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Peru's president interrogated by prosecutors for hours amid expanding 'Rolexgate' probe 04/05/2024 06:15pm • LIMA, Peru (AP) ��� Peruvian President Dina Boluarte was interrogated by prosecutors for five hours Friday as authorities investigate whether she illegally received hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, luxury watches and jewelry. Prosecutors have been investigating the highly unpopular leader Mexican president wanted to lead Latin America, but reality and his own rhetoric got in the way 04/05/2024 05:50pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� President Andr��s Manuel L��pez Obrador took office in 2018 hoping to recover Mexico���s old reputation as the diplomatic leader of Latin America, but what he���s managed to do is get several of his country���s ambassadors kicked out of countries in the region. On Friday, L��pez 'Red flag' bill debated for hours in Maine months after mass shooting that killed 18 04/05/2024 05:47pm • Months after Maine's deadliest mass shooting, state lawmakers held an hourslong hearing Friday to debate a so-called red flag bill that would let family members petition a judge to remove guns from someone experiencing a psychiatric crisis. Supporters say it's important to reconsider the proposal af The Latest | With outrage over strike mounting, Israel punishes officers and vows to let more aid in 04/05/2024 05:44pm • Amid widespread outrage over a strike that killed seven aid workers delivering food in the Gaza Strip, Israel punished five military officers on Friday and said it would take steps to increase the flow of humanitarian aid, including temporarily reopening a key border crossing into northern Gaza. Isr Federal investigation begins of fatal Florida crane collapse; bridge reopens 04/05/2024 03:54pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� Federal job safety officials began their investigation Friday into the collapse of a crane in downtown Fort Lauderdale that killed one worker, injured three people and left morning traffic snarled. Investigators from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration wi Cleanup begins as spring nor'easter moves on. But hundreds of thousands still lack power 04/05/2024 03:27pm • GILFORD, N.H. (AP) ��� Snow showers lingered Friday as the cleanup began following a major spring storm that brought heavy snow, rain and high winds to the Northeast, left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power, and contributed to at least two deaths. Well over a foot (30 centim New mass graves in Rwanda reveal cracks in reconciliation efforts, 30 years after the genocide 04/05/2024 03:15pm • HUYE, Rwanda (AP) ��� The diggers��� hoes scrape the brown soil, looking for ��� and often finding ��� human bone fragments. The women then wipe the bone pieces with their hands as others watch in solemn silence. The digging goes on, a scene that's become all too familiar in a verdant area of rural Incendiary device thrown at German synagogue door, but damage minor and no injuries 04/05/2024 02:53pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� An incendiary device was thrown at a door of a synagogue in northwestern Germany on Friday but caused only minor damage, police said. No one was injured. The incident in the city of Oldenburg happened early Friday afternoon. The fire was discovered quickly and didn't spread, and the Woman found dead in Prince George's Co. was stabbed to death, handcuffed. Her son is charged in the disturbing slaying 04/05/2024 01:35pm • A Bladensburg, Maryland, man has been arrested and charged with murder after his mother's handcuffed body was found inside their apartment, according to police. Officers said they showed up to an apartment in the 4100 block of 53rd Place in Bladensburg at 11:10 p.m. Wednesday for a welfare check. 3 retired Philadelphia detectives to stand trial in perjury case stemming from 2016 exoneration 04/05/2024 01:27pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Three long-retired Philadelphia police detectives must stand trial, accused of lying under oath at the 2016 retrial of a man the jury exonerated in a 1991 rape and murder. The case, if it proceeds to trial in November, would mark a rare time when police or prosecutors face crim Giorgio Armani bags were produced by exploited Chinese workers near Milan, Italian police say 04/05/2024 12:46pm • MILAN (AP) ��� Exploited Chinese workers employed in Italy by an unauthorized subcontractor made handbags and accessories for the Giorgio Armani fashion house in a series of supply chain abuses that the in-house production company failed to properly monitor, Italian police said Friday. The fashion h NYC to pay $17.5M to settle suit over forced removal of religious head coverings during mug shots 04/05/2024 12:36pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� New York City has agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two Muslim women who were forced to remove their head coverings to be photographed after they were arrested. The class-action lawsuit was filed in 2018 by Jamilla Clark and Arwa Aziz, two Muslim women who sa Colombian security forces attacked with explosives after a cease-fire breaks down 04/05/2024 12:23pm • BOGOT�� (AP) ��� Colombia suffered a series of attacks Thursday night and Friday morning, marking the first major assault against its military since a mafia group born from the now-defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced it was scaling up operations earlier this week. The at Man shot by police spurs chase through 2 states after stealing cruiser 04/05/2024 11:49am • CHESTER, Pa. (AP) ��� A man shot by police in Delaware allegedly stole an officer's cruiser and led authorities on a chase that ended when he crashed the vehicle in neighboring Pennsylvania and was captured after a foot chase. New Castle County police had responded around 2:30 a.m. Thursday to a do Sheriff says man held at problem-plagued jail in Atlanta was stabbed to death by another detainee 04/05/2024 11:37am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� The Fulton County Sheriff's Office said Atlanta police are investigating after a man being held at the county jail, which is under federal investigation, was stabbed to death by another detainee. The sheriff's office says 37-year-old Leonard Fortner was stabbed multiple times by 36-