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The Latest | US-built aid pier in Gaza will reopen for a few days, then be removed permanently 07/09/2024 06:52pm • The pier built by the U.S. military to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza will get reinstalled Wednesday to be used for several days, but then the plan is to pull it out permanently, several U.S. officials said. It would deal the final blow to a project long plagued by bad weather, security uncertaintie Man's thumb cut off by suspects who used it to steal money off his phone, court docs say 07/09/2024 06:45pm • A man was stabbed and killed inside his apartment in April and the suspects cut off his thumb in order to steal money off his cellphone, according to D.C. court documents. Two women have been arrested and charged this month in the killing of Fasil Teklemariam, 53, who was found dead inside his ap US Marshals who fired on carjacking suspect were part of security detail for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor 07/09/2024 06:36pm • Two deputy U.S. Marshals who shot and wounded a man they said tried to carjack one of the officers early Friday morning in Northwest D.C. were assigned to the protective detail for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The shooting happened around 1:15 a.m. on July 5 outside Sotomayor's residenc New Mexico village ravaged by wildfire gets another pounding by floodwaters 07/09/2024 06:31pm • RUIDOSO, N.M. (AP) — Roads throughout a mountain village in southern New Mexico that was recently ravaged by wildfire were closed Tuesday as authorities tried to keep vehicles out of the path of rushing water. Officials in Ruidoso reported that several bridge crossings were closed as mud and debri Milk, eggs and now bullets for sale in handful of US grocery stores with ammo vending machines 07/09/2024 06:04pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A company has installed computerized vending machines to sell ammunition in grocery stores in Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas, allowing patrons to pick up bullets along with a gallon of milk. American Rounds said their machines use an identification scanner and facial recogniti Under pressure from cities, DoorDash steps up efforts to ensure its drivers don't break traffic laws 07/09/2024 05:56pm • DoorDash said Tuesday that it’s stepping up efforts to identify dangerous delivery drivers and remove them from its platform after a flood of complaints from cities. In a letter sent last month to DoorDash and other food delivery companies, Boston officials said they were seeing an increase in the Police: 2 taken to hospital for mental evaluation after man fires gun in Prince George's Co. neighborhood 07/09/2024 05:28pm • A man having what police described as a mental health episode fired a gun from his home several times in his suburban Prince George's County, Maryland, neighborhood, striking a nearby residence and triggering a brief shelter-in-place, police said Tuesday. The man was taken into custody and sent t More details released in autopsy for gunman who shot and killed four officers in Charlotte 07/09/2024 05:14pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — More details on the death of the Charlotte gunman who carried out the deadliest attack on law enforcement officers since 2016 were released in state autopsy and toxicology reports. Terry Clark Hughes Jr., 39, opened fire with an assault rifle on officers attempting to serve Wrongful death lawsuit against West Virginia state troopers settled in Maryland man's death 07/09/2024 04:41pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A judge approved a $1 million settlement Tuesday in a wrongful death lawsuit that accused West Virginia state police troopers of using excessive force on a Maryland man who was walking along a highway last year. Kanawha County Circuit Judge Kenneth Ballard approved the set Case against Army veteran charged with killing a homeless man in Memphis, Tennessee, moves forward 07/09/2024 04:07pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A U.S. Army veteran who served in the war in Afghanistan pepper-sprayed a homeless man and got into a confrontation with him before fatally shooting him with an automatic rifle in Memphis, a security guard and a police investigator said Tuesday. The guard and the police serge New Hampshire Air National Guard commander killed in hit-and-run crash 07/09/2024 03:32pm • ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The commander of the New Hampshire Air National Guard was killed in a hit-and-run crash, authorities said Tuesday. Brig. Gen. John Pogorek was securing a load on his trailer on the side of the road in the city of Rochester on Monday night when he was struck by an SUV that c Drunken driver who snapped photo going 141 mph before deadly collision imprisoned for 17 years 07/09/2024 03:30pm • LONDON (AP) — Darryl Anderson was drunk behind the wheel of his Audi SUV, had his accelerator pressed to the floor and was barreling toward a car ahead of him when he snapped a photo of his speedometer. The picture showed a car in the foreground, a collision warning light on his dashboard and a sp An Israeli strike in Syria kills a former bodyguard of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader, official says 07/09/2024 03:06pm • BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli strike in Syria on Tuesday killed a former bodyguard of the leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, an official with the group said. An Israeli man and woman were killed in a retaliatory Hezbollah strike on Israel. Hours earlier, an Israeli drone hit a car in Syr A Japanese climber's body is found in Pakistan who died a week ago after scaling a mountain 07/09/2024 02:58pm • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A group of Pakistani volunteers found the body of a Japanese climber who died while trying to descend from one of the highest mountains in the country, officials said Tuesday. The body of 64-year-old Hiroshi Onishi was brought down the previous day from the 7,027-meter ( Tehran police close Turkish Airlines office after its employees defy Iran's headscarf law 07/09/2024 02:19pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Police in Iran shut down the Turkish Airlines office in the capital of Tehran, Iranian media reported Tuesday, after female employees there apparently refused to wear the mandatory headscarf, or hijab, in an act of defiance of the country’s law. The semi-official Tasnim news