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Haiti's prime minister says Kenyan police are crucial to controlling gangs, early days are positive 07/04/2024 12:07am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that recently deployed Kenyan police will be crucial to helping control the country���s gangs and moving toward democratic elections ��� and he called feedback from their initial days in the capi Leaders of Russia and China meet at a Central Asian summit in a show of deepening cooperation 07/03/2024 10:56pm • Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Wednesday for the second time in as many months as they visited Kazakhstan for a session of an international group founded to counter Western alliances. Putin and Xi last got together in May when the Kremlin leader visited Beijing Mexico evacuates even sea turtle eggs from beaches as Hurricane Beryl approaches 07/03/2024 10:53pm • CANCUN, Mexico (AP) ��� Stung by past failures to prepare for hurricanes, the Mexican government on Wednesday began evacuating even sea turtle eggs from beaches ahead of Hurricane Beryl. While Beryl remains far offshore in the Caribbean near Jamaica, it is expected to hit somewhere south of Cancun New Zealand tourist killed in robbery attempt at Southern California mall 07/03/2024 09:23pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A 68-year-old tourist from New Zealand was struck and killed by a car during a botched robbery at an upscale mall in a popular Southern California beach city south of Los Angeles, police said. Violence broke out Tuesday afternoon at Newport Beach's Fashion Island mall when two Migrants pause in the Amazon because getting to the US is harder. Most have no idea what lies ahead 07/03/2024 09:00pm • ASSIS BRASIL, Brazil (AP) ��� Dozens of migrants sleep in a mosquito-infested six-bedroom wooden shelter in the Brazilian Amazon, their dreams of a better life in the U.S. on hold because of President Joe Biden���shalt on asylum. Johany ���Flaca��� Rodr��guez, 48, was ready to leave behind the stru Italy appeals court upholds conviction of 2 Americans in death of policeman but reduces sentences 07/03/2024 08:56pm • ROME (AP) ��� An Italian appeals court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of two American men in the killing of an Italian plainclothes police officer during a botched sting operation five years ago but significantly reduced their sentences. The new verdict, ordered after Italy���s highest court t Hitting the water for the Fourth of July? Md.'s Operation Dry Water aims to keep the fun in check 07/03/2024 08:55pm • Scorching hot weather in the forecast, along with a long holiday weekend and fireworks over many area waterways, means lots of people will be out celebrating on boats this weekend. In fact, the Fourth of July is always the busiest boating holiday of the year in Maryland. And the state's Natural R Man charged in connection to mass shooting at Oakland Juneteenth celebration 07/03/2024 08:26pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ��� A 23-year-old Oakland man has been charged in connection with a mass shooting that broke out at a Juneteenth celebration in the San Francisco Bay Area last month. Prosecutors charged JaJuan Kelly, 23, with four counts of felony assault with a semiautomatic firearm for the sh Federal judge sentences 4 anti-abortion activists for a 2021 Tennessee clinic blockade 07/03/2024 06:55pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Four anti-abortion activists who were convicted in January on felony conspiracy charges for their roles in a 2021 Tennessee clinic blockade were sentenced this week to terms ranging from 6 months in prison to three years of supervised release. The sentences were below those The Latest | Israel kills a top Hezbollah commander in Lebanon; group retaliates with rocket attacks 07/03/2024 06:27pm • Israel killed a senior commander in the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on Wednesday, the second top field leader killed in less than a month, and the group said it retaliated by firing scores of rockets at Israeli military positions near the border. The Israeli military estimated that around 100 What makes these the 100 deadliest days on the road ��� and what you can do about it 07/03/2024 05:28pm • We are now in the middle of what some road safety advocates refer to as the 100 deadliest days ��� the time between Memorial Day and Labor Day when millions of Americans hit the road. Whether by car, by bike or on foot, there���s more people traveling, more traffic and more crashes. Just since Me 2 more people charged with conspiring to bribe Minnesota juror with a bag of cash plead not guilty 07/03/2024 05:03pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Two of five people charged with conspiring to bribe a Minnesota juror with a bag of $120,000 in cash in exchange for the acquittal of defendants in one of the country���s largest COVID-19-related fraud cases pleaded not guilty Wednesday. Said Shafii Farah and Abdulkarim Shafii Fairfax Co. gets $25K for witness protection program 07/03/2024 05:01pm • Fairfax County is getting a $25,000 grant that the top prosecutor in the Virginia suburb said will be used to offer security and support to victims and witnesses in criminal trials. The funding is from a $1 million grant program from Virginia's Department of Criminal Justice Services. Lawmaker US asks Haiti to prioritize electoral council amid gang violence and a humanitarian crisis 07/03/2024 04:55pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� U.S. officials have asked Haiti���s prime minister to prioritize the establishment of an electoral council as the country strives to rebuild its government amid rampant gang violence. ���This critical step toward will give the Haitian people an opportunity to select th Man tells jury he found body but had no role in fatal attack on Detroit synagogue leader 07/03/2024 04:41pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� A man charged with killing a Detroit synagogue leader during a violent overnight encounter denied any role Wednesday, telling jurors that he never entered her home but had discovered and touched her bloody body outdoors. Michael Jackson-Bolanos repeatedly said ���absolutely not��� w