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Finding meaning in George Floyd���s death through protest art left at his murder site 02/09/2024 04:00am • PHOENIX (AP) ��� For months after George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020, people from around the world traveled to the site of his murder in Minneapolis and left signs, paintings and poems to memorialize the man whose death reignited a movement against systemic racism. Now hundreds of those a Iranian man wielding an axe and knife is killed by police after seizing hostages on Swiss train 02/09/2024 03:15am • ESSERT-SOUS-CHAMPVERT, Switzerland (AP) ��� Swiss police say a 32-year-old Iranian asylum-seeker was killed by police after he used an axe and a knife to seize more than a dozen hostages for several hours on a train in western Switzerland. No passengers were injured. The man took the hostages early Migrants from Africa and Mideast who died in Bosnia get marble headstones and a memorial 02/09/2024 12:34am • BIJELJINA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) ��� In cities along a section of the Drina River, which forms a natural border between Bosnia and Serbia, there are simple, durable gravestones marking the final resting places of dozens of migrants who drowned in recent years trying to reach Western Europe. Their The race for George Santos' congressional seat could offer clues to how suburbs will vote this year 02/09/2024 12:27am • A special election in the suburbs of New York to replace disgraced former Rep. George Santos could offer clues about the mindset of suburban voters everywhere as 2024 election contests ramp up across the country. The Tuesday contest for the House seat held by Santos until his recent expulsion is sha Utah governor says school board member who questioned a student's gender ���embarrassed the state��� 02/08/2024 11:48pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Utah���s Republican governor and lieutenant governor are urging the State Board of Education to take action against a conservative board member whose social media post questioning the gender of a high school basketball player incited a tirade of threats against the girl. Nata Body-camera footage shows chaotic lead-up to Times Square brawl between police and migrants 02/08/2024 11:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The confrontation begins with police officers ordering a group of migrants to leave a bustling Times Square block. It escalates when one of those men, slowly walking away, lobs an insult in Spanish: ���They look like Ugly Betty.��� Seconds later, he is pushed up against a wall by a Dressing the high-society 'swans' in 'Feud' was an adventure in both authenticity and artistry 02/08/2024 10:32pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Executive producer Ryan Murphy is known for creating vivid TV worlds where high drama feels completely normal. Costume designer and producer Lou Eyrich has helped him bring these worlds alive, and their latest collaboration, ���Feud: Capote vs. The Swans,��� peeks under the fur coa Heat forward Haywood Highsmith ticketed for careless driving after crash 02/08/2024 10:19pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� The agent for Haywood Highsmith said Thursday night that the Miami Heat forward is ���shaken��� after being involved in a late-night accident where he crashed into a man who was trying to assist the driver of another disabled vehicle. The injured man, police said, needed a partial amp Nevada high court dismisses casino mogul Steve Wynn's defamation suit against The Associated Press 02/08/2024 10:19pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by casino mogul Steve Wynn against The Associated Press over a story about two women���s accounts to police alleging he engaged in sexual misconduct. The court cited state anti-SLAPP law in rejecting Wynn Alleged Fairfax Co. 'Rose Ruse' bandits bagged in Georgia 02/08/2024 07:11pm • Fairfax County police in Virginia said Thursday they have charged four people in connection with a string of burglaries, during which the bandits used flower bouquets as part of their break-ins. Authorities said Fairfax County detectives identified a vehicle the suspects were driving through Cobb Defense requests a mistrial in Jam Master Jay murder case; judge says no but rips prosecutors 02/08/2024 07:06pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Defense lawyers sought a mistrial Thursday in the case against two men charged with the murder of Jam Master Jay, saying prosecutors improperly guided a witness to testify that one defendant confessed to her decades ago that he killed the Run-DMC star and told her ���people get wha California governor to send prosecutors to Oakland to help crack down on rising crime 02/08/2024 06:49pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ��� California's governor announced plans Thursday to send prosecutors to Oakland in his latest move to crack down on rising crime in the San Francisco Bay Area city where brazen robberies in broad daylight have drawn national attention. Gov. Gavin Newsom days earlier said he wo Federal trial of former Memphis officers in Tyre Nichols beating death pushed back 4 months 02/08/2024 06:41pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� A judge on Thursday pushed back for four months the federal court trial of four former Memphis police officers charged with civil rights violations in the beating death of Tyre Nichols. During a hearing, U.S. District Judge Mark Norris changed the trial date in the highly pub No charges for off-duty officers in fatal shooting of 2 men outside Nebraska bar 02/08/2024 06:34pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� No charges will be filed against two off-duty officers who shot and killed two men while working security at a nightclub in Nebraska���s largest city because the police chief said one of the men had fired a gun at a group of people including the officers. Douglas County Attorney 6 members of Philadelphia area family are feared dead in house fire and shooting, prosecutor says 02/08/2024 06:10pm • EAST LANSDOWNE, Pa. (AP) ��� Six members of a family ��� including three children ��� are feared dead, an official said Thursday, from a fire at a house in suburban Philadelphia that went up in flames as two police officers who responded to the scene were shot and injured. Delaware County District A