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David Mixner, LGBTQ+ activist and Bill Clinton campaign advisor, dies at 77 03/12/2024 11:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� David Mixner, a longtime LGBTQ+ activist who was an adviser to Bill Clinton during his presidential campaign and later called him out over the ���Don't Ask, Don't Tell��� policy regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer personnel in the military, has died. He was 77. Haiti is preparing itself for new leadership. Gangs want a seat at the table 03/12/2024 09:59pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Politicians across Haiti are scrambling for power after Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced Tuesday that he would resign once a transitional presidential council is created. But elbowing their way into the race are powerful gangs that control 80% of Haiti���s capital Afghan refugee stands trial in first of 3 killings that shocked Albuquerque's Muslim community 03/12/2024 09:15pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ��� Fear coursed through the Muslim community in New Mexico���s largest city over several days in the summer of 2022 as authorities scrambled to determine if race or religion might have been behind the ambush-style killings of three men from the community. It was not long befo An aid ship is sailing to Gaza, where hundreds of thousands face starvation 5 months into war 03/12/2024 08:50pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� An aid ship loaded with some 200 tons of food set sail for Gaza on Tuesday in a pilot program for the opening of a sea corridor to the territory, where the 5-month Israel-Hamas war has driven hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to the brink of starvation. The push to get Rio police release 17 hostages from a gunman on a bus, at least 2 wounded 03/12/2024 08:24pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Brazilian police said Tuesday they released 17 hostages from a gunman that took over a crowded bus for three hours in Rio de Janeiro and wounded at least two people. Rio police spokesman Col. Marcos Andrade told journalists all hostages aboard a bus parked at one of the city' The Best Places to Retire in Mexico 03/12/2024 08:00pm • Mexico is home to many breathtakingly beautiful places that offer a high quality of life at an affordable price, so it's no wonder that a growing number of Americans are heading south. An estimated 1.6 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico, and it consistently ranks as the top destination for U.S. tr A former Boeing manager who raised safety concerns appears to have taken his own life, coroner says 03/12/2024 07:37pm • A former Boeing manager who raised safety questions about the aircraft maker has been found dead outside a hotel in South Carolina, according to local authorities. The body of John Barnett, 62, was found Saturday in a car outside a Holiday Inn, suffering from what the Charleston County Coroner��� Another suspect arrested in shooting that wounded 8 high school students at Philadelphia bus stop 03/12/2024 07:17pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� A third suspect has been arrested in the shooting that wounded eight Philadelphia high school students at a bus stop last week, authorities said Tuesday. A fourth person was still being sought. The name of the 19-year-old suspect hasn't been made public, but police said he will Missing Washington state woman found dead in Mexico; man described as suspect arrested 03/12/2024 07:03pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� A 54-year-old suburban Seattle woman who had been missing for two weeks was found dead in Mexico, and a man described as a suspect was arrested by Mexican police on unrelated charges, police said. Police in Renton, Washington, said Monday that friends told officers they last heard f Judge cuts bond by nearly $1.9 million for man accused of car crash that injured Sen. Manchin's wife 03/12/2024 06:39pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ��� An Alabama judge cut bond by nearly $1.9 million on Tuesday for a man accused of fleeing from police during a car chase and causing a crash last January that injured Gayle Manchin, the wife of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, and a work colleague. Tradarryl Rishad Boykins, 31, of Bi Scott Peterson appears virtually in California court as LA Innocence Project takes up murder case 03/12/2024 05:54pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Scott Peterson appeared virtually in court on Tuesday, nearly 20 years after he was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, as his lawyers with the Los Angeles Innocence Project asked a judge to order new DNA tests and allow their investigators to access evidence connected with New York police crack down on vehicles avoiding tolls with fake license plates 03/12/2024 05:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� New York authorities are cracking down on what they call ���ghost cars,��� or vehicles using altered or forged license plates to avoid paying tolls and tickets. A multiagency effort to catch them on Monday resulted in 73 vehicles impounded, 282 summonses issued and eight arrests, G New Hampshire AG���s office to play both offense and defense in youth center abuse trials 03/12/2024 05:16pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� Lawyers defending New Hampshire���s state-run youth detention center against allegations of horrific abuse will be allowed to undermine an accuser���s credibility when the first of more than 1,000 lawsuits goes to trial next month, even as a separate team of state lawyers reli Illinois police identify the three kids and two drivers killed when a school bus hit a semitruck 03/12/2024 05:06pm • RUSHVILLE, Ill. (AP) ��� Authorities have identified the five people killed in a fiery collision between a school bus and semitruck on a highway in rural Illinois, including a young brother and sister, another 3-year-old boy and both drivers. The eastbound bus from Schuyler-Industry Schools crossed Italian police search AC Milan's offices as part of probe into sale of club 03/12/2024 04:30pm • MILAN (AP) ��� AC Milan's offices were raided by police on Tuesday as part of an investigation by Italian prosecutors into the sale of the Serie A giant. RedBird Capital Partners purchased Milan from fellow American firm Elliott Management in August 2022, but Milan prosecutors claim Elliott still ow