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The British government wants to define extremism. Critics say it risks creating more division 03/14/2024 09:14am • LONDON (AP) ��� The British government published a new official definition of ���extremism��� on Thursday, and said groups that get the label will be barred from receiving government funding. The move is in response to a surge in reports of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate speech and what authoriti Race for Chicago-area prosecutor seat features tough-on-crime judge, lawyer with Democratic backing 03/14/2024 07:09am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� An open seat to lead the nation���s second-largest prosecutor���s office has become one of the most spirited races in the Illinois primary with a Democratic matchup between a tough-on-crime judge and an attorney with union and establishment backing. The Cook County state���s attorne A Danish hippie oasis has fought drug sales for years. Now, locals want to tear up the whole street 03/14/2024 07:04am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� The inhabitants of Copenhagen's freewheeling Christiania neighborhood plan to dig up the aptly named Pusher Street, in their latest attempt to stop illegal hashish sales which have led to deadly gang turf wars and sometimes violent confrontations with the police. Residen Farmers disrupt traffic to Belgium's major ports in protest of environmental rules 03/14/2024 06:22am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� Farmers disrupted traffic around Europe's second biggest port of Antwerp and two other Belgian harbors Thursday during yet another demonstration to protest against what they say is excessive environmental rulemaking. Dozens of tractors disrupted morning rush hour traffic to and fr Plan to install new leaders in Haiti appears to crumble after political parties reject it 03/14/2024 05:23am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� A proposal to install new leadership in Haiti appeared to be crumbling Wednesday as some political parties rejected the plan to create a presidential council that would manage the transition. The panel would be responsible for selecting an interim prime minister and a Zimbabwe police rescue 251 children used as labor and find graves in religious sect compound raid 03/14/2024 03:16am • HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) ��� Zimbabwe police on Wednesday said they have arrested a man claiming to be a prophet of an apostolic sect at a shrine where believers stay in a compound and authorities found 16 unregistered graves, including those of infants, and more than 250 children used as cheap labor. 16 SWAT officers hospitalized after blast at training facility in Southern California 03/13/2024 10:53pm • IRVINE, Calif. (AP) ��� An explosion during an indoor training exercise Wednesday sent 16 members of Southern California's Orange County Sheriff���s Department SWAT team to the hospital, with one person requiring surgery for a leg injury, the department said. Two others had superficial wounds while Polygamous family with 17 children recovering from Dale City house fire 03/13/2024 10:16pm • A unique family that includes a husband and two wives and 17 children among them lost almost everything in a March 8 fire at their Dale City, Virginia, home. Husband and father Mykal Coles said Tuesday the family is making do with two suites at an extended-stay hotel in Woodbridge ��� and trying to A CDC team joins the response to 8 measles cases in a Chicago shelter for migrants 03/13/2024 09:52pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Eight people living at a Chicago shelter for migrants have tested positive for measles since last week, prompting the arrival of a team with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to guide city and state officials' response to the infections, including vaccination efforts. T Death of nonbinary teen Nex Benedict after school fight is ruled a suicide, medical examiner says 03/13/2024 09:30pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ��� The death of a nonbinary student the day after a fight inside an Oklahoma high school restroom has been ruled a suicide, the state medical examiner's office said Wednesday. A summary autopsy report was released more than a month after the death of 16-year-old Nex Benedict, a s Former Mormon bishop highlighted in AP investigation arrested on felony child sex abuse charges 03/13/2024 08:14pm • A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was featured in an Associated Press investigation into how the church protects itself from allegations of sexual abuse was arrested by police in Virginia this week after being indicted on charges he sexually abused his daughter w GOP candidate for Senate in New Jersey faced 2020 charges of DUI, leaving scene of accident 03/13/2024 08:13pm • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) ��� A New Jersey Republican candidate for U.S. Senate was arrested in August 2020 and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and leaving the scene of an accident, according to police reports that came to light Wednesday. Alex Zdan, a former TV news reporter who launc South Dakota prosecutors to seek death penalty for man charged with killing deputy during a pursuit 03/13/2024 08:06pm • FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) ��� South Dakota prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a Sioux Falls man charged in the death of a deputy who was struck while putting out spikes during a police chase. The South Dakota Attorney General���s office filed an official notice Wednesday announcing it will seek Last suspect sought in deadly bus shooting in Philadelphia, police say 03/13/2024 06:56pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a 17-year-old youth who they say is the last of four suspects sought in the shooting that wounded eight Philadelphia high school students at a bus stop last week. The U.S. Marshals Service, while offering details Tuesday night on th Police say suspect in a Hawaii acid attack on a woman plotted with an inmate to carry out 2nd attack 03/13/2024 06:52pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� A man accused of dousing a woman with acid in Hawaii last year allegedly tried to cast doubt on himself as a suspect by plotting with a fellow inmate to carry out a second, similar attack, authorities said. While incarcerated on an attempted murder charge for the April 7, 2023 att