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Hong Kong's new national security bill includes stiff penalties and more power to suppress dissent 03/08/2024 10:32pm • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong unveiled a proposed law that threatens life imprisonment for residents who ���endanger national security" on Friday, deepening worries about erosion of the city���s freedoms four years after Beijing imposed a similar law that all but wiped out public dissent. It���s wid Iran is responsible for the 'physical violence' that killed Mahsa Amini in 2022, UN probe finds 03/08/2024 10:05pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Iran is responsible for the ���physical violence��� that led to the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022 and sparked nationwide protests against the country's mandatory headscarf, or hijab, laws and its ruling theocracy, a U.N. fact-finding mission said Friday. Veteran Miami prosecutor quits after judge's rebuke over conjugal visits for jailhouse informants 03/08/2024 09:51pm • MIAMI, Florida (AP) ��� A veteran prosecutor in Miami has resigned after a judge found that state investigators manipulated witnesses, including possibly providing conjugal visits to jailhouse informants in exchange for their testimony, in a high-profile death penalty case against a notorious gang l Foreigners trapped in violence-torn Haiti wait desperately for a way out 03/08/2024 09:40pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Dozens of foreigners, including many from the United States and Canada, are stranded in Haiti, desperately trying to leave the violence-torn country where anti-government gangs are battling police and have already shut down both of the country's international airports. Peru arrests an Iranian man accused of planning an attack on an Israeli citizen 03/08/2024 09:16pm • LIMA, Peru (AP) ��� Police in Peru announced the arrest Friday of an Iranian citizen who was purportedly a member of Iran's Quds Force and allegedly planned to kill an Israeli citizen in the South American country. Gen. ��scar Arriola, Peru's police chief, said in a press conference that Majid Azizi Fairfax Co. police warns about driveway-paving scams 03/08/2024 08:50pm • As the warm weather approaches, Fairfax County, Virginia, police are issuing a warning about a scam that usually pops up in the springtime. Driveway-paving scammers, the department said, typically look to exploit homeowners. Sgt. Jacob Pearce, a public information officer with the department, Roswell police have new patches that are out of this world, with flying saucers and alien faces 03/08/2024 08:28pm • Famous for being the spot where a spacecraft purportedly crashed in 1947, Roswell, New Mexico, has become a mecca for people fascinated by extraterrestrial phenomenon. So it's only fitting that the city���s police force has uniform patches that are out of this world. Unveiled on Friday, the new patc Nathan Hochman advances to Los Angeles County district attorney runoff against George Gasc��n 03/08/2024 08:01pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Former federal prosecutor Nathan Hochman has advanced to a runoff against Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gasc��n, one of the country���s most progressive prosecutors. Gasc��n and Hochman will compete in November in the race to lead an agency that prosecutes cases i The NYPD is using social media to target critics. That brings its own set of worries 03/08/2024 06:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The first ���NYPD: Most Wanted��� video was meant to be intimidating. Over a pounding soundtrack, the montage cuts among stock images and body-camera footage of actual police raids. A fake gun discharges. Real officers break down a door, barking orders at a man asleep on a couch. A Former Uvalde mayor is surprised a new report defends how police responded to school shooting 03/08/2024 06:51pm • The former Uvalde mayor who ordered an investigation into actions by local police during the Robb Elementary School shooting said Friday he was surprised the report defended officers and believes the acting chief on the scene failed during the 2022 massacre. "What I���ve seen so far, it���s not qui PHOTOS: 31 dogs were rescued from a DC home after their owner got into a standoff with police. Now nearly half of them are up for adoption 03/08/2024 06:35pm • Nearly half the 31 dogs rescued from a D.C. house after their owner allegedly shot police officers and holed up inside will be up for adoption this Saturday. From noon to 7 p.m. at the Humane Rescue Alliance adoption center in Northwest, those interested in adopting a pup can check out 14 of the dog Man convicted of 2 killings in Delaware and accused of 4 in Philadelphia gets 7 life terms 03/08/2024 06:26pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) ��� A suspected serial killer convicted of murdering two people in Delaware and accused of killing his mother and three others in Philadelphia in 2021 was sentenced to seven life terms Friday by a Delaware judge. Superior Court Judge Ferris Wharton also sentenced Keith Gibson, 41, t Biden says her name ��� Laken Riley ��� at the urging of GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene 03/08/2024 06:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� It was what the Republicans demanded but never expected. President Joe Biden said her name: ���Laken Riley.��� But in garbling the pronunciation, he left Republicans dissatisfied and opened himself to more criticism. The death of Riley, a nursing student from Georgia, has becom Driver pleads guilty to reduced charge in Vermont crash that killed actor Treat Williams 03/08/2024 05:56pm • BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) ��� A Vermont man on Friday pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of negligent driving with death resulting in the June crash that killed actor Treat Williams. Ryan Koss, 35, who knew Williams, was given a one-year deferred sentence and as part of his probation will have his drivin Protesters interrupt Mayor Bowser, call for cease-fire in Gaza during DC art festival kickoff event 03/08/2024 05:55pm • Protesters in support of a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war interrupted D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser moments before she began speaking at a kickoff event for the Artomatic arts festival Friday afternoon. Bowser was set to give remarks inside an office building on M Street in Northwest. After be