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El Salvador's Bukele releases father of soccer player from prison after son's plea on social media 04/17/2024 02:19pm • SAN SALVADOR (AP) ��� El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele released the father of a Salvadoran soccer player from prison after the athlete published a plea for his release on social media, authorities confirmed on Wednesday. Marcelo ���El Chiky��� D��az, who plays for El Salvador's national team, on 'A quiet hero:' Detective who helped solve high-profile Virginia murders dies 04/17/2024 01:51pm • Michael Boone, the detective who helped solved high-profile cases in Northern Virginia, has died. (Courtesy City of Fairfax police) Michael Boone, a Northern Virginia detective who helped solve the Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington murders in Charlottesville, and the murder of Bethany Decker i Owner of ship in Baltimore bridge collapse asks cargo owners to help cover salvage costs 04/17/2024 12:48pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� The owner of the massive container ship Dali, which caused the deadly collapse of Baltimore���s Francis Scott Key Bridge last month, has initiated a process requiring owners of the cargo on board to cover some of the salvage costs. The ship���s owner, Singapore-based Grace Ocea Police confirm Missouri officer fired fatal shot that killed man who allegedly shot another man 04/17/2024 12:38pm • FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) ��� A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer fired the fatal shot that killed at man at a gas station in the St. Louis suburb, police said Wednesday. The shooting happened just before 1:30 a.m. Tuesday at a convenience store. Police said 26-year-old Detarius Haynes and 18-year-old Jos Supreme Court makes it easier to sue for job discrimination over forced transfers 04/17/2024 12:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court on Wednesday made it easier for workers who are transferred from one job to another against their will to pursue job discrimination claims under federal civil rights law, even when they are not demoted or docked pay. Workers only have to show that the transfe Senator's son pleads not guilty to charges from crash that killed North Dakota sheriff's deputy 04/17/2024 12:14pm • WASHBURN, N.D. (AP) ��� The adult son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to homicide and other charges in connection with a Dec. 6 crash that killed a North Dakota sheriff's deputy. Ian Cramer, 43, waived his preliminary hearing and entered his not guilty plea to felony charges o Minnesota toddler dies after fall from South Dakota hotel window 04/17/2024 11:48am • SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) ��� A Minnesota toddler who fell from a South Dakota hotel's third-floor window has died. Kathryn and Alex Hein of Lakefield, Minnesota, wrote in a Facebook post that their year-old son, Madden, died Monday, two days after falling at Club House Hotel & Suites in Sioux Fall Pack your ear protection ��� Pennsylvania Avenue to turn into a speedway for race car drivers Saturday 04/17/2024 11:19am • Motorsport fans will pack the National Mall on Saturday to watch a Formula 1 race car drive through the heart of the nation's capital. Here's what you need to know. Red Bull Racing is hosting its first-ever showrun event in D.C., where its RB7 racing car will be on display, driving in front of th Hundreds pay tribute to police officer shot dead 40 years ago from inside Libya's UK embassy 04/17/2024 11:02am • LONDON (AP) ��� Hundreds of people attended a vigil in central London on Wednesday to commemorate the life of a police officer who was shot dead 40 years ago from inside the Libyan embassy in the British capital. Constable Yvonne Fletcher, 25, was killed when men armed with submachine guns fired fro Copenhagen fights the last pockets of a fire that destroyed a 400-year-old landmark 04/17/2024 10:02am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Danish firefighters toiled Wednesday to extinguish the last pockets of a fire that gutted Copenhagen���s 400-year-old stock exchange building the previous day, as owners of the structure looked ahead to rebuilding the iconic landmark. Tuesday���s blaze, which destroyed h Protests, heightened terror threat mean tight security at Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden 04/17/2024 09:40am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Security will be tight during next month���s Eurovision Song Contest in the southern Sweden city of Malmo, police said Wednesday, citing demonstrations that could lead to unrests and a heightened threat of terrorism in the Scandinavian country. ���The security is going Hungary's leader calls for change at the top in June European elections at a far right gathering 04/17/2024 09:38am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb��n on Wednesday urged voters to reject mainstream political parties in upcoming European Union elections for their failure of leadership and said Ukraine must never be allowed to join the bloc or NATO. Orb��n, the keynote speaker at a gathering i Unions in Greece call widespread strikes, seeking a return to bargaining rights axed during bailouts 04/17/2024 09:04am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Strikes called by Greece���s largest labor union halted ferries, disrupted public transport services and left some state-run hospitals running on emergency staffing levels in Athens and elsewhere Wednesday. The General Confederation of Greek Labor, GSEE, led the strikes to pr Man up for parole more than 2 decades after Dartmouth professor stabbing deaths 04/17/2024 09:03am • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� A man who has served more than half of his life in prison for his role in the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors as part of a plan to rob and kill people before fleeing overseas is getting his first chance at parole. James Parker was 16 when he wa Four people shot ��� one fatally ��� in the Bronx by shooters who were riding on scooters 04/17/2024 07:40am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Four people were shot ��� one fatally ��� on a street corner in the Bronx by shooters who were riding on scooters, police said. About 10 shots were fired after two scooters pulled up to the intersection after 6 p.m. Tuesday and passengers on the back of each pulled out guns, Assist