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WikiLeaks founder Assange may be near the end of his long fight to stay out of the US 02/19/2024 02:43am • LONDON (AP) ��� WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's fight to avoid facing spying charges in the United States may be nearing an end following a protracted legal saga in the U.K. that included seven years of self-exile inside a foreign embassy and five years in prison. Assange faces what could be his Thai ex-Prime Minister Thaksin is free on parole, but can he restore his old political luster? 02/18/2024 11:32pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Thailand���s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the Southeast Asian nation���s most controversial politician for more than two decades, was released on parole early Sunday from a Bangkok hospital where he spent six months serving time for corruption-related offenses. The tel 2 officers, 1 first responder killed at the scene of a domestic call in Minnesota; suspect dead 02/18/2024 10:20pm • BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) ��� A man armed with multiple guns and large amounts of ammunition shot at police officers from inside a suburban Minneapolis home that was filled with children on Sunday, killing two officers and a firefighter who was providing medical aid to one of the wounded, authorities s Md. man arrested and charged in overnight homicide of DC man in Northeast 02/18/2024 09:42pm • A Clinton, Maryland, man was arrested Sunday in connection with a fatal shooting that took place in Northeast overnight, police said. Charles Demarco Best, 25, has been charged with second-degree murder, according to a news release from D.C. police. The shooting victim has been identified as 3 DC police release photos of suspect in shooting of 10-year-old boy 02/18/2024 08:02pm • D.C. police have released surveillance camera footage of their suspect ��� and the suspect's vehicle ��� in the shooting of a 10-year-old boy in Southeast on Saturday. Law enforcement is seeking the community's help in identifying this suspect, according to a news release from the police departme Arrests made after girl's body found encased in concrete and boy's remains in a suitcase 02/18/2024 07:32pm • PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) ��� Two people have been arrested on charges of murder and abuse of a corpse after the discovery of a girl's body encased in concrete and a boy's remains in a suitcase in Colorado, according to police and public jail records. The City of Pueblo Police Department announced the arr Houston megachurch holds healing and thanksgiving service a week after deadly shooting 02/18/2024 05:27pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� Celebrity pastor Joel Osteen's Houston megachurch held a special service Sunday dedicated to healing and thanksgiving a week after a woman opened fire in one of its hallways before being gunned down by security officers. Osteen's Lakewood Church has not had services since the Feb. 1 Israel vows to 'finish the job' in Gaza as War Cabinet member threatens a Ramadan deadline for Rafah 02/18/2024 04:17pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday brushed off growing calls to halt the military offensive in Gaza, vowing to ���finish the job��� as a member of his War Cabinet threatened to invade the southern city of Rafah if remaining Israeli hostages are not freed b Over 300 detained in Russia as country mourns the death of Alexei Navalny, Putin's fiercest foe 02/18/2024 03:44pm • Over 300 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony, a prominent rights group reported Sunday. The sudden death of Navalny, 47, was a crushing blow to many Russians, who had pinned their hopes for the future on Police association says a suspect is dead in Minnesota shooting that lead to killing of 2 officers and first responder 02/18/2024 03:10pm • BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) ��� Police association says a suspect is dead in Minnesota shooting that lead to killing of 2 officers and first responder. Pair of DC men sentenced to total of 32 years in prison for 2021 murder 02/18/2024 02:21pm • D.C. prosecutors and officers have announced sentences totaling more than 30 years for two District men for their part in the April 2021 murder of 29-year-old Kerry Odoms. Twenty-four-year-old Malachi McFarland and 27-year-old Andre Smith, both D.C. residents, were sentenced to 14 and 18 years in Police called to investigate alleged LGBTQ+ propaganda at Russian 'My Little Pony' convention 02/18/2024 12:13pm • Police in Moscow were called to investigate alleged LGBTQ+ propaganda at a fan event dedicated to the cartoon series ���My Little Pony,��� organizers said Sunday. The Mi Amore convention was closed by organizers early Saturday after officers arrived at the venue in the Russian capital, despite polic 2 officers, 1 first responder shot and killed at the scene of a domestic call in Minnesota, police association says 02/18/2024 12:01pm • BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) ��� 2 officers, 1 first responder shot and killed at the scene of a domestic call in Minnesota, police association says. Today in History: February 18, Dale Earnhardt dies at Daytona 500 02/18/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Sunday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 2024. There are 317 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On Feb. 18, 2001, auto racing star Dale Earnhardt Sr. died in a crash at the Daytona 500; he was 49. On this date: In 1564, Michelangelo died in Rome. In 1885, Mark T 10-year-old boy shot in Southeast DC 02/17/2024 11:51pm • A 10-year-old boy has been hospitalized after a Saturday night shooting in Southeast D.C. Seventh District Commander LaShay Makal said it happened around 8:20 p.m. in the 3400 block of 13th Place, blocks from the Congress Heights Metro Station. "When we got here, we located our victim, a 10-ye