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Maryland's Gov. Moore says state has been 'leaving too much potential on the table' in speech 02/07/2024 03:18pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� Gov. Wes Moore said during his second State of the State speech Wednesday that Maryland has boundless opportunities but is ���leaving too much potential on the table��� as he charts a course forward through challenging times that includes a long-term plan for governing. Th Bombings at Pakistani political offices kill at least 30 a day before parliamentary elections 02/07/2024 02:34pm • QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) ��� Bombs ripped through two separate political offices in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people, officials said, a day before the country was set to elect a new parliament. The attacks in Baluchistan province ��� home to a low-level insurgency and vari Ex-Mountie intelligence official sentenced to 14 years for breaking Canada's secrets law 02/07/2024 01:29pm • OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) ��� A judge Wednesday sentenced a former senior intelligence official in Canada���s national police force to 14 years in prison for breaching the country's secrets law. Cameron Jay Ortis led the Royal Canadian Mounted Police���s Operations Research group, which assembles classif Missouri prosecutor seeks to vacate murder conviction, the 2nd case challenged in 2 weeks 02/07/2024 01:03pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� A Missouri prosecutor on Wednesday filed a motion to vacate the conviction of a man imprisoned for more than three decades for the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy, the second time in two weeks that a St. Louis-area prosecutor has challenged a longstanding murder conviction. Ch Rapper Quando Rondo is charged with DUI in Georgia, where he already faces drug and gang charges 02/07/2024 12:18pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ��� Rapper Quando Rondo has been arrested on charges of driving under the influence and reckless driving in Georgia, where he was already facing felony charges in state and federal courts. The 24-year-old rapper, whose real name is Tyquian Bowman, was arrested by police on the tw Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir say militants fire on workers from Punjab state, killing 1 02/07/2024 12:09pm • SRINAGAR, India (AP) ��� Militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir fired at two workers from the northern state of Punjab, killing one and wounding another, police said Wednesday. Police blamed militants fighting against Indian rule in the disputed region for the attack in Srinagar. Officials did not i Philadelphia lawyer accused of falsely claiming to represent family of boy killed by police 02/07/2024 10:58am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� A Philadelphia lawyer stands accused of trying to file an unauthorized civil lawsuit on behalf of the father of a 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by police and also asking a judge to declare the man mentally incompetent in a bid to keep the case and cash in on a potential AP PHOTOS: A decade ago, the Sochi Olympics saw Russia's soft power collide with hard realities 02/07/2024 10:36am • The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics were President Vladimir Putin's pet project as he sought to expand Russia's global clout, boost its prestige and impress the world. But the Kremlin's attempt at soft power soon collided with hard realities. It became the most expensive Olympics ever ��� summer or winte DC Council appoints formerly incarcerated man to criminal sentencing commission 02/07/2024 10:25am • The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to appoint Joel Cast��n to its criminal sentencing commission, almost a month after debate about his appointment kept the council at a standstill. Cast��n will be one of 12 voting members on the sentencing commission, which helps shape "fair and consistent" sentenci A 17-year-old is fatally shot by a police officer in a small Nebraska town 02/07/2024 10:13am • COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) ��� The Nebraska State Patrol is investigating after a police officer fatally shot a 17-year-old boy. The shooting happened Tuesday afternoon in Columbus, an eastern Nebraska town of about 24,000 residents. A news release from the patrol said police were called to a welfare check Former Czech leader Babis loses final appeal over collaboration with communist-era secret police 02/07/2024 09:42am • PRAGUE (AP) ��� Former Czech populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis lost his final appeal in Slovakia Wednesday in a case concerning allegations that he collaborated with communist-era secret police in what was then Czechoslovakia. Babis, who was born in Slovakia, was suing the Institute for National Slain CEO's parents implore Maryland lawmakers to end good behavior credits for rapists 02/07/2024 09:15am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� The parents of slain Baltimore tech CEO Pava Marie LaPere shared their profound grief Tuesday while urging Maryland lawmakers to end good behavior credits for convicted rapists like the man charged with killing her. Frank LaPere said no family should have to suffer the way Sweden closes probe into explosions on Nord Stream pipelines, saying it doesn't have jurisdiction 02/07/2024 08:33am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Swedish officials said Wednesday that they have decided to close their investigation into the September 2022 explosions on the underwater Nord Stream gas pipelines which were built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany, saying they don���t have jurisdiction. Sweden's i A landslide hits a village in the southern Philippines, leaving 7 dead and 48 missing 02/07/2024 08:13am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� A landslide in the southern Philippines left at least seven villagers dead and 48 others missing, including miners waiting in buses for a ride home, officials said Wednesday. Army troops, police and volunteers rescued 31 residents who were injured when the landslide hit Man United defender Harry Maguire's appeals trial in Greece postponed until 2025 due to strike 02/07/2024 07:45am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� The appeals trial of Manchester United defender Harry Maguire over a nightclub brawl on the Greek island of Mykonos has been postponed for a year because of a lawyers��� strike, court officials told The Associated Press. The 30-year-old England international is appealing a 21