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Police officer hospitalized after motorcycle crash in DC's Navy Yard 04/25/2024 10:36am • A D.C. police officer is in the hospital following a crash Thursday morning in the Navy Yard neighborhood. Police told WTOP the officer was riding a police motorcycle when they were hit by a car just before 8 a.m. at the 400 Block of M Street in Southeast D.C. The officer was transported to a Lawyer says Iran rapper famous for songs after 2022 killing of Mahsa Amini sentenced to death 04/25/2024 08:13am • JERUSALEM (AP) — A rapper in Iran who came to fame over his lyrics about the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini and criticizing the Islamic Republic has been sentenced to death, his lawyer and rights activists said Thursday. Confusion still surrounds the death sentence issued against 33-year-old metal sho When Danish police pulled a woman over, she locked herself in her car and refused to talk 04/25/2024 07:07am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A routine traffic stop on a highway south of Denmark's capital turned into an unusual standoff as a 26-year-old woman locked her car and refused to speak to the police officer who had pulled her over, authorities said Thursday. The Central and West Zealand Police said in Australia and New Zealand honor their war dead with dawn services on Anzac Day 04/25/2024 06:52am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people gathered across Australia and New Zealand for dawn services and street marches Thursday to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon attended a dawn service in his country’s largest city, Auck Bishop stabbed during Sydney church service backs X's legal case to share video of the attack 04/25/2024 06:23am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A Sydney bishop who was stabbed repeatedly in an alleged extremist attack blamed on a teenager has backed X Corp. owner Elon Musk’s legal bid to overturn an Australian ban on sharing graphic video of the attack on social media. A live stream of the knife attack on Apr 'Honored and blessed': Md. native Jordan Wallace on becoming first African American to compete in Porsche Carrera Cup North America 04/25/2024 05:44am • A D.C.-area native is breaking barriers in the sport of racing: In March, Jordan Wallace became the first African American to compete in the Porsche Carrera Cup North America. "It never really registered that I would be the first African American to compete in the series or anything like that Columbia's president, no stranger to complex challenges, walks tightrope on student protests 04/25/2024 12:33am • Columbia University president Minouche Shafik is no stranger to navigating complex international issues, having worked at some of the world’s most prominent global financial institutions. At the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, for example, she tackled both the European debt crisis Dozens arrested on California campus after students in Texas detained as Gaza war protests persist 04/24/2024 11:22pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police peacefully arrested student protesters at the University of Southern California on Wednesday, hours after police at a Texas university aggressively detained dozens in the latest clashes between law enforcement and those protesting the Israel-Hamas war on campuses nation DC man wanted in connection with Fort Totten shooting that left 5-year-old girl, father wounded 04/24/2024 11:17pm • D.C. police are asking for help in finding a suspect in the late Tuesday night shooting of a man and his 5-year-old daughter in the Fort Totten neighborhood of Northeast D.C. D.C. police are asking for help in locating 29-year-old Alante Partlow, who's wanted in connection with a Tuesday night s Haiti's government scrambles to impose tight security measures as council inauguration imminent 04/24/2024 10:30pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Armored vehicles roll slowly past Haiti’s National Palace as police scan the horizon for gangs. Every day, bullets whiz past the area, striking buildings and people alike. Gangs control most of the territory that surrounds the palace, but a transitional council charg Judge orders preventative detention for Iranian and 2 Peruvians in thwarted plot to kill Israelis 04/24/2024 08:53pm • LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian judge has ordered 18 months of preventative detention for an Iranian and two Peruvian men while they are investigated for allegedly attempting to kill two Israelis living in the South American country. The ruling by Magistrate Miguel Quevedo was handed down Tuesday but Indigenous group detains 12 alleged gold miners in Amazon and hands them over to Brazilian police 04/24/2024 08:44pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — An Indigenous group in Brazil said Wednesday its members detained 12 people for allegedly mining illegally in the Amazon and handed them over to police. The non-profit Urihi Associação Yanomami said in a statement that the incident took place Tuesday in the northern state of Ror Sister of Mississippi man who died after police pulled him from car rejects lawsuit settlement 04/24/2024 08:33pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A woman who sued Mississippi's capital city over the death of her brother has decided to reject a settlement after officials publicly disclosed how much the city would pay his survivors, her attorney said Wednesday. George Robinson, 62, died in January 2019, days after three Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to let Arizona doctors provide abortions in California 04/24/2024 08:11pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Arizona doctors could give their patients abortions in California under a proposal announced Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to circumvent a ban on nearly all abortions in the neighboring state. It would apply only to doctors licensed in good standing in Arizona and their Grand jury indicts man on murder charge in shooting death of Texas girl during ATM robbery 04/24/2024 07:49pm • HOUSTON (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting a 9-year-old girl when he was robbed at a Houston ATM in 2022 has been indicted on a murder charge in her death. Tuesday’s indictment against Tony Earls comes nearly two years after another grand jury declined to indict him in the death of Arlene