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Body camera video shows fatal shooting of Black airman by Florida deputy in apartment doorway 05/09/2024 08:50pm • FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) ��� A Florida sheriff released body camera video Thursday showing a deputy outside an apartment door and firing immediately when it was opened by a Black man carrying a handgun pointed downward, a killing the family denounced as ���unjustifiable.��� Okaloosa County Sheri Pennsylvania to ban cell phone use while driving and require police to collect traffic stop data 05/09/2024 08:12pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� Pennsylvania will join the majority of states that ban motorists from handling a cell phone for almost any purpose while driving, as backers of the legislation hope to reduce distracted driving accidents and deaths after nearly two decades of pressing the measure. Gov. Josh 'Hours count, minutes count': Advice from the Secret Service on avoiding cyberscams 05/09/2024 08:00pm • When most people think of the U.S. Secret Service, they think about presidential protection. But the Secret Service also investigates financial crimes and is currently involved in the investigation of the theft of $220,000 from the Rockville Volunteer Fire Department. Stavros Nikolakakos, assi Man paralyzed after being hit with a Taser while running from police in Colorado sues officer 05/09/2024 07:21pm • DENVER (AP) ��� A man who said he was paralyzed after being hit with a Taser while running from police in Colorado filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against one of the officers, seeking $100 million in damages. Lawyers for Jacob Root, who was suspected of stealing a car, allege Officer Robert Comstoc The Latest | Palestinians flee Rafah as Netanyahu vows to widen Gaza assault despite US warnings 05/09/2024 06:30pm • Tens of thousands of displaced and exhausted Palestinians have packed up their tents and other belongings and fled the southern city of Rafah for other parts of Gaza, according to the United Nations. Israel has repeatedly threatened to invade Rafah, saying it's the last stronghold of Hamas militant Argentina labor unions' 24-hour strike against President Milei paralyzes daily life 05/09/2024 06:06pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� Argentina���s biggest trade unions mounted one of their fiercest challenges to the libertarian government of President Javier Milei, staging a mass general strike on Thursday that led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights and halted key bus, rail and subway line Bucks' Patrick Beverley suspended 4 games without pay for actions in season-ending loss to Pacers 05/09/2024 05:32pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� Milwaukee Bucks guard Patrick Beverley was suspended by the NBA on Thursday for four games without pay to begin next season for his actions during and after the final game of an Eastern Conference first-round playoff series with the Indiana Pacers. The league announced the suspens Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters march in Malmo against Israel's Eurovision participation 05/09/2024 05:27pm • MALMO, Sweden (AP) ��� Not everyone in Malmo was welcoming the Eurovision Song Contest to town. Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested in the Swedish port city on Thursday against Israel���s participation in the pan-continental pop competition. Protesters waving green, white, black and Iowa law lets police arrest migrants. The federal government and civil rights groups are suing 05/09/2024 05:23pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� The U.S. Justice Department sued Iowa on Thursday over its new law that would give the state the authority to arrest and deport some migrants, making it the second lawsuit filed in a single day that seeks to block legislation passed earlier this year by state lawmakers. Bot Maine man sentenced to 27 years in prison in New Year's Eve machete attack near Times Square 05/09/2024 05:18pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A Maine man who admitted trying to kill three police officers with a machete in a terrorist attack near New York���s Times Square on New Year���s Eve 16 months ago was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Thursday in a courtroom packed with officers. The sentencing of Trevor Bickford Arizona State University scholar on leave after confrontation with woman at pro-Israel rally 05/09/2024 04:20pm • TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) ��� Arizona State University officials say a postdoctoral research scholar remains on leave as the school investigates his videotaped confrontation with a hijab-wearing woman at a pro-Israel rally last weekend. Sunday���s event was held near the university���s Tempe campus and atte Ex-Ohio vice detective gets 11-year sentence for crimes related to kidnapping sex workers 05/09/2024 03:29pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� A former Ohio vice detective who pleaded guilty to federal crimes related to kidnapping sex worker victims under the guise of arresting them was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison. Andrew Mitchell, 60, of Sunbury, will receive credit for the roughly five years he has be Militants bomb a girls school in northwestern Pakistan, once a Taliban stronghold. No one was harmed 05/09/2024 03:24pm • DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) ��� Militants detonated a bomb at a girls school in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country's volatile northwest, badly damaging the structure, police said Thursday. No one was harmed in the overnight attack. There was no immediate claim of respon As pro-Palestinian encampments spread to European campuses, UK government seeks to head off unrest 05/09/2024 02:50pm • CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) ��� About three dozen pro-Palestinian protesters crawled out of their tents Thursday morning at Cambridge University, grabbed coffee and tea and sat in a circle for the daily briefing. Drink water, display the Palestinian colors, don���t talk to reporters, their leader said a A teen said a deputy threatened him as he filmed his mom's arrest. A jury awarded him $185,000. 05/09/2024 02:23pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� A teenager who video-recorded his mother's forceful arrest by Louisiana sheriff's deputies in 2020 has been awarded $185,000 by a federal jury in a lawsuit filed over one deputy's attempt to interfere with the recording. De'Shaun Johnson was 14 when deputies arrived at his fami