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Motorist dies in fiery crash when vehicle plows into suburban Chicago highway toll plaza, police say 04/18/2024 11:46am • HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) ��� A vehicle plowed into a suburban Chicago highway toll plaza early Thursday, engulfing it and the plaza in flames and killing the motorist, police said. Illinois State Police said troopers responded to the scene after receiving a report that a vehicle had struck the Bar Atlantic City mayor: I'm committed to my family and city while dealing with daughter abuse charges 04/18/2024 11:31am • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) ��� Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small said Thursday he remains committed to his family and to his city as he deals with charges that he and his wife abused their teenage daughter. In his first public comments since prosecutors on Monday charged him and his wife, LaQuetta, the Gunmen ambush vehicle carrying customs officials in northwest Pakistan, killing 4 officers 04/18/2024 11:17am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� Unidentified gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying officials from the customs department in troubled northwest Pakistan on Thursday evening, killing four of them before fleeing the scene, police said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack which happened in DC police seek suspects in 'disturbing' Navy Yard retail theft, assault 04/18/2024 11:01am • Police in D.C. are looking for several young people they say were involved in a Tuesday night theft and assault at a CVS location in the Navy Yard neighborhood in Southeast. At about 8:45 p.m. on Tuesday, the large group entered the store and took items without paying, police said. When confr UK Conservatives suspend lawmaker as sleaze allegations swirl over possible misuse of party funds 04/18/2024 10:37am • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain���s governing Conservative Party said Thursday it has suspended a lawmaker who is alleged to have used campaign funds for personal medical expenses and to pay off someone who was threatening him. The Times of London reported Mark Menzies took thousands of pounds (dollars) giv Copenhagen's mayor hopes to learn from Notre Dame reconstruction after historic building fire 04/18/2024 10:24am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Copenhagen's mayor said Thursday she contacted her Paris counterpart to see what could be learned from the reconstruction of the Notre Dame cathedral in the French capital, after a fire devastated the Danish city's 400-year-old stock exchange building. Firefighters were 9 are facing charges in what police in Canada say is the biggest gold theft in the country's history 04/18/2024 10:14am • TORONTO (AP) ��� Police said nine people are facing charges in what authorities are calling the biggest gold theft in Canadian history from Toronto���s Pearson International airport a year ago. Peel Regional Police said Wednesday that 6,600 gold bars worth more than 20 million Canadian dollars ($14. Justice Department ramps up efforts to reduce violent crime with gun intel center, carjacking forces 04/18/2024 10:04am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Justice Department is ramping up its efforts to reduce violent crime in the U.S., launching a specialized gun intelligence center in Chicago and expanding task forces to curb carjackings. In an interview with The Associated Press, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said ther A Georgia beach aims to disrupt Black students' spring bash after big crowds brought chaos in 2023 04/18/2024 10:00am • TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) ��� Thousands of Black college students expected this weekend for an annual spring bash at Georgia's largest public beach will be greeted by dozens of extra police officers and barricades closing off neighborhood streets. While the beach will remain open, officials are blockin Prominent figure in German far-right party stands trial over alleged use of Nazi slogan 04/18/2024 09:00am • HALLE, Germany (AP) ��� One of the most prominent figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party went on trial Thursday on charges of using a Nazi slogan, months before a regional election in which he plans to run to become his state's governor. Bj��rn H��cke, 52, is the leader of the region Sydney teen accused of stabbing 2 clerics showed no signs of radicalization, Muslim leader says 04/18/2024 07:12am • SYDNEY (AP) ��� A 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing two Christian clerics during a Sydney church service might have ���anger management and behavioral issues��� and a ���short fuse��� but had shown no signs of being radicalized, a community leader said Thursday, after authorities declared the stab 2 people smugglers sentenced to 9 years each in Spain for drowning deaths of migrants 04/18/2024 07:05am • MADRID (AP) ��� Two people smugglers have been sentenced to nine years each in prison for the deaths of four Moroccan migrants who drowned after they were forced to jump out of a boat last year near the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa, prosecutors said Thursday. The prosecutor���s office in French hero gains Australian residency for confronting killer in deadly Sydney shopping mall attack 04/18/2024 06:48am • SYDNEY (AP) ��� French construction worker Damien Guerot was made an Australian permanent resident on Thursday as a reward for his heroism during a knife attack in a Sydney shopping mall that left six victims dead and a dozen wounded. Guerot was nicknamed ���Bollard Man��� on social media after secu Frustrated farmers are rebelling against EU rules. The far right is stoking the flames 04/18/2024 05:40am • ANDEREN, Netherlands (AP) ��� Inside the barn on the flat fields of the northern Netherlands, Jos Ubels cradles a newborn Blonde d'Aquitaine calf, the latest addition to his herd of over 300 dairy cattle. Little could be more idyllic. Little, says Ubels, could be more under threat. As Europe seek Takeaways from this week's reports on the deadly 2023 Maui fire that destroyed Lahaina 04/18/2024 05:40am • HONOLULU (AP) ��� More than half a year after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century burned through a historic Maui town, officials are still trying to determine exactly what went wrong and how to prevent similar catastrophes in the future. But two reports released this week are filling