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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 Shooting at Alabama party leaves 3 people dead and at least 12 wounded, police say 05/12/2024 10:51am • STOCKTON, Ala. (AP) ��� Three people were killed and at least 12 were wounded Saturday night in a shooting at party in south Alabama. Andre Reid with the Baldwin County Investigation Division told WALA-TV that about 1,000 people were attending a May Day party near Stockton when an altercation starte Police: 3 officers wounded in Atlanta street altercation that left suspect dead 05/12/2024 09:31am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Three Atlanta police officers were hospitalized with gunshot wounds after an altercation that left a suspect dead Saturday evening, authorities said. Officers responded at 5:15 p.m. to a report of an armed man in a commercial area on Fairbanks Street and encountered a man with a han Canadian police announce the arrest of a fourth Indian suspect in the killing of a Sikh activist 05/12/2024 07:02am • VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) ��� A fourth Indian national living in Canada has been charged in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader last June that became the center of a diplomatic spat with India. British Columbia���s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said in a release late Saturday tha Wildfire in Canada's British Columbia forces thousands to evacuate. Winds push smoke into Alberta 05/12/2024 06:44am • VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) ��� Canadian authorities are urging all remaining residents in a town in British Columbia to leave immediately, despite improving weather conditions, after many were already evacuated due to a fast-growing wildfire. The blaze, which started Friday, almost doubled in Switzerland���s Nemo wins 68th Eurovision Song Contest after event roiled by protests over war in Gaza 05/12/2024 03:44am • MALMO, Sweden (AP) ��� Swiss singer Nemo won the 68th Eurovision Song Contest early Sunday with ���The Code,��� an operatic pop-rap ode to the singer���s journey toward embracing a nongender identity. Switzerland's contestant beat Croatian rocker Baby Lasagna to the title by winning the most points Police: Prince George's Co. murder-suicide of married couple under investigation 05/12/2024 01:12am • Police in Prince George's County, Maryland, are investigating what they said was a domestic-related murder-suicide at the Beltsville home of a married couple in their 70s. Ji Tu, 78, and spouse Li Tu, 72, were found suffering gunshot wounds in their home in the 3600 block of Stonehall Drive when Local governments struggle to distribute their share of billions from opioid settlements 05/12/2024 12:51am • Settlement money to help stem the decades-long opioid addiction and overdose epidemic is rolling out to small towns and big cities across the U.S., but advocates worry that chunks of it may be used in ways that don't make a dent in the crisis. As state and local governments navigate how to use the At least 11 dead, mostly students, in Indonesia bus crash after brakes apparently failed, police say 05/12/2024 12:50am • BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) ��� A bus slammed into cars and motorbikes after its brakes apparently malfunctioned in Indonesia���s West Java province, killing at least 11 people, mostly students, and injuring dozens of others, officials said Sunday. The bus carrying 61 students and teachers was returning Rise in UK knife attacks leads to a crackdown and stokes public anxiety 05/12/2024 12:37am • LONDON (AP) ��� A familiar horror reached Pooja Kanda first on social media: There had been a sword attack in London. And then Kanda, who was home alone at the time, saw a detail she dreaded and knew all too well. A man with a sword had killed a 14-year-old boy who was walking to school. Two years a Small pro-Palestinian protests held Saturday as college commencements are held 05/11/2024 11:11pm • Small pro-Palestinian protests popped up sporadically Saturday as colleges and universities from North Carolina to California held commencement ceremonies, including dozens of graduating students at Virginia Commonwealth University who walked out on an address by Gov. Glenn Youngkin. While some of t 2 shootings in Northeast DC leave 3, including teen boy, hurt 05/11/2024 09:57pm • Three people were injured Saturday afternoon in Northeast D.C. in two separate shootings. D.C. police were first called around 1:20 p.m. to the 3600 block of Hayes St. NE. Officers found two men when they arrived. Both were suffering from gunshot wounds. The men were taken to area hospitals, c Federal prosecutors request 40-year sentence for man who attacked Pelosi's husband with hammer 05/11/2024 07:51pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to impose a 40-year prison sentence for the man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi���s San Francisco home seeking to hold her hostage and attacked her husband with a hammer. The San Francisco Chronicle reported late Fr Flooding forecast to worsen in Brazil's south, where many who remain are poor 05/11/2024 07:05pm • ELDORADO DO SUL, Brazil (AP) ��� More rain started coming down on Saturday in Brazil���s already flooded Rio Grande do Sul state, where many of those remaining are poor people with limited ability to move to less dangerous areas. More than 15 centimeters (nearly six inches) of rain could fall over t Man killed after car crashes into tree in Howard Co. 05/11/2024 06:13pm • A man is dead after striking a tree with his car in Howard County, Maryland, on Friday evening. Howard County police responded to reports of a car that struck a tree in the 7100 block of Dorsey Run Road in Elkridge around 6:45 p.m. on Friday. Icaro Freire-Pina, 42, of Laurel, was transported t