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A car strikes a crowd at a tram stop in Poland, injuring at least 19 people. The driver was arrested 03/01/2024 11:47am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� A car struck a crowd of people waiting at a tram stop Friday in the northwestern Polish city of Szczecin, injuring at least 19 people, and then collided with three other vehicles as the driver tried to flee the scene, local police said. The injured included three children, S 'Somebody out there knows something': Search continues for DC girl who went missing 10 years ago 03/01/2024 11:44am • Friday marks 10 years since the disappearance of Relisha Rudd in D.C. She was 8 years old when she was last seen in 2014. ���We���re certain that somebody out there knows something and they got that missing link, and so we���re working on people���s heart strings, hoping that they���ll come forwa Protests, poisoning and prison: The life and death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny 03/01/2024 10:14am • Alexei Navalny, Russia's top opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, was buried Friday in a Moscow suburb in a funeral that drew thousands of mourners amid a heavy police presence. Navalny, who was serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism, died Feb. 16, according to Court worker serving an eviction notice and a police officer fatally shot in Missouri, police say 03/01/2024 10:12am • INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) ��� A court employee trying to serve an eviction notice at a home in Independence, Missouri, was shot and killed Thursday and two police officers who responded to help him also were shot, one fatally. ���I���m very tragically sorry to report that we lost one of our own,��� Ind NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 03/01/2024 10:06am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. ___ ATF rules not updated to allow migrants to purchase firearms Bangladeshi leader says a shopping mall that caught fire had no emergency exits. Death toll climbs 03/01/2024 09:34am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� A six-story shopping mall that caught fire in the Bangladeshi capital had no fire exits, the country's prime minister said Friday, as the death toll climbed to at least 46 and rescuers searched for more victims. The fire started late Thursday in a restaurant on the first f Czech tennis boss in detention accused of fraud after federation raided by police 03/01/2024 09:27am • PRAGUE (AP) ��� The head of the Czech tennis federation has been detained as part of a fraud investigation into misuse of state funds that saw its headquarters raided by police this week. The federation on Friday appointed its sport director Jan Stoces as interim head after a court ordered that its Austrian police investigate 17 people on suspicion of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl 03/01/2024 08:37am • VIENNA (AP) ��� Austrian police said Friday they are investigating 17 people, most of them minors, on suspicion of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl over a period of several months. Twelve of the suspects are minors between the ages of 14 and 18, one is 19, two are below the age of criminal respon Maryland State House lockdown prompted by threatening call lifted, nothing suspicious found 03/01/2024 07:15am • Police locked down the Maryland State House for about two hours following an anonymous threat that prompted officials to close the legislative building and the surrounding area on Thursday evening. Law enforcement officials gave the all clear to reopen the area just before 7 p.m. after sweeping t Activists build treehouses to protest Tesla's plans to expand its plant near Berlin 03/01/2024 07:14am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Environmental activists are staging a protest in a forest near Berlin against plans to expand the grounds of electric carmaker Tesla's first plant in Europe and are vowing to stay in place for weeks. Between 80 and 100 activists have been camping in the forest since early Thursday, a Virginia man sentenced to 43 years after pleading guilty to killing teen who had just graduated 03/01/2024 05:39am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� A young man accused in last year's fatal shooting of a teenager who had received his Virginia high school diploma minutes earlier at a public event pleaded guilty on Thursday to first-degree murder and a firearm-related charge and was sentenced to 43 years in prison. Amari Gunfire paralyzes Haiti as powerful gang leader says he will try to detain police chief, ministers 03/01/2024 02:28am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Heavy gunfire paralyzed Haiti���s capital Thursday, and at least four police officers were slain, as a powerful gang leader announced that he would try to capture the country���s police chief and government ministers. The move came during the absence of Prime Minister At least 3 injured in shooting at Southern California dental office, suspect in custody 03/01/2024 01:30am • EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) ��� A man was taken into custody Thursday in connection with a shooting in Southern California that left at least three people injured, police said The shooting occurred at a dental office in El Cajon, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) northeast of downtown San Diego, according to Justin Amash announces Republican bid for Michigan US Senate seat after having previously left GOP 02/29/2024 11:39pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) ��� Former U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, who left the GOP in 2019 after calling for the impeachment of then-President Donald Trump, announced a Republican bid for Michigan's U.S. Senate seat Thursday. Amash represented Grand Rapids from 2011 to 2021, and he becomes the third former U.S Fire at shopping mall in Bangladesh's capital kills at least 43 people 02/29/2024 11:36pm • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� A fire at a six-story shopping mall in the Bangladeshi capital overnight killed at least 43 people and injured dozens of others, with several people escaping to the building's roof, officials said Friday. The fire started late Thursday at a restaurant on the first floor of