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UN experts call on authorities in Belarus to pardon a cancer-stricken imprisoned opposition leader 02/27/2024 08:42am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Experts from the U.N. Human Rights Commission appealed to Belarusian authorities on Monday to pardon an opposition politician diagnosed with a severe form of cancer while in prison. Ryhor Kastusiou, 66, the leader of the Belarusian Popular Front, or BPF, party, is serving a Police arrest three suspects in killing of man on Bronx subway car 02/27/2024 08:15am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Three people have been arrested in the killing of a man on a New York City subway car last week, police said Tuesday. William Alvarez, a 45-year-old Bronx resident, was fatally shot after getting into an argument with one of the suspects on a D Train in the Bronx around 5 a.m. Frid Manhattan DA wants gag order for Trump, seeks to play 'Access Hollywood' tape at hush-money trial 02/27/2024 07:43am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Prosecutors in Donald Trump���s New York hush-money criminal case asked a judge Monday to impose a gag order on the former president ahead of next month's trial, citing what they called his ���long history of making public and inflammatory remarks��� about people involved in his le Photographer accuses Taylor Swift's dad of punching him in the face on Sydney waterfront 02/27/2024 04:17am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� A photographer told police he was punched in the face by Taylor Swift���s father on the Sydney waterfront on Tuesday, hours after the pop star���s Australian tour ended. Ben McDonald said he provided police with a statement alleging that Scott Swift assaulted him at the Virginia couple whose catamaran was hijacked were likely thrown overboard and died, Grenada police say 02/27/2024 02:51am • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� A U.S. couple whose catamaran was hijacked last week in the Caribbean by three escaped prisoners were presumed dead and likely had been thrown into the ocean, police said Monday. The accounts by police in Grenada and in St. Vincent and the Grenadines were a blow to Biden jokes Taylor Swift endorsement is 'classified' in interview with late-night comic Seth Meyers 02/27/2024 12:30am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� President Joe Biden joked Monday that a potential 2024 endorsement by Taylor Swift is a ���classified" matter as he made a rare media appearance to mark the 10th anniversary of ���Late Night With Seth Meyers.��� Biden's arrival was nominally a surprise to the audience: He stepped o What's life like for Russia's political prisoners? Isolation, poor food and arbitrary punishment 02/27/2024 12:03am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Vladimir Kara-Murza could only laugh when officials in Penal Colony No. 6 inexplicably put a small cabinet in his already-cramped concrete cell, next to a fold-up cot, stool, sink and latrine. That moment of dark humor came because the only things he had to store in it were Letter containing white powder sent to Donald Trump Jr.'s home 02/26/2024 10:20pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� Emergency crews responded Monday after a letter containing an unidentified white powder was sent to the Florida home of Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of former President and GOP front-runner Donald Trump. A person familiar with the matter said that results on the substance were inc US airman dies after setting himself ablaze outside Israeli Embassy in Israel-Hamas war protest 02/26/2024 09:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force has died after he set himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., while declaring that he ���will no longer be complicit in genocide." The 25-year-old airman, Aaron Bushnell, of San Antonio, Texas, died from his i Police, fire unions call for property tax hike in Arlington Co. to address staffing issues 02/26/2024 09:22pm • The fire and police unions in Arlington County, Virginia, are asking for an increased property tax rate to better pay first responders and fill vacancies in both departments. ���We've been dealing with the staffing crisis for the last three to five years, and it seemed to hit Arlington a little b Explosive device detonated outside Alabama attorney general's office 02/26/2024 09:22pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� An explosive device was detonated outside Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall's office over the weekend, he said in a statement Monday. Marshall confirmed no one was injured. ���Thankfully, no staff or personnel were injured by the explosion,��� Marshall said. The Ala Republicans say Georgia student's killing shows Biden's migration policies have failed 02/26/2024 09:12pm • ATHENS, Ga. (AP) ��� Students at two Georgia colleges grappled Monday with the killing of a nursing student killed in a violent act that Republicans including former President Donald Trump and Gov. Brian Kemp blamed on the immigration policies of President Joe Biden. The killing of 22-year-old Laken Two Chinese bloggers in exile warn that police are interrogating their followers 02/26/2024 08:22pm • SHANGHAI (AP) ��� Two prominent Chinese bloggers in exile said police were investigating their millions of followers on international social media platforms, in an escalation of Beijing���s attempts to clamp down on critical speech even outside of the country���s borders. Former state broadcaster C Mother of missing Wisconsin boy, man her son was staying with charged with child neglect 02/26/2024 08:03pm • TWO RIVERS, Wis. (AP) ��� The mother of a 3-year-old Wisconsin boy who vanished nearly a week ago and a man her son was staying with were formally charged with child neglect Monday in connection with the boy's disappearance. Elijah Vue was last seen on Feb. 20 at a residence in Two Rivers, where pro Eagles' Don Henley quizzed at lyrics trial about time a naked 16-year-old girl overdosed at his home 02/26/2024 07:48pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Don Henley was asked in a New York courtroom Monday about a seamy episode from his past: his 1980 arrest after authorities said they found drugs and a naked 16-year-old girl suffering from an overdose at the Eagles co-founder's Los Angeles home. Henley was testifying at an unrelat