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Lebanon says Israeli agents likely killed Hezbollah-linked currency exchanger near Beirut 04/18/2024 04:05am • BEIT MERI, Lebanon (AP) ��� Lebanon���s interior minister alleged Wednesday that the mysterious abduction and killing of a Hezbollah-linked Lebanese currency exchanger in a villa on the edge of a quiet mountain resort town earlier this month was likely the work of Israeli intelligence operatives. Th The Milan derby. The Serie A title. A 2nd star. Inter can win it all in a single night 04/18/2024 04:00am • ROME (AP) ��� A derby win. A Serie A title. A second star. Inter Milan has an unprecedented chance to secure all three achievements at once with a win over AC Milan on Monday. And city bragging rights might mean more than anything. ���It���s an incredible opportunity,��� Inter midfielder Henrikh Mkh Attorney general won't file criminal case against LA officer in 2021 shooting that killed teen 04/18/2024 12:56am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The California Attorney General declined to file criminal charges against a Los Angeles police officer who fired a rifle at a suspect inside a clothing store in 2021, killing a 14-year-old girl in a dressing room, authorities said Wednesday. Officer William Dorsey Jones Jr. fire Today in History: April 18, San Francisco���s great earthquake sets off fires, thousands die 04/18/2024 12:00am • Today is Thursday, April 18, the 109th day of 2024. There are 257 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On April 18, 1906, a devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000. On this date: In 1 25 years after Columbine, trauma shadows survivors of the school shooting 04/17/2024 10:56pm • DENVER (AP) ��� Hours after she escaped the Columbine High School shooting, 14-year-old Missy Mendo slept between her parents in bed, still wearing the shoes she had on when she fled her math class. She wanted to be ready to run. Twenty-five years later, and with Mendo now a mother herself, the trau The desert nation of UAE records its most rain ever, flooding highways and Dubai's airport 04/17/2024 10:19pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� The United Arab Emirates attempted to dry out Wednesday from the heaviest rain the desert nation has ever recorded ��� a deluge that flooded out Dubai International Airport and disrupted flights through the world's busiest airfield for international travel. The Abu Ghraib military contractor warned bosses of abuses 2 weeks after arriving, testimony reveals 04/17/2024 10:06pm • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) ��� A civilian contractor sent to work as an interrogator at Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison resigned within two weeks of his arrival and told his corporate bosses that mistreatment of detainees was likely to continue. Jurors saw the October 2003 email from Rich Arant, who wor Georgia's parliament votes to approve so-called 'Russian law' targeting media in first reading 04/17/2024 09:04pm • TBILISI, Georgia (AP) ��� Georgia's parliament has voted in the first reading to approve a proposed law that would require media and non-commercial organizations to register as being under foreign influence if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad. Thousands gathered outside parlia Sweeping gun legislation awaits final votes as Maine lawmakers near adjournment 04/17/2024 08:56pm • AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) ��� The Maine Legislature moved in fits and starts toward adjournment on Wednesday, with unfinished business including final votes on a series of gun safety bills that were introduced after the deadliest shooting in state history last fall. The Senate was awaiting an enactment vo French police evict hundreds from abandoned Paris warehouse ahead of Olympics 04/17/2024 08:26pm • PARIS (AP) ��� With the Paris Olympic Games 100 days away, police carried out a large-scale eviction at France's biggest squat in the south of the country's capital. Authorities, including dozens of gendarmes, cleared out the makeshift camp at an abandoned bus company headquarters in Vitry-sur-Seine Whistleblowers outline allegations of nepotism and retaliation within Albuquerque's police academy 04/17/2024 08:18pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ��� Several members of the Albuquerque police academy���s training staff who were dismissed from their duties last summer filed a lawsuit Wednesday outlining allegations of nepotism and retaliation by leadership within the force. The whistleblower complaint centers on a requi Tennessee judge wants more information on copyright before ruling on school shooter's writings 04/17/2024 06:47pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� A Tennessee judge on Wednesday seemed ready to agree with an attorney for Nashville police that the writings of a school shooter could be released as public record once the investigation is officially closed. But the parents of children at the Covenant School added an extra New Hampshire man who brought decades-old youth center abuse scandal to light testifies at trial 04/17/2024 06:36pm • BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) ��� David Meehan, whose allegations of abuse at New Hampshire���s youth detention center sparked nearly a dozen arrests and more than a thousand lawsuits, finally took the witness stand Wednesday, seven years after he first told his wife, ���They raped me.��� ���I think I���m mo DC and federal officials say this initiative is helping take violent offenders off the streets 04/17/2024 06:27pm • Two years after the creation of "Project Safe Neighborhoods," an attempt to crack down on gun-related crimes in D.C., authorities say they've sent 127 firearms cases to federal court. "Targets of these cases have an average of six prior felony arrests. More than half of them were previously arres 2 Florida men suspected in 2-year string of car break-ins at parks in Fairfax County 04/17/2024 06:18pm • Fairfax County police say two Florida men are under arrest and have been charged in connection with a string of car break-ins at parks across the Virginia county during a nearly two-year period. Police said that, in many cases, credit cards were in the vehicles and later used at different area st