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New charges announced against 4 youths arrested in gunfire at event to mark end of Ramadan 04/28/2024 11:42am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities have announced new charges against four juveniles arrested following an exchange of gunfire earlier this month between rival groups that wounded three people and sent participants in a joyful celebration of the end of Ramadan in west Philadelphia running for cover. Dozens in Italy give a fascist salute on the anniversary of Mussolini's execution 04/28/2024 11:29am • ROME (AP) — Dozens of people raised their arms in the fascist salute and shouted a fascist chant during ceremonies Sunday to honor Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on the 79th anniversary of his execution. Dressed in black, these nostalgics marched through northern Italian towns where Mussolini w German police arrest a Russian man in connection with the fatal stabbings of 2 Ukrainian men 04/28/2024 11:16am • BERLIN (AP) — Two Ukrainian men were stabbed to death in southern Germany, police said Sunday, and a Russian man was arrested by authorities as a possible suspect in the killings. The two Ukrainians, who were 23 and 36 years old and lived in the southern German county of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, we Man arrested for alleged tragedy chanting at Man United vs Burnley game 04/28/2024 11:07am • MANCHESTER, England (AP) — A man was arrested and charged for alleged tragedy chanting during Manchester United's home game against Burnley in the Premier League, police said Sunday. The 44-year-old from Lancashire in northern England has been charged under Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, Police officer hiring in US increases in 2023 after years of decline, survey shows 04/28/2024 10:48am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police departments across the United States are reporting an increase in their ranks for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 killing of George Floyd, which led to a historic exodus of officers, a survey shows. More sworn officers were hired in 2023 than in Chants of ‘shame on you’ greet guests at White House correspondents’ dinner shadowed by war in Gaza 04/28/2024 04:37am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The war in Gaza spurred large protests outside a glitzy roast with President Joe Biden, journalists, politicians and celebrities Saturday but went all but unmentioned by participants inside, with Biden instead using the annual White House correspondents’ dinner to make both Renowned Peruvian investigative reporter battles criminalized smear campaign — and cancer 04/28/2024 01:25am • LIMA, Peru (AP) — At age 75, one of Latin America’s most storied journalists had been looking forward to weaving into books the fragmented threads of more than four decades of investigative reporting that exposed high-level abuse of power in Peru and abroad. In an illustrious career, Gustavo Gor Today in History: April 28, Muhammad Ali stripped of heavyweight title 04/28/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Sunday, April 28, the 119th day of 2024. There are 247 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 28, 1967, heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali was stripped of his title after he refused to be inducted into the armed forces. On this date: In 17 Anti-war protesters dig in as some schools close encampments after reports of antisemitic activity 04/27/2024 10:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) — As students protesting the Israel-Hamas war at college campuses across U.S. dug in Saturday and dozens of demonstrators were arrested, some universities moved to shut down encampments after reports of antisemitic activity. With the death toll mounting in the war in Gaza, protesters Demonstrations at GW University campus over Israel-Hamas war enter 3rd day 04/27/2024 10:05pm • Pro-Palestinian student protests on and in front of George Washington University's University Yard entered their third day on Saturday with no sign of slowing down. The Hatchet, the GW University student newspaper, reported that about 200 demonstrators were outside the yard around 8 p.m. While Assailants ambush and kill 3 police officers in southern Chile, shaking the country 04/27/2024 09:10pm • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Armed assailants ambushed and killed three law enforcement officers in southern Chile on Saturday before setting their car on fire, authorities said, the latest attack on police to revive security concerns in the South American country. It remains unclear who carried out th Arlington Public Schools' Extended Day employee accused of showing porn to children 04/27/2024 08:40pm • An 18-year-old employee of Arlington County Public Schools' Extended Day program has been arrested and charged with two counts of possession of child pornography, as well as assault and battery, according to the county police department's special victims unit. A criminal investigation was initiat Mexican journalist is slain south of Mexico City, spurring outrage among colleagues 04/27/2024 08:39pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican journalists held a vigil and protest Saturday a day after one of their colleagues was slain in the southern state of Morelos. They demanded a transparent investigation into the case and vented anger over the dangers news workers face in Mexico, which is one of the world' Massachusetts police bust burglary ring that stole $4 million in jewels over six years 04/27/2024 03:39pm • BOSTON (AP) — A burglary ring that allegedly stole more than $4 million worth of jewelry mostly from the homes of South Asians in over two dozen communities has been broken up, the Massachusetts State Police said. Four people, including two brothers, were indicted April 18 after a nine-month inve 3 children in minivan hurt when it rolled down hill, into baseball dugout wall in Illinois 04/27/2024 03:35pm • WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) — Three children were hurt when the minivan they were in rolled down a hill Saturday morning into a concrete baseball dugout in northern Illinois' Woodstock. The children, ages 12 and 13, were hospitalized with mild to moderate injuries. They were among four children in the pa