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Persistent rumor of Putin���s death elicits nonchalant international response 03/28/2024 07:48pm • For months, rumors have swirled about Russian President Vladimir Putin. At the heart of all the gossip is a key question. Is he still alive? (Screenshot courtesy Telegram) A claim by a mysterious Russian Telegram channel called General SVR, run by a prominent Russian political analyst, Tennessee governor signs bill to undo Memphis traffic stop reforms after Tyre Nichols death 03/28/2024 07:08pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday signed off on the repeal of police traffic stop reforms made in Memphis after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by officers in January 2023, despite pleas from Nichols��� parents to GOP lawmakers and the governor to give them a chance to Brazilian police launch investigation into Bolsonaro's 2-night sleepover at Hungarian embassy 03/28/2024 06:37pm • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� Brazil's Federal Police on Monday launched an investigation into former President Jair Bolsonaro's two-night stay last month at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia, amid widespread speculation from his opponents that he may have been attempting to evade arrest. A Federal Police sour Six Russian journalists have been detained by authorities. They include one who covered Navalny 03/28/2024 06:24pm • Authorities in Russia have detained six journalists across the country this month, including a journalist who covered the trials of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny for several years, media freedom organization Reporters Without Borders said Thursday. Antonina Favorskaya was detained and 4th person charged in ambush that helped Idaho prison inmate escape from Boise hospital 03/28/2024 06:20pm • A fourth person has been charged in connection with an ambush that allowed a white supremacist Idaho prison gang member to escape as he was being discharged from a Boise hospital. Tia J. Garcia, 27, of Twin Falls, owned the car that inmate Skylar Meade and his accomplice, Nicholas Umphenour, fled in Man shot and killed by off-duty DC police officer in Prince George's Co. 03/28/2024 05:46pm • A man is dead after being shot by an off-duty D.C. police officer in Prince George's County, Maryland, on Wednesday, officials said. Maryland State Police said this all started when troopers went to the area of Crain Highway at Village Drive around 5 p.m. in response to a two-vehicle crash. The d Judge rejects officers' bid to erase charges in the case of a man paralyzed after police van ride 03/28/2024 05:44pm • NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) ��� Four former Connecticut police officers accused of mocking and mistreating a man after he was paralyzed in the back of a police van in 2022 were denied bids Thursday to enter a program that could have erased criminal charges against them and let them avoid trial. A judge re Massachusetts joins with NCAA, sports teams to tackle gambling among young people 03/28/2024 05:34pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Top Massachusetts officials joined with NCAA President and former Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday to announce a new initiative aimed at tackling the public health harms associated with sports gambling among young people. Baker said those harms extend not just to young pe As women's hoops grows, scrutiny increases on NCAA hosts to manage hotel offerings, travel times 03/28/2024 05:33pm • Eastern Washington savored the thrill of claiming a Big Sky Conference Tournament title that secured its second trip to the NCAA women's basketball tournament. Yet, with the Eagles part of March Madness for the first time since 1987, there was at least one damper on that buzz: having to stay in a ho Bus driver accused of stalking boy, 8, sentenced to nine years in prison 03/28/2024 05:12pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� A former school bus driver who stalked and threatened an 8-year-old boy in New Hampshire was sentenced on Thursday to nine years in prison. Michael Chick, of Eliot, Maine, who pleaded guilty in federal court last month to one count of cyberstalking, also was sentenced to thre Trump attends wake of slain New York officer, calls for 'law and order,' to show contrast with Biden 03/28/2024 05:10pm • MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) ��� Donald Trump attended Thursday's wake of a New York City police officer gunned down in the line of duty and called for ���law and order,��� as part of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's attempt to show a contrast with President Joe Biden and focus on cri Older Florida couple found slain in their home; police believe killer stole their car 03/28/2024 04:50pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� Florida police are seeking the public's help in finding a car stolen from an older couple who were found shot to death in their home. Fort Lauderdale Police on Thursday reissued an all-points bulletin for a red 2014 Ford Fusion that belonged to Major Melvin, 89, and h Michigan GOP lawmaker falsely claims that buses carrying March Madness teams are 'illegal invaders' 03/28/2024 04:22pm • FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (AP) ��� A Michigan state lawmaker involved in former President Donald Trump���s election denials is being widely criticized after the Republican made false claims that buses carrying college athletes to Detroit for March Madness were shuttling illegal migrant ���invaders��� Central and Eastern European countries mark 20 years in NATO with focus on war in Ukraine 03/28/2024 03:54pm • VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) ��� Several central and Eastern European countries began marking on Thursday the 20th anniversary of the largest expansion of the NATO military alliance when formerly socialist countries became members of the bloc. Military aircraft roared over the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. 34 years later, DC woman charged with killing boyfriend and interfering with the investigation 03/28/2024 03:17pm • The girlfriend of a 34-year-old D.C. man who was shot and killed in 1990 has been arrested and charged in the cold case, police announced Thursday. Sheila Brown, now 66 and living in Annapolis, Maryland, told police she was about to run errands on the afternoon of March 28, 1990, when two men kno