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Hunger soars and aid dwindles as gangs in Haiti suffocate the country 03/16/2024 03:30pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� A crowd of about 100 people tried to shove through a metal gate in Haiti���s capital as a guard with a baton pushed them back, threatening to hit them. Undeterred, children and adults alike, some of them carrying babies, kept elbowing each other trying to enter. ���Let Michigan suspends defensive line coach Gregg Scruggs following drunk driving arrest 03/16/2024 03:06pm • ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) ��� Michigan defensive line coach Greg Scruggs has been suspended indefinitely while the football program and athletic department review details of his arrest for suspected drunk driving. Wolverines coach Sherrone Moore said Scruggs made ���an unfortunate mistake" in a statemen Russians cast ballots in an election preordained to extend President Vladimir Putin's rule 03/16/2024 02:41pm • Voters across Russia cast ballots Saturday on the second day of an election set to formalize six more years of power for President Vladimir Putin, who faces no serious challengers after crushing political dissent over his nearly quarter-century of rule. The election comes against the backdrop of a r US to investigate Texas fatal crash that may have involved Ford partially automated driving system 03/16/2024 12:50pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a fatal crash in San Antonio, Texas, involving a Ford electric vehicle that may have been using a partially automated driving system. The agency said in a statement Friday that a team of investigators from its Office of Highw Man, woman arrested in connection to dead baby found in Florida trash bin 03/16/2024 08:53am • HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) ��� A woman believed to be the mother of an infant found dead in a trash bin earlier this year has been arrested, along with a man who police said helped her dispose of the body outside a South Florida apartment complex. They are both charged with failure to report a death, and Law enforcement should have seized man's guns weeks before he killed 18 in Maine, report finds 03/16/2024 08:32am • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� Law enforcement should have seized a man's guns and put him in protective custody weeks before he committed Maine's deadliest mass shooting, a report found Friday. An independent commission has been reviewing the events that led up to Army reservist Robert Card killing 18 pe What to know about the Maine mass shooting commission report 03/16/2024 08:31am • MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) ��� An independent commission has been reviewing the events leading up to Army reservist Robert Card killing 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine, on Oct. 25, 2023. Here is what the commission found in a report released Friday, and some of the reactions: GUN With Navalny dead, his allies keep fighting to undermine Putin's grip on power 03/16/2024 01:52am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Alexei Navalny���s team is used to working independently. The most potent foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin was frequently absent for long stretches after being arrested, assaulted, poisoned, or imprisoned. But when Navalny died suddenly in February at age 47 in a rem Today in History: March 16, US soldiers kill hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese in My Lai massacre 03/16/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Saturday, March 16, the 76th day of 2024. There are 290 days left in the year. Today���s highlight in history: On March 16, 1968, the My Lai (mee ly) massacre took place during the Vietnam War as U.S. Army soldiers hunting for Viet Cong fighters and sympathizers killed unar Jurors weigh fate of Afghan refugee charged with murder in a case that shocked Muslim community 03/15/2024 09:09pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ��� Prosecutors on Friday wrapped up their case against an Afghan refugee on charges that he gunned down a man in 2022 in what turned out to be the first of three ambush-style killings involving members of the Muslim community in New Mexico's largest city. Muhammad Syed, who s New information from law enforcement reveals criminal activity at a Silver Spring Starbucks 03/15/2024 08:37pm • When the Starbucks on Ellsworth Drive in Silver Spring, Maryland, announced it'd be closing at the end of the month, some in the community questioned whether it might be because of crime. In a statement, Starbucks told WTOP they made the decision to close ���to ensure a healthy store portfolio.�� Authorities seize ailing alligator kept illegally in New York home's swimming pool 03/15/2024 08:25pm • HAMBURG, N.Y. (AP) ��� An ailing alligator was seized from an upstate New York home where it was being kept illegally, state officials said. Environmental conservation police officers seized the 750-pound (340-kilogram), 11-foot-long (3.4-meter-long) alligator on Wednesday from a home in Hamburg, so Violent crime in DC is falling, a trend city leaders are hopeful will continue this summer 03/15/2024 08:19pm • Violent crime in D.C. is down so far this year compared to the first three and a half months of 2023, according to D.C. police data. As of Friday, there's been a 36% drop in homicides. So far this year, there have been 30, compared to the 47 reported at this point last year. At a briefing this Teen gets 40 years in prison for Denver house fire that killed 5 from Senegal 03/15/2024 08:12pm • DENVER (AP) ��� One of three teenagers charged with starting a Denver house fire that killed five people ��� apparently out of revenge for a stolen cellphone that was mistakenly traced to the home ��� was sentenced Friday to 40 years in prison. Gavin Seymour, 19, pleaded guilty in January to one cou Husband of slain pregnant Amish woman testifies his young children told him of the killing 03/15/2024 07:59pm • MEADVILLE, Pa. (AP) ��� The husband of a pregnant Amish woman killed inside her rural Pennsylvania home late last month testified Friday that his two young children told him about the crime when he got back from looking at potential roofing jobs. ���I didn���t really believe it,��� Andy Byler said a