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For Native American activists, the Kansas City Chiefs have it all wrong 02/10/2024 08:17am • Rhonda LeValdo is exhausted, but she���s refusing to slow down. For the fourth time in five years, her hometown team and the focus of her decadeslong activism against the use of Native American imagery and references in sports is in the Super Bowl. As the Kansas City Chiefs prepare for Sunday's big Dutch woman and her 2 adult children die in a hiking accident in western Switzerland 02/10/2024 06:46am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Three Dutch citizens were found dead in western Switzerland after an apparent hiking accident, police said Saturday. The mother and her two adult children, who had been reported missing Thursday, were found near the Rochers-de-Naye mountain in the canton of Vaud, local police said in Pakistan hits back at criticism of election conduct and insists cellphone curbs were necessary 02/10/2024 05:51am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Pakistan on Saturday hit back at criticism over the conduct of its parliamentary elections, which were held amid sporadic militant attacks and an unprecedented stoppage of all mobile phone services. The strongly worded reaction from the Foreign Ministry insisted the vote was peac Today in History: February 10, Chess champion Kasparov loses to IBM computer Deep Blue 02/10/2024 12:01am • Today in History Today is Saturday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2024. There are 325 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On Feb. 10, 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a match in Philadelphia against an IBM computer dubbed ���Deep Blue.��� (Kaspa 3 men injured, 1 dead in Northeast DC shooting 02/09/2024 11:21pm • Three men were injured and another man died in a shooting Friday evening in the Trinidad neighborhood of Northeast D.C. D.C. police said the call for the shooting came in around 10 p.m. It happened inside a building near the 1200 block of Raum Street NE. One man was found inside the building, The president jailed 1% of El Salvador's population. Their children are paying the consequences 02/09/2024 10:48pm • SANTA ANA, El Salvador (AP) ��� Tears welled in Alex's eyes and he pressed his head into his hands as he thought about more than a year of birthdays and holidays without his mother, who was swept up by El Salvador's police as she walked to work in a clothing factory. ���I feel very alone,��� the 10 Man shot after opening fire on DC officers in Southeast 02/09/2024 09:56pm • A man was shot Friday night in Southeast after D.C. police say he opened fire on officers. D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith said at a news briefing that the officers were on "proactive patrol" when they tried to make contact with a man they saw in the courtyard of an apartment complex in the 1400 b The office handling DC���s 911 calls says things are improving, but is it enough? 02/09/2024 09:55pm • The head of D.C.���s embattled Office of Unified Communications appeared before a D.C. council committee to talk about the struggles and frustrations that still persist, while still boasting��the improvements her office has made. But after hearing from the public, including safety advocates and c How DC's prosecutor is using social media, federal help to combat violent crime 02/09/2024 08:38pm • A focus on collaborating with federal law enforcement officials and digital media is helping the U.S. Attorney's Office prosecute violent crimes in the District. Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for D.C., said Friday that by realigning resources, his office should be able to "pick up the pace" o The wife of a famed Tennessee sheriff died in a 1967 unsolved shooting. Agents just exhumed her body 02/09/2024 08:24pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Authorities have exhumed the body of the wife of a famed former Tennessee sheriff more than a half-century after she was fatally shot in a still-unsolved killing. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation confirmed that it oversaw the exhumation of the body of Pauline Pusser on Mardi Gras 2024: What to know as Carnival season nears its rollicking end in New Orleans 02/09/2024 08:01pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� Carnival season 2024 entered its final days in New Orleans on Friday as a parade of ���fabulous women and the men who support them��� walked the narrow streets of the old French Quarter handing out hand-decorated bras. The krewe of ���Bosom Buddies & Breast Friends��� is on Never mind the mess, Carnival kicks off in Rio de Janeiro with coronation of King Momo 02/09/2024 07:57pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� To thunderous applause, Rio de Janeiro's mayor coronated King Momo on Friday, marking the beginning of the symbolic Carnival monarch's five-day reign over the revelry. ���I officially declare Carnival 2024 open!��� King Momo said after Mayor Eduardo Paes bestowed upon him a g Teen accused of shooting tourist in Times Square and firing at officer arrested after search 02/09/2024 07:50pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A 15-year-old accused of shooting a Brazilian tourist in the leg in Times Square Thursday night, then firing at a police officer while fleeing, was arrested just outside of New York City on Friday, police officials said. The teenager was taken into custody at a residential house t Shelter-in-place order continues as Maine city searches for at least 4 suspects in vehicle shooting 02/09/2024 07:35pm • SACO, Maine (AP) ��� A shelter-in-place order remained in effect Friday evening for downtown Saco, Maine, as police searched for at least four suspects following an exchange of gunfire between the occupants of two vehicles, one of which then careened through an intersection and crashed into a bus ca Minnesota man awaiting trial in teen's 1972 slaying is found dead in Illinois cell 02/09/2024 07:22pm • JOLIET, Ill. (AP) ��� A Minnesota man charged in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old suburban Chicago girl more than half a century ago has died, authorities said. Barry Lee Whelpley, 79, was found unresponsive early Friday in his cell at the Will County Jail in Joliet. He was transported to a Joli