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French President Macron says he won't rush through voting reforms that triggered New Caledonia riots 05/23/2024 12:32pm • French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday on a visit to riot-hit New Caledonia that he won���t force through the contested voting reform that sparked the French Pacific territory's deadly unrest, saying he wants local leaders to come up with an alternate agreement for the archipelago���s future Stage collapse at a campaign rally in northern Mexico kills at least 9 people and injures 121 05/23/2024 12:25pm • SAN PEDRO GARZA GARCIA, Mexico (AP) ��� The collapse of a stage in heavy winds at a campaign rally in northern Mexico has killed at least nine people, including a child, and injured 121, the governor of Nuevo Leon state said Thursday. The collapse occurred during an event Wednesday evening attended Man is found fit to go on trial in attacks that killed 4 in Rockford, Illinois 05/23/2024 11:59am • ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) ��� A man was found fit Thursday to stand trial on charges of killing four people and injuring seven others during a series of frenzied attacks in a neighborhood in Rockford, Illinois. The judge had ordered a psychiatric evaluation in April for Christian Soto, 22, who is accused French judicial officials open theft probe before Maradona's World Cup Golden Ball goes to auction 05/23/2024 11:09am • French judicial officials have opened an investigation into the possible theft of a trophy that was awarded to the late Diego Maradona after the 1986 World Cup and is set to be auctioned. The prosecutor's office in Nanterre, outside Paris, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the probe was han Man is held in France over posts about California murders as Olympic torch passes through Bordeaux 05/23/2024 10:09am • PARIS (AP) ��� A man in France who posted online about a deadly rampage in California in 2014 has been taken into custody and has told police investigators he had been thinking about an attack of his own, the French prosecutor overseeing the police probe in Bordeaux said Thursday. French Interior Mi Retailers use police-like investigation centers to fight theft. Shoppers pay the price 05/23/2024 07:00am • (CNN) — When SWAT officers swarmed a house in a sleepy San Jose, California neighborhood last month, they found what could best be described as a make-shift hardware store inside: Shelves lined with boxes of brand-new tools, bathroom fixtures and spools of industrial wiring.It resembled a mini Spanish police recover fourth of 5 Francis Bacon paintings stolen in Madrid in 2015 05/23/2024 06:08am • MADRID (AP) ��� Spanish police say they have recovered the fourth of five paintings by Irish-born painter Francis Bacon that were stolen from a Madrid apartment in 2015. A police statement Thursday said the 1989 painting of a man's head, titled on the back as ���Study for Portrait of Jos�� Capelo," Today in History: May 23, Bonnie and Clyde shot and killed 05/23/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Thursday, May 23, the 144th day of 2024. There are 222 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. On this date: In 1430, Joan o Former UK Post Office boss breaks down in inquiry over scandal that saw hundreds wrongly convicted 05/22/2024 11:24pm • LONDON (AP) ��� The former head of Britain's Post Office Paula Vennells broke down in tears on several occasions as she gave evidence Wednesday to an inquiry into one of the country���s biggest miscarriages of justice that saw hundreds of branch managers wrongly convicted of theft or fraud because o FBI agents raided the office and business of a Mississippi prosecutor, but no one is saying why 05/22/2024 09:05pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� The FBI on Wednesday raided a local prosecutor's office and business in Mississippi's capital city, although officials declined to say whether Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens is suspected of wrongdoing. FBI agents spent hours searching a cigar bar owned by Owens in Egyptians held nearly a year over deadly shipwreck are released from Greek jail after case dismissed 05/22/2024 09:02pm • NAFPLIO, Greece (AP) ��� A group of Egyptians jailed for nearly a year pending trial for a deadly shipwreck were released from jail Wednesday, a day after a Greek court threw out the case against them on grounds that it had no jurisdiction to try it. Nine Egyptians had been charged with being part o Centrist challenger ousts progressive prosecutor in DA race in Portland, Oregon 05/22/2024 08:06pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� Centrist district attorney candidate Nathan Vasquez has ousted the incumbent progressive prosecutor in Oregon���s Multnomah County, home to Portland, after running a campaign in which he vowed to be tough on crime. One of District Attorney Mike Schmidt���s deputies, Vasquez w Biden is honoring Kenya with state visit as the East African nation prepares to send police to Haiti 05/22/2024 07:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden welcomed Kenyan President William Ruto to the White House for a three-day state visit and designating the East African nation a major non-NATO ally as it prepares to deploy forces to Haiti as part of U.N.-led effort to address the security crisis in the Caribb NYC vowed to reform its protest policing. A crackdown on a pro-Palestinian march is raising doubts 05/22/2024 07:12pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� When New York City resolved a lawsuit brought by Black Lives Matter demonstrators last year by agreeing to overhaul how police respond to protests, Mayor Eric Adams praised the suite of reforms as sensible steps to ���move our city forward.��� But some civil rights lawyers are now Disgruntled worker fatally shoots 2, wounds 3 at linen company near Philadelphia 05/22/2024 07:05pm • CHESTER, Pa. (AP) ��� A disgruntled employee opened fire at a linen company near Philadelphia on Wednesday, killing two coworkers and injuring three others, authorities said. The shooting took place at the Delaware County Linen at about 8:30 a.m. in the city of Chester, about 18 miles (29 kilometers