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A Minnesota town used its anti-crime law against a protected class. It���s not the only one 02/05/2024 05:08pm • Hundreds of communities across the U.S. have for several decades tried to reduce crime, fight gangs and tackle noise and other neighborhood problems through the use of ���crime-free" or ���public nuisance��� laws encouraging and allowing landlords to evict renters when police or emergency crews are Tribal sovereignty among the top issues facing Oklahoma governor and Legislature 02/05/2024 04:38pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ��� Tribal sovereignty is expected to again be a top issue facing Oklahoma lawmakers and Gov. Kevin Stitt as they returned on Monday to begin the 2024 legislative session. Stitt, a Republican and himself a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, has had a contentious relationship with tri Mississippi judge drops punishment of probation and book report for a child who urinated in public 02/05/2024 04:25pm • SENATOBIA, Miss. (AP) ��� A 10-year-old Black child who urinated near his mother's car outside a Mississippi office building will no longer be required to serve probation and write a book report about Kobe Bryant, an attorney for the child's family said Monday. Tate County Youth Court Judge Rusty Ha 'Coolest dictator' to 'philosopher king,' Nayib Bukele's path to reelection in El Salvador 02/05/2024 03:35pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� El Salvador���s Nayib Bukele has called himself the ���world���s coolest dictator��� or as his X profile read on election day, the ���Philosopher King.��� Now he���ll likely have five more years to provoke, surprise and raise concerns, after appearing to win a landslide reelecti Family of Black girls handcuffed, held at gunpoint by Colorado police in mistaken car theft get $1.9 million settlement 02/05/2024 03:28pm • DENVER (AP) ��� Family of Black girls handcuffed, held at gunpoint by Colorado police in mistaken car theft get $1.9 million settlement. Live updates | Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza and Blinken arrives in Mideast 02/05/2024 03:15pm • Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip have killed dozens of people, including two children ages 12 and 2, while the Israeli army said Monday its ground forces were fighting Hamas militants who remain in northern and central Gaza. The Health Ministry in Gaza said 113 bodies were brought to hospitals Why are opioid overdoses rising in Fairfax County? 02/05/2024 03:10pm • Opioid overdoses in Fairfax County, Virginia, are rising in part because of the cost and accessibility of counterfeit pills that are often laced with fentanyl, county leaders said during a recent committee meeting. The counterfeit pills usually look like prescription drugs, Lt. Kevin White with F 12 arrested in Greece as police remove students blocking exams over a private university bill 02/05/2024 02:56pm • THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) ��� Students occupying a law school during an exam period as a protest against government plans to allow private universities were removed from the building by police in northern Greece. A dozen people were arrested. A police statement said that the operation followed a req For the first time, Myanmar forces flee into Bangladesh during fighting with an ethnic armed group 02/05/2024 01:56pm • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� More than 100 members of Myanmar���s Border Guard Police have fled their posts and taken shelter in Bangladesh to escape fighting between Myanmar security forces and an ethnic minority army, an official with Bangladesh's border agency said Monday. It is the first time that Ex-Indiana day care director gets 6 months in jail for giving kids melatonin 02/05/2024 01:38pm • GREENFIELD, Ind. (AP) ��� A former suburban Indianapolis day care director has been sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to giving melatonin gummies to children without their parents��� consent to get them to sleep. Tonya Rachelle Voris, 53, was sentenced Friday after pleading guilt Key moments surrounding the Michigan high school shooting in 2021 02/05/2024 12:55pm • OXFORD, Mich. (AP) ��� Jury deliberations are underway in the involuntary manslaughter trial of the Michigan mother of a teenage boy who killed four classmates and wounded others. It is the latest development in the shooting that occurred Nov. 30, 2021, in Oxford, Michigan, just north of Detroit. He Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves on trial for alleged sexual assault of a woman in Barcelona 02/05/2024 12:32pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves went on trial Monday, a year after he was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman at a Barcelona nightclub. The 40-year-old Alves, a former Barcelona player, has been in pre-trial custody for over a year since he was detained for The effect of police violence on Black Americans' health is documented in 2 new studies 02/05/2024 11:55am • The effect of police violence on Black Americans is tracked in two new studies, with one tying police-involved deaths to sleep disturbances and the other finding a racial gap in injuries involving police use of Tasers. The health effects of police violence on Black people ���need to be documented as Germany doubles its commitment of troops to the NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo 02/05/2024 10:03am • PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) ��� Germany will double its contribution of about 100 troops to the NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo in a demonstration of its commitment to regional security, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Monday. Pistorius, who was on a regional tour to Kosovo and neighboring S 14 migrants arrested in repatriation center in unrest spurred by death of young African migrant 02/05/2024 08:41am • MILAN (AP) ��� Authorities in Rome have arrested 14 migrants from nine countries for alleged involvement in unrest in a repatriation center following the death of a migrant from the African nation of Guinea, police said Monday. After the body was discovered Sunday morning, migrants in the center beg