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Motorist in England calls police to report he's too drunk to drive 02/13/2024 02:41pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Police in England say a drunken driver did the right thing after doing the wrong thing. An emergency dispatcher received an unusual call just before noon Monday when a motorist reported he was driving drunk and said he ���doesn���t know what he is doing,��� North Yorkshire police sai Short-lived winter weather wraps up ��� how much snow did the DC region get? 02/13/2024 02:06pm • Stay up to date with our local weather trends with WTOP. A brief burst of wintry weather dusted a few inches of snow on parts of the D.C. region right as commuters hit the roads Tuesday morning. Here's what you need to know. Throughout the morning a mix of rain and snow fell in the D.C. area, ma President's intervention keeps Paris' riverside bookstalls in place for the Olympics 02/13/2024 02:00pm • PARIS (AP) ��� French President Emmanuel Macron canceled plans Tuesday to move Paris' famed second-hand booksellers' boxes from the banks of the Seine River in preparation for the opening ceremony of the Olympics in July. A statement from the Elysee presidential palace said Macron asked France's in Gunfire at New York subway station kills 1, injures 5. Police say teen dispute sparked shooting 02/13/2024 01:17pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� An argument between two groups of teenagers riding the New York City subway exploded into deadly violence Monday when shooting started after the train's doors opened at a station, killing a man and wounding five others. The gunfire broke out on an elevated train platform in the Bro Family of Palestinian-American detained by Israel seeks her release. 'I want my mother back' 02/13/2024 01:08pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� The family of a Palestinian-American woman arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank says they still haven���t had contact with her, more than a week after she was seized from her home in an overnight raid. Relatives of Samaher Esmail say they are getting increasingly w A 45-year-old man has been charged with stealing a Jackie Robinson statue to sell it for scrap metal, police say 02/13/2024 12:30pm • WICHITA, Kan. (AP) ��� A 45-year-old man has been charged with stealing a Jackie Robinson statue to sell it for scrap metal, police say. Viewpoint: 3 ways to reduce D.C. crime and increase public safety 02/13/2024 12:22pm • The current level of crime in the District of Columbia is unacceptable and it���s affecting surrounding areas. The strength of our entire region depends on reducing crime and supporting a thriving business community. That���s why the safety and well-being of our communities, businesses, workers, vis Australia to ban doxxing after pro-Palestinian activists publish information about hundreds of Jews 02/13/2024 11:54am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� The Australian government said on Tuesday it will outlaw doxxing ��� the malicious release online of personal or identifying information without the subject���s permission ��� after pro-Palestinian activists published personal details of hundreds of Jewish people in Aus India's Modi arrives in the UAE on his seventh trip to a nation that is home to millions of Indians 02/13/2024 11:48am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates on his seventh trip to the nation, feted by tens of thousands of his countrymen ahead of elections back home in the coming months. Modi was met on landing in Abu Dhabi by Emirati Pres A reporter is suing a Kansas town and various officials over a police raid on her newspaper 02/13/2024 11:47am • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� A reporter for a weekly Kansas newspaper that police raided last year filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against its hometown and local officials, saying the raid caused her physical and mental health problems. Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn is seeking $950,000 in dama 5 are dead and 4 are in critical condition after a drive-by shooting at a Puerto Rico bar 02/13/2024 11:45am • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Five people were killed and four others were in critical condition after a drive-by shooting at a streetside bar in Puerto Rico, police said Tuesday. Authorities believe the shooting late Monday was tied to drug trafficking. While Puerto Rico has long served as a tran 2 men charged in New Year's Eve shooting that killed Md. man 02/13/2024 10:39am • Two men have been charged in a shooting that killed a 36-year-old man on New Year's Eve in Capitol Heights, Maryland. Bilal Ansariddeen, 18, of Bowie, and Kiemontey Jenifer, 19, of D.C., were charged with first- and second-degree murder and related gun charges, according to Prince George's County Shooter entered Texas megachurch with young son and used AR-style rifle in the attack, police say 02/13/2024 10:04am • HOUSTON (AP) ��� The shooter at a Texas megachurch had a history of mental illness and brought their young son to the attack that was carried out using an AR-style rifle and ended in an exchange of gunfire with two off-duty officers, authorities said Monday. Houston police identified the shooter as Two Thai journalists arrested for covering anti-monarchist vandalism of temple wall freed on bail 02/13/2024 09:21am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Two Thai journalists arrested for reporting on the vandalism of Bangkok temple wall with graffiti criticizing a pro-monarchy law were released on bail Tuesday, a lawyer���s group said. The arrests, carried out separately on Monday, nearly a year after the incident, drew widespread Police use tear gas against Indian farmers marching to New Delhi to demand guaranteed crop prices 02/13/2024 08:42am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Indian police on Tuesday used tear gas and detained some farmers who clashed with them and tried to break barricades blocking their way to New Delhi to demand guaranteed crop prices in a repeat of 2021 protests, when they camped on the capital's outskirts for more than a year. Pol