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DC mayor says crime-fighting efforts will be affected by budget holdup on Capitol Hill 04/04/2025 04:33am • Fresh off announcing a new effort at cutting juvenile crime, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser expressed frustration Thursday over the fact that D.C. is still waiting for congressional action that would allow it to spend $1 billion in its 2025 budget. Last month, the Senate passed a measure that would all Today in History: April 4, Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis 04/04/2025 04:10am • Today is Friday, April 4, the 94th day of 2025. There are 271 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot and killed while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King���s death triggered a wave of u Key events leading to Yoon's removal as South Korea's president 04/04/2025 01:55am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been removed from office over his imposition of martial law in December. The unanimous ruling Friday triggers a presidential election to be held in two months that is likely to be one of the tensest South Korea has seen. Yoon also Haiti taking more steps against gangs after thousands of protesters demand security 04/04/2025 01:42am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� The leader of Haiti���s transitional presidential council tried to allay surging alarm among Haitians over rampant gang violence by acknowledging Thursday that the country has ���become hell for everyone��� and promising new measures to stop the bloodshed. Fritz Alphon An explosion at a standoff between rival gold miners in Bolivia kills at least 5 people 04/04/2025 01:19am • SORATA, Bolivia (AP) ��� A powerful explosion killed at least five people, including a pregnant woman and 1-year-old baby, during a standoff between rival groups of gold miners early Thursday in northwestern Bolivia, police said, a rare instance of territorial disputes between the nation's mining co Living abroad and hungry to see a Chinese movie on the biggest of screens, some took action 04/04/2025 12:06am • COLUMBIA, Md. (AP) ��� A group of Chinese people decided they wanted the nation's biggest movie to be big in the United States, literally. So they made it really big. And therein lies a story. On a recent Saturday afternoon, more than 100 people gathered at an IMAX screening room in a movie theater A man has shot and killed a Catholic priest at his parish rectory in northeast Kansas 04/03/2025 10:34pm • SENECA, Kansas (AP) ��� A Catholic priest was shot and killed Thursday by a man who approached him at his parish rectory in the town of Seneca, Kansas, church officials said. ���I am heartbroken to share the tragic news of the death of Fr. Arul Carasala, who was fatally shot earlier today," Archbish Georgia Republicans push last minute bill to limit public access to lawmaker and police records 04/03/2025 10:12pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� With one day left of the legislative session, Georgia Republicans mustered together a proposal to limit public access to records about state lawmakers' communications and police reports. The bill sidestepped the usual lawmaking process by tacking a new proposal onto a bill without s Tulane suspends transfer QB TJ Finley following his arrest for alleged possession of a stolen truck 04/03/2025 07:47pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� Tulane transfer quarterback TJ Finley has been suspended from the team indefinitely following his arrest for alleged possession of a stolen pickup truck. Finley's attorneys say the quarterback was defrauded by those who sold him the vehicle and is cooperating with authorities. T Canada trucker protest organizers found guilty of mischief 04/03/2025 07:47pm • OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) ��� Two of the organizers of Canada���s trucker protests against COVID-19 restrictions in 2022 have been found guilty of mischief for their roles in the mass protest in Ottawa, a judge ruled Thursday. Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were key figures and organizers in the massive pr NYC Mayor Eric Adams will skip the Democratic primary and run for reelection as an independent 04/03/2025 06:19pm • New York City Mayor Eric Adams withdrew from the city���s Democratic primary on Thursday and said he would instead run for reelection as an independent, a move intended to buy him time to save a campaign deeply wounded by a bribery scandal and liberal anger over his warm relationship with President DC mayor, police chief announce new initiative on juvenile crime 04/03/2025 05:52pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Browser and D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith announced the latest initiative on dealing with juvenile crime in D.C. on Thursday ��� the formation of the Juvenile Investigative Response Unit. While Mayor Bowser likes to point to data showing that overall crime is down across all ei Transgender student's arrest for violating Florida bathroom law is thought to be a first 04/03/2025 05:46pm • A transgender college student declared ���I am here to break the law��� before entering a women���s restroom at the Florida State Capitol and being led out in handcuffs by police. Civil rights attorneys say the arrest of Marcy Rheintgen last month is the first they know of for violating transgender Police: Multiple people stabbed by man in 'altered mental state from an unknown substance' in Northeast DC 04/03/2025 04:56pm • D.C. police say multiple people were stabbed and a suspect is in custody after an incident in Northeast D.C. on Thursday afternoon. At a news conference Thursday, D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith said a man was walking with a woman in the area of Montello Avenue and Meigs Place NE near Gallaudet Un Man kills mother in moving car, then kills passing motorist and injures others, Maine police say 04/03/2025 04:50pm • GRAY, Maine (AP) ��� A passenger in a car in Maine fatally shot his mother before shooting at passing vehicles, killing another motorist and injuring two others, then died by suicide, state police said Thursday. The shootings happened in the central Maine town of Sabattus late Wednesday afternoon, p