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Fire at a residential building in Germany leaves 3 people dead and 2 with grave injuries 05/16/2024 03:45am • BERLIN (AP) ��� A fire at a residential building in western Germany left three people dead and two others with life-threatening injuries Thursday, authorities said. The blaze broke out during the night in a kiosk that was part of the building in Duesseldorf and spread to the entrance and second floo As countries tighten anti-gay laws, more and more LGBTQ+ migrants seek safety and asylum in Europe 05/16/2024 03:37am • RIETI, Italy (AP) ��� Ella Anthony knew it was time to leave her native Nigeria when she escaped an abusive, forced marriage only to face angry relatives who threatened to turn her in to police because she was gay. Since Nigeria criminalizes same-sex relationships, Anthony fled a possible prison ter Florida deputy's killing of Black airman renews debate on police killings and race 05/16/2024 12:11am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� In 2020, the top enlisted leader of the Air Force went public with his fear of waking up to the news that a Black airman had been killed by a white police officer. Then four years later, a Florida deputy shot and killed Senior Airman Roger Fortson in his apartment. ���I doubt i Search underway in Prince George's Co. after shooting targeting detective 05/15/2024 11:36pm • A search is underway in Prince George's County, Maryland, for four or more suspects, at least one of whom opened fire on a county police detective Wednesday night, according to authorities. The shooting happened in the area of Trumbull Drive in Marlton just after 7 p.m., when "at least one male s Family of California Navy veteran who died after officer knelt on his neck settles lawsuit for $7.5M 05/15/2024 10:20pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Family members of a Navy veteran who died in 2020 after a police officer pressed a knee to his neck for nearly five minutes while he was in a mental health crisis have settled a federal lawsuit against the Northern California city of Antioch for $7.5 million, their attorneys s Maryland set to expand ignition interlock program for drunk drivers 05/15/2024 09:55pm • A measure that will expand the use of ignition interlock devices when drivers are convicted of driving drunk is among many laws getting the signature of Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in Annapolis. The bill does away with an exemption that allowed drivers to plead down to probation before judgment in dr 'The Fly��� has become notorious in France after a brazen escape. What's his criminal history? 05/15/2024 09:31pm • PARIS (AP) ��� A prisoner nicknamed ���The Fly��� has become notorious in France overnight after a daring and bloody escape from a prison convoy in Normandy in which two guards were killed. Mohamed Amra, 30, has a long and violent criminal history that has now culminated in a high-profile search. K Massive search in France for prison-break gang that killed 2 officers 05/15/2024 09:20pm • PARIS (AP) ��� A massive search was underway in France on Wednesday for armed assailants who ambushed a prison convoy, killing two prison officers, seriously injuring three others and freeing the inmate they were escorting. The prime minister vowed the gang would be caught, saying, ���They will pay. A second scourge is battering Brazil's flooded south: Disinformation 05/15/2024 09:14pm • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� While flooding that has devastated Brazil���s Rio Grande do Sul state has yet to subside, another scourge has spread across the region: disinformation on social media that has hampered desperate efforts to get aid to hundreds of thousands in need. Among fake postings that have sti Delaware police exchange gunfire with woman in police chase through 2 states that ends in her death 05/15/2024 08:55pm • A police pursuit through two states that involved two separate shootouts with law enforcement officers and several crashes ended with the death of the woman being sought, authorities said. Wilmington police said they began their pursuit of Yazmyn Stewart, 23, shortly before noon Tuesday at a Delawar Idaho inmate pleads guilty to escaping hospital after correctional officers are attacked 05/15/2024 08:24pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� An Idaho inmate who slipped custody from a hospital in March after a violent attack on corrections officers has pleaded guilty to escape, while still facing the possibility of two felony enhancements that could add to his sentence. Skylar Meade entered the plea in 4th District North Carolina lawmakers push bill to ban most public mask wearing, citing crime 05/15/2024 08:00pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are pushing forward with their plan to repeal a pandemic-era law that allowed the wearing of masks in public for health reasons, a move spurred in part by demonstrations against the war in Gaza that have included masked protesters camped Investigation continues into 4 electrical blackouts on ship that caused Baltimore bridge collapse 05/15/2024 07:22pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� The electrical blackouts experienced by the container ship Dali before it left Baltimore���s port were ���mechanically distinct from��� those that resulted in the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge hours later, according to congressional testimony Wednesday. ���Two we Ship that struck Baltimore bridge had 4 blackouts before disaster. Here's what we know 05/15/2024 07:18pm • The Dali container ship experienced a near-perfect storm of calamities before it struck Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, killing six people. But Tuesday's preliminary report by federal safety investigators leaves many questions unanswered. For example, the National Transportation Safe Justice Department to investigate Kentucky's juvenile jails after use of force, isolation complaints 05/15/2024 07:09pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) ��� Federal investigators will examine conditions in Kentucky's youth detention centers and whether the state has done enough to protect juveniles housed there, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday. The federal investigation follows a Kentucky auditor's report that said the