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Brief barricade in Northwest DC after report of armed robbery suspects holed up in building 02/22/2024 12:21pm • A report of two armed robbery suspects holed up inside a building in D.C.'s Shaw neighborhood sparked a large police response and closed some streets Thursday morning. It all began unfolding shortly after 8 a.m. Thursday when a D.C. police officer was flagged down for a potential armed robbery in Iran starts first election campaign since the 2022 mass protests over Mahsa Amini's death in custody 02/22/2024 12:16pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� Candidates for Iran's parliament began campaigning Thursday in the country's first election since the 2022 crackdown on nationwide protests that followed the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody. Iran's state television said 15,200 candidates will compete for a fo 'Little dark secret': DEA agent on trial accused of taking $250K in bribes from Mafia 02/22/2024 11:20am • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) ��� The way prosecutors tell it, Joseph Bongiovanni went to work for years with a ���little dark secret.��� Behind the veneer of a veteran U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, they alleged, was a turncoat on the take from the Buffalo Mafia, offering an ���umbrella of protec UK Parliament is in turmoil after a debate over a Gaza cease-fire raised fears for lawmakers' safety 02/22/2024 09:28am • LONDON (AP) ��� The chaotic debate over a cease-fire in Gaza reverberated through Britain���s Parliament on Thursday as the speaker of the House of Commons faced calls to resign, and lawmakers said they feared for their safety amid pressure from all sides of the issue. After more than six hours of s Southbound lanes of BW Parkway in Prince George's Co. reopen after crash investigation 02/22/2024 09:25am • A two-car crash closed the southbound lanes��of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Laurel, Maryland, for nearly five hours Thursday morning, causing major traffic delays. Park Police told WTOP they responded to the crash around 4:15 a.m. near Powder Mill Road. One person was taken to the hosp Guilty plea from the man accused of kidnapping a 9-year-old girl from an upstate New York park 02/22/2024 08:47am • BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) ��� A man accused of kidnapping a 9-year-old girl from a state park in upstate New York pleaded guilty to two felony counts and faces 47 years to life in prison. Craig N. Ross Jr. pleaded guilty Wednesday under a plea deal to first-degree kidnapping and predatory sexual assau AT&T says service has been restored after massive, nationwide outage. Authorities are investigating 02/22/2024 06:31am • (CNN) — AT&T���s network went down for many of its customers across the United States Thursday morning, leaving customers unable to place calls, text or access the internet.By a little after 3 pm ET, roughly 11 hours after reports of the outage first emerged, the company said that it had r LA ethics panel rejects proposed fine for ex-CBS exec Les Moonves over police probe interference 02/22/2024 01:57am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The Los Angeles City Ethics Commission unanimously rejected a proposed settlement between the city and Les Moonves on Wednesday, saying a tougher penalty is warranted for the former CBS chief executive accused of interfering with a police investigation into sexual assault allega Slayings of tourists and Colombian women expose the dark side of Medellin's tourism boom 02/22/2024 12:11am • MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) ��� The lush valley enveloping Medellin was once the heart of a brutal war involving the Colombian government, drug cartels and a smattering of other armed groups. But a sharp dip in violence in the country���s second-biggest city has attracted a flood of tourists to its vivi An online dump of Chinese hacking documents offers a rare window into pervasive state surveillance 02/21/2024 11:49pm • Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to the nation's top policing agency and other parts of its government ��� a trove that catalogs apparent hacking activity and tools to spy on both Chinese and foreig Dog dies after being kicked by District Dogs employee 02/21/2024 10:20pm • A dog that was staying at District Dogs in D.C. died after being kicked by an employee, according to police reports. According to an incident report from D.C. police, at about 4 a.m. Friday, the employee said he was feeding the pup when the dog "got too energetic." The employee reportedly "tried Oklahoma police say nonbinary teen's death was not result of injuries from high school fight 02/21/2024 10:08pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ��� A 16-year-old Oklahoma high school student who died a day after an altercation in a school restroom that may have been prompted by bullying over gender identity did not die as a result of injuries sustained in the fight, police said Wednesday. Police in the suburban Tulsa com Motocross rider, former X-Games competitor Jayden Archer dies in training accident 02/21/2024 09:25pm • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Freestyle motocross competitor Jayden Archer, the first rider to perform a triple backflip in competition, has died while practicing in Melbourne. He was 27. The accident occurred Wednesday but there were few details released. Victoria state police said Thursday they wo Parts of a Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Denver have been stolen 02/21/2024 08:55pm • DENVER (AP) ��� A large Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Denver's City Park was vandalized, and police are trying to determine if racial bias was involved. Several pieces of the marble and bronze ���I Have a Dream��� memorial were stolen sometime Tuesday. The missing pieces include a bronze torch Republican prosecutor in Arizona takes swipe at New York district attorney prosecuting Trump 02/21/2024 08:04pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� The Republican prosecutor of Arizona's most populous county took a thinly veiled swipe at a Democratic counterpart in the East on Wednesday, saying she would not agree to extradition of a suspect in the death of a woman who was fatally bludgeoned in a New York City hotel room, and t