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At least 9 dead, dozens treated in Texas capital after unusual spike in overdoses 05/01/2024 04:53pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� Authorities in Texas are investigating at least nine deaths this week in connection with an unusual spike of opioid overdoses in Austin that health officials are calling the city's worst overdose outbreak in nearly a decade. Emergency responders in the Texas capital typically Trump's comparison of student protests to Jan. 6 is part of effort to downplay Capitol attack 05/01/2024 04:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump this week lamented the possibility that Columbia University's pro-Palestinian protesters could be treated more leniently than the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, marking the second time the former president has invoked the ongoing campus protests The Latest | In Israel, Blinken pushes Hamas to agree on Gaza cease-fire deal 05/01/2024 04:08pm • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel on Wednesday to press for a cease-fire deal in the Israel-Hamas war, saying ��� the time is now ��� and warning that Hamas would bear the blame for any failure to reach an agreement to halt the war in Gaza. On his seventh visit since the latest wa The unexpected announcement of a prime minister divides Haiti's newly created transitional council 05/01/2024 03:39pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� A surprise announcement that revealed Haiti���s new prime minister is threatening to fracture a recently installed transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for the gang-riddled Caribbean country. Four of seven council members with voting powers said Tuesda Police, family of slain Hyattsville nightclub security guard plead for help 05/01/2024 03:24pm • Police and family members in Prince George's County, Maryland, pleaded for help Wednesday as they continue to search for a motive and suspects in a March 2023 shooting outside a Hyattsville nightclub that left a man dead. Alex Lynch, 28, was a security guard at the Area Code Gentlemen's Club alon Georgia governor signs law requiring jailers to check immigration status of prisoners 05/01/2024 03:21pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Jailers in Georgia must now check the immigration status of inmates and apply to help enforce federal immigration law, under a bill that gained traction after police accused a Venezuelan man of beating a nursing student to death on the University of Georgia campus. Gov. Brian Kemp s Testimony ends in a trial over New Hampshire's accountability for youth center abuse 05/01/2024 03:07pm • BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) ��� Jurors who will decide whether to hold New Hampshire accountable for abuse at its youth detention center heard from the final witness in a landmark trial Wednesday: a psychiatrist who said the plaintiff has bipolar disorder, not post-traumatic stress disorder. Dr. Harrison P Bowser reacts to Republican lawmakers' criticism of GW University protest response 05/01/2024 02:52pm • As authorities work to forcibly break up encampments of pro-Palestinian protesters at college campuses around the U.S., police in D.C. have take a largely hands-off approach with protestors at George Washington University's campus, allowing demonstrations to continue for a seventh day. That s Expanding clergy sexual abuse probe targets New Orleans Catholic church leaders 05/01/2024 02:23pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� Authorities have expanded an investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans to include senior church officials suspected of shielding predatory priests for decades and failing to report their crimes to law enforcement. Louisiana State Police ca Police stop knife attack in central Oslo after man stabs 1 person and threatens others 05/01/2024 02:09pm • STAVANGER, Norway (AP) ��� Police in Norway say a man carrying two knives stabbed one person and threatened several others in the center of Oslo on Wednesday. The incident occurred outside one of the city���s biggest subway stations when an argument got out of control, police said. The unnamed man i Review: Netflix's most-watched show 'Baby Reindeer' is about so much more than a stalker 05/01/2024 01:46pm • It currently ranks as the No. 1 show on Netflix with 22 million views this past week alone. If you're not watching the stalker thriller miniseries "Baby Reindeer," remedy that immediately. It's so compelling that I binged all seven episodes in less than 24 hours. Inspired by the true traum Student protests take over some campuses. At others, attention is elsewhere 05/01/2024 01:45pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Boston College students held a protest rally against the Israel-Hamas war last week. Bullhorns were banned, lest the noise disturb studying for finals. Tents weren't allowed. Students who'd been arrested at other Boston campus protests were barred. After an allotted hour, the studen Warsaw synagogue attacked at night with 3 firebombs, no injuries reported 05/01/2024 01:35pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� Warsaw's main synagogue was attacked with firebombs by an unknown perpetrator, but sustained minimal damage and nobody was hurt, Poland's chief rabbi said Wednesday. The incident was strongly condemned by political leaders. The attack on the No��yk Synagogue happened around 1 Maryland approves more than $3M for a man wrongly imprisoned for murder for three decades 05/01/2024 01:25pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� Maryland officials on Wednesday approved more than $3 million in compensation for a Baltimore man who spent 31 years in prison on a wrongful murder conviction. Gov. Wes Moore apologized to Gary Washington during a Board of Public Works meeting where the compensation was ap Northwestern University's deal with student protesters offers example of successful negotiations 05/01/2024 01:15pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� For five days, the shouts of student protesters and supporters rang out from Northwestern University���s Deering Meadow as they joined demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war unfolding on college campuses nationwide. But the meadow on the suburban Chicago campus fell silent hour