador given medals for service 06/03/2024 07:39pm • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) ��� The dogs were quick and precise. One located the drugs and neutralized the person carrying them. Another found explosives hidden under a car's tire. The dogs ��� Dayco, Amanda, Apolo, Zeus and Maly ��� were showing their skills Monday at a military intelligence brigade ceremo Atlanta water woes extend into fourth day as city finally cuts off leak gushing into streets 06/03/2024 05:56pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� For at least some residents, Atlanta's water problems weren't over Monday. Milena Franco, who lives in the city's Midtown neighborhood, said she and her husband had water all weekend. But Monday morning, the flow was cut off, as Franco discovered when she tried to take a shower. ��� Judge affirms settlement of lawsuit filed by family of man who died after police pulled him from car 06/03/2024 05:48pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� A judge has ordered the enforcement of a lawsuit settlement between Mississippi's capital city and the family of a man who died after police officers pulled him from a car while searching for a murder suspect. George Robinson, 62, died in January 2019, days after the encounte University of Michigan regent's law office vandalized with pro-Palestinian graffiti 06/03/2024 05:45pm • SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) ��� Pro-Palestinian graffiti spray-painted on the exterior of a Michigan law firm is being investigated as a hate crime, police in suburban Detroit said Monday. University of Michigan regent and attorney Jordan Acker called the vandalism ���antisemitic��� and said staff at the Crime scene analysts testify in trial of woman accused of killing boyfriend with SUV 06/03/2024 05:34pm • Crime scene analysts testified Monday about the SUV prosecutors say a Massachusetts woman was driving more than two years ago when she backed into her Boston police officer boyfriend and left him to die in a snowbank. Karen Read is charged with second-degree murder in the January 2022 death of John Hong Kong detains an artist on the eve of the 35th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown 06/03/2024 04:53pm • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong police briefly detained a performance artist on the eve of the 35th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown, underlining the city's shrinking freedom of expression. Police on Monday took away Sanmu Chen on a street of Causeway Bay, a busy Hong Kong shopping di