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Savannah police arrest suspect in weekend shootings that injured 11 in downtown square 05/22/2024 04:25pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A suspect has been arrested in connection with an outbreak of gunfire that injured 11 people last weekend at a public square in the heart of Savannah's downtown historic district, police announced Wednesday. William Anthony Mitchell, 20, was charged with four counts of aggrava Mexico's drought, heatwave and water shortage are so bad even police are blocking traffic in protest 05/22/2024 02:52pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s drought, heatwave and water shortages have gotten so bad that even police blocked traffic in protest Wednesday. In recent months, residents of some Mexico City neighborhoods have regularly taken to forming human chains to block boulevards to demand water. In April, c Exonerated after serving 8 years for 2013 murder, a 26-year-old is indicted again in a NYC shooting 05/22/2024 02:28pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was exonerated after spending eight years in prison for a murder has been charged again — in a different fatal shooting. Shamel Capers, 26, was indicted Tuesday on charges including attempted murder in connection with a July 23, 2023, shootout between two groups of youn Far-right minister who visited contested Jerusalem site has long history of controversy 05/22/2024 01:48pm • TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (AP) — Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, visited Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site on Wednesday in what he described as a protest against the recognition of a Palestinian state by three European countries. It was the latest act of defiance by an u How the nominee for Montgomery Co. police chief plans to bulk up the force 05/22/2024 01:46pm • Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich has once again looked within the Maryland county's police department when choosing his nominee for police chief, tapping Assistant Chief Marc Yamada, a 35-year veteran of the force. If confirmed by the county council, Yamada will replace Marcus Jones, who  UCLA police chief temporarily reassigned over handling of demonstrations including a mob attack on pro-Palestinian camp 05/22/2024 01:10pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — UCLA police chief temporarily reassigned over handling of demonstrations including a mob attack on pro-Palestinian camp. Look up! Blue Angels take to the skies for Naval Academy commissioning week 05/22/2024 12:10pm • A sky show unlike any other comes to Annapolis, Maryland as the U.S. Navy Blue Angels honor the 2024 Naval Academy graduating class. The F/A-18 Super Hornets zip over the Severn River in tight, diamond formation before displaying the rest of their dazzling moves. But don't blink, or you might mis Leesburg man arrested on child pornography charges, police investigating Reston cheerleading business 05/22/2024 12:00pm • A man from Leesburg, Virginia, was arrested in February for multiple child pornography charges. Virginia State Police are now seeking anyone who visited his modeling and cheerleading business in Reston. Jason Robert Fragale, who also went by the alias "Jason Mariani," was arrested for five felony Mexico's presidential front-runner walks a thin, tense line in following outgoing populist 05/22/2024 11:18am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — As she runs to replace outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Claudia Sheinbaum is struggling to construct her own image, leaving many wondering whether she can escape the shadow of the larger-than-life incumbent. The former Mexico City mayor and frontrunner in the Ju A man charged with helping the Hong Kong intelligence service in the UK has been found dead 05/22/2024 11:12am • LONDON (AP) — A man accused of assisting Hong Kong authorities gather intelligence in the United Kingdom who was found dead in a park over the weekend had attempted suicide after he was charged, a prosecutor said. Matthew Trickett, 37, was found dead in a park in Maidenhead, west of London, on Su New York senator won't face charges after he was accused of shoving an advocate 05/22/2024 10:40am • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York state senator won't face charges after he was accused of shoving an advocate in the state capitol building last week. Disability rights advocate Michael Carey, who filed a complaint with New York State Police after a heated exchange with state Sen. Kevin Parker turne UK's Cameron praises progress in joint effort with Albania to stop illegal migration 05/22/2024 10:11am • TIRANA, Albania (AP) — British Foreign Secretary David Cameron hailed progress in a U.K.-Albania joint effort to cut illegal migration, saying small boat arrivals from Albania to the U.K. fell by over 90% in 2023 as the two countries fought people smuggling gangs, according to a Foreign Office sta RNC headquarters briefly locked down after discovery of suspicious package 05/22/2024 09:47am • (CNN) — The Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC, was briefly placed on lockdown Wednesday morning after a suspicious package was discovered.A police source told CNN that the package contained two vials of blood, a Korean Bible and two ice packs. A motive was not immedi Iran's supreme leader and proxy militias pray for late president and others dead in helicopter crash 05/22/2024 09:30am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's supreme leader and representatives of militia groups he backs in the Middle East prayed Wednesday over the coffins of the country's late president, foreign minister and other officials killed in a helicopter crash earlier this week. Hundreds of thousands o Russia is waging a shadow war on the West that needs a collective response, Estonian leader says 05/22/2024 08:15am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Perched on the open ramp at the rear of a British Chinook helicopter, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas flew home from the annual Spring Storm military exercises, pleased to see NATO allies cooperating. But she later said that other types of warfare were on her mind. Her