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A candidate for Germany's key party was beaten up while campaigning for European elections 05/04/2024 02:27pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� A candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz���s center-left party in next month���s election for the European Parliament was beaten up and seriously injured while campaigning in an eastern city, the party said Saturday. The incident raised political tension in Germany ahead of the polls, Investigators say student killed by police outside Wisconsin school had pointed pellet rifle 05/04/2024 02:06pm • MOUNT HOREB, Wis. (AP) ��� A student who was killed by police outside a Wisconsin school pointed a pellet rifle at officers and had refused to drop the weapon, authorities said Saturday. The state Department of Justice released few other details, three days after the shooting at Mount Horeb Middle S Former security guard convicted of killing unarmed man during an argument at a Memphis gas station 05/04/2024 12:54pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� A former security guard has been convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting of an unarmed Black man during a dispute over loud music at a supermarket gas station in Memphis, Tennessee. Gregory Livingston, 57, was found guilty by a jury Friday in the August 2021 fatal sh Texas police officer dies after being injured when a tornado struck his home 05/04/2024 12:49pm • CONROE, Texas (AP) ��� A Texas police officer has died of injuries he suffered when a tornado struck his home, according to the Conroe Police Department. The department announced Friday on social media that Lt. James Waller, a 22-year veteran of the Conroe Police Department, died at a hospital where Missouri man charged in 1966 killing in suburban Chicago, based on DNA evidence 05/04/2024 11:42am • CREVE COEUR, Mo. (AP) ��� A 79-year-old Missouri man is accused of killing a woman in her suburban Chicago home ��� a crime that happened nearly six decades ago. James Barbier was arrested Monday at his St. Louis County home and charged with first-degree murder in the November 1966 death of 18-year- Senate races are roiled by campus protests over the war in Gaza as campaign rhetoric sharpens 05/04/2024 11:26am • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� The student protest movement disrupting university campuses, classes and graduation ceremonies over the war in Gaza is also roiling Senate contests across the nation as Democrats tread cautiously over an internal divide and Republicans play up their rivals' disagreements. Th As the US moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, could more states legalize it? 05/04/2024 09:57am • As the U.S. government moves toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, there may be little immediate impact in the dozen states that have not already legalized cannabis for widespread medical or recreational use by adults. But advocates for marijuana legalization hope a federal regul Young Democrats face Gaza blowback as they try to mobilize students for Biden 05/04/2024 09:04am • (CNN) ��� President Joe Biden���s support for the Israeli military offensive in Gaza mixed with student anger over police crackdowns on anti-war campus protests is complicating the work of Democratic youth groups trying to engage classmates and other Generation Z voters ahead of this year���s electi Traffic snarled as workers begin removing I-95 overpass scorched in Connecticut fuel truck inferno 05/04/2024 08:53am • Work crews began demolishing a bridge damaged in a fiery crash that kept Interstate 95 in Connecticut closed for a second day Friday, as motorists' nerves continued to fray in hours of traffic jams on and around the main artery linking New England and New York. ���It���s crazy,��� said Marco Ortiz, The bystander's role is changing in the era of livestreaming. North Carolina's standoff shows how 05/04/2024 08:48am • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� Saing Chhoeun was locked out of his Charlotte, North Carolina, home on Monday as law enforcement with high-powered rifles descended into his yard and garage, using a car as a shield as they were met with a shower of gunfire from the direction of his neighbor's house. As bul GOP lawmaker: University presidents 'are just wimps' 05/04/2024 07:50am • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at��Today on the Hill. Congressional Republicans have been unified in their criticism of university administrators, charging that many have been weak and inconsistent in their response to prote Canadian police make 3 arrests in Sikh separatist's slaying that sparked a spat with India 05/04/2024 05:23am • VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) ��� Canadian police said they arrested three suspects Friday in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader last June that became the center of a diplomatic spat with India, and are investigating possible ties between the detainees and the Indian government. Three India Why did bill to stem ���foreign influence��� trigger protests in Georgia over country's media freedom? 05/04/2024 04:15am • TBILISI, Georgia (AP) ��� Georgia has been engulfed by huge protests triggered by a proposed law that critics see as a threat to media freedom and the country���s aspirations to join the European Union. Here is a look at the bill and the protests it has ignited: WHAT IS THE NEW BILL? The bill would The Kentucky Derby is turning 150 years old. It's survived world wars and controversies of all kinds 05/04/2024 12:24am • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� As a record crowd cheered, American Pharoah rallied from behind and took aim at his remaining two rivals in the stretch. The bay colt and jockey Victor Espinoza surged to the lead with a furlong to go and thundered across the finish line a length ahead in the 2015 Kentucky D Congressman praises heckling of war protesters, including 1 who made monkey gestures at Black woman 05/03/2024 10:43pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� Israel-Hamas war demonstrations at the University of Mississippi turned ugly this week when one counter-protester appeared to make monkey noises and gestures at a Black student in a raucous gathering that was endorsed by a far-right congressman from Georgia. ���Ole Miss takin