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Suspects plead not guilty in human smuggling case involving Indian family's death on Canada border 03/27/2024 03:33pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A man accused of helping smuggle people across the U.S.-Canada border into Minnesota, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in 2022, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to seven counts of human smuggling. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 28, who prosecutors say we Woman charged with kidnapping, murder in disappearance of DC woman who went missing last year 03/27/2024 03:11pm • A woman was arrested Tuesday after being indicted on murder charges in connection with the disappearance of a D.C. woman, who was reported missing in October 2023. Chyna Crawford, 25, of Southwest, was last seen around 10 p.m. on Oct. 23 in the 4000 block of South Capitol Street. A missing person After Utah team subjected to racism, could the NCAA change tournament sites in the future? 03/27/2024 03:10pm • The NCAA women's basketball tournament has so far been the most successful it has ever been when it comes to viewership and attendance, driven by crowds flocking to see their teams play first- and second-round games at home in hopes of advancing to the Sweet 16. An ugly incident involving the Utah w Man cuffed but not charged after Chiefs' Super Bowl rally shooting sues congressman over online post 03/27/2024 02:57pm • MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A man who was briefly handcuffed in the chaos that followed a deadly shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl rally is suing a Tennessee congressman who falsely accused him in social media posts of being one of the shooters and an immigrant in the country illegally. De Suspect in 3 Pennsylvania killings makes initial court appearance on related New Jersey charges 03/27/2024 02:28pm • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A man charged in the fatal shooting of three family members in Pennsylvania and related carjacking and weapons counts in New Jersey will remain behind bars while his case proceeds, a judge ruled Wednesday. Andre Gordon Jr., 26, appeared via video from the Mercer County jail fo Being HIV-positive will no longer automatically disqualify police candidates in Tennessee city 03/27/2024 02:18pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Having HIV will no longer automatically disqualify someone from serving as a Metropolitan Nashville Police Officer, the Tennessee city agreed in a legal settlement on Friday. The agreement settles a federal discrimination lawsuit filed last year by a former Memphis police New Portuguese Parliament elects house speaker after deal between 2 main parties 03/27/2024 01:37pm • LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s newly-elected Parliament on Wednesday voted in a new house speaker, following a potentially important deal between the country's two main centrist parties. The chamber elected José Aguiar Branco of the Social Democrats by 160 votes in favor, well above the 116 Ahmaud Arbery's killers ask a US appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions 03/27/2024 01:34pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Attorneys for three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in a Georgia subdivision asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to throw out their hate crime convictions, arguing that prosecutors relied on their history of racist comments without proving they targeted Arbery beca A Paris exhibit shows how the Olympics mirror society, from Nazi propaganda to fighting inequalities 03/27/2024 12:52pm • PARIS (AP) — More than a sporting competition, the Olympics are also a powerful political stage widely used in the past by totalitarian regimes as a propaganda tool but also by athletes as a driver of change in the fight against racial inequalities. Before this summer's Paris Olympics, an exhibit Pakistani authorities share with China initial findings of probe into bombing that killed 5 Chinese 03/27/2024 12:18pm • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities have shared with China the preliminary findings of an investigation into a deadly attack that killed five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver in the country's volatile northwest, officials said Wednesday. Authorities were doing DNA testing o German investigators work through hundreds of tips on fugitive Red Army Faction suspects 03/27/2024 06:52am • BERLIN (AP) — German investigators said Wednesday they were working through hundreds of new tips on the whereabouts of two fugitive suspected ex-members of the left-wing militant Red Army Faction following the arrest last month of their former comrade after decades in hiding. Daniela Klette, 65, w DC police establish 7 new 'drug-free zones' in round 3 of anti-crime measure 03/27/2024 05:30am • After the expiration of round two of D.C.'s new drug-free zones on Monday, police in the District have now announced a list of new zones — one in each of the city's seven police districts — to go into effect Wednesday morning. Bright orange signs indicating these drug-free zones were posted e Spraying manure and throwing beets, farmers in tractors again block Brussels to protest EU policies 03/27/2024 03:20am • BRUSSELS (AP) — Farmers threw beets, sprayed manure at police and set hay alight on Tuesday as hundreds of tractors again sealed off streets close to the European Union headquarters, where agriculture ministers sought to ease a crisis that has led to months of protests across the 27-member bloc. T After a county restricted transgender women in sports, a roller derby league said, 'No way' 03/27/2024 01:07am • SEAFORD, N.Y. (AP) — They zip around the rink, armed with helmets, pads and mouthguards. They push, bump and occasionally crash out as they jostle for position on the hardwood floor. But for the women of the Long Island Roller Rebels, their biggest battle is taking place outside the suburban stri Baltimore bridge collapses after powerless cargo ship rams into support column; 6 presumed dead 03/26/2024 11:03pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — A cargo ship lost power and rammed into a major bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday, destroying the span in a matter of seconds and plunging it into the river in a terrifying collapse that could disrupt a vital shipping port for months. Six people were missing and presumed dead, and