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Hong Kong police arrest 6 people accused of violating the city's new national security law 05/28/2024 12:21pm • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong police on Tuesday arrested six people, including a former organizer of the city���s decades-long annual vigil that commemorated China���s Tiananmen Square crackdown, for allegedly publishing seditious social media posts, in what were the first publicly known arrests unde Recovery of Brazil's Spix's macaw, popularized in animated 'Rio' films, threatened by climate change 05/28/2024 11:21am • CURACA, Brazil (AP) ��� All Spix���s macaws are majestically blue in the blazing sun of Brazil's Northeast, but each bird is distinct to Candice and Cromwell Purchase. As the parrots soar squawking past their home, the couple can readily identify bird No. 17 by its smooth feathers and can tell No. 1 'Son of Sam' killer Berkowitz denied parole in 12th attempt 05/28/2024 10:32am • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� ���Son of Sam��� killer David Berkowitz, who set New York City on edge with late-night shootings in the 1970s, was denied parole after his twelfth board appearance. Berkowitz, 70, was rejected after a Board of Parole prison interview on May 14, according to information listed Still hurting from violence, Mexican priests and families hope for peace ahead of elections 05/28/2024 10:03am • CHIHUAHUA, M��xico (AP) ��� Jos�� Portillo Gil, the gang leader known as ���El Chueco��� ��� the Crooked One ��� lowered his gun. The Rev. Jes��s Reyes then spoke what he feared might be his final words: Please, don���t take my brothers��� corpses away. Next to him, at the altar of his church in nor At least 17 are killed when a stone quarry collapses in India���s northeast. 12 others remain missing 05/28/2024 08:16am • GUWAHATI, India (AP) ��� A stone quarry collapsed Tuesday in India���s northeast due to heavy rain triggered by a tropical storm, killing 17 quarry workers and leaving 12 missing, officials said. Senior police officer Rahul Alwal said rescuers recovered the bodies of those killed in the quarry in M Australian police arrest a man accused of running naked through an airliner 05/28/2024 07:53am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� A man accused of running naked down the aisle of an Australian domestic flight, knocking down a flight attendant and forcing the plane to turn back, was arrested by police at the airport, officials said on Tuesday. The incident happened early in what was scheduled to be Typhoon leaves at least seven people dead and thousands displaced in the Philippines 05/28/2024 05:27am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� A typhoon has finally moved away from the Philippines, leaving at least seven people dead, mostly due to floods or toppled trees, and forcing the closures of several seaports, stranding thousands of passengers, officials said Tuesday. Typhoon Ewiniar crept by the country Hard-liner Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf re-elected as speaker of Iran's parliament 05/28/2024 04:56am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Iran's parliament re-elected hard-liner Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf on Tuesday as its speaker, reaffirming its hard-right makeup in the wake of a helicopter crash that killed the country's president and foreign minister. Of 287 lawmakers voting, 198 backed Qalibaf to Today in History: May 28, Dionne quintuplets are born in Canada 05/28/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Tuesday, May 28, the 149th day of 2024. There are 217 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets ��� Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne ��� were born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada. On th 3 children hospitalized in Puerto Rico after lightning strikes beach 05/27/2024 10:46pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Lightning struck a beach in the northern coastal town of Isabela during inclement weather Monday, injuring three children, one seriously, Puerto Rican police said. The children, whose ages ranged from 7 to 12, were taken to a hospital in the nearby town of Aguadilla, a How to Decide Where to Live 05/27/2024 08:00pm • Sometimes you're ready for a change to a new city, and sometimes that change is thrust upon you. Whether you're carefully weighing your options to find the city where you want to live for the next 10 years or you're trying to decide if a cross-country job offer is worth uprooting your life, there ar 81-year-old arrested after police say he terrorized a California neighborhood with a slingshot 05/27/2024 06:54pm • AZUSA, Calif. (AP) ��� An 81-year-old man who investigators say terrorized a Southern California neighborhood for years with a slingshot has been arrested, police said. While conducting an investigation, detectives ���learned that during the course of 9-10 years, dozens of citizens were being victim Man convicted of Chicago murder based on blind witness' testimony sues city, police 05/27/2024 03:33pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A Chicago man convicted of murder based in part on testimony from a legally blind eyewitness is suing the city and the police department. A judge convicted Darien Harris in 2014 in connection with a fatal shooting at a South Side gas station in 2011. He was 12 years into a 76-year Body pulled from Potomac River believed to be swimmer missing since Friday 05/27/2024 03:30pm • A body recovered from the Potomac River on Monday is believed to be a young man who went missing last Friday while attempting to swim from Virginia to Maryland. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesman Pete Piringer told WTOP two swimmers near Great Falls tried to cross from Virginia into Mary Suspect identified in stabbings at a Massachusetts theater and a McDonald���s 05/27/2024 02:44pm • BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) ��� A Massachusetts man will be arraigned Tuesday on multiple charges including assault with the intent to murder after six people, including four girls at a movie theater, were stabbed in separate attacks, officials said. Jared Ravizza, 26, of Chilmark, a town on Martha's Vine