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Suspects in the stabbing of an Iranian presenter fled UK after attack, counterterrorism police say 04/03/2024 04:46am • LONDON (AP) ��� British counterterrorism police investigating the stabbing of a journalist who works for a TV channel critical of the Iranian government said that three suspects had fled the country within hours of the attack. Pouria Zeraati, a presenter at London-based Iran International, was stabb Haiti's surge in gang violence has led more than 53,000 to flee the capital in less than three weeks 04/03/2024 01:24am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� More than 53,000 people have fled Haiti���s capital in less than three weeks, the vast majority to escape unrelenting gang violence, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday. More than 60% are headed to Haiti���s rural southern region, which worries U.N. o Fire at Istanbul nightclub that was being renovated kills 29 people 04/03/2024 12:58am • ISTANBUL (AP) ��� A fire engulfed an Istanbul nightclub Tuesday during renovations, trapping workers and employees inside and killing at least 29 people, officials and reports said. Several people, including managers of the club, were detained for questioning. One person was being treated at a hospi Trump accuses Biden of causing a border 'bloodbath' as he escalates his immigration rhetoric 04/02/2024 10:34pm • GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) ��� Donald Trump accused President Joe Biden of unleashing a ���bloodbath��� at the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday, escalating his inflammatory rhetoric as he campaigned in two Midwestern swing states likely to be critical to the outcome of the 2024 election. Trump, who has accu Ex-police officer gets 200 hours community service for campaign scheme to help New York City mayor 04/02/2024 09:43pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A former police officer who prosecutors say was the ringleader of a campaign donations scheme to help New York City Mayor Eric Adams during his winning 2021 run was sentenced Tuesday, authorities said. Dwyane Montgomery was ordered to perform 200 hours of community service and was Prosecutors widen illicit enrichment probe against Peru's president to include jewelry worth $500K 04/02/2024 09:41pm • LIMA, Peru (AP) ��� Peru's top prosecutor told a committee of lawmakers Tuesday that the scope of an investigation into President Dina Boluarte' s ownership of three luxury watches has broaden to include fine jewelry that authorities estimate could be worth more than $500,000 and money transactions Suspect in custody after fatally shooting 2 women inside Manassas apartment, police say 04/02/2024 09:31pm • Two women were found shot and killed Tuesday morning inside an apartment in Manassas, Virginia, and police say a "person of interest" in the double homicide has been detained. Prince William County police said officers went to the Westgate Apartments and Townhomes complex in the 8100 block of Por Mexico's president mourns local candidate killed shortly after starting her campaign 04/02/2024 09:23pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico's president said Tuesday he was saddened by the killing of a mayoral candidate just hours after she requested protection and started campaigning. A city council candidate also went missing in the same attack on Monday, but later turned up, authorities said. President Andr Man admits stealing $1.8M in luxury items from Beverly Hills hotel, trying to sell them in Miami 04/02/2024 08:09pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A Southern California man on Tuesday admitted stealing nearly $2 million worth of jewelry, clothing and accessories from guests at a Beverly Hills hotel, then traveling to Florida to sell the stolen goods, federal prosecutors said. Jobson Marangoni De Castro, 38, pleaded guilty Mother of boy found dead in suitcase in southern Indiana ordered held without bond 04/02/2024 08:03pm • SALEM, Ind. (AP) ��� The mother of a 5-year-old Atlanta boy whose body was found in a suitcase in Indiana in 2022 was ordered held without bond Tuesday during a strange initial court appearance in which she claimed she was under federal surveillance for several months before her capture. Dejaune And A police dog's death has Kansas poised to increase penalties for killing K-9 officers 04/02/2024 07:45pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� Kansas is poised to increase penalties for killing police dogs and horses after legislators gave their final approval Tuesday to a measure inspired by a suspect's strangling of a dog last year in the state's largest city. The Republican-controlled state House approved a bill wi Black man pistol-whipped by Colorado officer testifies that he feared for his life 04/02/2024 07:44pm • CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) ��� A Colorado police officer used excessive and unreasonable force in the 2021 arrest of a Black man, pointing his gun at his head, repeatedly hitting the man with a gun and strangling him for 39 seconds, a prosecutor said Tuesday during opening statements in the ex-officer�� Houston police chief won't say if thousands of dropped cases reveals bigger problems within agency 04/02/2024 07:43pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� Houston���s police chief on Tuesday declined to say whether recent revelations that more than 264,000 cases filed with Houston police in the past eight years were dropped speak to broader problems within his agency that need to be fixed. During a nearly two-hour meeting at police he The Tropicana Las Vegas, a mob-era casino and Sin City landmark, closes after 67 years 04/02/2024 07:39pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� In the 1971 film ���Diamonds are Forever,��� James Bond stays in a swanky suite at the Tropicana Las Vegas. ���I hear that the Hotel Tropicana is quite comfortable,��� Agent 007 says. It was the Tropicana's heyday, a frequent haunt of the legendary Rat Pack, while its past under t Officer acquitted in 2020 death of Manuel Ellis in Tacoma is hired by neighboring sheriff's office 04/02/2024 07:35pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� One of the three Tacoma police officers cleared of criminal charges in the 2020 death of Manuel Ellis ��� a Black man who was shocked, beaten and restrained facedown on a sidewalk as he pleaded for breath ��� has been hired by a neighboring sheriff's office. The Thurston County She