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Transitional council in Haiti selects new prime minister for a country under siege by gangs 05/28/2024 09:52pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.N. development specialist Garry Conille was named Haiti’s new prime minister Tuesday evening, nearly a month after a coalition within a fractured transitional council sought to choose someone else for the position. The long-awaited move comes as gangs continue to t 'I put a GPS on it': Virginia man tracks down stolen construction tools, initiating 'enormous' investigation 05/28/2024 09:20pm • A Sterling, Virginia, contractor was the first victim identified in a string of robberies in which thieves stole over $3 million worth of construction equipment. Howard County Police said the "enormous" investigation began in January after the contractor had his equipment, which had a tracking de Cohen's credibility, campaigning at court and other takeaways from Trump trial's closing arguments 05/28/2024 09:18pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers and Manhattan prosecutors made their final pitches Tuesday to jurors who will decide whether the Republican will be the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime, squaring off over the strength of the evidence and credibility of the prosecution’s s College in Detroit suspends in-person classes because of pro-Palestinian camp 05/28/2024 09:02pm • DETROIT (AP) — Wayne State University in Detroit suspended in-person classes Tuesday and encouraged staff to work remotely to avoid any problems with a pro-Palestinian encampment that sprouted last week. “All on-campus events are canceled until further notice. Critical infrastructure workers are Mother tells police she shot one child and drowned another. A third was found safe 05/28/2024 08:52pm • FESTUS, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman went to a police station Tuesday and told officers that she fatally shot one of her children and drowned the other, authorities said. Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak said at a news conference that authorities believe both children were killed Tuesday morni The Latest | Fighting escalates in Rafah as Israel pushes ahead with its offensive 05/28/2024 08:35pm • Palestinian residents of the southern Gaza city of Rafah have reported an escalation of fighting Tuesday as Israeli forces pressed their assault on the border town once seen as the territory's last refuge. Israel says it is carrying out limited operations in eastern Rafah along the Gaza-Egypt border Michigan State Police trooper charged with second-degree murder in death of Kentwood man 05/28/2024 08:32pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan State Police trooper who drove his unmarked SUV into a 25-year-old Kentwood man that was fleeing from police has been charged with second-degree murder. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the charges against Detective Sergeant Brian Keely on Tuesday af No charges for officer in death of Michigan teen struck by police car during chase 05/28/2024 08:31pm • A prosecutor declined to file charges Tuesday against a police officer who struck and killed a western Michigan teenager while the boy was running from a stolen vehicle. Kent County prosecutor Chris Becker played a video for reporters and said he found no evidence of intentional deadly force. He ins 6 Scams That Target Your Bank Account 05/28/2024 08:00pm • Scamming is rampant. More than 67,000 people filed scam reports with the Better Business Bureau in 2023, and the median reported dollar loss was $100, according to the BBB Scam Tracker Risk Report. A lot of those scams are targeting your bank accounts. And though federal law limits liability for cre DC police release bodycam footage of police shooting that left man with a knife injured 05/28/2024 07:42pm • D.C. police have released body camera footage of shooting that left a man suspected of having a mental health episode earlier this month injured. The shooting happened May 18, when police responded to calls at Virginia Avenue and 24th Street NW for a man, later identified as 28-year-old Jonathan Hundreds mourn gang killings of a Haitian mission director and a young American couple 05/28/2024 07:29pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of people packed into a sweltering church in Haiti's capital on Tuesday to mourn Judes Montis, a mission director killed by gang members who also fatally shot an American couple that worked with him. Wails filled the crowded church during the early morning ser Jurors hear about Karen Read's blood alcohol level as murder trial enters fifth week 05/28/2024 05:53pm • A woman accused of leaving her Boston police officer boyfriend for dead in a snowbank after a night of drinking was still legally intoxicated or close to it roughly eight hours later, a former state police toxicologist testified Tuesday. Prosecutors say Karen Read dropped John O’Keefe off at a ho Defense lawyers in Tyre Nichols case want jury to hear evidence about items found in his car 05/28/2024 05:47pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge heard arguments Tuesday about whether the jury at the trial of four former Memphis police officers charged in the beating death of Tyre Nichols should hear evidence that Nichols had a hallucinogenic drug and stolen credit cards in his car when he was pulled ov Biden campaign sends allies De Niro and first responders to Trump's NY trial to put focus on Jan. 6 05/28/2024 05:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's campaign on Tuesday showed up outside former President Donald Trump's New York City criminal hush money trial with actor Robert De Niro and a pair of former police officers in an effort to refocus the presidential race on the former president’s role in the Police identify 2 men killed in shooting at Montgomery Co. park 05/28/2024 05:38pm • Two 20-year-old men from Maryland, were killed in a Sunday evening shooting at Nolte Local Park in Silver Spring, Montgomery County police said Tuesday. Police responded to a shooting at the park just before 7 p.m. Sunday and found Quincy Johnson, of Takoma Park, and D’Andre Wint, of Lanham, sh