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Germany has legalized possession of small amounts of cannabis. Not everyone is mellow about that. 04/01/2024 01:42pm • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ��� Marijuana campaigners in Germany lit celebratory joints on Monday as the country legalized possession of small amounts of cannabis for recreational use over objections from doctors and police. The German Cannabis Association, which campaigned for the new law, staged a �� In Mexico, beach bands apparently emerge victorious after noise complaints 04/01/2024 11:58am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Bands who play the thumping tuba-and-drums songs of northern Mexico on beaches in the resort city of Mazatlan appear to have emerged victorious this week after noise complaints had threatened to silence them. But anybody who planned to witness the April 8 eclipse in a moment of Scotland's government says a new law will tackle hate crime. Critics say it could hurt free speech 04/01/2024 11:47am • LONDON (AP) ��� A new law against hate speech came into force in Scotland on Monday, praised by some but criticized by others who say its sweeping provisions could criminalize religious views or tasteless jokes. The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act makes it an offense to stir up hatred wit A Rio councilwoman's killing was a mystery. An arrest gave a peek at corruption keeping it unsolved 04/01/2024 11:17am • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Two days after Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman Marielle Franco's 2018 assassination, her widow sat down with the chief of the state's civil police, Rivaldo Barbosa, who pledged to do everything in his power to hold the guilty parties to account. In fact, the man Brazilian me Pakistani police arrest 12 people over a suicide bombing that killed 5��Chinese��workers 04/01/2024 09:40am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Pakistani counterterrorism police in multiple raids arrested at least 12 suspects in connection with last week's suicide bombing that killed five Chinese workers and their Pakistani driver in the volatile northwest, officials said Monday. Those arrested were not directly involved 4 hospitalized after racing vehicles crash along I-395, Virginia police say 04/01/2024 07:59am • EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been changed to reflect the incident's correct location on Interstate 395. It previously stated the incident occurred on the Capital Beltway. A vehicle race on Interstate 395 has ended with at least four people hospitalized, according to Virginia State Police. Th Shooting outside downtown Indianapolis mall wounds 7 youths, police say 04/01/2024 04:23am • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Seven young people between the ages of 12 and 17 were wounded in a shooting outside a shopping mall in downtown Indianapolis late Saturday night, police said. Police officers patrolling the area heard shots fired near the Circle Centre Mall shortly after 11:30 p.m., Indianapoli Israelis stage largest protest since war began to increase pressure on Netanyahu 04/01/2024 01:20am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Tens of thousands of Israelis thronged central Jerusalem on Sunday in the largest anti-government protest since the country went to war in October. Protesters urged the government to reach a cease-fire deal to free dozens of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas militants and to hold ear Gunmen in Ecuador kill 9, injure 10 others in attack in coastal city of Guayaquil as violence surges 04/01/2024 01:04am • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) ��� Gunmen attacked a group of people in Ecuador ���s coastal city of Guayaquil killing nine and injuring 10 others, police said Sunday, the latest in a string of violent incidents in the South American country. The attack took place around 7 p.m. local time Saturday in the sout Easter eggs roll onto White House lawn ��� and road closures roll out in downtown DC 04/01/2024 12:06am • Spring and Easter brings the White House Easter Egg roll to D.C. and the traffic closures that come along with it. About 40,000 people��are expected to participate in Monday���s ���EGG-ucation���-themed White House Easter Egg Roll. That's about 10,000 more than last year. First Lady Jill B Today in History: April 1, first pro baseball, hockey strikes begin, 20 years apart 04/01/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Monday, April 1, the 92nd day of 2024. There are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fool���s Day. Today���s Highlights in History: On April 1, 1972, the first Major League Baseball players��� strike began; it lasted 12 days. Twenty years later, on April 1, 1992, th Pope overcomes health concerns to preside over Easter Mass and appeal for peace in Gaza and Ukraine 03/31/2024 08:58pm • ROME (AP) ��� Pope Francis rallied from a winter-long bout of respiratory problems to lead some 60,000 people in Easter celebrations Sunday, making a strong appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza and a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine. Francis presided over Easter Sunday Mass in a flower-decked St. Crews at Baltimore bridge collapse continue meticulous work of removing twisted steel and concrete 03/31/2024 05:48pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� As divers assisted crews with the complicated and meticulous operation of removing the steel and concrete from the fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, some near the site took time on Easter Sunday to reflect on the six workers presumed to have plunged to their deaths. Prince George's Co. man dead after DC tunnel crash at Massachusetts Avenue exit 03/31/2024 05:47pm • A Prince George's County, Maryland, man is dead after his car struck a light pole, following an initial hit-and-run crash with another vehicle in a D.C. tunnel on Friday, police said. Ronald Jerome Jordan Jr., 48, of Capitol Heights, was driving a Malibu northbound in the Third Street Tunnel when A list of mass killings in the United States this year 03/31/2024 04:55pm • The latest mass killing in the U.S. happened Wednesday, March 27, in Rockford, Illinois, where authorities said a 22-year-old man has been charged in connection with a frenzied stabbing and beating rampage that left four people dead in a matter of minutes and at least seven people injured. The man