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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 The Latest | Israel launches strikes in Rafah, hours after Hamas agrees to a Gaza cease-fire 05/06/2024 09:15pm • Israel's military says it is launching ���targeted strikes��� against Hamas in the southern Gaza city of Rafah after the country's War Cabinet approved a military operation there, officials said late Monday. Hours earlier, the Hamas militant group announced it had accepted a cease-fire proposal brou Floodwaters start receding around Houston area as recovery begins following rescues and evacuations 05/06/2024 08:49pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� Floodwaters in the Houston area and parts of Southeast Texas began to recede on Monday, allowing residents to begin returning to their homes and assess damages after days of heavy rainfall that pummeled the area and led to hundreds of rescues ��� including people who were stranded o Lawsuit alleges decades of child sex abuse at Illinois juvenile detention centers statewide 05/06/2024 08:19pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Child sexual abuse at Illinois juvenile detention centers was pervasive and systemic for decades, according to disturbing accounts in a lawsuit filed Monday by 95 men and women housed at the youth centers as children. The lawsuit details alleged incidents of abuse from 1996 to 2017, DC police up reward in search for suspect in shooting that left 3-year-old dead 05/06/2024 08:09pm • D.C. police and federal agencies have upped the reward in the search for a suspect that fatally shot a 3-year-old girl in Southeast D.C. last week. On Monday, the Metropolitan Police Department upped the reward to $25,000 for anyone with information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the pe FBI says an infant abducted from New Mexico park has been found safe and suspect is in custody 05/06/2024 07:44pm • CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) ��� A Texas man has been arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of two New Mexico women, the wounding of a 5-year-old girl and the kidnapping of an infant, authorities said Monday. Clovis police said the 26-year-old man from the Houston area was taken into custody at a res Donald Trump calls Joe Biden weak on antisemitism, ignoring his own rhetoric 05/06/2024 07:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump is accusing Joe Biden of offering a weak response to antisemitism, wielding the clashes on colleges campuses over the war in Gaza as a campaign issue. But Trump's attacks ignore his own long history of rhetoric that invokes the language of Nazi Germany and plays on ste Nonprofit Chicago production house Invisible Institute wins 2 Pulitzer Prizes 05/06/2024 06:47pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A nonprofit Chicago journalism production company dedicated to holding public institutions accountable won two Pulitzer Prizes for local and audio reporting on Monday. Based on the city's South Side, the Invisible Institute and its reporter Trina Reynolds-Tyler, along with Sarah Co 17-year-old charged as adult, held without bond in Dunbar High School shooting 05/06/2024 05:55pm • A 17-year-old is being charged as an adult and held without bond in a shooting that left a teenage girl with a deep graze wound when a hail of bullets struck a nearby D.C. high school last week. Authorities charged Saki Frost, 17, and Azhari Graves, 18, on charges of assault with a dangerous weap Pro-Palestinian protesters challenge GW president's criticism of encampment 05/06/2024 05:23pm • On the 12th day of a pro-Palestinian encampment, protesters at George Washington University are pushing back against criticism from the D.C. school's president who called the demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war "illegal and potentially dangerous." Protesters have said they are awaiting a mee Timeline of the nationwide protest movement that began at Columbia University 05/06/2024 05:22pm • Columbia University announced on Monday that it has canceled its university-wide commencement ceremony because of disruptions caused by recent pro-Palestinian protests. Students will still be able to celebrate at a series of smaller, school-based graduation ceremonies this week and next. The protest Man confesses to killing hospitalized wife because he couldn't afford to care for her, police say 05/06/2024 04:58pm • INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) ��� A Kansas City-area man who's charged with killing his hospitalized wife told police he couldn't take care of her or afford her medical bills, court records say. Ronnie Wiggs made his first appearance Monday on a second-degree murder charge and was referred to the public de Husband of Florida woman missing in Spain is charged with her disappearance 05/06/2024 04:44pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� The estranged husband of a Florida woman who disappeared three months ago in Spain has been charged by U.S. federal agents with her kidnapping. The FBI and other federal agents arrested David Knezevich at Miami International Airport on Saturday. The Fort Lauderdale re 2 workers killed, more than 50 trapped when a building under construction collapses in South Africa 05/06/2024 04:22pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� A multi-story apartment building under construction collapsed Monday in a coastal city in South Africa, killing two construction workers and leaving 53 trapped under the rubble, authorities said. An additional 20 workers were pulled from the mangled wreckage of the b Georgia's attorney general says Savannah overstepped in outlawing guns in unlocked cars 05/06/2024 04:18pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ��� Georgia's attorney general says city officials in Savannah overstepped their authority by making it illegal to leave firearms in unlocked cars. Savannah's mayor and city council in April enacted the new city ordinance aimed at making it harder for criminals to steal guns, citi