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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 Schools say dress codes promote discipline. But many Black students see traces of racism 02/21/2024 07:45pm • For as long as schools have policed hairstyles as part of their dress codes, some students have seen the rules as attempts to deny their cultural and religious identities. Nowhere have school rules on hair been a bigger flashpoint than in Texas, where a trial this week is set to determine whether h United flight diverted to Chicago due to reported bomb threat 02/21/2024 07:41pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A cross-country United Airlines flight was forced to land in Chicago Wednesday as a result of what local media reports, citing a preliminary police report, called a bomb threat. United said only that flight 1533 from Newark to Los Angeles landed safely at O'Hare Airport as the resul WikiLeaks��� Assange faces wait to find out whether he can challenge extradition to the US 02/21/2024 07:37pm • LONDON (AP) ��� WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange won't find out until next month at the earliest whether he can challenge extradition to the U.S. on spying charges, or if his long legal battle in Britain has run out of road. Two High Court judges said Wednesday they would take time to consider their What's the latest in the investigation of the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl parade? 02/21/2024 07:36pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� One of the men charged in a Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory celebration shooting that left one person dead and around two dozen others injured had recently come off probation for pulling out a gun during a dispute over a basketball game. Lyndell Mays, of Raytown, whos Police say armed Texas student wounded by officers in school had meant to hurt people 02/21/2024 07:27pm • A student who carried a handgun into school in Texas had meant to harm others before three police officers fired 19 times at him, leaving him with a minor leg wound, police said Wednesday. ���He brought a gun to school to hurt people,��� Mesquite police Lt. Brandon Ricketts said. ���He was there to Live updates | New attempts at Gaza cease-fire are underway, Israel's Gantz says 02/21/2024 07:13pm • New attempts are underway to reach a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas that could pause the war in Gaza, a member of Israel���s War Cabinet said late Wednesday. ���Initial signs indicate a possibility of moving forward,��� said Benny Gantz, a former military chief and defense minister. It's t Rapper Kodak Black freed from jail after drug possession charge was dismissed 02/21/2024 07:04pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� South Florida rapper Kodak Black was freed from jail Wednesday after a federal judge sentenced him to time served for a probation violation, though a drug trafficking case from 2022 remains ongoing. U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez in Miami handed down the sentence nearly two week 88-year-old mother testifies in murder conspiracy trial about daughter's disappearance 02/21/2024 07:03pm • The 88-year-old mother of Connecticut mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos testified at a murder conspiracy trial Wednesday that she has not seen or communicated with her daughter since she disappeared and was presumed by police to be murdered in 2019. Dressed in a gray suit with scarfs, Gloria Farber didn