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Greek police carry out raids and arrests after resurgence in far-left militant attacks 02/27/2024 02:40pm • Greek antiterrorism police carried out raids and arrests on Tuesday in connection with attacks claimed by far-left militants, including a parcel bomb mailed to a senior judge, officials said. The crackdown follows a resurgence in far-left militant violence in recent months, including an explosion ou Coach who tried to force Belarus sprinter home from Tokyo Olympics is banned for 5 years 02/27/2024 02:11pm • GENEVA (AP) — An Olympic track coach who tried to force Krystsina Tsimanouskaya home from the Tokyo Games to Belarus where she feared for her safety was banned from the sport for five years on Tuesday. Yury Moisevich's actions in Tokyo were adjudged to be “a clear affront to the athlete’s dign Human remains found during walkthrough of recently purchased Arlington Co. home 02/27/2024 01:56pm • During a walkthrough of a recently purchased home in Arlington County, Virginia, Monday, police say human remains were found inside the property. Officers were called to the 1300 block of N. Taylor Street in the Ballston area at around 4:45 p.m. after "suspicious circumstances," were reported, po Some states are trying to make sex binary. Transgender people see their existence denied 02/27/2024 01:54pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Mack Allen, an 18-year-old high school senior from Kansas, braces for sideways glances, questioning looks and snide comments whenever he has to hand over his driver's license, which still identifies him as female. They've come from a police officer responding to a car accident Indiana man gets 195-year sentence for 2021 killing of a woman, her young daughter and fiancé 02/27/2024 01:52pm • PERU, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana man convicted in the fatal 2021 shootings of a woman, her young daughter and her fiancé has been sentenced to 195 years in prison. A Miami County judge sentenced Mitchell Page, 27, of Brookston last week to the maximum 65 years for each of three murder counts Family of exonerated Black man killed by a Georgia deputy is suing him in federal court 02/27/2024 12:59pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The family of a Black man fatally shot by a Georgia deputy during an October traffic stop filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking more than $16 million in damages, arguing the deputy used excessive force and the sheriff who employed him ignored the officer's history of violenc Biden and Trump both plan trips to the Mexico border Thursday, dueling for advantage on immigration 02/27/2024 11:44am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will make dueling trips to the U.S-Mexico border on Thursday, as both candidates try to turn the nation’s broken immigration system to their political advantage in an expected campaign rematch this year. Biden will travel t Manassas receives grant to combat opioid abuse 02/27/2024 11:17am • The City of Manassas has accepted a grant aiming to help address the opioid crisis in the Virginia community. The Manassas City Department of Social Services was recently awarded $42,069 in grant funding from the Virginia Opioid Abatement Authority, an organization that aims to abate and remediat 'Everyone's so soft': NHL players past and present on how they see fighting in hockey today 02/27/2024 11:15am • NHL players past and present give their thoughts on fighting’s role in hockey: ___ The goal of hockey was the team that scores more goals than the other that wins the game. So, to me, that was the most important. Fighting was never the most important thing in my life, but I did it anyway and I fo Barrage of gunfire as officers stop shooter at Joel Osteen's megachurch, newly released video shows 02/27/2024 10:59am • HOUSTON (AP) — The gunfire that shattered the calm at pastor Joel Osteen’s megachurch in Houston only lasted about four minutes. But surveillance video and police body camera footage released Monday, more than two weeks after the Feb. 11 shooting at Lakewood Church, showed the terror of the bri Man pleads guilty in deaths of 2 officers at Virginia college in 2022 and is sentenced to life 02/27/2024 10:36am • HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) — A man who had been scheduled for trial in the shooting deaths of two popular police officers at a Virginia college in 2022 instead pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. Alexander Campbell, 29, pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of first-degree murder in t A former member of Germany's Red Army Faction has been arrested after decades in hiding 02/27/2024 10:00am • BERLIN (AP) — A former member of the disbanded left-wing militant Red Army Faction group who is accused of participating in a string of robberies has been arrested after more than 30 years on the run, German authorities said Tuesday. Daniela Klette, 65, was arrested at an apartment in Berlin on Mo 2 Serbs sentenced over an attack on NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo 02/27/2024 09:58am • PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A Kosovo court on Tuesday sentenced two ethnic Serbs to six-month jail terms for attacking NATO-led peacekeepers a year ago. But one of them will be released for time served, and the other can avoid jail time if he pays a 6,000 euro ($6,500) fine. Local media named them as Australian police find bodies of couple after officer who was an ex-boyfriend admits to killing them 02/27/2024 09:34am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian police on Tuesday found the bodies of a couple shot and killed by an ex-boyfriend, who happened to be a police officer, hours after he admitted to killing and hiding them under rocks and debris on a rural property. The remains of former television reporter J Kids are using phones in class, even when it’s against the rules. Should schools ban them all day? 02/27/2024 09:33am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In California, a high school teacher complains that students watch Netflix on their phones during class. In Maryland, a chemistry teacher says students use gambling apps to place bets during the school day. Around the country, educators say students routinely send Snapchat me