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Police: Woodbridge man dies in motorcycle crash, Fairfax Co.'s 12th traffic fatality of 2024 05/13/2024 05:27am • Detectives in Fairfax County, Virginia, are investigating a fatal motorcycle crash that left a Woodbridge man dead Sunday morning. On Sunday, at approximately 5:18 a.m., Fairfax County Police Department said officers responded to a motorcycle crash on Rolling Road near Delong Drive in Newington. Chinese journalist imprisoned for her Covid reporting due to be released after four years. But will she be free? 05/13/2024 01:37am • Hong Kong (CNN) — A Chinese citizen��journalist who has been behind bars for four years over her reporting on the initial Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan is due to be released Monday after serving her sentence, according to supporters and a court verdict.Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was one of the Violence is traumatizing Haitian kids. Now the country's breaking a taboo on mental health services 05/13/2024 12:15am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Students often throw up or wet themselves when gunfire erupts outside their school in northern Port-au-Prince. When they do, school director Roseline Ceragui Louis finds there's only one way to try to calm the children and keep them safe: getting them to lie on the cla Today in History: May 13, Pope John Paul II is shot and wounded 05/13/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Monday, May 13, the 134th day of 2024. There are 232 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter���s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca (MEH���-met AH���-lee AH���-juh). O Putin replaces Shoigu as Russia's defense minister as he starts his 5th term 05/12/2024 11:40pm • Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday replaced Sergei Shoigu as defense minister in a Cabinet shakeup that comes as he begins his fifth term in office. In line with Russian law, the entire Russian Cabinet resigned Tuesday following Putin���s glittering inauguration in the Kremlin, and most mem Pro-Palestinian protests dwindle on campuses as US college graduations are marked by defiant acts 05/12/2024 11:36pm • A tiny contingent of Duke University graduates opposed pro-Israel comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking at their commencement in North Carolina Sunday, with about 30 of the 7,000 students leaving their seats and chanting ���free Palestine��� amid a mix of boos and cheers. Some waved the red, green, blac 'The ultimate working dog': Montgomery Co. K9s with Czech heritage make embassy appearance 05/12/2024 09:24pm • Local canines of Czech origin put on an exciting show at the Czech Republic embassy in D.C. on Saturday. Rey is a member of the Montgomery County Sheriff���s Office K9 unit. K9 Bolo is with the Rockville City Police Department. They were born in Europe, but trained here. Montgomery County She Actor Steve Buscemi is OK after being punched in the face in New York City 05/12/2024 05:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Actor Steve Buscemi is OK after he was punched in the face by a man on a New York City street, his publicist said Sunday. The 66-year-old star of ���Fargo��� and ���Boardwalk Empire��� was assaulted late Wednesday morning in Manhattan and taken to a nearby hospital with bruising, s A fire burns down a shopping complex housing 1,400 outlets in Poland's capital 05/12/2024 02:56pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� A major fire broke out Sunday morning in a vast shopping complex in the Polish capital that housed some 1,400 shops and service outlets and where many of the vendors were from Vietnam. Huge plumes of black smoke could be seen rising over the vast area. The fire department sai Louisiana jury convicts 1 ex-officer and acquits another in 2022 shooting death 05/12/2024 02:29pm • GRETNA, La. (AP) ��� A Louisiana jury has convicted one former law enforcement officer and acquitted another in the 2022 shooting death of a man who was sitting in an SUV outside a house reputed for illegal drug activity. Issac Hughes, who was convicted Friday, and Johnathan Louis, who was acquitted Man arrested for sexually assaulting minor inside apartment; Montgomery Co. police concerned about possible additional victims 05/12/2024 02:24pm • A 33-year-old man has been arrested for sexually assaulting a juvenile inside of the child's apartment in Rockville, Maryland, late last month, police said. Eric Bacon is facing charges of first-degree rape of a minor and burglary, Montgomery County police said in a news release. When the vict 1 teen killed, 1 seriously wounded in Delaware carnival shooting 05/12/2024 01:22pm • WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) ��� One teenager was killed and another seriously wounded in a Delaware shooting outside a carnival hosted by the non-profit Law Enforcement Against Drugs and Violence, authorities said. State police said Sunday that troopers responded to the Concord Mall parking lot north of W Tunisian lawyers call for strike over arrest of their colleague amid crackdown on dissent 05/12/2024 01:11pm • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) ��� Hooded police raided Tunisia���s bar association headquarters and arrested a lawyer as authorities escalated a broad government crackdown that has ensnared political dissidents, non-governmental organizations and Black migrants. Sonia Dahmani, a prominent critic of the govern A police officer was killed in Pakistan-held Kashmir during protests against price hikes 05/12/2024 11:52am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� A protest against rising costs of food, fuel and utility bills turned violent in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, leaving a police officer dead and dozens of people injured, officials said Sunday. Traders in some of the cities in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir pulled their shutters down Flash floods and cold lava flow hit Indonesia���s Sumatra island. At least 37 people were killed 05/12/2024 11:05am • PADANG, Indonesia (AP) ��� Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano's slopes on Indonesia���s Sumatra island triggered flash floods that killed at least 37 people and more than a dozen others were missing, officials said Sunday. Monsoon rains and a major mudslide from a c