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Arsonist sets fire to Florida Jewish center, but police do not believe it was a hate crime 03/18/2024 06:26pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida Jewish center suffered severe damage in a weekend arson fire that police believe was set by a mentally ill homeless man who previously confronted the rabbi and others. Rabbi Chaim Slavaticki said Monday that the man accused of setting the fire sat down An Afghan refugee has been convicted of murder in a case that shocked Albuquerque’s Muslim community 03/18/2024 05:48pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Afghan refugee was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in one of three fatal shootings that shook Albuquerque's Muslim community during the summer of 2022. Muhammad Syed faces life in prison for killing 41-year-old Aftab Hussein on July 26, 2022. He also will st Metro cracks down on fare evasion starting Monday under sweeping DC crime law 03/18/2024 05:41pm • Skipping out on paying the fare to ride Metro could result in a citation or even an arrest starting Monday, under new penalties cited in sweeping D.C. crime legislation that passed last week. The package, called Secure D.C., was signed into law by Mayor Muriel Bowser a week ago, after being unani A new Banksy mural sprouts beside a cropped tree in London. Many see an environmental message 03/18/2024 05:26pm • LONDON (AP) — A new Banksy mural drew crowds to a London street on Monday, even before the elusive graffiti artist confirmed that the work was his. The artwork in the Finsbury Park neighborhood covers the wall of a four-story residential building and shows a small figure holding a pressure hose be Child's decomposed body found in duffel bag in Philadelphia neighborhood 03/18/2024 05:12pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A badly decomposed body of a child was found inside a duffel bag by crews who were cleaning a site Monday in west Philadelphia, police said. The body was found in the city's Mantua neighborhood by workers with the city's Community Life Improvement Program. It wasn't immediately 2 Black men tortured by Mississippi officers call for toughest sentences 03/18/2024 05:10pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two Black men who were tortured by six Mississippi law enforcement officers called on a federal judge Monday to impose the harshest possible penalties against the disgraced former lawmen. The former law officers admitted in August to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Capitol police begin body camera pilot program 03/18/2024 04:50pm • U.S. Capitol Police launched a cautious test of body cameras Monday — about 70 officers have volunteered to wear the cameras during the 180-day pilot program. Only officers posted outside the Capitol and outside House and Senate office buildings will be wearing body cameras. In addition, dashbo Lawsuit accuses NYC Mayor Eric Adams of sexually assaulting a woman in a vacant lot in 1993 03/18/2024 04:18pm • New York City Mayor Eric Adams was accused in a lawsuit Monday of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993 and demanding a sexual favor in exchange for his help advancing her career in the police department. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Manhattan, offered the first public details of a sexual assault clai Police: Fairfax Co. crashes down after return of ‘Road Shark’ safety campaign 03/18/2024 03:24pm • A campaign launched in 2023 to discourage dangerous driving ended up decreasing the number of fatal crashes in Fairfax County, Virginia, police say. Now, they are hoping to continue bettering roadway safety this year. Fairfax County police and Virginia State Police are keeping up with their " Supreme Court rejects appeal by former New Mexico county commissioner banned for Jan. 6 insurrection 03/18/2024 02:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a former New Mexico county commissioner who was kicked out of office over his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Former Otero County commissioner Couy Griffin, a cowboy pastor who rode to nation How Russia's grab of Crimea 10 years ago led to war with Ukraine and rising tensions with the West 03/18/2024 02:53pm • A decade ago, President Vladimir Putin seized Crimea from Ukraine, a bold land grab that set the stage for Russia to invade its neighbor in 2022. The quick and bloodless seizure of the diamond-shaped peninsula, home to Russia's Black Sea fleet and a popular vacation site, touched off a wave of patri Takeaways from the predictable Russian election that gave Putin another 6 years in power 03/18/2024 02:10pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — To no one's surprise, President Vladimir Putin secured another six years in power in a preordained election landslide that comes amid the harshest crackdown on the opposition and free speech since Soviet times. The three days of balloting, in which Putin faced three token Reactions as Vladimir Putin secures a fifth term as Russia's president after tightly controlled vote 03/18/2024 01:47pm • Vladimir Putin secured an unprecedented fifth term as president of Russia Monday, as the election commission announced the results of a vote in which he faced no serious challenges and which happened amid the strictest crackdown on opposition and free speech since Soviet times. Putin claimed his ov New Hampshire charges 1st person in state with murder in the death of a fetus 03/18/2024 01:38pm • OSSIPEE, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man appeared in court Monday on charges that he killed a pregnant woman and her unborn child by means of multiple blunt force injuries, the first time the state has charged someone with murder in the death of a fetus. William Kelly, 28, appeared in Carroll Cou Descendant of judge who wrote infamous Dred Scott decision pens a play about where we are now 03/18/2024 12:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Writer and actor Kate Taney Billingsley has been thinking a lot about America's racial history and her family's part in it. One of her ancestors had an outsized role. Billingsley's great-great-great-great uncle was Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, who made arguably the worst decis