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District's Emancipation Day celebration means road closures Sunday 04/13/2024 11:47am • Each year D.C. recognizes April 16 as Emancipation Day, since on that day 162 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District.��But this year, the festivities come two days early. D.C.'s Emancipation Day celebration will take place Sunday, with a full day of even How O.J. Simpson burned the Ford Bronco into America's collective memory 04/13/2024 11:37am • The Ford Bronco initially was conceived and designed for rugged outdoorsy types, a two-door means of escape to nature from the bustling cities of mid-century America. But it had already been tamed and polished for suburbanites, with cruise control and air conditioning, by 1994, when O.J. Simpson co Learn more about O.J. Simpson: The TV, movies, books and podcasts about the trial of the century 04/13/2024 11:06am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The story of O.J. Simpson's life was inherently cinematic ��� what started as fodder for a triumphant sports biopic abruptly became something much darker and complex as Simpson slid from fame to infamy following the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. It's little w A suspect in a deadly Sydney stabbing attack acted alone and there is no longer a threat, police say 04/13/2024 04:26am • SYDNEY (AP) ��� A suspect in a deadly Sydney stabbing attack acted alone and there is no longer a threat, police say. 6 people are dead including a suspect in a Sydney shopping center stabbing attack, police say 04/13/2024 04:24am • SYDNEY (AP) ��� 6 people are dead including a suspect in a Sydney shopping center stabbing attack, police say. Media reports say multiple people have been stabbed, and one person has been shot by police, at a Sydney shopping center 04/13/2024 03:12am • SYDNEY (AP) ��� Media reports say multiple people have been stabbed, and one person has been shot by police, at a Sydney shopping center. The Latest | Israel says it opened new aid crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza 04/13/2024 01:30am • Israel said Friday it had opened a new crossing for aid trucks into hard-hit northern Gaza as it ramps up humanitarian deliveries to the besieged enclave. However, the United Nations says the surge of aid is not being felt in Gaza because of persistent distribution difficulties inside the war-torn t Chile will ask Venezuela to extradite citizens suspected of killing an anti-Maduro dissident 04/12/2024 09:55pm • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) ��� Prosecutors in Chile said Friday they plan to formally request that Venezuela extradite two of its citizens to stand trial for charges related to the abduction and killing of a Venezuelan dissident in Chile earlier this year, a case that has strained relations between the So Officer who fatally shot Kawaski Trawick 5 years ago won't be disciplined, police commissioner says 04/12/2024 09:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Two New York City police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Kawaski Trawick inside his Bronx apartment five years ago will not face internal discipline, the city���s police commissioner, Edward Caban, announced Friday. In a statement, Caban said the officers, Brendan Thomp Police divers at Baltimore bridge collapse struggle with 'zero visibility' underwater 04/12/2024 09:40pm • The mission is daunting at the site of the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, as crews have to remove 50,000 tons of debris. Nonetheless, police divers are there continuing an investigation into the collapse. Visibility under the water is extremely poor Brookland Metro teen shooting suspect ordered to remain in custody 04/12/2024 09:34pm • The 16-year-old boy charged in the deadly shooting of 14-year-old Avion Evans on the Brookland-CUA Metro platform last week will remain held without bond while he awaits trial. On Friday, as the 16-year-old appeared in D.C. Superior Court, his attorney, William Howell, argued that the shooting wa Man charged in slaying after woman's leg found at Milwaukee-area park 04/12/2024 09:22pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� A 33-year-old man was charged Friday in the slaying of a woman whose leg was found on the beach of a lakefront park near Milwaukee. Maxwell Anderson is jailed on first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and arson charges in the death of Sade Robinson, according to a 1 dead after shuttle bus crashes at a Honolulu cruise ship terminal 04/12/2024 09:14pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� One person died and multiple people were injured when a shuttle bus collided with pedestrians and concrete barriers at a Honolulu cruise ship terminal, authorities said Friday. The crash occurred when the shuttle bus driver mistook the gas pedal for the brake, Honolulu police said Robert MacNeil, creator and first anchor of PBS 'NewsHour' nightly newscast, dies at 93 04/12/2024 08:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Robert MacNeil, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast ���The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour��� in the 1970s and co-anchored the show with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades, died on Friday. He was 93. MacNeil died of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hosp They shot a trash collector and left him for dead in the street. Police in Prince George's Co. want your help finding them 04/12/2024 08:37pm • Prince George's County police released photos and video Friday of the people who fatally shot a trash removal company employee in Maryland last week. The shooting happened around 3:40 p.m. on April 4 in the 6800 block of Greenvale Parkway in the unincorporated section of Hyattsville, Maryland.