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Tennessee lawmakers adjourn after finalizing $1.9B tax cut and refund for businesses 04/25/2024 10:37pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's GOP-controlled General Assembly on Thursday adjourned for the year, concluding months of tense political infighting that doomed Republican Gov. Bill Lee's universal school voucher push. But a bill allowing some teachers to carry firearms in public schools and on Student protests over Israel-Hamas war arrive at DC campuses 04/25/2024 10:35pm • Campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war arrived in D.C. with both Georgetown University and George Washington University seeing hundreds rally. GWU had wanted protesters to clear out by 7 p.m. — and it requested police to get involved — but WTOP's Scott Gelman reported that a D.C. polic Drones by the numbers: How the Montgomery Co. police department's airborne tools are performing 04/25/2024 10:30pm • They didn't graduate from the police academy, they don't get overtime, but they're incredibly quick when it comes to getting on the scene after a 911 call. Data from the Montgomery County Police Department's dashboard on the "drones as first responder" program shows that overall arrival times for Brazilian authorities bury deceased migrants who drifted in African boat to the Amazon 04/25/2024 10:03pm • BELEM, Brazil (AP) — The bodies of nine migrants found on an African boat off the northern coast of Brazil’s Amazon region were buried Thursday with a solemn ceremony in the Para state capital of Belem. Fishermen off the coast of Para found the boat adrift April 13, carrying the bodies that wer Fellow reservist warned of mass shooting before gunman's attack in Maine 04/25/2024 09:48pm • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — An Army reservist and friend of the gunman behind Maine’s deadliest mass shooting testified Thursday about his friend's mental decline, describing publicly for the first time the warning he issued a month before the tragedy unfolded. Sean Hodgson texted leaders of his reser USC's move to cancel commencement amid protests draws criticism from students, alumni 04/25/2024 08:35pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of Southern California's decision Thursday to cancel its main graduation ceremony, a move that came 10 days after administrators said the student valedictorian who had expressed support for Palestinians would not be allowed to speak, left students and alumni stunn Family of American man believed to be held by Taliban asks the UN torture investigator for help 04/25/2024 08:00pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for an American believed to be held by the Taliban for nearly two years are asking a United Nations human rights investigator to intervene, citing what they say is cruel and inhumane treatment. Ryan Corbett was abducted Aug. 10, 2022, after returning to Afghanistan, where With fear and hope, Haiti warily welcomes new governing council as gang-ravaged country seeks peace 04/25/2024 07:28pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti opened a new political chapter Thursday with the installation of a transitional council tasked to pick a new prime minister and prepare for eventual presidential elections, in hopes of quelling spiraling gang violence that has killed thousands in the Caribbean co 21 senior members of DC police to be dismissed — more than half due to 'serious misconduct' 04/25/2024 07:01pm • More than 20 senior members of D.C.'s police department are on the way out. A total of 21 senior police officers or senior sergeants will be leaving the department on April 30, according to D.C. supervisory public affairs specialist Thomas Lynch. Senior officers are those who've retired from the Recreational marijuana backers can gather signatures for North Dakota ballot initiative 04/25/2024 06:39pm • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota ballot initiative group can gather signatures to put a proposal legalizing recreational marijuana to a statewide vote in the fall, the state’s top election official said Thursday, in the latest legalization effort in the conservative state. The New Economic F Athletic director used AI to frame principal with racist remarks in fake audio clip, police say 04/25/2024 06:33pm • A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said Thursday. Authorities said the case appears to be among the first of its kind in the country Selling weight-loss and muscle-building supplements to minors in New York is now illegal 04/25/2024 06:31pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — It’s now illegal to sell weight-loss and muscle-building supplements to minors in New York, under a first-in-the-nation law that went into effect this week. Experts say loose federal regulation of dietary supplements has resulted in these products sometimes including unappro Body-cam footage shows police left an Ohio man handcuffed and facedown on a bar floor before he died 04/25/2024 05:36pm • TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who was handcuffed and left facedown on the floor of a social club last week died in police custody, and the officers involved have been placed on paid administrative leave. Police body-camera footage released Wednesday shows a Canton police officer responding to a Carefully planned and partly improvised: inside the Columbia protest that fueled a national movement 04/25/2024 05:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Months before they pitched their tents on Columbia University's main lawn, inspiring a wave of protest encampments at college campuses nationwide, a small group of pro-Palestinian student activists met privately to sketch out the logistical details of a round-the-clock occupation. A high-profile murder trial in Kazakhstan boosts awareness of domestic violence 04/25/2024 04:54pm • The CCTV footage shown at the domestic abuse trial was disturbing: The defendant is seen dragging his wife by her hair, and then punching and kicking her. Hours after it was recorded, she died of brain trauma. The trial of businessman Kuandyk Bishimbayev, Kazakhstan's former economy minister, in the