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French Interior Ministry says police have shot and killed an armed suspect who appeared to be planning synagogue attack 05/17/2024 02:32am • PARIS (AP) ��� French Interior Ministry says police have shot and killed an armed suspect who appeared to be planning synagogue attack. NRA kicks off annual meeting as board considers successor to longtime leader Wayne LaPierre 05/17/2024 01:15am • DALLAS (AP) ��� The National Rifle Association is kicking off its annual meeting Friday in downtown Dallas, gathering for the first time in decades without Wayne LaPierre at the helm as board members prepare to elect his replacement. Though beset by financial troubles and following a trial in which Today in History: May 17, Brown v Board of Education ruling strikes down legal segregation 05/17/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Friday, May 17, the 138th day of 2024. There are 228 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On May 17, 1954, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision which held that racially segregated public schools were Violence rages in New Caledonia as France rushes emergency reinforcements to its Pacific territory 05/16/2024 08:54pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Violence raged across New Caledonia for the third consecutive day Thursday, hours after France imposed a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory, boosting security forces��� powers to quell unrest in the archipelago that has long sought independence. French authorities in Brothers arrested, charged with stealing from houses of worship in Montgomery Co. 05/16/2024 08:52pm • Two brothers have been arrested and charged with burglarizing the U.S. Zen Institute and a residence attached to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Montgomery County, Maryland. Police said 23-year-old Alex Dumitru and 18-year-old Natalian Dumitru may be connected to a criminal gang traveling a Prosecutors say Washington officer charged with murder ignored his training in killing man in 2019 05/16/2024 08:51pm • KENT, Wash. (AP) ��� A suburban Seattle police officer ignored his training and unnecessarily resorted to deadly force when he shot and killed a man outside a convenience store in 2019, prosecutors said as the officer's murder trial opened Thursday. Auburn Police Officer Jeff Nelson shot Jesse Sarey Maryland governor signs bills to tighten juvenile justice, expand gun safety measures 05/16/2024 08:42pm • Gov. Wes Moore (D) signed a juvenile justice reform bill Thursday that makes younger juveniles subject to state oversight in criminal cases, a move supporters said will combine accountability and rehabilitation to the benefit of children. ���It really comes down to facing facts: Children in the s Police dismantle pro-Palestinian encampment at DePaul University in Chicago 05/16/2024 08:36pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Police began dismantling a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday at DePaul University in Chicago, hours after the school's president told students to leave the area or face arrest. Officers and workers in yellow vests cleared out tents at the student encampment as front-loaders The Latest | Israel says it will send more troops to Rafah, as fighting also rages in Gaza's north 05/16/2024 08:31pm • Israel's defense minister said the military would send more troops into Rafah, a city along Gaza's southern border with Egypt, as fighting also rages in northern Gaza, where Hamas has regrouped. South Africa is seeking emergency measures at the U.N.'s top court to halt Israel���s escalating offensi House votes to require delivery of bombs to Israel in GOP-led rebuke of Biden policies 05/16/2024 08:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The House delivered a rebuke to President Joe Biden Thursday for pausing a shipment of bombs to Israel, passing legislation that seeks to force the weapons transfer as Republicans worked to highlight Democratic divisions over the Israel-Hamas war. Seeking to discourage Israel fro Lawyer for family of slain US Air Force airman says video and calls show deputy went to wrong home 05/16/2024 08:00pm • STONECREST, Ga. (AP) ��� A lawyer for the family of Roger Fortson said Thursday that police radio traffic and the body camera footage of the Florida sheriff���s deputy who killed the Black U.S. Air Force airman reinforce their assertion that the deputy was directed to the wrong apartment while respo They shared a name ��� but not a future. How two kids fought to escape poverty in Baltimore 05/16/2024 07:33pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Growing up in the streets of east Baltimore surrounded by poverty and gun violence, two kids named Antonio became fast friends. Both called ���Tone,��� they were similarly charismatic and ambitious, dreaming of the day they would finally leave behind the struggles that defined the Murder charge against Chad Daybell will stand despite wrong date of child's death, judge says 05/16/2024 06:38pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� A typo in the triple murder indictment of an Idaho man accused of killing his wife and his girlfriend's two children doesn't mean that he should be acquitted of one of the deaths, a judge said Thursday. Prosecutors had been carefully detailing the case against Chad Daybell to j Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester 05/16/2024 06:38pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a full pardon Thursday for a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice. Abbott announced the pardon shortly after the Te Man convicted of killing 4 people at ex-girlfriend's home near Denver 05/16/2024 06:26pm • DENVER (AP) ��� A man was convicted Thursday of killing four people at his ex-girlfriend's home in suburban Denver in 2022 a week after she was granted a court order to keep him away from her. Joseph Mario Castorena, 22, was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder after deliberation for kill