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UK court rules that extension of police powers to intervene in protests is unlawful 05/21/2024 08:50am • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain's High Court ruled Tuesday that new regulations that gave U.K. police more powers to intervene in protests are unlawful. Civil liberties campaign group Liberty brought legal action against the British government over a law passed last year that lowered the threshold for what Australia's deputy prime minister pledges support to Solomon Islands during visit to Honiara 05/21/2024 03:11am • NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) ��� Australia's deputy prime minister pledged support to the Solomon Islands during a visit to the archipelago nation on Tuesday, as Canberra intensifies efforts to counter China's growing influence in the South Pacific. Richard Marles��� trip to the capital, Honiara, was t Drexel threatens to clear encampment as arrests linked to Israel-Hamas war protests exceed 3,000 05/20/2024 10:38pm • Drexel University in Philadelphia threatened to clear an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters on Monday as arrests linked to campus demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war surpassed the 3,000 mark nationwide. Drexel President John Fry said the encampment had disrupted campus life and ���cann Haiti���s main airport reopens nearly 3 months after gang violence forced it closed 05/20/2024 10:12pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Haiti���s main international airport reopened Monday for the first time in nearly three months after relentless gang violence forced authorities to close it. The reopening of the Toussaint-Louverture airport in the capital of Port-au-Prince is expected to help ease a c Family of Black teen wrongly executed in 1931 seeks damages after 2022 exoneration 05/20/2024 09:32pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� The family of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania ��� a Black 16-year-old sent to the electric chair in 1931 and exonerated by the governor in 2022 ��� is suing the county that prosecuted him. Alexander McClay Williams was convicted of murder in the O Bounced Checks: What You Need to Know 05/20/2024 08:00pm • Writing a check that bounces -- as well as trying to cash one -- can cost you. Read on to learn what bounced checks are, how to minimize their effects and how to avoid them altogether. What Is a Bounced Check?When you bounce a check, it means that you wrote a check that the bank couldn't process. Ty University of California academic workers strike to stand up for pro-Palestinian protesters 05/20/2024 07:43pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz walked off their jobs and went on strike Monday, the first campus to do so as part of a systemwide protest against a public university they say has violated the speech rights of pro-Palestinian advocates. United Au There was a fatal shooting at this year's 'Jeep Week' event on Texas Gulf Coast. Here's what to know 05/20/2024 07:25pm • A popular event drew tens of thousands of visitors over the weekend to Texas Gulf Coast beaches, where a fatal shooting erupted and nearly 300 people were arrested, authorities said Monday. Three separate shootings were reported Saturday on the Bolivar Peninsula during the annual ���Jeep Week��� eve Judge cites error, will reopen sentencing hearing for man who attacked Paul Pelosi 05/20/2024 07:21pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� A federal judge will reopen the sentencing hearing for the man who broke into Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home and bludgeoned her husband with a hammer after the judge failed to allow him to speak during his court appearance last week. On Friday, District Judge Jacqueline Sco Investigators return to Long Island home of Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect 05/20/2024 07:12pm • MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) ��� Investigators returned Monday to the home of a New York architect charged in a string of slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings. State and county police officials descended on Rex Heuermann's dilapidated, single-family home in Massapequa Park on Long Island sometim Violence intensifies in southwest Colombia as FARC holdout group attacks police and military 05/20/2024 07:11pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� Violence intensified in southwestern Colombia on Monday when a bomb blast injured six people in the city of Jamundi and an attack by insurgents on a police station in the rural town of Morales left at least two officers dead, according to police. Colombia���s government at Taxpayer costs for profiling verdict over Joe Arpaio���s immigration crackdowns to reach $314M 05/20/2024 06:36pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Seven years after Joe Arpaio was ousted as sheriff of Arizona���s most populous county, taxpayers are still footing the bills from a racial profiling verdict over his signature immigration crackdowns ��� and those costs have been getting heavier since. The tab for the legal and comp The Latest | US and Israel strongly condemn ICC prosecutor's request to arrest Israeli officials 05/20/2024 05:37pm • Israel and the U.S. on Monday both harshly condemned an effort by the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for Israeli officials in connection with the seven-month war in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called chief prosecutor Karim Khan's announce What is the ICC and why it is considering arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders 05/20/2024 05:15pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ��� The International Criminal Court could soon issue arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, more than seven months into the war between the two sides, based on a request by the court���s chief prosecutor. Kari Man dead, another hospitalized after shooting during 'car meet' at Prince George's Co. shopping center 05/20/2024 05:03pm • A Waldorf man was killed and another man hospitalized in a Sunday morning shooting that happened during a "car meet" in District Heights, Maryland, according to police. The Prince George's County Police Department said the shooting happened around 1:45 a.m. in the Great Eastern Plaza shopping cen