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CIA terminates whistleblower who prompted flood of sexual misconduct complaints 02/08/2024 03:54pm • The CIA this week terminated a woman whose whistleblower account of being assaulted in a stairwell at the spy agency's headquarters prompted a flood of colleagues to come forward with their own complaints of sexual misconduct. The woman's attorney called the action a brazen retaliation. While the CI The LAPD has an Asian American chief for the first time. He's the son of Korean immigrants 02/08/2024 03:49pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� An Asian American assistant chief was named interim chief of the Los Angeles Police Department on Wednesday, taking charge of a force that mostly has been led by white men. Assistant Chief Dominic H. Choi was unanimously appointed by the civilian Board of Police Commissioners. C Man accused of torching police motorcycles in attack authorities have linked to 'Cop City' protests 02/08/2024 03:05pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A man in Atlanta was arrested Thursday on charges that he torched eight police motorcycles last summer, one of about two dozen acts of arson that officials have linked to protests against a planned police and firefighter training facility that opponents have dubbed ���Cop City.��� J Brazil police investigate ex-President Bolsonaro's top aides over alleged coup plot 02/08/2024 03:01pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Brazilian police on Thursday searched homes and offices of former President Jair Bolsonaro���s top aides in an investigation alleging they plotted a coup and that the ex-president was aware of the plan, court documents showed. The alleged plot in the event Bolsonaro lost the More Amazon delivery lockers coming to DC police stations: Will they help curb package theft? 02/08/2024 01:27pm • After a year of successful testing, D.C. police announced this week they are expanding a program that allows Amazon customers to have their packages safely and securely delivered to lockers located at police stations. As part of the Amazon Lockers program, lockers have been installed at two addit Google rebrands its AI services as Gemini, launches new app and subscription service 02/08/2024 01:10pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Google on Thursday introduced a free artificial intelligence app that will enable people to rely on technology instead of their own brains to write, interpret what they're reading and deal with a variety of other task in their lives. With the advent of the Gemini app, named af Maryland judges' personal information protected under bill passed by Senate after fatal shooting 02/08/2024 11:51am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� Maryland judges would be able to shield their personal information online to prevent hostile people from tracking them down, under a bill the state Senate passed Thursday in response to the fatal shooting of a judge in his driveway. The Senate voted 43-1 for the Judge Andr 340 Myanmar troops flee into Bangladesh during fighting with armed ethnic group 02/08/2024 10:06am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� About 340 members of Myanmar's Border Guard Police and soldiers have fled into Bangladesh during fighting with an ethnic minority army, Bangladesh's foreign minister said Thursday. Hasan Mahmud said 340 security personnel had entered Bangladesh by Wednesday. He said Bangladesh is Biden determined to use stunning Trump-backed collapse of border deal as a weapon in 2024 campaign 02/08/2024 09:42am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� How it began: President Joe Biden was urgently seeking more money from Congress to aid Ukraine and Israel. He took a gamble by seizing on GOP demands to simultaneously address one of his biggest political liabilities ��� illegal migration at the U.S.-Mexico border. How it ended: Death toll in landslide-hit Philippine mountain village rises to 11 with more than 100 missing 02/08/2024 08:28am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� Rescuers dug out more bodies from a landslide-hit southern Philippine village on Thursday, bringing the death toll to 11 as the number of missing rose to 110, officials said. At least 31 residents survived with injuries when the landslide hit the gold-mining mountain vil Sweden has thwarted Iranian attack plots, counterintelligence police say 02/08/2024 04:37am • STOCKHOLM (AP) ��� A senior member of the Swedish security police said Thursday that Iran has planned attacks on the country, days after local media reported that two Iranians were deported for a plot to kill three Swedish Jews several years ago. Earlier this week, Swedish broadcast SR reported that Police say gunmen set off a bomb and opened fire on officers, killing 5 in Pakistan's northwest as the nation votes 02/08/2024 04:16am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Police say gunmen set off a bomb and opened fire on officers, killing 5 in Pakistan's northwest as the nation votes. Papua New Guinea's prime minister becomes the first Pacific leader to address Australia's parliament 02/08/2024 01:32am • SYDNEY (AP) ��� Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape on Thursday become the first Pacific leader to address Australia���s parliament, vowing ���nothing will come in between our two countries.��� The nations announced that Australia will spend AU $100 million (US $65.3 million) on Papua New G A man accused of killing his girlfriend in Massachusetts escapes from police custody in Kenya 02/08/2024 12:53am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� A man awaiting extradition on a Massachusetts warrant alleging he killed his girlfriend and left her body in a car at a Boston airport escaped from police custody in Kenya, police said Thursday. Kevin Adam Kinyanjui Kangethe slipped out of the police station and jumped into Indian state passes uniform marriage legislation opposed by Muslims as a Hindu code applied to all 02/08/2024 12:17am • LUCKNOW, India (AP) ��� An Indian state has approved an unprecedented uniform code for marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance for Hindus, Muslims and other religious communities under new legislation that also requires couples that live together to register with the government or face punishmen