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Viral 'senior assassin' game has Va. high school officials concerned 05/07/2024 10:04am • School officials in Northern Virginia are urging students to stop playing a game that is reportedly scaring residents and leading to police reports of teens carrying weapons. Students have dismissed officials' warnings, saying the "senior assassin" game is just "harmless fun" with water guns. The Taser maker acquires Northern Virginia drone detection company 05/07/2024 09:05am • Scottsdale, Arizona-based Axon Enterprise Inc., which makes the Taser weapon and police body cameras, will acquire Sterling, Virginia-based Dedrone, maker of drone threat detection systems. Terms of the acquisition weren't disclosed. Dedrone's threat-detection tracking system uses artificial i Police identify man that crashed into White House barrier after running two lights 05/07/2024 08:15am • D.C. police have identified the driver who died after crashing into a White House complex barrier on Saturday night. 57-year-old James Chester Lewis Jr., of Matthews, North Carolina, crashed into a security barrier along the outer perimeter of the White House complex, according to police. The From Marseille to Mont-Blanc: What to know about the journey of the Olympic torch to Paris 05/07/2024 08:09am • The Olympic torch will finally enter France when it reaches the southern seaport of Marseille on Wednesday. And it's already been quite a journey. After being lit on April 16 in Ancient Olympia, the torch was carried around Greece before leaving Athens aboard a three-mast ship named Belem, headed f Berlin police break up a pro-Palestinian student camp at the city's Free University as protests over war in Gaza spread 05/07/2024 07:46am • BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police break up a pro-Palestinian student camp at the city's Free University as protests over war in Gaza spread. Australian boy killed by police was in deradicalization program since causing school explosion 05/07/2024 07:34am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A 16-year-old boy who was shot dead by police after stabbing a man in the Australian west coast city of Perth had been engaged in a deradicalization program since he detonated a homemade explosive device in a school toilet block two years ago, police said on Tuesday. Th Key events of Vladimir Putin's 24 years in power in Russia 05/07/2024 07:30am • Significant dates in Vladimir Putin’s 24 years in power in Russia: Dec. 31, 1999 — In a surprise address to the nation, Russian President Boris Yeltsin announces his resignation and makes Putin, the prime minister he appointed four months earlier, the acting president. May 7, 2000 — After winn A knife attack at a Chinese hospital kills 2 people and injures 21. The motive is unclear 05/07/2024 06:00am • BEIJING (AP) — A knife attack at a hospital in southwestern China on Tuesday killed two people and injured 21 others, authorities said. No motive was given for the attack at Zhenxiong County People’s Hospital in Yunnan province. The suspect is a male from a village in the same county, a Zhenxion Police are searching the European parliament office of a far-right German lawmaker whose aide allegedly spied for China 05/07/2024 05:04am • BERLIN (AP) — Police are searching the European parliament office of a far-right German lawmaker whose aide allegedly spied for China. Skeletons from a former Hitler base were too decayed to determine who they were and how they died 05/07/2024 01:55am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish prosecutors have ended an investigation into human skeletons found at a site where German dictator Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders spent time during World War II because their advanced decay made it impossible to determine the cause of death, a spokesman said Monda Australian woman denies murdering her former husband's relatives with poisonous mushroom lunch 05/07/2024 01:13am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A woman accused of serving her ex-husband’s family poisonous mushrooms pleaded not guilty in an Australian court on Tuesday to three charges of murder and five charges of attempted murder. Erin Patterson, 49, appeared briefly in Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court by vid How a beach trip in Mexico's Baja California turned deadly for surfers from Australia and the US 05/07/2024 12:48am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two Australians and an American were doing what they loved on the stunning, largely isolated stretch of Baja California's Pacific coast. Their last images on social media showed them sitting and gazing at the waves, contemplating the breaks. What happened to end their lives may Pulitzer Prizes in journalism awarded to The New York Times, The Washington Post, AP and others 05/06/2024 10:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times and The Washington Post were awarded three Pulitzer Prizes apiece on Monday for work in 2023 that dealt with everything from the war in Gaza to gun violence, and The Associated Press won in the feature photography category for coverage of global migration to the Congressman partly backtracks his praise of a campus conflict that included racist gestures 05/06/2024 10:21pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Republican congressman on Monday backtracked on some of his praise for a campus conflict that included a man who made monkey noises and gestures at a Black student who was protesting the Israel-Hamas war. Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia said he understands and respects feedbac Pro-Palestinian protesters break through barricades to retake MIT encampment 05/06/2024 10:21pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters that had been blocked by police from accessing an encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday broke through fencing, linked arms and encircled tents that remained there, as Columbia University canceled its university-wide commencemen